The southern Japanese provincial leaders of Choshu and Satsuma found the most effective strategy to protect Japan against foreigners was
a. development of gunboats.
b. consolidation of their forces to overthrow the shogunate.
c. to copy the Tanzimat reforms.
d. embrace westernization in all forms.
e. none of these.
ANSWER:
b
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