how could japan be able to occupy an important place among the develope countries of the world
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A Japanese factory post WW II for 'special procurement' by the UN forces in Korea [2]
Japan capitalized on that reconstruction efforts by exploiting 'two key opportunities of backwardness' as Angus Maddison describes it, the low base which provided for mass employment in reconstruction efforts and the revival of the suspended Meiji Restoration to catch up with the west once again. The main reasons for what spurred Japan's growth are debated a lot on their marginal effectiveness but the most common ones are:
Socio political stability: After the end of WW II, Japan was highly stable under the SCAP. It is culturally a homogeneous society with no stalled internal rebellions like the Chinese or Korean civil wars. It's literacy rate was an outlier in Asia. Their labor markets had been one of the most stable in the world with strong unions and permanent employment.
Demilitarization: Complete demilitarization helped release a lot of economic surplus that was directly put for nation building. This was not the first time that demilitarization had been used to boost the economy though. The Japanese had used a similar strategy during the Meiji restoration by breaking up the Tokugawa military. This break up released hundreds of military personnel, engineers, scientists as well as normal workers employed by military factories.
Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita, co-founders of Sony were both Naval Engineers in the Japanese Navy [3]
According to Angus Maddison, Japanese per capita GDP increased by 8.3 percent every year from 1956 when the demilitarization was complete till 1973.
Extremely high labor productivity: This is an extension of point 2. Military personnel and people employed by the military provided Japan with one of the most disciplined workforces ever created. Japan had a literacy rate comparable to Germany and years ahead of other Asian countries and the intensive nature of rice cropping, the dominant occupation made sure the Japanese were used to working long hours. The high literacy rate boosted labor productivity and competitiveness of the Japanese economy.
This had an enormous impact in facilitating economic catch-up. I visited Japan for a month in 1961—the year of Jimmu prosperity when GDP rose 1 per cent a month. I visited the Sony factory founded by Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka (ex-naval engineers). It produced simple transistor radios,the foremen had PhDs in physics and all the operatives working and living in the factory had high school education. I had the same impression of efficiency in the Ishikawajima Harima shipyards, in riding the bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto, and in the Bank of Japan, the Economic Planning Agency, the Ministries of Education and Agriculture, where one could find ten economists in a room all fresh and eager to talk after their morning calisthenics [4]
Demographic Dividend: Japan's demographic dividend's timing was impeccable. The demographic transition allowed for a very high workers to population ration and historically lowest dependency ratio.
Japan saw in 1950 what China saw in the 80's and India is seeing now [5]
High Savings Rate: Japan was and still is a very frugal society. The high savings rate led to rapid capital accumulation in Japan compared to other war torn countries and gave the government an extraordinary ability to spend on infrastructure projects. At one point, Japan's per capita GDP was increasing at 8.3 percent per year because of the savings rate.
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Japan capitalized on that reconstruction efforts by exploiting 'two key opportunities of backwardness' as Angus Maddison describes it, the low base which provided for mass employment in reconstruction efforts and the revival of the suspended Meiji Restoration to catch up with the west once again. The main reasons for what spurred Japan's growth are debated a lot on their marginal effectiveness but the most common ones are:
Socio political stability: After the end of WW II, Japan was highly stable under the SCAP. It is culturally a homogeneous society with no stalled internal rebellions like the Chinese or Korean civil wars. It's literacy rate was an outlier in Asia. Their labor markets had been one of the most stable in the world with strong unions and permanent employment.
Demilitarization: Complete demilitarization helped release a lot of economic surplus that was directly put for nation building. This was not the first time that demilitarization had been used to boost the economy though. The Japanese had used a similar strategy during the Meiji restoration by breaking up the Tokugawa military. This break up released hundreds of military personnel, engineers, scientists as well as normal workers employed by military factories.
Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita, co-founders of Sony were both Naval Engineers in the Japanese Navy [3]
According to Angus Maddison, Japanese per capita GDP increased by 8.3 percent every year from 1956 when the demilitarization was complete till 1973.
Extremely high labor productivity: This is an extension of point 2. Military personnel and people employed by the military provided Japan with one of the most disciplined workforces ever created. Japan had a literacy rate comparable to Germany and years ahead of other Asian countries and the intensive nature of rice cropping, the dominant occupation made sure the Japanese were used to working long hours. The high literacy rate boosted labor productivity and competitiveness of the Japanese economy.
This had an enormous impact in facilitating economic catch-up. I visited Japan for a month in 1961—the year of Jimmu prosperity when GDP rose 1 per cent a month. I visited the Sony factory founded by Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka (ex-naval engineers). It produced simple transistor radios,the foremen had PhDs in physics and all the operatives working and living in the factory had high school education. I had the same impression of efficiency in the Ishikawajima Harima shipyards, in riding the bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto, and in the Bank of Japan, the Economic Planning Agency, the Ministries of Education and Agriculture, where one could find ten economists in a room all fresh and eager to talk after their morning calisthenics [4]
Demographic Dividend: Japan's demographic dividend's timing was impeccable. The demographic transition allowed for a very high workers to population ration and historically lowest dependency ratio.
Japan saw in 1950 what China saw in the 80's and India is seeing now [5]
High Savings Rate: Japan was and still is a very frugal society. The high savings rate led to rapid capital accumulation in Japan compared to other war torn countries and gave the government an extraordinary ability to spend on infrastructure projects. At one point, Japan's per capita GDP was increasing at 8.3 percent per year because of the savings rate.
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Growth in Japan throughout the 1990s at 1.5% was slower than growth in other major developed economies, giving rise to the term Lost Decade
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