Answer:
The correct answer to the question: How was industrialization different in the United States and Japan, would be: D: The United States pursued industrialization on its own, while Japan was first pressured by an outside power.
Explanation:
It is wrong to believe that Japan was a completely medieval kingdom when they first opened up to the world, in 1850. What impressed the West, when the U.S interfered to force the opening of Japan towards the world, and accept industrialization, was that the Asian country was already totally prepared for it. Before that, although industrialization had not taken place, what did take place during the "closed years", the period between the 1600s and 1850, was a reorganization of a country that had previously been subdivided and in constant conflict between ruling lords. But with the arrival of the Tokugawa period, Japan went through a proto-industrial development which allowed it to be ready when industrialization came with the appearance of the U.S and the realization by Japan, that it would be overtaken by other countries, if it did not catch up. This catching up was really fast. The U.S, on the other hand, developed industrialization on its own, right alongside, and a bit after, the Industrial Revolution took place in Britain, but it did not need pressure from anyone to accept industrialization and develop it on its own.
