Actually it's the other way around. When the Japanese got out of their Edo phase and looked at what the Europeans had been up to in their 265 year seclusion, they saw they didn't go from guns to self-annihilation as expected, but instead had mechanisation and steam engines and shit. So the Japanese leadership came together and decided that shutting yourself out from the world probably wasn't a good idea, so instead they looked at Europe to see what they did properly.

The switch of power, from the Tokugawa Shogunate of the Edo period to the Empire of the Rising Sun occurred in 1868 with the establishment of a new emperor. Shortly afterward, in 1870 and 1871, the until then loose alliance of German fiefdoms united under a Prussian banner and utterly wiped the floor with the French, who until then were seen as the greatest power in continental Europe, because of Napoleon. The Japanese, seeing this rapid unification, modernisation, and growth to military power, were so impressed they basically decided to make German efficiency part of their culture. Much of the Japanese government and pre-WW2 military is designed after German examples.

So basically Japan as a state decided that Edo seclusion was philosophically wrong, so they went with the most successful alternative philosophy they could find: The German third second Reich.