Japan quickly adobted Western-stlye government, military, education, and many other ideas.
Japan quickly adobted Western-stlye government, military, education, and many other ideas.
Japanese industrialization took place later and was done more quickly.
Unlike in the United States, industrialization came to Japan as a result of foreign aggression.
Japan felt that as a powerful country in its own right, it would then be able to assert its influence over world events.
Japan rapidly developed an industrial economy
isolation
(Apex) Only Japan industrialized after being pressured by a foreign power.
Japan learned how NOT to react to the westerners from Chinas example and emerged as a military and imperial power Japan was more successful than China when it came to independence because Japan government modernize and industrialize along Western line quickly. This helped them with not been under Western power.
One way that Japan changed in the 1920's and 1030's was rapid industrialization.
As an idustrialized nation, Japan would be able to assert its infuence over world events.
Caught up and surpassed
Industrialization of the economy, increased agricultural commercialization and importance of industry and trade over agriculture.
For decades leading up to World War II, Imperial Japan saw industrialization as a way to further its greatness as a nation. Put the other way around, industrialization promised that Japan could prevent being dominated by the highly industrialized Western nations which were such a dominant force in Asia at the time.