Learning the competence and skill to be a ‘civilized’ state: State rei

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We must make our empire a European-style empire; make our people a Europeanstyle people, create a new, European-style empire in the Orient. Only by doing so can our empire climb to an equal position in terms of treaties with the Occidental states.

Learning the competence and skill to be a ‘civilized’ state: State reinvention in Japan

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