Someone else commented on Germany between 1900 and 1950. Japan was easily the most educated country in Asia before WWII. I don't know how Italy stacks up to t

Someone else commented on Germany between 1900 and 1950. Japan was easily the most educated country in Asia before WWII. I don't know how Italy stacks up to the rest of Europe, but Italy was far more educated than Ethiopia before invading it before WWII.