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The 192 pages that link to Meiji Restoration, each with the reason it gives.

• Industrial RevolutionRelated: Japan’s state-led industrialization shows a later path unlike Britain’s gradual early transition.

• Edo periodCompared with: It marks the political break conventionally used to end the Edo period.

• Tokugawa shogunateBroader topic: It formally replaced the shogunate and began a rapid restructuring of the state.

• JapanBroader topic: It remade Japan’s government, economy, and international position.

• TokyoRelated: The new government moved its center to Edo and renamed it Tokyo.

• Meiji ConstitutionNarrower topic: Its new government created the centralized state that later adopted the constitution.

• Imperial Japanese ArmyNarrower topic: The new government created a centralized army as part of its state-building program.

• Tokugawa IeyasuCompared with: It ended the dynasty’s rule and dismantled the political settlement Ieyasu began.

• Imperial Japanese NavyRelated: The new government created a national navy as part of centralizing military power.

• Sengoku periodCompared with: It ended the centralized warrior order that followed Sengoku unification.

• Treaty of ShimonosekiRelated: Japan’s state-building and military reforms helped it defeat Qing China and dictate the settlement.

• Boshin WarNarrower topic: The war was the armed conflict through which this restoration was secured.

• HokkaidoRelated: The new government organized Hokkaido’s development as part of its nation-building program.

• KyotoRelated: The restoration accompanied the court’s move from Kyoto to Tokyo.

• Itō HirobumiRelated: Itō joined the leaders who built a centralized state after the shogunate fell.

• State ShintoNarrower topic: The new government’s reforms created the conditions for State Shinto.

• Meiji eraRelated: It began the political realignment that opened the era.

• Economic historyRelated: Japan’s trajectory complicates accounts that treat Western Europe as the sole path to industrialization.

• Satsuma DomainNarrower topic: The new central government dismantled the domains and ultimately annexed Ryukyu.

• Self-Strengthening MovementCompared with: Japan’s more comprehensive state transformation offers a contrast to Qing reform’s narrower institutional scope.

• Japanese nationalismRelated: The new state used centralization and reform to build a modern national identity.

• SamuraiRelated: Its reforms dismantled the political order that had sustained samurai privilege.

• Saigō TakamoriNarrower topic: Saigō was a leading military and political actor in this transfer of power.

• Japanese imperialismNarrower topic: Its centralized state and modern armed forces made overseas expansion possible.

• SakokuRelated: The opening crisis weakened the shogunate and preceded its overthrow.

• OsakaRelated: Industrialization after the restoration recast Osaka’s economy and urban form.

• Satsuma RebellionNarrower topic: The rebellion was a violent challenge to the new order created by the Restoration.

• Sonnō jōiBroader topic: It fulfilled the slogan’s demand for rule under the emperor while abandoning the campaign to expel foreigners.

• University of TokyoNarrower topic: The new government’s modernization program created the setting for a national university.

• EdoRelated: The restoration brought Edo’s renaming and new status as the imperial capital.

• Emperor MeijiNarrower topic: This broader transition gives his reign its defining political context.

• Emperor of JapanRelated: It returned the emperor to the center of national government.

• Japanese militarismNarrower topic: The new state built conscription, industry, and imperial institutions later used by militarists.

• DaimyoRelated: It ended daimyo rule and replaced domains with prefectures.

• Heian-kyōRelated: The emperor’s departure for Tokyo ended Heian-kyō’s long tenure as Japan’s capital.

• Abolition of the han systemNarrower topic: The new regime’s consolidation produced the abolition reform.

• ShogunRelated: It abolished the shogunate and replaced its political order.

• Yamagata AritomoRelated: Yamagata’s early military service during the Restoration opened a path into national leadership.

• Yasukuni ShrineRelated: The new imperial government established the shrine amid its reorganization of Japan’s political and religious institutions.

• Convention of KanagawaRelated: The pressures unleashed by unequal treaties contributed to the crisis that ended Tokugawa rule.

• Kantō regionRelated: The new government made Tokyo the capital, consolidating Kantō’s national prominence.

• Li HongzhangCompared with: Japan’s rapid state-building provides a contrast to the fragmented Qing reforms Li championed.

• Prefectures of JapanRelated: Centralization during the Meiji era enabled prefectural government to replace domain rule.

• Sankin-kōtaiCompared with: It abolished the political order and domain institutions that sustained alternate attendance.

• Tokugawa YoshinobuNarrower topic: Yoshinobu’s resignation was a turning point in this transformation, though not its final settlement.

• WesternizationBroader topic: Japan selectively adopted Western institutions and technology to resist foreign domination.

• BakumatsuBroader topic: It marks the end point of Bakumatsu and the start of a new regime.

• Ōkubo ToshimichiNarrower topic: Ōkubo was a leading organizer of the coalition that brought this transformation about.

• BushidoRelated: The restoration dismantled the samurai order while enabling later national reinterpretations of its ethic.

• KobeRelated: The reforms and foreign trade of the Meiji era helped remake Kobe as a modern port.