How did the relationship between China and Japan change under Shotoku Taishi? Japan officially became part of the Chinese empire.
Japan demanded to be treated as an equal to China.

Japan stopped letting themselves be influenced by Chinese politics or culture.
Japan became economically and politically subordinate to China.

Shōtoku promoted Buddhism and Confucianism in what had been an exclusively Shintō milieu and brought new political, religious, and artistic institutions to Japan. ... Shōtoku compiled the chronicles of the government, after the Chinese model, to make up the first book of Japanese history '

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Answer is D

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monarchy doesn’t have to have the hereditary element. there have been elective monarchies in the past where you choose your king-for-life and when he dies elect someone else for the job.

"a government in which power is divided between state and national levels". federalism is a system of government in which entities such and state and province, share power with the national government.