Source 2: Count Okuma Shigenobu, former prime minister of Japan, "The Industrial Revolution in Japan," article published in a United States magazine, 1900. One of the principal measures adopted by the Meiji government, with the object of promoting the national prosperity and enlightenment, was the education of the young as well as of grown men, some of whom held high government positions. These latter were made to travel through civilized with a view to transplanting to Japanese soil whatever seemed to them likely to bear good fruit there. Another measure which the government steadily pursued was the establishment of various kinds of factories, under the direct supervision and management of its officials. In the School of Mechanical Engineering, a small iron-foundry was built, and machines were made for the purpose of practical instruction. The Department of Finance... also felt the need of an establishment where the paper currency, the national bonds and various kinds of stamps could be printed, and founded one under its direct control. In a similar manner a paper factory was established... Thus various manufactures sprang up, one after another. The government also encouraged the introduction of the machinery for reeling silk thread and spinning cotton yarns, both of which operations had formerly been done almost wholly by manual labor. The government succeeded in concentrating the capital until now scattered by issuing Bank Regulations and establishing national banks. For the purpose of facilitating foreign trade, it used its influence for the establishment of the Bank of Yokohama. Again, the government undertook the construction of the first railway in Japan.

Source 2: Count Okuma Shigenobu, former prime minister of Japan, "The Industrial Revolution in Japan," article published in a United States magazine, 1900. One of the principal measures adopted by the Meiji government, with the object of promoting the national prosperity and enlightenment, was the education of the young as well as of grown men, some of whom held high government positions. These latter were made to travel through civilized with a view to transplanting to Japanese soil whatever seemed to them likely to bear good fruit there. Another measure which the government steadily pursued was the establishment of various kinds of factories, under the direct supervision and management of its officials. In the School of Mechanical Engineering, a small iron-foundry was built, and machines were made for the purpose of practical instruction. The Department of Finance... also felt the need of an establishment where the paper currency, the national bonds and various kinds of stamps could be printed, and founded one under its direct control. In a similar manner a paper factory was established... Thus various manufactures sprang up, one after another. The government also encouraged the introduction of the machinery for reeling silk thread and spinning cotton yarns, both of which operations had formerly been done almost wholly by manual labor. The government succeeded in concentrating the capital until now scattered by issuing Bank Regulations and establishing national banks. For the purpose of facilitating foreign trade, it used its influence for the establishment of the Bank of Yokohama. Again, the government undertook the construction of the first railway in Japan.