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What's interesting is that, fifty years ago, Japan started in largely the same economic place as SE Asia and China, but somehow managed to do things like enforc
by drinian 16y ago
What's interesting is that, fifty years ago, Japan started in largely the same economic place as SE Asia and China, but somehow managed to do things like enforce strict building codes before becoming the world's most developed nation.
Seems like a good illustration of just how insidious systemic corruption can be to the development of a nation.
- joe_the_user 16y agoMy clock says fifty years ago was 1960. "The Industrial Revolution in Japan occurred during Meiji period." [September 1868 through July 1912] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_period http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_period
- angus77 16y agoJapan was a highly industrialized and highly educated country that happened to be down in the dumps 50 years ago due to WWII. For instance, the city I live in (Shizuoka) was pretty much obliterated by napalm. Then they rebuilt. China's not rebuilding anything---they're building up a modern economy pretty much for the first time.