In an attempt to reform and stabilize Japan, the Shogun Yoshimune proclaimed, through edicts, that the problems facing Japan were based on
a. Christianity.
b. moral failures.
c. the samurai loyalty of their daimyos.
d. contact with the Chinese.
e. new ideas coming into Japan by way of foreign books.
b
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