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Background of Japanese Business Development

March 1st, 2011

When one hears about Japan, luxurious cars, skyscrapers, stock markets, robots, computers, aircrafts and other latest scientific and technological products of the world has always come to his/her mind. However, no one can forget 1945′s tragedy, in which Hiroshima and Nagasaki was deteriorated to the ground by atomic bombs, under the command of U.S President Harry S. Truman.

Comparing the tragedy of atomic bomb explosion with current image of Japan, the lesson of revitalization of Japan after the Second World War is what that everyone shall not ignore. What are the factors that push Japan to its current world status?

Japan is might be luckier than other countries in the world, in that it has nationalistically aspiration leaders. In mid 19th century, while Japan was still under imperialism, in order to make the country survive, Japanese government pioneered three platforms: 1- High military capacity; 2- Swift establishment of capitalism and; 3- Strong education system. The third platform was like what Professor Dr. Seiichiro Yonekura, from the Institute of Innovative Research, Hitotsubashi University, stated “we had no natural resources; gas, mine, oil, … that’s why people are our only resources.” Just in 1890, Japan’s textile exports exceeded imports and up to 1930, Japan had the world’s second highest numbers of registered studies, headed only by the United States. » Read more: Background of Japanese Business Development