The Meiji government’s “emulation of foreign ways” was most directly a response to which of the following nineteenth-century developments?

(A) The Qing Empire forcing Japan to accept tributary relations

(B) Western states forcing Japan to open itself to trade

(C) The Qing Empire requiring Japan to make territorial concessions following the Sino-Japanese War

(D) Western states requiring Japan to accept Western advisers at the imperial court following the Opium Wars

The Meiji government is a govt that is run by the Japanese to dissoluble the federal affairs and the restoration of the imperial system as thy wanted to unite the country a new order to the centralised system of govt in order to defend the foreign influences was made.

Thus the answer is western states forced japan to open itself.

The govt was emulation of the foreign laws and had its win was to respond. The most ways to respond were the developments of the 19th century.

Later on the powers of the west forced the govt of japan to open up and lead to the emulation of the foreign affairs in the relations to trade.

Hence the option B is correct.

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