Deck 8: Empire and Domestic Order

Question 1

Which of the following is the best characterization of Meiji Japan's economic relationship with Korea?

A) Japan exported natural resources to Korea, and imported textiles
B) Japan exported textiles, and imported industrial machinery
C) Japan exported finished goods, and imported staple crops
D) Japan exported staple crops, and imported copper

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The participants of the 1884 Korean coup d'etat were influenced by...

A) Oi Kentaro
B) Ito Hirobumi
C) Fukuda Hideko
D) Fukuzawa Yukichi

Answer 2

D

Question 3

What was a primary complaint of the Tonghak rebels?

A) The activities of Russian orthodox missionaries in Korea
B) The presence of Chinese troops in Korea
C) The impoverishment of Korean peasants
D) The import of cheap Japanese rice

Answer 3

C

Question 4

In the Osaka Incident, the failed conspirators wanted to...

A) Invade and reform China
B) Invade and reform Korea
C) Assassinate the Emperor when he visited Osaka
D) Promote Christianity by attacking Buddhist temples

Question 5

Which three countries forced Japan to return the Liaodong Peninsula to China?

A) Russia, France, and Germany
B) Korea, Britain, and the Netherlands
C) America, Spain, and Portugal
D) France, Britain, and the Netherlands

Question 6

What was 'mixed residence'?

A) Permission for unmarried couples to live together
B) Permission for foreigners to marry Japanese
C) Permission for mixed-race children to have Japanese citizenship
D) Permission for foreigners to live outside treaty ports

Question 7

Which percentage of the Japanese population could vote in 1900?

A) less than 1%
B) 2%
C) 10%
D) 30%

Question 8

Which of the following groups did NOT agitate for war with Russia in the early 1900s?

A) Socialists
B) University professors
C) Journalists
D) Actually, all these groups agitated for war

Question 9

How did some in nationalists in India and Vietnam see Japan's rise to dominance in East Asia?

A) As a threat to their own security
B) As evidence that the Japanese were a superior race
C) As an anti-imperialist model, to be emulated
D) As a fluke

Question 10

Which of the following was NOT a major political issue in turn of the century Japan?

A) Taxes
B) Lower property qualifications for voting
C) Immigration to Japan from the Asian continent
D) The cost of Japan's imperialist wars

Question 11

Which of the following was NOT a piece of legislation passed in the early 20th century in Japan?

A) A law limiting working hours in factories
B) A 'business tax'
C) Women's suffrage
D) All three of the above were enacted

Question 12

Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of national elections and Diet politics in the 1890s and 1900s?

A) The use of violence in election campaigns
B) Clashes between the bureaucratics elite and Diet politicians
C) The emergence of relatively stable political parties
D) All of the above were indeed characteristics of the era

Question 13

Which of the following was NOT a political party in Meiji and Taisho Japan?

A) The Liberal Democratic Party
B) Doshikai
C) Seiyukai
D) Kokuminto

Question 14

How many riots occurred in Tokyo between 1905 and 1918 ?

A) Eight
B) Twelve
C) Twenty-nine
D) Over one hundred

Question 15

Which of the following riots took place in the countryside as well as major cities?

A) Anti-treaty riots, September 1905
B) Riots against streetcar fare increases, March and September 1906
C) Riots during the Taisho political crisis, February 1913
D) Riots opposing high rice prices, August 1918

Question 16

What conclusion had the leaders of the major party in the Diet reached by the end of World War I?

A) The party could use social disorder for political advantage
B) The chief enemy of the constitution was the army
C) The support of the emperor was needed to enact their policies
D) That social disorder had reached a dangerous level

Question 17

What was Sekai Fujin?

A) A socialist-feminist publication
B) A private army recruited to conquer Korea
C) A trade union
D) An ultranationalist political party

Question 18

What was the trend in labor disputes in Tokyo between 1870 and 1917?

A) They decreased to almost zero
B) They stayed at the same level
C) They increased significantly in number
D) They fluctuated greatly, with no coherent trend

Question 19

Which of the following was NOT implementing policies to promote nationalism in Japan at the turn of the century?

A) The Japan Red Cross
B) The Home Ministry
C) The Army
D) The Ministry of Education

Question 20

Who mocked the efforts of the state in encouraging nationalism with the phrase 'go to the toilet for the nation'?

A) Ito Hirobumi
B) Konno Suga
C) Natsumi Soseki
D) Suzuki Bunji