Only a couple decades before the Kingdom of Hawaii was overthrown, the Japanese underwent a tremendous revolution-- closing the book on the era of the Samurai and caste system, removing the shogun, and changing to a democratic country fulling looking to modernize/westernize. Looking back on what Japan was, and as it is, things have changed radically. Even now, there is a constant need to question what traditions ought to be preserved, and majority of dialects are all but dead. Progression continues ruthlessly-- in the wider view of things, Hawaii's current position in the world ain't so bad. Revolutions are almost always born of a need.