Sarah Paine — How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China

I'm going to talk to you today about one of the  two great generations in modern Japanese history.

They are the Meiji generation,  named after the Meiji Emperor here.

That generation transformed Japan into the first  and only non-Western modern power in that period.

The second great generation of  the modern Japanese is of course   the post-war generation that transformed  their country into a global powerhouse.

I'm going to ask a question,  or try to both ask and answer.