Question

China is one of Japan's closest neighbors. How did China affect Japan's political development?

China sent government leaders to Japan to instruct them in the best methods to create a centralized government.
China supported Japan's efforts to create a centralized government by establishing diplomatic pacts with the leaders.
Japan imitated bureaucratic patterns used by the Tang Dynasty when creating its centralized government model.
Japan received requested assistance from China when developing its first organizational government charter.

Answer 1

Japan imitated bureaucratic patterns used by the Tang Dynasty when creating its centralized government model

Step-by-step explanation:

Japan has had isolationist politics for thousands of years, and it opened up properly to the world only after the World War II. Because of its isolationism, Japan has developed its own unique culture which was not largely influenced by the other cultures, but despite all of that, there are some things that the Japanese imitated from the surrounding cultures, namely China. One of the things that the Japanese was the creation of centralized government model, and it did it based on the model that was established by the Tang Dynasty. Japan made its own unique form of centralized government, but the idea and basis of it are lying in the Chinese model.