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Meiji Japan did lead to an authoritative, militaristic culture whose legacy includes WWII.
But also, there's a large difference between being targeted for economic subjugation only (as Japan was) and being targeted for territorial control (as in, imperial subject moving onto your land en masse), as the native Americans, native Australians, and Maori were.
Meiji Japan is overall a relative success story, but it depended on more favorable factors than just Meiji era policy.
We're talking about how to survive colonization, not how to build a society the values of which you approve of.