I've done some light reading so far on the Meiji Restoration, Boshin War, and Ezo Republic and I am most interested in the later. It was a small Republic, based on the American model, planned universal suffrage for the samurai class, and was backed by the French but lasted less than a year before being defeated by the new Imperial government.
So with perhaps a POD during the Boshin war, your prerogative, have Japan governed by a stable Republican government, with suffrage as a goal in mind, by the some date in 1870s.
So with perhaps a POD during the Boshin war, your prerogative, have Japan governed by a stable Republican government, with suffrage as a goal in mind, by the some date in 1870s.
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