The Meiji government appoints Mori Arinori, possibly the most influential Minister of Education in the nation's history, to not only modernize the education sector but to align it with national interests.

The following is a list of some of the Japanese names and terms that are used in this episode: Okuma Shigenobu, Itagaki Taisuke, Ito Hirobumi, Kawakami Soroku, Inoue Kowashi, Iwakura Tomomi.

Sources: The Meiji Restoration by W.G. Beasley, The Making of Modern Japan by Marius B. Jansen, A Modern History of Japan by Andrew Gordon