By the Early 1800s, Some Japanese Officials and Scholars Had

By the early 1800s, some Japanese officials and scholars had concluded that

A) Westerners must be kept out of their country at all costs.
B) they needed more knowledge about Western European science and medicine.
C) Japanese poetry was far superior to most European verse.
D) "Dutch medicine" was the only worthwhile kind.
E) they had fallen behind every European country except Russia.