At the end of Chapter 16, you should be able to answer the following questions.

1. In what ways can intercultural contact affect a culture’s sense of identity?
2. In what ways did resistance to rapid change lead to a return to a traditional Japanese worldview?
3. What role did rapid change have in Japan becoming a military power with an expansionist worldview?
4. How did the Japanese maintain their sense of identity through the Meiji period and beyond?