GMAT Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: Despite Japan’s relative isolation from world trade at the time,

Hi 1988achilles, a handy thing to remember is that when a pronoun appears as part of the introductory modifier, that pronoun refers to the noun immediately after the introductory modifier.

Hence, in E,its woulderroneously refer toprolonged peace (whereas it should actually have referred toJapan ).

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