The Industrialization & Modernization of Japan

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" The Industrialization and Modernization of Japan
Japan as a World Power Player has only been on the international scene since 1853, which was the year that US Naval Admiral Oliver Hazard Perry parked his fleet of gunboats in Tokyo Bay and ordered the reclusive Emperor to abandon its 250 years of splendid isolation and accept the philosophy of the West. Seldom has a country's historical record had such a clear and jolting turning point (Mallaby, 1994, J-3).
Before that historic year, Japan was literally frozen in feudalism, a country where lords were bound to each other by ties of vassalage and where peasants surrendered part of their crops as feudal dues. After that year began a period of "Western awareness" unequaled in any study of the importance of economic geography. This discussion will trace the relentless.."

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