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True/false

1. It is safe to say that the daimyos in Kyushu and the Western Honshu who maintained their political sovereignty more than those in other part of Japan were able to ally with the imperial/emperor power to create a powerful nation to defend the nation from the Western colonial powers.

2. Japanese merchants who were able to socially tie with social elite classes had considerably more political power than the Chinese merchants in the 16th century.

3. It is safe to say that Ito Hirobumi realized that Japanese society had no choice but to introduce Western system to strengthen the nation; on the other hand, the vast majority of Chinese officials in the late Qing dynasty did not try to implement Western system into Chinese society.

4. It is safe to say that the newly adopted Japanese Constitution in the late 19th century completely changed the entire fabric of Japan including their ideas about gender, class, politics, and social relations, reaching the level of the Western European societies.

5. It is safe to say that the daimyos in Kyushu and the Western Honshu who maintained their political sovereignty more than those in other part of Japan were able to ally with the imperial/emperor power to build a powerful nation to defend the nation from the Western colonial powers.