Here it is sufficient to observe that the old law which had been hitherto altogether arbitrary either the will of the Emperor or of the Shogun was revised on the model of the Napoleonic code and soon published throughout the land - The Constitutional Development of Japan 1863-1881 by Toyokichi Iyenaga

The authorities were evidently too busy with the Napoleonic Wars in Europe and America and with their own internal problems to give much attention to Colonial education and the year passed without further action - McGill and its Story, 1821-1921 by Cyrus Macmillan