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In Japanese history, the Jōmon period (縄文 時代, Jōmon jidai) is the time between c. 14,000 and 300 BCE, [1] [2] [3] during which Japan was inhabited by a diverse hunter-gatherer and early agriculturalist population united through a common Jōmon culture, which reached a considerable degree of sedentism and cultural complexity. [4]
The economy of Japan is a highly developed mixed economy, often referred to as an East Asian model. [24] It is the fourth-largest economy in the world by nominal GDP behind the United States , China , and Germany , and the fifth-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP), below India and Russia. [ 25 ]
The Tokugawa Japan during a long period of “closed country” autarky between the mid-seventeenth century and the 1850s had achieved a high level of urbanization; well-developed road networks; the channeling of river water flow with embankments and the extensive elaboration of irrigation ditches that supported and encouraged the refinement of rice cultivation based upon improving seed ...
The United States opposed Japan's invasion of China and responded with increasingly stringent economic sanctions intended to deprive Japan of the resources to continue its war in China. [228] Japan reacted by forging an alliance with Germany and Italy in 1940, known as the Tripartite Pact , which worsened its relations with the US.
The Meiji era (明治時代, Meiji jidai, [meꜜː(d)ʑi] ⓘ) was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912. [1] The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonization by Western powers to the new paradigm of a modern, industrialized nation state and emergent ...
Japan's postwar history (2nd ed.). Ithaca/N.Y: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-8912-9. Dower, John W. (1999). Embracing defeat: Japan in the wake of World War II. New York, NY: Norton Publishing. ISBN 978-0-393-32027-5. Forsberg, Aaron (2000). America and the Japanese miracle: the Cold War context of Japan's postwar economic revival ...
Japan's exports to Latin America also declined, from 6.9 percent in 1980 to 3.6 percent in 1990. [1] Despite this relative decline in trade, Japan's direct investment in the region continued to grow quickly, reaching US$31.6 billion in 1988, or 16.9 percent of Japan's total foreign direct investment.
Economic history of Japan (18 C, 40 P) I. Industry in Japan (21 C, 9 P) ... Pages in category "Economy of Japan" The following 64 pages are in this category, out of ...