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How did Japan compete with Western nations to become a world power in the late 1800s?
It modernized its economy and politics.
It continued its earlier isolationist principles.
It replaced its emperor with an elected president.
It limited its people’s involvement in government.

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It modernized its economy and politics.

During the Meiji Restoration (from 1868) Japan rapidly industrialized, built railroads and factories, modernized its army and navy using Western technology, reformed its government (Meiji Constitution of 1889), abolished feudalism, and adopted Western institutions and education—all to compete with Western powers.