Question

(this question comes from pages 376 - 379) based on the passage, which of the following best explains why foreign powers agreed in 1894 to end extraterritorial rights in japan? japan threatened to use military force to expel foreign citizens. foreign nations lacked the resources to enforce extraterritoriality. japans legal system had modernized to resemble western nations. a new international law required the elimination of such rights.

Explanation:

After the Meiji Restoration, Japan modernized its legal system to be more in line with Western legal systems. Extraterritorial rights were often justified on the basis that a country's legal system was "inferior" or not up - to - Western standards. Once Japan's legal system modernized (resembling Western nations'), there was less of a pretext for foreign powers to maintain extraterritorial rights.
Japan did not realistically threaten to use military force to expel foreign citizens in a way that would make foreign powers give up extraterritoriality. Foreign nations had the resources to enforce extraterritoriality if they wanted (they had shown this in the past, e.g., in China). There was no new international law specifically requiring the elimination of extraterritorial rights at that time.

Answer:

Japan’s legal system had modernized to resemble Western nations’.