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  2. Economic history of Japan - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Economy of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The economy of Japan is a highly developed mixed economy, often referred to as an East Asian model. [23] 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. [ 24 ]

  4. History of Japan - Wikipedia

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    In spite of the war, Japan's relative economic prosperity, which had begun in the Kamakura period, continued well into the Muromachi period. By 1450 Japan's population stood at ten million, compared to six million at the end of the thirteenth century. [84] Commerce flourished, including considerable trade with China and Korea. [104]

  5. Economy of the Empire of Japan - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Japanese economic miracle - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Economy of East Asia - Wikipedia

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    From the late nineteenth century to the end of the 1980s, Japan was the dominant economic power in East Asia. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Japan's GDP was large as the rest of Asia combined. [46] Japan's early industrial economy reached its height in World War II when it expanded its

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  9. Tenpō Reforms - Wikipedia

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    Tokugawa Ienari became the 11th shogun in 1788 and ruled Japan for about half a century, the longest reign of any shogun in history. Whenever the shogunate faced financial difficulties, it lowered the gold and silver content of its coins to prevent financial deterioration, which caused inflation and made life difficult for the common people.