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The historical record soundly contradicts you wrt Japan. It modernized and became powerful on the backs of colonies in Manchuria and the Korean peninsula. Japan
by mlsu 4y ago
The historical record soundly contradicts you wrt Japan. It modernized and became powerful on the backs of colonies in Manchuria and the Korean peninsula. Japan was a backwater prior to the Meiji Restoration, when those projects began.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_East_Asia_Co-Prosperity_Sphere https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_East_Asia_Co-Prosper...
- WalterBright 4y agoI'm talking about after WW2. Japan's industry and economy were literally burned to the ground. Yet by the 1980s, the US was terrified that Japan's economy was going to take over the world. What they did after WW2 was adopt a free market.