In 646, Emperor Kotoku issued imperial edicts and carried out reforms, which was called "Dahua Innovation" in history. Dahua attacked the power of slave owners and nobles with innovation and established centralization. It marks Japan's transition from a slave society to a feudal society.

After modernization, Japan began to establish manors. In order to maintain their rule, the manor owners kept a group of samurai and gradually formed a powerful samurai group. From 1 192, Japan entered the "shogunate" period when the samurai feudal lords were in power.

/kloc-In the middle of the 0/9th century, Japan was still a closed-door and backward feudal country. The emperor is a puppet, and the real power is in the hands of the hereditary general Tokugawa shogunate.

With the development of commodity economy, Japan's capitalist relations have further developed, and the declining middle and lower class warriors also demand reform of the status quo. /kloc-In the mid-9th century, Japan was invaded by the United States, Britain, France and Russia, and faced with a serious national crisis.

1868, the Meiji government moved its capital to Edo and changed its name to Tokyo. 1868- 1873, adopted a series of bourgeois reform measures, known as the Meiji Restoration, which marked the end of Japanese feudal society.

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Together with Meiji Restoration, Dahua Innovation in the middle of the 7th century is considered as "two epoch-making events" in Japanese history.

The modernization reform coincides with the violent turbulent period of Japanese society's transformation from slavery to feudalism. Previously, slavery land ownership restricted the development of Japan's social and economic productivity.

The emerging aristocrats within the ruling class struggled with the conservative slave owners, and these two contradictions were intertwined, resulting in the upper aristocrats headed by the eldest brother Prince and Nakatomino Kamatari, who actively demanded reform.

Historically speaking, the Meiji Restoration, the second social reform, began to adopt the capitalist system. Due to 700 years of feudal autocracy in Japan, the policy of closing the country to the outside world was impacted by gunboats of foreign powers and influenced by western ideology and culture.

At that time, people of insight in Japan realized the gap between Japan and the world, so defectors such as Iwakura Tomomi and Saigō Takamori used the newly ascended Meiji Emperor to overthrow the shogunate who actually ruled Japan and began a comprehensive reform.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Japanese History