Goes from being a feudal agrarian backwater to being an advanced industrialised country in 70 years

>goes from being a feudal agrarian backwater to being an advanced industrialised country in 70 years
how did they do it

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american nukes
american technology

The "japan was africa tier" meme is just that: a meme

Strong centralised state that financed the development of it's own country

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im talking about pre nukes
1930s japan was on par with western europe

But it was Russia-tier before the Meiji Restoration

South Korea was unironically Africa-tier however, and they went from that to a high income country much quicker, Japan industrialised but they never came close to Western incomes until after the war, SK did it in 50 years

BBC

No it wasn't. They had like 40% literacy in early nineteenth century to Russia's ~5%

its going back to being a shithole really soon though.
Their economy is tanking really hard for the past few months.
Expect japan to be stuck in time for the next decades while the rest of the world develops unless daddy USA comes to lend and hand.

No they were not. Japan has always been a shithole.
Its glorification through media and other shit has made it look like a highly advanced society with open mind.

1930s Japan politically wise was like todays North Korea and if youre going to mention Edo period, I'd advise you to go watch some documentaries about it. It was a really backwards rigid society.

>1930s japan was on par with western europe
lol

Severe autism just like us

The answer is the alliance with the bongs. It’s also why the chinks didn’t make it, bc the bongs prefer the islanders.

You seem to underestimate Japan.
Their culture and technology was really European tier in the 1930s.

Pic related is a Japanese Nobel prize for physics from that era.

They were poor on resources and militaristic but that's another matter.

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>1930s japan was on par with western europe
Kek

No it wasnt
South Korea was a developped country with collapsed factories, that's nothing alike Africa, you can just build back factories and you're back at it.

sout korea was just extremely poor after the korean war. They rebuilt it and made emphasis on education. It has backlashed really hard since south korean value absolute success of their kids. So they end up having only one kids and waste all their saving in an expensive private school. You're average kim is doing well, but the population will keep halving avery generation.

They piggybacked on post-war Japan and America it's no surprise they did it quicker.

Big Empires invaded on them and give them technolgies.