What next? Glorifying the SS + the Nazis?
The Samurai hated the changes because they would no longer be the elite before whom everyone else cowered. They HATED the idea of equality.
Why glorify oppressors and assassins?
Judging by the title I thought the thread would be about how Americans helped with the Samurai/Japanese genocide, all in the name of the "westernization" of Japan.
But let me guess, you're American and you think they were the saviors, right?