Latest news from Porter, OK collected exclusively by city-data.com from local newspapers, TV, and radio stations. Ancestries: Irish (13.0%), United States (11.5%), English (7.8%), German (6.3%), Dutch (1.9%), Swedish (1.9%).
Posted on March 17, 2011 by prchandler. In 1867/68, the Tokugawa era found an end in the Meiji Restoration. The emperor Meiji was moved from Kyoto to Tokyo which became the new capital; his imperial power was restored.
There were many causes to the Meiji Restoration. The Japanese knew that they were behind the rest of the world when American Commodore Matthew C. Perry came to Japan to try to issue a treaty that would open up Japanese ports to trade.