story and the restoration of the Emperor. But the Meiji oligarchs never restored the Emperor to a position of real political power. Instead he was used as a tool by the oligarchs to achieve their modernization plans in Japansuch as the abolishment of fiefs, the end of the samurai, the propagation of new cultural practices, and pubic acceptance of theMeiji oligarchs industrialization policies. The symbols and traditions of Japan's past are an enduring legacy that have manifested themselves in the Meiji Restoration and today in Japans continued reverence for the Emperor. ---Footnote1Hidejiro Nagata, A Simplified Treatise on The Imperial House of Japan (Tokyo: Hakubunkwan, 1921) 47. Footnote2Takatsu Kuwasaburo, The History of The Empire of Japan (Tokyo: Dai Nippon Tosho Kabushiki Kwaisha, 1893) 206.Footnote3Ibid., 17.Footnote4Edwin O. Reischauer, Japan Past and Present (Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 1987) 112.Footnote5Walter McLaren, A Political History of Japan During the Meiji Era 1867-1912 (New York: Scribner and Sons, 1916)32. Footnote6Shusuke Sato, Some Historical Phases of Modern Japan (New York: Japan Society, 1916) 4.Footnote7Walter McLaren, A Political History of Japan During the Meiji Era 1867-1912 (New York: Scribner and Sons, 1916)44.Footnote8Louis Allen, Japan the Years of Triumph (London: Purnell and Sons, 1971) 8.Footnote9David Titus, Palace and Politics in Prewar Japan (New York: Columbia University Press, 1974) 55Footnote10Peter Duus, The Rise of Modern Japan (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976) 73.Footnote11Hidejiro Nagata, A Simplified Treatise on The Imperial House of Japan (Tokyo: Hakubunkwan, 1921) 142.Footnote12Ibid., 35.Footnote13Stephen Large, The Japanese Constitutional of 1889 (London: Suntory-Toyota International Centre, 1989) 27.Footnote14Walter McLaren, A Political History of Japan During the Meiji Era 1867-1912 (New York: Scribner and Sons, 1916)70.Footnote15Peter Duus, The Rise of Modern Japan (Boston: Hough...
