HISTORY
IMPERIALISM ASIA
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Japan’s economy was growing steadily because it remained isolated from the rest of the world, while China’s economy remained weak because it had opened itself up to the influence of imperial countries.
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China’s economy profited from the country’s colonization of other parts of Asia, while Japan’s economy remained stagnant because its army was weak and could not be sent to establish colonies.
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Japan was a successfully industrialized country with a sizable army and a strong economy, while China’s economy remained weak and vulnerable to the interferences of imperial countries.
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China became economically strong because it accepted Western influences and trade agreements, while Japan remained economically weak because of its refusal to abandon its policy of isolationism.
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Detailed explanation-1: -While China is one of the largest communist countries in the world, Japan is a – rather open – parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Although both countries have rather strong economies, wealth is divided in an equal manner in Japan, while major gaps between rich and poor remain in China.
Detailed explanation-2: -This essay, therefore, will argue that the main differences in Japan and China’s response to the West in the 19th century were that Japan yielded to Western pressure to open to trade while China refused to, and that Japan successfully modernized while China failed to.
Detailed explanation-3: -Arguably while China was focused on self-stabilization, Japan was focused on projecting their imperialism towards the rest of Asia. This lead to the invasion of the North Easter Chinses province of Manchuria in September 1931 which was occupied by Japan until the end of the Second World War.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the 19th Century, China and Japan each responded differently to western penetration. China was against industrializing and did not want to create an empire like those of the western empires. Japan however learned that if they wanted to survive they had to adopt the changes that the western empires were adopting.