with China and Russia, in both of which Japan was the victor. Popular demand for greater democracy was often in opposition to the government’s aggressive policies. Japan developed economically and acquired a colonial empire that suppressed the spread of democracy at home and put it in collision with the people it colonised. Writing Japanese: Kanji (Chinese characters) – red; katakana – blue; hiragana – green.
P ATHS TO M ODERNISATION T HEMES IN W ORLD H ISTORY