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Why, during its attempts to modernize, did Japan so rapidly embrace meritocracy especially it had a relatively rigid class system not too long before this? it seems like there should have been some resistance to this, so why wasn't there any noticeable attempts at revolution or coup?

by /u/currentmadman in /r/AskHistorians

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