In what way were tokugawa japan and ming china similar?

Not similar at all. China was civil government while Japan was military government. The emperor of Qing had power while the emperor of Tokugawa Shogunate had not power.

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states

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as the old saying goes, all politics are local. state and federal governments affect our daily lives in numerous ways. yet, in our federal system, there is supposed to be a balance between federal and state power. as james madison envisioned it in federalist no. 51, “the power surrendered by the people” would be “divided between two distinct governments,” creating a balance of power that would enable the “different governments [to] control each other.”