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How did land reform affect the power structure of Japanese society?

It decreased the power of the poor.
It decreased the power of the government.
It increased the power of the wealthy.
It increased the power of the poor.

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It increased the power of the poor.

Postwar land reform redistributed land from landlords to tenant farmers, breaking the landlord class's power, creating many small landowning farmers, and thereby strengthening the rural poor and reducing elite/landlord influence.