Meiji Restoration

The Meiji Restoration is a decision that can be made by Japan. It's essentially a form of the Embrace Westernization decision that's unique to Japan.

Description
Japan is traditionally considered to have been founded by Emperor Jimmu in 660 B.C., and while the Imperial Lineage was still considered unbroken since then, the Imperial Office had, throughout the Edo period, been reduced to a revered and respected but, ultimately, politically powerless institution. By embracing a restoration of Imperial Rule, along with a programme of swift industrial modernization, constitutionalism and economic freedom, Japan might be able to break the fetters placed upon her by the impositions of the Western World.

Requires
Japan must be at peace, have a military score of 40, have a prestige of 10, and must have researched the Freedom of Trade, Enlightenment Thought, Post-Napoleonic Thought, and Breech-Loaded Rifles technologies.

Effects
After the restoration, Japan will become a civilized nation, gain half a year worth of research, and gain 10 points of prestige.

In addition, Japan will lose the Education Reform, Military Reform, Western Influences, Uncivilized Isolationism, Trade Restrictions, Sayings of the Dutch, and Extraterritoriality Granted modifiers and all Japanese provinces will lose the European Military Mission, Foreign Smugglers, Foreign Trading Post, Kettler Denkmal, Legation Quarter, Local Opium Habit, and Western Presence modifiers.