
Given the following passage

"Under German control, and even before then, Japanese traders and fishermen from time to time visited the Marshall Islands, although contact with the islanders was irregular. After the Meiji Restoration (1868), the Japanese government adopted a policy of turning the Japanese Empire into a great economic and military power in East Asia.",

answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text.

Question: Japan was not turned into an economic power in what location, Marshall Islands or East Asia? 

Marshall Islands
