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  • Empire of JapanOn the 3rd of January 1868, Satsuma-Chōshū forces seized the imperial palace in Kyoto. The following day, a fifteen-year-old boy named Crown Prince Mutsuhito…
  • Imperial Japanese ArmyOn the 27th of January 1868, Tokugawa Yoshinobu marched on Kyoto with a force of 15,000 men. These troops included units trained by French military advisers.
  • Imperial Japanese NavyIn 1576, the daimyō Oda Nobunaga commissioned six iron-covered warships known as Oatakebune. These vessels represented one of the earliest attempts at…
  • Japanese militarismIn 1868, the Meiji Restoration began a transformation that would reshape Japan's entire political and social structure. The new government viewed western…