The Strategies The Meiji Government Used to Achieve Economic Developmen

The Strategies The Meiji Government utilize to Achieve Economic Development?The Meiji government during the 1880s created both an institutionaland character structure that allowed Japan in the coming decades to be a stabile and industrializing country. Two major policies and strategies thatreinforced stability and stinting modernization in Japan were the creation of anational public 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 introductory stressed 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 ofcivil religion" with the Imperial monastic order on Education. This Rescript stressedtwo things. Fir st, it stressed loyalty to the emperor butterfly and to a lesser extant tothe state. In every 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 not only to the family but overly to thenational family which included father, teacher, official and employer. TheJapanese education system alike created a system of technical schools anduniversities both public and private that meliorate a grow...