What factor japan avoid becoming a colony of a european power

Few in Europe or America believed the Japanese could actually build a world class army or navy and Japan's attempts to modernize were not taken as seriously as they should have been. 

The Japanese also sent its best and most intelligent people to America and Europe to learn as much as they could on military technologies and strategies.

The native americans, spanish, french and americans all name places in our state. the word “arkansas” came from the quapaw indians, by way of early french explorers. at the time of the early french exploration, a tribe of indians, the quapaws, lived west of the mississippi and north of the arkansas river.