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Ok, so I've been wikipediaing it up and I found this. I think its interesting that probably opening up japan up to foriegn contact earlier would've been worse for the nation. According to this it seems thier success in the Meiji reforms was to continue isolation but beginning in 1720 copy and learn from the latest european tech advances.

So as much as people harp on Japan Wanks occuring in a TL with a rediculously early POD, a Meiji could happen in Japan with a POD even in the 1650's?

And did this happen anywhere else and could it cocktail into a Meiji?
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