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Question | Answer |
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domestic products | the goods produced within a country |
import tariff | taxes on goods coming into a country, which is imposed to make imported goods more expensive |
Japan was restricted by trade agreements they made with | western powers |
Japan was not allowed to do what with trade | lower taxes on domestic goods or raise taxes on foreign goods |
most of the new industries made by Japan were | military |
japan sold most of its industries to private powers because | the cost of making these new industries was far to great |
the groups of men who now owned these industries were the | zaibatsu |
matsukata masayoshi because the minister of finance in | 1881 |
national income | the money received for all services, goods, and products produced by a country |
by the end of the Meiji era, japan's national income had | doubled |
Japan was developing into a | capitalist society |
why did japan want a strong military | to strengthen the government, increase its political power, to seem powerful to the west, to renegotiate treaties, and to become a colonial power. |
why did the deputy chief of the military general staff say Japan needed an army | to defend its independence, to display power, and to execute its political decisions |
what "western" powers influenced Japan's military | Germany's army and Britain's navy. |