'latecomer' Industrial Revolution inJapan involved certain factors that were markedly different from what West had experienced. Analyse. [cse -2013 ]
Japan for a long time had lived in a self-imposed isolation. At the end of the 19th century, it experienced rapid industrialisation which was different from that was experienced by European nations. While industrialisation in the West took place gradually , extended over a hundred years, in Japan it took place rapidly over a period of few decades.
The Government in Japan played a major role in promoting industrialisation as opposed to the West . It funded the modernisation of docks and iron facilities. It promoted the spread of education,also hired foreign experts to show workers and managers how to modernise. Industrialisation in Japn was seen as an answer to Japan's problems with the outside nations. Japan did not want to have foreign domination like in China.
The reforms in Japan were also forced by outsiders unlike in the West. Commodore Perry of the US had sailed to Japan and forced it to sign a ' Treaty of Friendship' and to open up its economy . Unlike the European nations , Japan also lacked most natural resources which are the basis of industrial development such as coal , iron, etc. While industrialisation in the West led to revolutions and the formation of democratic forms of government in many nations, in Japn it led to an autocratic and militaristic rule.
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