Forces to give maintain order

[Kamuii]

When the Samurai cast was abolished, which were the forces used to protect and perserve order in the country?

Arnold Vargas
Genbukan Satoichi Dojo
&
Tsunami-Ryu Bujutsu

[Joseph Svinth]

The new security forces were the equally newly organized metropolitan police and national army and navy. For some background, see if you can find Hilary Conroy, Sandra T.W. Davis, and Wayne Patterson, editors, "Japan in Transition: Thought and Action in the Meiji Era, 1868-1912" (Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984). It's out of print.

Also see http://www.uni-hamburg.de/Wiss/FB/10/JapanS/Artikel/meijipol.html

It's auf deutsch, so use Babelfish at http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn



[Edited by Joseph Svinth on 09-08-2000 at 02:43 AM]

[Kamuii]

Thanks Joe! :)

Best,

Arnold