Practice question · Select all that apply
Japan’s response to Western pressure differed sharply from China’s. Which features of the Meiji settlement made that difference?
Hints
- Three of these are elements of the Meiji programme; one is the opposite of it.
- Japan imported foreign experts deliberately and in large numbers.
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- A. A conscript national army replacing feudal military service
- B. A written constitution and centralised state institutions
- C. State-sponsored industrialisation and railway building
Why
The Meiji leadership treated foreign technique as something to acquire and control rather than resist, sending missions abroad and hiring foreign advisers on contract. The pressure was much the same as China faced; the response was a coherent state-building programme, and by 1905 Japan had defeated a European great power.
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