Japan was more accepting of Western advances than China in the nineteenth century because
(A) Japan feared the power of Great Britain in East Asia.
(B) Japan feared the power of Korea.
(C) the Tokugawa Shogunate desired reform in Japan.
(D) Japanese leaders wanted a democracy patterned after the United States.
(E) Japan recognized the need to open up trade relations with the West in order to increase its national power.