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I'm sure that this has been done before but since I found nothing, I decided I would pose the question again. I'm really interested in other "proofs against social supremacy" occurring in unlikely places (from the POV of the European colonial empires, that is!) and other such restorations like the one that occurred in Japan, and how/where else they could've happened. I know Japan is a very unique location, but surely other avenues to restoration can be discovered- that the Japanese did it proves the fact.
So I'm asking the experts here: which regions, people, or polities were plausibly able to undergo massive modernization projects in much the same way and I suppose around the same time as the Japanese did, barring a few decades in either direction?