How were Japan and China culturally different at the end of the 19th century

Japan opened it's country to new cultural experiences and the western world while China remained closed off to society for a couple more years.

if you are talking about current time the answer is no

if you are talking about when the colonies were developing the answer is yes

australian plates collided into eurasian plates, and the himalayas formed. the andes mountain range the himalayas and the islands of japan form differently. the andes mountain range formed at the convergent boundary of an oceanic plate and continental plate.