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  2. Economic history of Japan - Wikipedia

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    In Japanese history, the Jōmon period (縄文 時代, Jōmon jidai) is the time between c. 14,000 and 300 BCE, [1] [2] [3] during which Japan was inhabited by a diverse hunter-gatherer and early agriculturalist population united through a common Jōmon culture, which reached a considerable degree of sedentism and cultural complexity. [4]

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Zaibatsu - Wikipedia

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    Zaibatsu (財閥, lit. ' asset clique ') is a Japanese term referring to industrial and financial vertically integrated business conglomerates in the Empire of Japan, whose influence and size allowed control over significant parts of the Japanese economy from the Meiji period to World War II.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Foreign commerce and shipping of the Empire of Japan

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    Japan's exports were as follows: 19% - wool articles; 15% - raw silk; 15% - rayon; 3% - machinery; Japan's primary exports were raw silk, controlling 80% of the world's production, and tea, controlling 10%. Japan's total foreign trade was equivalent to Belgium, a country with less than 10% of Japan's population.

  8. Japan is no longer the world's third-largest economy as it ...

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    For the whole of 2023, Japan’s nominal GDP grew 5.7% over 2023 to come in at 591.48 trillion yen, or $4.2 trillion based on the average exchange rate in 2023.

  9. History of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Japan thus laid claim to Korea as a protectorate in 1905, followed by full annexation in 1910. [192] The defeat of Russia in the war had set in motion a change in the global world order with the emergence of Japan as not only a regional power, but rather, the main Asian power. [193]