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The West Pacific Rim Some commentators have argued that Japan's Rise to economic supremacy between the 1950's and the 1980's and its economic problems since 1990 can be attributed to Japanese cultural characteristics. Discuss the extent to which you agree with this view. In 1945 Japan was totally ruined but became the 2nd largest economy over a 50 year period. Japan's rise from the devastation of military defeat to the second-largest economy in the world has been exceptional. Under occupational forces, the Japanese Constitution was rewritten, industry was restructured, labour unions encouraged, land reform accomplished, and the nation as a whole demilitarised. Economic aid was given from the United States, this allowed Japanese industry to begin to recover from the devastation of war. By the late 1960's the Japanese economy was more than self-sustaining, and between the 1960's and the early 1990's, Japan experienced an era of unprecedented economic prosperity. All...

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