Which statement is true? A. Japan was reluctant to trade in 1900. B. Japan was eager to learn new technology in 1900. C. Japan had positive relations with Russia in 1900. D. Japan was less powerful than China in 1900.

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Aryan Mayer

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23 January, 05:14

Which statement is true? A. Japan was reluctant to trade in 1900. B. Japan was eager to learn new technology in 1900. C. Japan had positive relations with Russia in 1900. D. Japan was less powerful than China in 1900.

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Raven Moore · Answer 1

B. Japan was eager to learn new technology in 1900.

Contacts with the West encouraged Japan to modernize and mimic Western methods.

Under Meiji leadership, Japan began to westernize to protect themselves against Western imperial powers. They studied the industrial methods of Great Britain and the US bringing factories to Japan especially a steel industry. The country also adopted baseball and golf as common forms of leisure and national entertainment. Japan would also mimic imperial moves eventually making moves in iron rich Manchuria to gain natural resources needed for their growing steel industry.

Walter Skinner · Answer 2

C. Japan had positive relations with Russia in 1900

Before the war, Japan and Russia were not on good terms. Japan were scared of Russia so they formed an alliance in 1914. This alliance was formed with two other states - France and Britain.