1. Environmental pollution in Japan has accompanied industrialization since the Meiji period.

2. The phrase “good wife, wise mother” appeared in the latter part of the Meiji period in the late 19th century.

3. Aircraft carriers — special names (Many of them are an inheritance from the warship name in the Bakumatsu and the Meiji period.)

4. Descendants of emigrants from the Meiji period still hold recognizable communities in those countries, forming separate ethnic groups from Japanese people in Japan.

5. The last daimyō of Maruoka, Arima Michizumi served as jisha-bugyō, wakadoshiyori and rōjū in the Bakumatsu period of the Tokugawa shogunate, and was made a viscount in the Meiji period kazoku peerage system.