'The Heritage Post'

With the opening up of the borders of China, Japan and Korea for trade, for foreign countries, their ideas, religion, culture, political structure and ideologies started coming in which gave rise to reform movements and rebellions in these countries from common people which led these countries to think about changing their political and social systems. Uprisings in these countries were related to issues of laymen and also led by them. They protested against high taxes, raised by local authorities arbitrarily, corruption, economic instability which further gave rise to inflation and social issues like caste and class differentiations. Generally, these uprisings had a structure for their conduction, for example, in Korea and Japan leaders used to organize assemblies where people came up with their grievances and draft petitions which were then taken to authorities and if refused people started a protest against authorities, which later in turned to bloody rebellions. Unlike in Korea and