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Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World

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The Dangers of Rapid Industrialization

In the West, once industrialization happened, there was enough time for things to simmer down before these countries were introduced to the worst weapons. Less industrialized societies have strong patriarchal cultures because men who end up doing the work and they got more of the respect. The Japanese army was powerful historically from the 1860s. They fought a war in 1905. After when after a reform was going to invade them as historical advantage. Also because it was just a lot better than the Russia.

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