Effects of meiji restoration?

It led to technological modernization of Japan.

Fearing European control of Japan, the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867) limited contact with foreigners and adopted a policy of isolation. The shoguns restricted trade and prohibited European clergy...

Short answer: It was an attempt at Western modernization. Japan took the best aspects of world civilizations and adopted/adapted them.

The Meiji restoration refers to the period when Emperor Meiji was trying to make Japan a respected country on the world stage. Japan started rapid Westernization and adopted many Western customs....

They received more freedoms than they had had before.