It was usually performed by certain high ranking Japanese Officials and when they suffered a Major blunder in the war, or something that was considered MAJORLY unhonorable, and that's the key here, honor. Honor was HUGE in Japan, your family would consider you worthless if you didn't have honor, so doing something like losing a battle and surrendering were considered cowardly, so to maintain their honor and avoid capture they would commit Seppuku
B. Government jobs were assigned according to merit measured by performance on exams.
C. It established a long-lasting civil service system founded on strong Confucian values.
Hope this helps please tell me if im wrong :)
Because of the weakness of non-states (ones that werent official, just groups of people who called themselves states), and European powers had strong econimies and a well organized government. Hope this was useful :P
Explanation:
appointment of a particular Government servant to a post was erroneous or not ... ability of the candidates under consideration. ... to be followed in such cases will be as given below.
