Assuming the Shogunate won the Boshin War,how will that affect the development of Japan?
I don't see that Shogunate could win the war. Pro-westerns had better weapons and foreign allies. Shogunates can fight longer but without foreign support and modern military they are doomed.
I don't see that Shogunate could win the war. Pro-westerns had better weapons and foreign allies. Shogunates can fight longer but without foreign support and modern military they are doomed.
Anymore input?Would Japan take a more federal system of government similar to Germany for example.
Wasn't the Shogunate moving towards a council of Daimyo with the Shogun as the first among equals though?I actually think the opposite, the experience from the war would persuade them to have stronger control - possibly complete control - over the various regions.
I do believe that this one might've been French vs. British styles of war, at least in terms of those who were trained in modern combat - and goes as an extension towards the need for the French to modernise their battle tactics.
Wasn't the Shogunate moving towards a council of Daimyo with the Shogun as the first among equals though?
Well, that was definitely before the war and a last-ditch effort. I think the daimyo would have second thoughts after he's won a brutal war against regional forces.Fearing the growing power of the Satsuma and Chōshū daimyo, other daimyo called for returning the shogun's political power to the emperor and a council of daimyo chaired by the former Tokugawa shogun
But would crushing just three clans give the Shogun enough authority to completely centralized the country the way the Imperialists did?This must be what you're talking about:
Well, that was definitely before the war and a last-ditch effort. I think the daimyo would have second thoughts after he's won a brutal war against regional forces.
But would crushing just three clans give the Shogun enough authority to completely centralized the country the way the Imperialists did?