Unjustifiable accusation

Japan has forgotten how it got to be wh- at it is today.

Japan in the Meiji period (1868-1912) experienced the most remarkable social transformation in modern history, from a feudal society to the beginnings of the Japan we know today.

In less than half a century, the Japanese adopted from Western nations a phenomenally wide range of new institutions, manufacturing methods and communication technologies in a successful effort to convert their country into a modern nation.