What if the Meiji Restoration had gone differently?

Japan dismantles its feudal order and industrialises deliberately in a generation.

If it had gone differently: Japan stays closed and agrarian; the idea that a non-Western state can industrialise fast has no example.

The real history on Wikipedia ↗

Later turning points that leaned on the Meiji Restoration. Change it in the game and the ripples reach all of these.

1. 1870The first globalisation. Without it, The world economy stays a patchwork of regions; no belle-époque boom, and no 1914 shock when it unwinds.