Russia and Japan were a threat to the West’s growing power, because both of these nations slowly, or in Japan’s case—quickly—and this growth added to the competition of imperialism, later on, when both Russia and Japan had grown enough. Russia and Japan were particularly special because they did not stop reforms, like other countries, during Western domination. Therefore, excluding the West, Russia and Japan were the only ones that industrialized before the 1960s. Although both Russia and Japan improved
linguistic, historical, geographical, racial, and religious standards that are practiced by the people of a country. Japan has been traditionally dominated by monarchies of expressed the importance cultural unification throughout the nation state. This combined with a common language and a lack of racial minorities internally created a push for Japan as a major power in Southeast Asia. Since Japan was so heavily impacted by feudalism, classes were created to establish order and divide the poor from the affluent