–in Japan a.k.a. The Meiji Revolution or Renewal:
–a series of political, social and industrial transformations—directly or indirectly as a consequence of Commodore Perry’s Black Ship July, 1853 opening of Japan—that led to the restoration of Japan as a “world stage” power under the stewardship Emperor Meiji (reigned 1867–1912).
The Meiji Constitution was promulgated in 1889; Meiji himself dies in 1912 after the Sino–Japanese (1894–5) and Russo–Japanese (1904–5) wars, which led, as well, to the (temporary) incorporation of Korea into Japan 1910.