Test Bank Answers Economic And Social Transformations Ch14

Chapter 14

1. What was the major shift in sources of energy in Japan of the 1950s-1960s?

a) From coal to oil*

b) From coal to nuclear

c) From oil to nuclear

d) From domestic oil to imported oil

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1. Which of the following industries was NOT at the cutting edge of the postwar boom?

a) Shipbuilding

b) Iron and Steel

c) Silk production*

d) Automobiles

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1. Which of the following internal factors did NOT contribute to the Japanese boom of the 1950s through 1970s?

a) Abundant capital from a high domestic savings rate

b) High quality human capital

c) A large and growing domestic market

d) Refurbished wartime plants and equipment*

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1. Which of the following did Japanese consumers buy on credit during the 1960s?

a) Television

b) Sewing Machines

c) Refrigerators

d) All of the above

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1. Why did Charles de Gaulle call Prime Minister Ikeda Hayato a ‘transistor salesman’?

a) Because Ikeda had earlier worked for a transistor manufacturing company

b) Because the Japanese government policies aimed to encourage Japanese exports*

c) Because Japan’s chief export was electronic transistors

d) Because France was competing intensely with Japan to export to the US

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1. Why is it reasonable to identify a ‘transwar’ period?

a) Because many trends that emerged in the 1920s and 1930s persisted into the 1950s*

b) Because World War II had no impact on Japanese politics

c) Because of continuities from World War I to World War II

d) Because the word ‘trans’ in this context means ‘only’

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1. Which of the following was NOT a legitimate exit point for students in the education system of the 1950s?

a) After primary school*

b) After middle school

c) After high school

d) After university

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1. Which of the following elements of prewar life did NOT persist in the Japanese countryside into the 1950s?

a) Thatched roofs

b) Landlord-tenant tensions*

c) Traditional clothing

d) Oxen-plowed fields

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1. Which of the following did NOT erode the assets of prewar elites?

a) Large-scale theft during the disorderly Occupation era*

b) Allied bombing during wartime

c) High inflation between 1945 and 1948

d) Land reform

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1. Who were Japan’s post-war ‘rōnin’ (masterless samurai)?

a) Freelancing college graduates workers with no long-term employment.

b) Unemployed ex-soldiers who engaged in theft and extortion

c) Unemployed immigrants from abroad

d) High school graduates taking “gap years” to study for university exams*

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1. What were ‘danchi?’

a) Government-run rice fields

b) Traditional Japanese extended families

c) Government-financed apartments*

d) Privately built single-family homes

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1. Which of the following changes did NOT take place in Japanese society in the post-war decades of high economic growth?

a) Dating became popular

b) Bedrooms were separated from kitchen and dining rooms

c) Wives began to take part-time jobs

d) Women were reluctant to marry and lived on their own*

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1. What was the ‘water trade’?

a) Plumbing

b) Bar hostessing*

c) Fishing

d) Fountain design

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1. Female industrial employed increased significantly in which industry in the 1960s?

a) Textiles

b) Iron and steel

c) Automobiles

d) Electronics*

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1. To which country did the largest number of non-Japanese residents in postwar Japan claim allegiance?

a) North Korea*

b) South Korea

c) Taiwan

d) China

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1. Which demographic groups tended to study ‘home economics’?

a) Boys

b) Low-achieving students

c) Poorer students

d) Girls*

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1. What was the total daily circulation of Japan’s newspapers by 1960?

a) 2 million

b) 12 million

c) 24 million*

d) 90 million

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1. When NHK begin to broadcast television?

a) 1923

b) 1936

c) 1945

d) 1953*

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1. Which of the following events did NOT take place in the 1950s or 1960s?

a) The marriage of Crown Prince Akihito to a commoner, Shōda Michiko

b) The ongoing popularity of the comic strip, Sazae-san

c) The Sapporo Winter Olympic Games*

d) The Tokyo Summer Olympic Games

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1. Why was Mishima Yukio’s death notable?

a) Because he called for a military coup d’etat and publicly committed seppuku*

b) Because it was broadcast live on radio and TV

c) Because he was a famous writer who had just won the Nobel Prize

d) Because he was killed by government troops

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