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The Years 1853-1894 witnessed the transformation of Japan. Explain.

  • UPSC 1998
  • Industrialization

In four decades Japan moved from a secluded feudal shogunate confronted by American gunboats to a centralized, industrializing power that defeated China in war — arguably the fastest non-Western transformation of the nineteenth century.

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  • The Crisis of the Old Order (1853–1868)
  • Why Japan Succeeded Where China Faltered
  • Internal Reconstruction After 1868
  • Industrialization and Economic Transformation
  • Culmination by 1894
  • Conclusion

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