Detailed Instructions: You need to read the given passage and construct a question about the information present in the passage. The question should be answerable from the passage. Most importantly, only those questions are allowed whose answers cannot be determined from a single sentence. Do not generate questions that require only a single sentence to answer. Instead, try to combine two sentences and create a question from that combination. Do not create open-ended questions, i.e., the answers to them cannot be found precisely from the information provided in the passage.
Problem:Paragraph- Sent 1: The Meiji Restoration: In 1868 the Satsuma and Choshu clans, never a real threat to Tokugawa authority as long as they remained rivals, joined forces to overthrow the shogun and restore the authority of the emperor, the 14-year-old Mitsuhito.
Sent 2: Edo was renamed Tokyo ("Eastern Capital"), and Mitsuhito took over the Tokugawa castle as his palace.
Sent 3: But important though the resuscitated imperial authority undoubtedly was, the real power under the restoration known as Meiji ("Enlightened Rule") was in the hands of a new generation of forward-looking administrators, who set about abolishing the ancient feudal apparatus in favor of a modern government based on merit rather than ancestry.
Sent 4: They emphasized the need to acquire Western military and industrial skills and technology with which to confront the West itself and eliminate unfair trade tariffs and other unjust aspects of the foreign treaties.
Sent 5: Agriculture, commerce, and traditional manufacturing were expanded to provide a sound economic base for investment in the modern technology of textiles and other industries.
Sent 6: Shipbuilding and weapons manufacture were already under way; railways and telegraph lines quickly followed.
Sent 7: And to show just how fast Japan's new rulers were catching on, two punitive expeditions were launched against Korea and China in the grand manner of 19th-century gunboat diplomacy.
Sent 8: There was an inevitable reaction to rapid Westernization.
Sent 9: Traditional Japanese theater, the tea ceremony, ikebana flower arrangement, and the old martial arts all came back into favor.
Sent 10: In 1890 an important imperial edict on education was issued, promoting Asian (that is, Chinese and Japanese) values in culture and stressing loyalty to the emperor and general harmony.
Sent 11: If the singing in school of military songs such as "Come, Foes, Come!
Sent 12: " or "Though the Enemy Be Tens of Thousands Strong" seems excessively belligerent today, we should not forget jingoistic attitudes in Europe and America at the time.
Sent 13: Japan made a dramatic debut on the international stage, with military actions against China and Russia.
Sent 14: The 1894 Sino-Japanese War for control of the Korean markets and the strategic region of southern Manchuria was a triumph for Japan's modernized army over China's larger but much less well-organized forces.
Sent 15: More impressive still was Japan's success against the powerful war machine of Czarist Russia (1904-1905), beginning with a surprise nighttime attack on the Russian fleet, to be repeated some years later at Pearl Harbor.
Sent 16: The West was forced to accept Japan's occupation of southern Manchuria and the annexation of Korea in 1910.
Sent 17: In just 40 years, Japan had established itself as a viable world power.
Solution:
How old was Mitsuhito when he took over the Tokugawa castle as his palace?