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Discuss how Japan industrialized after the Meiji Restoration. What were the consequences for its neighbours?

  • UPSC 2018
  • Industrialization

The Meiji Restoration (1868) launched a deliberately state-directed industrialization that, within a generation, turned Japan into Asia's only imperial power — a transformation whose benefits for Japan came substantially at the expense of Korea, China and Taiwan.

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  • Political Foundations for Industrialization
  • The Mechanics of State-Led Industrialization
  • Consequences for Korea
  • Consequences for China and Taiwan
  • Wider Regional and Diplomatic Fallout
  • Conclusion

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