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  2. Economic history of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate and ensuing abandonment of the isolationist stance catalysed development in Japanese society in the Meiji Period, where Japan began rapid industrialization and westernization. Japan's new factories allowed them to be competitive with western countries in various industries. Japan's involvement in WW1 and WW2 ...

  3. Japanese economic miracle - Wikipedia

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    The words "increase", "growth" and "upswing" filled the summaries of the yearbooks from 1967 to 1971. The reasons for Japan to complete industrialization are also complicated, and the major characteristic of this time is the influence of governmental policies of the Hayato Ikeda administration, vast consumption, and vast export.

  4. Economy of East Asia - Wikipedia

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    From the late nineteenth century to the end of the 1980s, Japan was the dominant economic power in East Asia. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Japan's GDP was large as the rest of Asia combined. [46] Japan's early industrial economy reached its height in World War II when it expanded its

  5. Shibusawa Eiichi - Wikipedia

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    Shibusawa Eiichi, 1st Viscount Shibusawa in New York City in 1915. Shibusawa Eiichi, 1st Viscount Shibusawa (渋沢 栄一, March 16, 1840 – November 11, 1931) was a Japanese industrialist widely known today as the "father of Japanese capitalism", having introduced Western capitalism to Japan after the Meiji Restoration.

  6. Economic relations of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Indonesia, at US$9.8 billion in 1988, was the largest single location for these investments. As rapid as the growth of investment was, however, it did not keep pace with Japan's global investment, so Asia 's share in total cumulative investment slipped, from 26.5 percent in 1975 to 17.3 percent in 1988. [1]

  7. Economy of the Empire of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Despite many forests and their importance, Japan continued to buy wood overseas. In accordance with the other dates, Japan had 200,000 km 2 of forest, 100,000 km 2 in private hands, the other 75,000 km 2 in state control and 12,000 km 2 owned by the Imperial House. Wood exports were made to the rest of the Japanese empire and to foreign markets.

  8. Meiji era - Wikipedia

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    The Meiji era (明治時代, Meiji jidai, [meꜜː(d)ʑi] ⓘ) was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912. [1] The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonization by Western powers to the new paradigm of a modern, industrialized nation state and emergent ...

  9. Industrial policy of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The industrial policy of Japan was a complicated system devised by the Japanese government after World War II and especially in the 1950s and 1960s. The goal was to promote industrial development by co-operating closely with private firms.