First, education reform involves all aspects of education, including education management system, primary education, secondary education, higher education and normal education. This is a comprehensive education reform.

Second, it emphasizes the successful practical experience of absorbing advanced science, technology and education from other countries, which can be better combined with China's reality. This feature is particularly obvious in its higher education reform. The Meiji government not only sent a large number of overseas students to Europe and America, but also attached great importance to learning from the experience of developing higher education in Germany and devoted itself to establishing new universities. Its Imperial University was founded and developed by studying Berlin University to a great extent.

Third, the government has raised the quality of the people to a strategic height related to the country's prosperity.

Fourth, educational reform measures can be further adjusted according to their implementation in society. Such as the continuous adjustment of compulsory education years, it shows this feature.

Fifth, the content of education emphasizes instilling in students the concepts of loyalty, filial piety and righteousness, militarism and Shinto. For example, it emphasizes the establishment of self-cultivation courses.

Sixth, the educational content also emphasizes the teaching of modern scientific knowledge and foreign language learning.

Seventh, the educational reform emphasizes that the government has absolute management power over education, and its educational management system shows such characteristics in practice: the educational decrees promulgated by the Ministry of Education have a mandatory guiding and regulating role for the whole country, and local governments and schools at all levels must unconditionally implement them; There is a close hierarchical relationship between the upper and lower campuses.