Examination analysis: This reform refers to the Meiji Restoration in modern Japan. After the Tokugawa era was overthrown, the Meiji government implemented a series of bourgeois reforms. The Meiji Restoration consolidated the joint dictatorship of the landlord class headed by the Emperor, which made Japan develop into an advanced capitalist country in just over half a century, created conditions for Japan to get rid of the crisis of becoming a semi-colony, and made Japan the only country in Asia that can continue to maintain its national independence. However, the Meiji Restoration also had its negative side. This is mainly manifested in the following aspects: first, there are still a lot of feudal remnants in politics, economy and thought; Secondly, Japan successfully got rid of the crisis of becoming a semi-colony, but with the growth of its economic and military strength, it quickly embarked on the road of aggression and oppression of other nations. ABC's statement is correct. Japan once became the second largest economy in the world in the 1980s after World War II, so it chose D.