Young Japan : the Story of the Japanese People And Especially of Their Educational Development
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The nation was dumfounded by the proposed innovations, while the daimyos stood aghast at the sudden and extreme radicalism of the supposed con- servatives of the south. Enmities were en- 218 YOUNG JAPAN gendered in the Satsuma clan wMcli cul- minated several years later in "the Satsuma rebellion," and in the assassination of Okubo. But the startling changes were made, simply because Okubo and his powerful asso- ciates were in control of the government. More was granted than had been asked, be- ...cause it was decided not to make a merely temporary capital at Osaka, but to remove The'-Meiji" .permanently to "the eastern cap- period. ital" at ouce. A new era was chosen for Japanese history, beginning with the year 1868, and it received the significant name of the Meiji period, which means "progress." In February of that year the young Emperor still further astonished the conservative element by inviting the foreign representatives in Japan to an imperial audi- ence, the significance of which can hardly now be conceived.
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