Why Is Japan So Rich?
1.5M views · May 1, 2023 · Education
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@bartleyhoran9833 · 3 years ago (edited) · pinned
You wouldn't believe you're Dutch with that pour. Absolutely shocking. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aXT9BTCBJ0&t=751">12:31</a>
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@MasayaShida · 3 years ago
Japan was the first country willing to invest and build us a bridge in Cambodia, even as our country had yet to stabilize after fall of communism. They are helping us build sewage systems and other critical infrastructure. They are a great country.
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@helloiamenergyman · 3 years ago
Fun fact: according to my dad who is part of the japanese community here in Brazil, some of the japanese immigrants who visited japan post ww2 thought that japan won the war, because they couldn't believe that a country that had just lost a war could be so prosperous.
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@犬まにまに · 3 years ago
Behind the success of the Meiji Restoration was the 250-year peaceful Edo period. During this period, small schools called terakoya (寺子屋) were born all over Japan so that children of farmers other than samurai could study. As a result, Japan's literacy rate has reached an astonishing rate. I think that was the foundation for learning overseas technology.
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@ネット放浪者 · 1 year ago (edited)
日本人として日本で学んだかぎりでは、日本の近代的な知識はオランダから学んだものがほとんどだったそうです。<br>日本が鎖国を明言する以前、日本を植民地にするために強引にキリスト教を布教させていった外国と違いオランダだけは公平な貿易相手として日本を扱っていた事から反キリスト教の風潮の中でもオランダとの交易は続いていました。<br>明治維新まで日本はオランダからの偏った情報だけを頼りに国際情勢を学びました。そこでこのままでは鎖国にも限界が来ることと植民地になった際の悲惨な未来を知った政府は、海外の最新技術の専門用語を日本語の新しい言葉として組み込み全ての日本人に最新技術を伝えられるようにしました。それは正しく植民地としての生活か東アジアの覇権を握るかの2択しか無かったのです。
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@qfaknot6430 · 3 years ago
日本人として、一つ伝えることがあるとすれば、日本の発展はWW2後にいきなり行われたものではありません。1853年にアメリカが行った武力による強制開国によって多くの西側諸国に不平等条約を結ばされてから死ぬ気で国を発展させました。1872年には独力で鉄道を開設し、多くの工場を建設することで植民地支配から逃れるために必死でした。白人国家による植民地支配とアジアを未開で野蛮と評価して搾取されることに気が付いたからです。これらから逃れる方法はイギリスやドイツに並ぶレベルの工業化です。日本人留学生たちは西洋に留学して様々な知識を手に入れ、日本を発展させました。WW2によって多くの工場が破壊されましたが、そのノウハウは残っていました。それらをもとにもう一度成長することができたのです。日本がWW2後に急激に発展した理由について頭を悩ませている人の多くは、日本がWW2前に経済成長をしていたことを知りません。
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@oys9420 · 3 years ago
As a Japanese hardware engineer, I cannot help but mention the US forced the use of foreign semiconductors for Japanese electronics in 1986 to late 90s, which caused a serious impact on the japanese electronic industry. This forced us engineers to use MPUs from Motorola, Intel, and Texas Instruments instead of Hitachi, Sharp, and Toshiba. Our situation was quite bad, so my colleague went to Korea to "help" Samsung, who paid well to the Japanese.
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@mingming-e6374 · 3 years ago
Japan is rising again. Not just industrial sector but also tourism and cultural sectors🎉
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@YuuSHiiiN · 3 years ago
One of the reasons for Japan's economic stagnation that you forgot to mention was the Plaza Accords in the 1980s that the US essentially blackmailed Japan to sign. Japan had a thriving semiconductor industry at the time and there was the potential to overtake the US as the #! economy in the 80s. Obviously, that didn't sit well with US high tech companies, and they basically planted false evidence of Japan supposedly stealing their patents, hence the Plaza Accords was signed and Japan took a HUGE hit towards their high tech manufacturing which never truly recovered.
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@hakusai3325 · 3 years ago
コメント欄を見ると、日本に詳しすぎる
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@kitakazehai · 2 years ago
排他的であることは、国を守るうえで重要な要素だと思います。
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@Thiccc_Shaedy · 3 years ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aXT9BTCBJ0&t=205">3:25</a> You are LITERALLY the first person that'd EVER explained to me WHY everybody and they mama wanted Japan to open up and start trading with them. Every other "educational channel" would just gloss over that topic smh. 😅
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