Short term and long term effects of Meiji restoration?

Japanese feudal system was 'evil', 1889 Constitution much like the U.S constitution and European constitutions, Modeled off Western countries. More freedom to people. Thriving trade ports built, trading with many countries. Exports of silk, cotton and tea among the most popular.

the mother countries succeed in doing that by using the colony's natural resources, facilities in a colony, they do not take good care of these facilities, causing them to fail. this has had negative and positive effects on the people of africa, they then governed through direct or indirect rule depending on the country.

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