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unusual facts about Meiji era



Sagara Tomoyasu

After the resignation of the last shōgun the Meiji government took control over the medical institutions of the Tokugawa regime and assigned Sagara Chian and Iwasa Jun from Echizen to draft a programm for the new system of medical care and education.


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1754 Horeki River Improvement Incident

The project was re-engineered with modern technology in the Meiji era under the direction of Johannis de Rijke(1842–1913) a Dutch civil engineer and an advisor to Japanese government.

Itagaki Nobukata

The Meiji era politician Itagaki Taisuke was Nobukata's direct descendant, 12 generations removed.

Kumemura

At the same time, as part of the wide-reaching reforms of the Meiji Restoration, a public school system was established across Japan; though education was meant to be uniform across the country, exceptions were made in Okinawa, as they were for most Meiji era policies, which were more gradually introduced there.

Kyoto Shoshidai

A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era. New York: Encyclopædia Britannica.

Satsuma Province

On the other hand, Satsuma mandarins (known as mikan in Japan) do not specifically originate from Satsuma but were imported into the West through this province in the Meiji era.

Ultimogeniture

Official surveys conducted during the early years of the Meiji era demonstrated that the most common family form throughout the country during the Edo period was characterized by stem structure, patrilineal descent, patrivirilocal residence and patrilineal primogeniture, but in some southwestern areas this combination of partible inheritance and ultimogeniture was sometimes employed.