Some samurai felt the change was too hazardous and preferred the ancient method of living while many other samurai thought about modernizing Japan like the Western world. Fukuzawa felt this was the chance to revolutionize the country’s society for good since he despised the Confucius rigid social-order system of the Tokugawa’s. With this new kind of government, any low-ranking samurai would be able to rise up through studying and be able to take control of the fresh political support system. A yearly stipend was offered to former daimyos and samurai to submit to the new government. The samurai eventually lost their class privileges when it was declared that all people were
Some samurai felt the change was too hazardous and preferred the ancient method of living while many other samurai thought about modernizing Japan like the Western world. Fukuzawa felt this was the chance to revolutionize the country’s society for good since he despised the Confucius rigid social-order system of the Tokugawa’s. With this new kind of government, any low-ranking samurai would be able to rise up through studying and be able to take control of the fresh political support system. A yearly stipend was offered to former daimyos and samurai to submit to the new government. The samurai eventually lost their class privileges when it was declared that all people were