• Meiji Restoration
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  • What event directly led Japan to end its policy of isolation in the 1850s?
    The arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry and his fleet in 1853.
  • Before the Meiji Restoration, Japan was ruled by which government system?
    Tokugawa Shogunate (feudal military government).
  • In which war did Japan first defeat a European power, marking its rise as a world power?
    Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905).
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