Why did the “heroes of the Meiji Restoration” follow down the path of ruin?

As the new Meiji government fought to build a modern nation, the great figures of the revolution strongly opposed the political changes that came in 1873. This work reveals the true motives of the “strongest” yet unsuccessful reservists of the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion, from the pointed historical perspective of author Motohiko Izawa.

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