In the centre of Tokyo there stands an elegant, wooden shrine to the Emperor Meiji who ruled Japan in the 19th century. It is a monument that now poses a critical challenge to his modern-day political successors. Slightly over a century ago Emperor Meiji gave his name to one of the most dramatic reformations that Japan has ever seen: in a few decades he transformed the country from a closed, feudal, and rigid society into a dynamic, entrepreneurial industrial power....more

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