C. Japan is ashamed of its past.
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi commanded that there would be no commercial necessity in the world's, vouching for tax cuts and pleading for time for improvement to accomplish. In a yearly speech before Parliament describing his intentions, Koizumi said his government persists confined to evading the fat out of an oversize administration, cleansing up banks' bad mortgages and streamlining the law practice.
The correct answer is option B) "He defied the election results and stayed in power for two more years". The dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet on Chile extended from 1973 to 1990. The 1988 elections were initially a failure because it let Pinochet to stay in power even though he shouldn't by the Constitution. The 1988 Chilean national plebiscite was a national referendum that helped to put pressure on Pinochet, resulting in the end of his dictatorship in 1990.
Four empires collapsed: the Russian Empire in 1917, the German and the Austro-Hungarian in 1918
