Base your answer to the question on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies. The geographical features of Japan have much in common with those of ancient Hellas [Greece]. In both there is the same combination of mountain, valley, and plain, [and] a deeply indented coastline, with its bays, peninsulas, and islands off the coast. Few places inland are far removed from the mountains, and none are really distant from the sea.... The land was on all sides well protected, and yet als open to the sea; and in each case, too, there was free access for commerce and civilisation from early times. The deeply indented coastline of Japan provides a number of excellent harbours on the Pacific coast, and its shores abound in fish of all kinds, the rich supplies of which have for centuries constituted one of the chief articles of food of the people. The fishing industries have helped to provide Japan with a recruiting- ground for one of the strongest and most formidable navies of modern times.... Source: Walter Weston, The Japan Society of London, Transactions and Proceedings, XX (1922-1923) The development of a strong navy was most influenced by which of the following developments in Japanese history? 1 Shogunate rule 2 Meiji Restoration Sino-Japanese War Bombing of Hiroshima 3. 4

Base your answer to the question on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies. The geographical features of Japan have much in common with those of ancient Hellas [Greece]. In both there is the same combination of mountain, valley, and plain, [and] a deeply indented coastline, with its bays, peninsulas, and islands off the coast. Few places inland are far removed from the mountains, and none are really distant from the sea.... The land was on all sides well protected, and yet als open to the sea; and in each case, too, there was free access for commerce and civilisation from early times. The deeply indented coastline of Japan provides a number of excellent harbours on the Pacific coast, and its shores abound in fish of all kinds, the rich supplies of which have for centuries constituted one of the chief articles of food of the people. The fishing industries have helped to provide Japan with a recruiting- ground for one of the strongest and most formidable navies of modern times.... Source: Walter Weston, The Japan Society of London, Transactions and Proceedings, XX (1922-1923) The development of a strong navy was most influenced by which of the following developments in Japanese history? 1 Shogunate rule 2 Meiji Restoration Sino-Japanese War Bombing of Hiroshima 3. 4