Why Japan industrialized first
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SOURCES:
1. https://www.nber.org/people/reka_juhasz
2. https://www.nber.org/people/shogo_sakabe
3. https://www.nber.org/people/david_weinstein
4. https://www.ndl.go.jp/portrait/e/datas/32
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Strengthening_Movement
6. https://www.nber.org/papers/w32667
7. https://www.toyota-industries.com/company/history/toyoda_sakichi/
8. https://www.lean.org/the-lean-post/articles/a-connecticut-yankee-machinist-in-toyodas-castle/
9. https://www.toyota-global.com/company/history_of_toyota/75years/text/taking_on_the_automotive_business/chapter1/section1/item1.html
10. https://ourworldindata.org/breaking-the-malthusian-trap
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Timestamps:
00:00 – intro
03:24 – building block 1
09:25 – building block 2
12:18 – building block 3
21:10 – building block 4
26:51 – building block 5
31:03 – conclusion
Attribution:
Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic
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Stock footage and others clips by Getty
Narrated and produced by Dr. Joeri Schasfoort
Edited by Natalia Karpacz
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Last time I was so early the Tokugawa shogunate was still around
Last time I was this early the Sengoku period was still ongoing.
I stopped groping women in metro to watch this.
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I AM EAGER TO see what I will learn from you today.
I am guessing something something Meiji restoration (just arrived)
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476 CE), Western Europe went dirt poor. Meanwhile, during that period (Tang and Song dynasties in China), China was indeed the richest and most technologically advanced civilization in the world. Eventually, the tables turned during the Industrial Revolution. After the fall of the Qing dynasty, the Chinese went dirt poor. Meanwhile, beginning the Industrial Revolution, European powers had become rich and dominant. Unlike the Chinese (when they where rich and powerful), the West colonized and enslaved other races. Today, the West is in its early decline and China is on the rise again. Give another 100 years and see the history repeats itself.
Interesting