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Japan- Chapter 6 Questions

Use Pages 192-198 of Our Worldviews text to answer the
following questions. Answer on a separate sheet of paper
in full sentences.
1. What were 3 parts of Western ideologies that Japan borrowed?

2. What 4 countries provided sources of change during the Meiji period

and what were they?

3. What was Fukuzawa Yukichi known for in Japan?

4. What 2 things happened in 1868 that clearly showed the People of

Japan the Bakufu were no longer in power?

5. What 4 things did the oligarchy need to do to modernize Japan?

6. Explain how a prefecture system unified Japan.

7. Who became a symbol of unification in Japan?

8. What was the new model of government called and which country

did it follow?

9. What happened when the feudal system of Japan was abolished

(eliminated)?

10.What 3 reasons gave the leaders of Japan a reason to develop a

constitution?

11.Why were people’s rights organizations and political clubs calling for
representative government in Japan?