________ is a network of interlocking firms that share their own central bank.
A. The zaibatsu
B. The keiretsu
C. The bakufu
D. The shogunate
E. The daimyo
Q. 2The ________ was Japan's largest opposition party from 1955 through 1993, whose base of support was organized labor.
A. Japanese Communist Party
B. Social Democratic Party
C. Japan Socialist Party
D. Democratic Party of Japan
E. Sunrise Party
Q. 3Article 9 of Japan's postwar 1947 Constitution _______
A. eliminated Japan's military and renounced Japan's right to wage war
B. reduced the emperor to a mere figurehead symbol of the Japanese state
C. listed civil liberties for Japan's citizens and gave women the right to vote
D. established a democratically elected bicameral parliament, which would determine the prime minister
E. dispersed the power of the zaibatsu
Q. 4________ were monopolistic financial cliques that led much of the economic development process in Japan from 1880 to 1900 and had a hand in nearly every part of the economymining, refining, production, trading, etc.
A. Nippon
B. Keiretsu
C. Zaibatsu
D. Chaebol
E. Koenkai
Q. 5Which of the following is true of the Meiji system?
A. The only change introduced by the Meiji system was the replacement of the
emperor with the shogun.
B. Japan's leaders sharpened the hierarchical distinctions among the people according
to their inherited status.
C. The constitution gave everyone the right to vote, regardless of their position and
status.
D. It instituted a centralized state in which national bureaucrats served as the principal
policymakers.
E. The imperial bureaucracy chose the leaders of the cabinet.
Q. 6________ refers to the growth of democracy in the first decades of twentieth-century Japan, in the form of greater political and social rights and emergence of political parties.
A. The Zaibatsu Democracy
B. The Taisho Democracy
C. The Meiji Democracy
D. The Tokugawa Democracy
E. The Nippon Democracy
Q. 7Which of the following is a reason that led to the fall of the Tokugawa regime?
A. The bakufu and daimyo grew richer while the samurai grew poorer.
B. Samurai wanted to climb the social ladder to become daimyos and shoguns and
were unhappy that status was hereditary.
C. Traditional methods were still prevalent in commerce and lacked modernization.
D. The revenue sources of the Tokugawa bakufu increased.
E. The Tokugawa leaders rarely carried out land surveys, which made it hard to tax
subjects fully.