The Strategies The Meiji Government Used to Achieve Economic Developmen

The Strategies The Meiji Government Used to Achieve Economic Development?The Meiji government during the 1880s created some(prenominal) an institutionaland constitution structure that allowed Japan in the coming decades to be astabile and industrializing country. Two major policies and strategies thatreinforced stability and frugal modernisation in Japan were the creation of anational globe education system and the ratification of the Meiji constitution.Both these aided in stability and thus economic growth.The creation of a national education system aided in creating stabilitybecause it indoctrinated youth in the ideas of loyalty, patriotism, andobedience. Japans education system at first hard put free thought and the ideasof individuals exploration of knowledge but by 1890 the education system ofJapan became a tool for indoctrination into what Peter Duus calls "a kind of well-behaved religion" with the Imperial Rescript on Education. This Rescript stressedtwo things. F irst, it stressed loyalty to the emperor and to a lesser extant tothe state. In each classroom a picture of the emperor was placed. Second, theeducation system stressed self sacrifice to the state and family. Filial pietywas taught in schools and applied non only to the family but also to thenational family which included father, teacher, official and employer. TheJapanese education system also created a system of technical schools anduniversities both public and private that educated a grow...