- Which ONE of the following is NOT one of Japan's MAIN four islands?
Your answer:
Kyushu.
Shikoku.
Honshu.
Sakhalin.
Hokkaido.
- Who are the Ainu?
Your answer:
Un-repatriated Japanese soldiers kept prisoner since World War Two.
A minority ethnic group on Japan's northernmost island.
Members of the Japanese royal family.
Followers of a minority religion in Japan.
A group of ethnic Koreans in Japan much discriminated against by the Japanese.
- The Japanese think of the word Shinto as meaning what?
Your answer:
"The Celestial Kingdom."
"The Middle Way."
"The Chrysanthemum Throne."
"The Way of the Gods."
"Forbidden Desires."
- Which of the following describes the role of the ancient shoguns?
Your answer:
They were the merchant class.
They were economic and social reformers who traditionally were in the minority and often punished.
They were keepers of the "true faith" and guardians of the temples of the kami.
They were military commanders who were the real power behind the throne.
They were the warrior class.
- The Japanese think of the term Kamikaze in its original context as what?
Your answer:
"The Divine Wind."
"The Gods are With Us."
"The Land of the Rising Sun."
Hara kiri.
Saving face.
- The term Sokaku means what?
Your answer:
"Japan Today, Tomorrow, and Forever!"
"Western technology, Japanese culture."
"The Gods Favor the Land of the Rising Sun."
"Japan Will Survive."
"Closed Country Policy."
- The first significant Christian group in Japan was which one of the following?
Your answer:
Spanish Catholic Benedictines.
Dutch Reformed Protestants.
Portuguese Catholic Franciscans.
Portuguese Catholic Jesuits.
Portuguese Catholic Dominicans.
- Seppuku refers to what?
Your answer:
A person committing hara kiri.
Japan's determination to industrialize and catch up with the West.
Japan's return to rule by emperors rather than by leading nobles.
Japan's ancient imperial capital.
Japan's reforms that accompanied the Constitution of 1889.
- The significance of the Meiji was what?
Your answer:
It was the reign of the emperor who reinstated imperial power in 1868.
It is the title of the Japanese parliament.
It is the name of the last great military ruler of Japan.
It was the name of Japan's military operation that attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941.
It is a minority group living on Sakhalin.
- Zaibatsu is a term which refers to what?
Your answer:
Giant industrial conglomerates.
Japan's military and economic goals in creating her Great Co-Prosperity Sphere.
The dynastic name of the current royal family.
A form of Japanese poetry.
Japan's escaping conquest by the Mongols in the 1200s.
- Which one of the following was a result of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895?
Your answer:
Japan returned Formosa to China.
The United States intervened before Japan could overwhelm her enemy.
Japan agreed to permit the Russians to build the Trans-Siberian Railroad through Japanese territory.
Japan edged out China in seeking control over Korea.
Japan acquired Manchuria.
- All the following were true of the Russo-Japanese War EXCEPT
Your answer:
President Teddy Roosevelt mediated a peace treaty between Russia and Japan.
Japan edged out Russia in competition for controlling Manchuria.
it was fought primarily in Manchuria and at sea.
Japan returned Sakhalin to Russia in exchange for Manchuria and Formosa.
Japan delivered a stunning blow to Russia by sinking the Russian fleet in the Sea of Japan.
- The "opening of Japan" in 1853-1854 resulted from what event?
Your answer:
The arrival of the Portuguese.
The arrival of an armed US fleet.
A small-scale war with imperial China.
The arrival of the Dutch.
A small-scale war with tsarist Russia.
- In the 1930s Japan placed the last emperor of China in what position?
Your answer:
Under incarceration at a concentration camp from which he escaped only to be captured by the Communists.
Under house arrest in his own Forbidden City.
In charge of its colony of Korea.
Under incarceration at a concentration camp in which he ultimately died.
On the throne of what Japan renamed Manchukuo.
- In 1931 and in 1937, Japan's military action in what region of China essentially began her conquest of China that also led to World War II?
Your answer:
Tibet.
Shanghai.
Manchuria.
Nanking.
Hong Kong.
- "Yankee Shogun" is a term that referred to which of the following?
Your answer:
American policy of keeping Japan under close scrutiny in the 1950s during the Eisenhower administration.
President Harry S Truman for his ordering the atomic bombing of Japan.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's power over post-World War II Japan.
President Franklin Roosevelt for his treatment of pre-World War II Japan.
American foreign policy regarding Japan prior to World War II.
- "Comfort Girls" is a term in reference to what?
Your answer:
Korean and other Asian women held as sex slaves during World War II.
Western women who marry Japanese men essentially for their money.
Japanese women who marry Western men for enhanced social standing in Japan.
Japanese prostitutes.
Japanese Geisha.
- "The Yen is mightier than the sword" is a reference to what?
Your answer:
Japan's desire to rebuild her army and navy beyond the limits imposed at the end of World War II.
Japan's having become the biggest arms dealer in the world since World War II.
Japan's willingness since World War II to trade territory for money.
Japan's decision to remain neutral after World War II.
Japan's being stronger after World War II than before because of her economy rather than her military.
- Who is Akihito?
Your answer:
Japan's current prime minister.
Japan's current leading soccer player.
Japan's current emperor.
The Japanese commander of the fleet that attacked Pearl Harbor.
The author of Japan's policy of "checkbook diplomacy."
- Who was Hirihito?
Your answer:
The emperor of Japan from the 1920s to the 1980s.
The current Japanese emperor.
The current heir to the Japanese throne.
The last shogun of Japan.
The Meiji Emperor.