wledge shall be sought throughout the world and thus shall be strengthened the foundation of the Imperial policy (Schirokauer, 189).” This point is a major change from the isolationist policy that Japan had, had for so long. It was in the 1870s that the fifth point of the Charter Oath really came into effect. In 1873 one-eighth of the entire Ministry of Education’s budget was spent on sending students over seas to get the advanced training that they could not provide (Schirokauer, 208). In 1877 a major development for the Japanese education system was founded, Tokyo University with four different departments: physical science, law, literature, and medicine. Another idea that became a reality is the placing of the emperor back at the top of the Japanese aristocracy. One example of this is that the emperor picture was hung in every school (Tsunoda, 139). The Charter Oath was more than an idealistic set of goals; it became the first domino in a line of many that led to the “new” Japan. The changes that happened due to the Charter Oath and its’ creators are immeasurable. The Meiji restoration was the movement that started the Japan that we know today, the ideas and wants expressed in the Charter Oath are the foundation of all that was to follow....
