{"id":11831,"date":"2026-05-08T11:06:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stg.igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/?page_id=11831"},"modified":"2026-09-03T13:11:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T05:11:45","slug":"b-how-was-the-transition-achieved","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stg.igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/b-how-was-the-transition-achieved\/","title":{"rendered":"B. How was the transition achieved?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"#Intro\">Introduction<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#Meiji\">Roles of the Meiji oligarchy and Emperor Mutsuhito.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#Reform\">Land reform, industrialisation and trade.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#Constitution\">Constitution of 1889.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-pink-background-color has-background\" id=\"Intro\"><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f9a147e03b48a064645b981b5a6ca924\">A. What do you learn from this source? List four things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-257e152d6dc3684e16adbbd16402b2f4\">B. What is the context in which Niall Ferguson is writing in?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1a0bbfe559aef33b97d16ad8826040a4\">C. What is the context in which the Meiji Government are making decisions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1017\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/stg.igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-07-at-2.40.45-PM-1017x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stg.igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-07-at-2.40.45-PM-1017x1024.png 1017w, https:\/\/stg.igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-07-at-2.40.45-PM-298x300.png 298w, https:\/\/stg.igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-07-at-2.40.45-PM-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/stg.igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-07-at-2.40.45-PM-768x773.png 768w, https:\/\/stg.igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-07-at-2.40.45-PM-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/stg.igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-07-at-2.40.45-PM.png 1168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Ferguson, N. Civilization: The West and the Rest, 2011, Penguin, p. 132<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Answer the following questions from the video below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(clipped from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oPgypU8iTYA\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oPgypU8iTYA\">Emperor Meiji &amp; the Meiji Restoration Documentary<\/a> :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Beginning of the Meiji Restoration\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hPNk35HHul8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f184d091b66b0c0846422786f334de0a\">What happened in 1867 and why was Japan divided? <em>08:20-10:00<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1099d80bd7200f06eba5acdfdfd27b27\">What was the Meiji Restoration? <em>10:00-11:28<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8734a818eb1cce8ab1fe7d4ba721f6f9\">What were the five changes to the Japanese government during the Meiji Restoration? <em>13:00-14:15<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-35b7034b460d18769c9ba09148766fe0\">And what happened to the capital city? <em>14:30-14:55<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4b681f1c14bb8822ca89493d626783db\">One of the five changes was the end of the feudal system and this eventually (it took until the 1880s) completely changed how people lived. Japan moved from feudal economy to one that was more market-orientated or capitalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#Roles\">Roles of the Meiji oligarchy and Emperor Mutsuhito.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"Land\"><a href=\"#Land\">Land reform, industrialisation and trade.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#Constitution\">Constitution of 1889.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-pale-pink-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-ca05cb861f4f81bdf1a8c9bf749ced5b\" id=\"Meiji\"><strong>Roles of the Meiji oligarchy and Emperor Mutsuhito.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In 1868 they changed the name of the year period to meiji meaning an enlightened role. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Edwin Reischauer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The central concern of the oligarchy was to protect the emperor&#8217;s prerogatives because they gave them their own authority and justification for rule, Ito saw the emperor as a spiritual force, who was both sacred and inviolable.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <strong>constitution was seen as a gift from the emperor on February 11 1889 and the first Diet was elected and convened in 1890.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some of the more conservative oligarchs had suggested scrapping the constitution entirely but as it had been introduced as a gift from the emperor this was impossible,&nbsp; and they would lose face from the west.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Herbert Norman agrees in that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They wanted to \u2018Revere the Emperor and expel the Barbarian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was difficult for the bakufu to oppose the \u2018revere the emperor\u2019 slogan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Restoration was an enlightened absolutism, not a liberal democracy. Only the emperor kept the people and classes together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background\"><strong>The Iwakura Mission<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Iwakura Mission and Japanese Progress\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Uj4Oicq9qCs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e1ea1e7c09f8d7cf208f82c80f714d77\">What was the Iwakura Mission? 15:50-17:28<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-fa16a0eed4e87db08ec9cd41bf433b0a\">What did they learn and what was achieved? 17:28-20:02<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0c65fab499e735f5526bd21f2877e0c9\">Do all agree that the Meiji Restoration improved Japan? 21:00-22:00<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e289197c8297926379300cb94a570116\">How did the Japanese military grow in size? 22:00-25:29<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-61539900b8e8e4ac8daaf72724314715\">What was the Meiji government&#8217;s policy towards Korea? 25:30-28:00<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-pink-background-color has-background\" id=\"Reform\"><strong>Land reform, industrialisation and trade.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1873<\/strong> Land tax Reform<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>State Financing and Early Industrial Accumulation:<\/strong> Revenue generated from the standardized land tax served as the primary source of state capital needed to fund rapid industrialization, construct modern infrastructure, and build defense forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1876<\/strong> Samurai stipends abolished<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1882<\/strong> Bank of Japan, designed along the German model<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"510\" src=\"https:\/\/stg.igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-11.46.26-AM-1024x510.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stg.igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-11.46.26-AM-1024x510.png 1024w, https:\/\/stg.igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-11.46.26-AM-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/stg.igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-11.46.26-AM-768x383.png 768w, https:\/\/stg.igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-11.46.26-AM-1536x765.png 1536w, https:\/\/stg.igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-11.46.26-AM.png 1606w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"77\" src=\"https:\/\/stg.igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-11.47.02-AM-1024x77.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stg.igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-11.47.02-AM-1024x77.png 1024w, https:\/\/stg.igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-11.47.02-AM-300x22.png 300w, https:\/\/stg.igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-11.47.02-AM-768x58.png 768w, https:\/\/stg.igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-11.47.02-AM-1536x115.png 1536w, https:\/\/stg.igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-11.47.02-AM.png 1896w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b7293276c6d87977df506c4708afc2f0\">What do you think are the &#8216;evil customs of the past&#8217;?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-843432aed66eaee5ab9020f7131de33a\">What are the values of this document in learning about how the Japanese saw their future? 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What do you learn from this source? List four things. B. What is the context in which Niall Ferguson is writing in? C. What is the context in which the Meiji Government are making decisions? Ferguson, N. Civilization: The West and the Rest, 2011, Penguin, p. 132 Answer the following questions from the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stg.igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/b-how-was-the-transition-achieved\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;B. 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