>Japan also didn't have coal. Hm? Japan does (or rather did) have coal and mined it extensively during their industrialization. Since coal can come from peat b

>Japan also didn't have coal. Hm? Japan does (or rather did) have coal and mined it extensively during their industrialization. Since coal can come from peat bogs, rainy islands often have some. They also somewhat famously developed cars that ran on coal when their oil supply was cut off in WWII. http://www.japansmeijiindustrialrevolution.com/en/site/coalmining/ http://www.japansmeijiindustrialrevolution.com/en/site/coalm...