HREQ 3010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Nanban Trade, Japanese Economic Miracle, Rangaku
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Japan is a very important source for studying the path to capitalism for the following reasons: 1. It is the first non-western nation to develop an economy that could compete with. Hope that there is a model to be used and studied as a way to develop and challenge the dominance of western nations. Japan one of the largest economies in the world (#3 in the world: 2. It provides us with a unique form of capitalism that is different in structure and organization from many of its western competitors, especially up until the early 1990s. Japanese capitalism is different different culture of capitalism in japan than there is in other countries. Japan provided a way in which local culture can be combined with capitalism (some have argued this) This is the period that saw japan become an isolated nation with the intent of avoiding the dangerous influences of the outside world: 2.