China and Japan reacted in very different ways to Western involvement in their region. China tried to stay the way it was. It thought that it could just keep going the way it always had because it had always been so powerful.
On the other hand, Japan reacted by trying to become much like the West. The Meiji Restoration totally changed Japan's government and society to make it more western.
By doing this, Japan was able to become a major world power very quickly, while China is just now getting to that status.
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