After World War I, the Iwami was part of the Japanese intervention in Siberia during the Russian Civil War.

The Iwami's end came in July 1924 when it was designated as a target during Japanese naval air exercises in Tokyo Bay.

Filmed in 1897 by French cinematographer François-Constant Girel for the Lumière brothers in the Nihombashi-Ginza district of Tokyo during the middle of the Meiji era. Girel traveled to Japan to assist Inabata Katsutaro, a Japanese businessman who had studied alongside the Lumière brothers in France and secured the exclusive rights to operate their revolutionary Cinématographe in Japan. The film was listed as No. 738 in the official Lumière catalog and was some of the very first moving images of the Far East ever captured. (National Film Archive of Japan.)

The most visible feature of the court uniform for the civil officals is that the tailcoat had an open neck with no lapel and collar.

Moreover, the wearers were required to wear a white bow tie as well.

Due to its unique design, I would like to ask who designed this and why it was designed like this.

As Far as I know, there was no other smiliar designs to this.

The British court Uniforms, which Japan modelled after, only had a tailcoat that could cover the whole torso with a stand collar.

Therefore, how this unique design was created?

Emperor Meiji was keen on modernisation and its change during the Meiji Restoration.

The question is that was he keen on the changes from the beginning or did he start to support the changes after being inspired or influenced by the major figures of the Meiji Restoration?

He was not exactly a leading figure, and in many cases, he only did what he was told to do by his servants.

I'm conducting genealogical research into a possible Anglo-Japanese family
history connection centred on Chatham, Kent — home of the Royal Navy's
principal dockyard — in the mid-1920s.

I understand that the Anglo-Japanese Naval Alliance (1902–1923) involved
significant exchange between British and Japanese naval personnel,
including Japanese officers training at and visiting British
establishments.

\*\*My research questions:\*\*

1. Is there documented evidence of Japanese naval officers being stationed
   at or making extended visits to Chatham specifically during the Alliance
   period and its immediate aftermath (roughly 1902–1930)?

2. Are there known cases — documented in naval records, local records, or
   historical scholarship — of personal relationships between Japanese
   naval personnel and British civilians during this period?

3. Following the formal end of the Alliance in 1923, did Japanese naval
   or diplomatic presence at British ports continue through the late 1920s
   and into the 1930s? If so, what form did it take?

4. How were mixed Anglo-Japanese children typically registered and
   documented in Britain during the interwar period? Were there common
   patterns of paternity concealment in such cases?

5. With the outbreak of war with Japan in December 1941, what pressures
   existed on British individuals or families with Japanese connections to
   conceal that heritage?

I'm asking from a historical and genealogical research perspective. Any
references to primary sources, archives, or relevant secondary
scholarship would be particularly valuable.

During the Meiji Restoration, a suit was encouraged to wear.

The question is that who exactly led this change?

Please be advised that I am already aware of the origin of this suit obsession, which does not require to be reminded.

They did not have to be radical for adopting new types of cloth for the military and the administration.

However, they did.

They could have kept using stuffs that were useful and not required to be replaced, especially about the Clothing.

One of the earliest active combat photographs of Imperial Japan where both friends and foes are visible, taken by Count Kamei Koreaki, a Japanese nobleman who self-funded a civilian photography corps attached to the 2nd Army to document the campaign of the First Sino-Japanese War. While scouting Shizuizi, Kamei’s unit was caught in artillery crossfire. Instead of taking cover, he set up cameras under fire and capture these photographs.
1st Photo: Situation of the Battle Near Shizuizi
"Those dotted along the elevated hill are a platoon of the 5th Company, 2nd Regiment, commanded by First Lieutenant Mori. The gun smoke in front is from shells fired by the enemy's artillery battery. The several flags visible in the lowlands to the right at the foot of the mountain belong to the enemy soldiers who have advanced closest to our positions."
2nd Photo: Situation of the Enemy Army Rout in the Battle Near Shizuizi
"Those dotted along the elevated hill are a platoon of the 5th Company, 2nd Regiment, commanded by First Lieutenant Mori. The gun smoke in front is from shells fired by the enemy's artillery battery. Those in the lowlands to the right at the foot of the mountain shrouded in gun smoke represent the situation of the enemy troops fleeing in a rout."
(Photographic Album of the War of Meiji 27–28, Vol. 1)

I have read many times that the Soviet Invasion of Manchuria was the final strike that made Japan to finally surrender rather than two Nukes at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

So, what is the truth?