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Meiji reforms

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Abolished feudalism and the samurai class as a legal category
Built a modern conscript army on European models
Established universal primary education
Sent students abroad and brought foreign experts to Japan
Built railroads, telegraphs, and modern industries
Adopted a constitution (1889) modeled on the German constitution, with an emperor, parliament (Diet), and limited civil rights
Created modern banking and a national currency
State-led industrialization with government investment in heavy industry (the zaibatsu, family-owned industrial conglomerates, grew from this period)