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The Japanese Empire in the 19th Century
Japan was the only non european nation to have made this astonishingly rapid rise from being a country that was nearly in danger of being colonized itself by western powers. The primary driver, and there re a lot of them, but to go to the primary driver, is emotional. In the aftermath of the depression and the wall street crash, japan found itself increasingly shut out of international markets. World war too, was started in part by american women's silk stockings.