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Re:Japanese Economic Takeoff After 1945 (2002) by partycoder on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @01:49AM (#14253358)
Let me rephrase it:

They took their existing mindset/hard work, stopped spending it on military (in part due to a paradigm shift and also restrictions imposed by foreign powers) and started spending it purely on industrialization, technology, infrastructure, trade, education, science... a self-reinforcing effect that made them incrementally more productive.

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Re:Japanese Economic Takeoff After 1945 (2002) by interfixus on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @02:07AM (#14253416)
No disagreement on the first part.

I remmain to be convinced that Japanese demography will prove of any negative consequence whatsoever in the long run. globally, population neds to shrink. The Japanese are showing us how to. The West how to not.

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