All of the following are viable reasons for japan’s growing militarism, except which?

a.

complete liberation from european influence.

b.

there was a sharp increase in national pride.

c.

japan’s 1920s recession and 1930s depression led to doubts towards democracy.

d. growing military power and increasing territorial rights.

i'd assume india mainly because of how isolated japan was.   plus it is a whole china away.

well the fact it is basically a peninsula allowed trade to come from many places, thus allowing cultural diffusion to take place. india has seasonal monsoons that merchants travel back and forth from india using the monsoons wind patterns