WI:The Shogunate won the Boshin War?

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.

The Shogunate also had foreign support and good weapons.They had military units trained and equipped by France at the start of the war.
 
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.

The Tokugawa Shogunate actually had more artillery pieces and firearms than the Imperial faction during the conflict, to the point where if the war were to escalate into a true civil war, I could see them coming out on top. Combined with French and tacit American support, and you have all the foreign funding you need.
 
Anymore input?Would Japan take a more federal system of government similar to Germany for example.
 
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Anymore input?Would Japan take a more federal system of government similar to Germany for example.

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.
 
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?
 
Wasn't the Shogunate moving towards a council of Daimyo with the Shogun as the first among equals though?

This must be what you're talking about:
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
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.
 
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?
 
But would crushing just three clans give the Shogun enough authority to completely centralized the country the way the Imperialists did?

Well I mean, if the guy won the war, it's assumable he did. I'd say that's enough of a mandate to wring control from the regional daimyos.
 
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