Question

how did japan compete with western nations to become a world power in the late 1800s?
it modernized its economy and politics.
it continued its earlier isolationist principles.
it replaced its emperor with an elected president.
it limited its peoples involvement in government.

Explanation:

Japan underwent the Meiji Restoration in the late 1800s. During this period, it actively modernized its economy (e.g., industrialization) and politics (adopting Western - style governance structures and legal systems). Isolationist principles (like Sakoku before the Meiji era) were abandoned. The emperor remained a central figure (though with more ceremonial roles in some aspects as power structures changed, but not replaced by a president). And there was an expansion of some aspects of people's involvement in government in the sense of a more centralized and organized administrative system that included a wider range of the population in the new social order (compared to the feudal - era rigid class system).

Answer:

It modernized its economy and politics.