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Poor weather led to mediocre harvests in 1944 and 1945. To make matters worse, the return of eight million expatriates from Japan's recently freed colonies added to the high demand for food. [7] In 1940, the Japanese government established a food rationing system for items such as vegetables, sugar, seafood, dairy goods, and rice.
Japan's manufacturing sector experienced labor shortages in the early 1940s as a result of its military conscription. [74]: 34 Japan forced prisoners of war and foreign labors to work in factories, including more than one million Koreans whom it took to Japan for this purpose from 1941 to 1945.
By the 1970s Japan ascended to great power status again. Japan had record high economic growth during the Japanese economic miracle. 1971: 30 September: Zengakuren demonstrate and riot in Tokyo against terms for the return of Okinawa from US to Japanese control. They wanted to remove all American military presence. 24 November
The Tokugawa Japan during a long period of “closed country” autarky between the mid-seventeenth century and the 1850s had achieved a high level of urbanization; well-developed road networks; the channeling of river water flow with embankments and the extensive elaboration of irrigation ditches that supported and encouraged the refinement of rice cultivation based upon improving seed ...
America and the Japanese miracle: the Cold War context of Japan's postwar economic revival, 1950-1960. The Luther Hartwell Hodges series on business, society, and the state. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-2528-0. Hane, Mikiso (1996). Eastern phoenix: Japan since 1945. Boulder, Colo: Westview Press.
Throughout the entire year - Celebration of year 2600 in Japanese imperial year; January 15 – A large fire destroys much of Shizuoka city center.; January 29 – According to Japanese government official confirmed report, a three-passenger locomotive commuter train derail and caught fire nearby Ajikawaguchi Station, Osaka, resulting to 189 person (181 were instantly, 8 were hospital) were ...
The 1950s were largely marked by Japan re-establishing relations to numerous nations and redefining its international role, e.g., by joining the United Nations in 1956. One such total redefinition were Japan's relations to its former World War II-ally Germany , which were put on a new basis in 1955 focused on trade.
After 1950 Japan's economy recovered from the war damage and began to boom, with the fastest growth rates in the world. [24] Given a boost by the Korean War, in which it acted as a major supplier to the UN force, Japan's economy embarked on a prolonged period of extremely rapid growth, led by the manufacturing sectors. Japan emerged as a ...