Almost overnight, Japan went from the middle ages to the modern era. Meiji realized three centuries of isolation had left Japan far behind its Western neighbors in scientific advancement, and he and his advisors hurried to catch the nation up to speed. In the turmoil that followed, a group of powerful samurai overthrew the Shogun and put Emperor Meiji in power. The ruling Shogunate, which had managed to keep almost everyone from the west out of Japan for nearly three hundred years, was forced to open the country to Western ideas and culture. When American Commodore Matthew Perry sailed his steam-driven “Black Fleet” into Yokohama harbor in 1853, life in Japan was turned upside down. Read on to learn more about this fascinating time and place in Japanese history… While almost all the characters are fictional, Ichiko, the First Higher School of Tokyo, was a real place. Some of the things that happen in Samurai Shortstop are based on actual events. Learn More About Ichiko and Japanese Baseball
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