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The industrial revolution did happen in Japan though... and without any of the key factors explained in the article.
by soufron 10y ago
The industrial revolution did happen in Japan though... and without any of the key factors explained in the article.
- jwhitlark 10y agoThey had outside pressure driving it, though. I'd probably go so far as to say that no society voluntarily chooses an industrial revolution, they have it forced upon them by a variety of pressures.
- woodandsteel 10y agoThe term "industrial revolution" refers to what happened in the West. Japan industrialized, but the gigantic set of scientific discoveries and technological inventions and economic and governmental innovations that allowed Japan to industrialize were borrowed from the West. The link is about why this all happened there and not in China.