Feature History - Meiji Restoration

so the west invented hentai by forcing Japan to open?

Nice choice with the Shogun 2 music

"Anime was a mistake" -- ghost of Emperor Meiji, circa 2019

America: Hey Portugal...Japan is now open. Portugal: My old friend?! How he is doing? America: He...still has your muskets. Portugal: what?! Those are over 200 years old!

last time I was this early I could've H I R E D A S A M U R A I

A good historical comparison is Japan and China in the late-1800s. Both countries were "locked", both had their doors kicked open by the Western Powers, both were forced with unequal treaties, both adopted reforms to try to "catch up"... But Japan went on to become an Asian Power equal to the West, and China ended up as "the Sick Man of the East" (and pretty much remained messed up af until the 1990s). I'm Chinese myself and this period of history always fascinates me.

Industrialised Japan the real life fire nation

IMPERIAL FORCE DEFIED FACING 500 SAMURAI

Best intro 10/10.

OPEN THE COUNTRY. STOP HAVING IT BE CLOSED.

Iemitsu: Goood Netherlands gooood, now kill them, kill them now. Netherlands: I shouldn't Iemitsu: DO IT

Japanese to the Portuguese: What did you bring us? Portuguese : The word of God the Bible and love and peace Japanese : What else did you bring? Portuguese : Rifles to kill and conquer 😂

Choshu and Satsuma : "that sucks. this sucks!!"

Dude. This... more of this. More. My appetite for your videos is something you need to address. kthanksbye

I’m noticing a lot of Shogun 2 total war music in this. Nice.

"But it also paved the way for anime, so clearly a great mistake has been made". That made me LOL.

KNOCK KNOCK ITS US WITH BOATS WITH GUNS GUNBOATS OPEN THE COUNTRY

Bill wurtz refernce

Imagine if Japan never had Meiji restoration. They would've been colonized by european and divided like korea, china, and vietnam.

What is always overlooked about Japan becoming a modern nation in a short period of time due to the Meiji Restoration is the spread of Japan's urbanization and education in the Edo period. Even before Matthew Perry arrived, Edo, which is now Tokyo, was the largest city in the world and had the world's highest literacy rate due to the spread of private cram schools called terakoya. The legible public carried out various cultural activities, and the mass consumer society flourished. Each domain controlled by a feudal lord tried to promote local specialties and competed with each other, and handicraft industry developed at the highest level. Under such circumstances, modern political systems and the machinery industry were imported from the West, and Japan succeeded in modernization at once.