The fact that could be included in Japan's column is the one that states that "there were excelent harbors on the Pacific Coast", since all the other options refer to facts that don't match with Japan's history:
-It never had colonies in Egypt nor India.
-It didn't establish diamond-mining companies in South Africa.
-It never used the Atlantic to sail to any colonies, as its expansion went into mainland Asia, not overseas.
Ashoka was the third emperor of the Maurya, a dynasty between the 4th and 2nd centuries B.C. He dominated almost the entirety of India, Pakistan and part of Afghanistan.
