How did Japan become an industrial powerhouse?
In short: How Japan built industry twice: Meiji-era imported mills, railways and shipyards, then a war that crippled its economy, an occupation of rapid reform, a productivity-driven growth miracle and decades of trade surpluses.
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Sources used in this film: UNESCO World Heritage Centre, “Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites”; Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Meiji Restoration | Background, Reforms, Significance, & Legacy | Britannica”; UNESCO World Heritage Centre, “Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining”; Japan Rail Club (JR East), “Railway 150th Anniversary: From Shimbashi to Yokohama, Japan’s First Railway – Japan Rail Club”; Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Japan - Post-WWII, Economy, Culture | Britannica”; Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Japan - Trade, Manufacturing, Exports | Britannica”; Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Meiji | Modernization, Reformation, Restoration | Britannica”; Nippon.com (The Nippon Communications Foundation), “Express Train to Industrialization: Japan’s First Railway Line”; Springer (Springer Japan, Tokyo); chapter by the Ifo Institute for Economic Research and Sakura Institute of Research, in 'A Comparative Analysis of Japanese and German Economic Success' (1997), “Immediate Post-war Situation”; Springer International Publishing (chapter by Takeshi Niizeki, Osaka University, in Economic Planning and Industrial Policy in the Globalizing Economy, ed. Murat Yülek, 2015), “Japan’s Economic Growth and the Role of Government”.
Sources used in this film
- UNESCO World Heritage Centre — Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites · View →
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — Meiji Restoration | Background, Reforms, Significance, & Legacy | Britannica · View →
- UNESCO World Heritage Centre — Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining · View →
- Japan Rail Club (JR East) — Railway 150th Anniversary: From Shimbashi to Yokohama, Japan’s First Railway – Japan Rail Club · View →
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — Japan - Post-WWII, Economy, Culture | Britannica · View →
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — Japan - Trade, Manufacturing, Exports | Britannica · View →
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — Meiji | Modernization, Reformation, Restoration | Britannica · View →
- Nippon.com (The Nippon Communications Foundation) — Express Train to Industrialization: Japan’s First Railway Line · View →
- Springer (Springer Japan, Tokyo); chapter by the Ifo Institute for Economic Research and Sakura Institute of Research, in 'A Comparative Analysis of Japanese and German Economic Success' (1997) — Immediate Post-war Situation · View →
- Springer International Publishing (chapter by Takeshi Niizeki, Osaka University, in Economic Planning and Industrial Policy in the Globalizing Economy, ed. Murat Yülek, 2015) — Japan’s Economic Growth and the Role of Government · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: UNESCO World Heritage Centre: Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites
- Also: Meiji Restoration | Background, Reforms, Significance, & Legacy | Britannica
- Also: UNESCO World Heritage Centre: Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining
- Also: Japan Rail Club (JR East): Railway 150th Anniversary: From Shimbashi to Yokohama, Japan’s First Railway – Japan Rail Club
- Also: Japan - Post-WWII, Economy, Culture | Britannica
- Also: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Japan - Trade, Manufacturing, Exports | Britannica
- Also: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Meiji | Modernization, Reformation, Restoration | Britannica
- Also: Nippon.com (The Nippon Communications Foundation): Express Train to Industrialization: Japan’s First Railway Line
- Also: Springer (Springer Japan, Tokyo); chapter by the Ifo Institute for Economic Research and Sakura Institute of Research, i: Immediate Post-war Situation
- Also: Springer International Publishing (chapter by Takeshi Niizeki, Osaka University, in Economic Planning and Industrial Pol: Japan’s Economic Growth and the Role of Government
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