The event was the Meiji Restoration was the event launched a period of rapid industrialisation and Westernisation in Japan during the 19th Century. This brought back traditional Japanese rule and led to modernisation.
Meiji Restoration was an important period that saw the transformation of feudal Japan into a modern industrialized nation with a parliamentary form of government and its development as a world power. Japan organized its first Constitution in 1889, based in the European form. A parliament called the Diet was installed, while the emperor was placed as the sovereign figure head. The Meiji government changed the education system following the French and later following the German system. Among those reforms, the most notable and enduring was the initiation of a compulsory education system. In order to transform the economy from an agrarian one to a developed industrial state, Japanese intellectuals went abroad to study Western science and language. The government also spent heavily in public works such as railroad transport and communication networks.
