Okay, I would still disagree. The Meji restoration was more in name than in fact, even in the 1920s. The emperor always had to share his power.
Many people in America at the end of WWII thought that it would be impossible to create a functional democracy in Japan. Part of the reason for that (and for the failure of the earlier democracy effort) was that the Japanese people had never really valued individualism. In fact, it was seen as an evil.
In spite of that, we were able to accomplish it, although it necessarily required the Emperor to publicly renounce his divinity.