I’m curious because to my knowledge Japan did not levy any kind of territory to the Europeans. I’m not certain what resources Meiji period Japan had to offer to the ever industrializing colonial powers of the west. As I understand Japan had more exotic goods rather than raw materials which would be used in the age of industrialization.
The answer here would begin with what Western powers wanted and got out of Japan in the fifteen years before the Meiji Restoration. I've answered this question here:
The short version: They were more interested in coaling stations than in Japan's overall resources, but once they opened up trade, Western traders stripped Japan of gold, and a silkworm epidemic in Europe made Japan a silk exporting powerhouse. Full details in my link.
Into the Meiji era, silk was still the biggest export. Conrad Totman describes Meiji exports as follows
The predominant exports were tea, silk thread, marine products, rice, coal, copper, and miscellaneous handicraft goods such as ceramics. Of these exports, silk thread was the most important, its volume roughly quadrupling between 1868 and the early 1890s, by then constituting 42 percent of total exports. (p. 314, A History of Japan)
Of course, a lot of Western companies and individuals made profits in Japan setting up mining, railroads, factories etc. in collaboration with the Japanese government and business concerns.