meiji

The area was a major producer of silk and prospered from the Meiji period through the Taishō periods.

With Japan, they had seriously begun the process of industrialization in the 1800's with the Meiji Period [1].

Katana were still made for the samurai class until the late 1860s (the Meiji restoration).

Up until the Meiji restoration in the 19th century, trade (hence money) was considered dirty.

First the military-imperial apparatus toppled the feudal nobility during the Meiji Restoration.

Indeed the Meiji succeeded with only around 10% support.

However, during the Meiji era vast numbers of neologisms were minted from Chinese roots, and funnily enough, quite a few of them were imported straight back into Chinese!

There's even evidence that weak or developing democracies, like Meiji Japan in the 1890s or the United States in the 2000s, actually are more violent than comparable states.

The two clans put their rivalries aside temporarily to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate, but from the Meiji Era the rivalry was responsible for the lack of coordination between the Army, and Navy through the Second World War.

'One day, I had a craving for some Meiji Apollo Chocolates (one of the most popular chocolates in Japan), so I scoured the Internet looking for some.

Compare China during the Sea Ban and Japan’s Meiji Restoration at the time or even more recent economic development of South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan (all of which are very Confucian) as an argument against any culture having an monopoly on innovation.

The Chinese, on the other hand, have a much greater problem of converting from a primarily rural to an industrial economy, a problem Japan did not have post war (the Meiji restoration already happened while the Chinese were going through late Qing chaos).

First of all, the Japanese were extremely isolationist until the Meiji era (1860's); they didn't start to "run circles" around China until close to 1900.

"Japan's main modern megacorps largely are the same entities that were major business from the time of the Meiji Restoration".

A good example is the story "A Cup of Tea": [1] Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen.

The one at the corner of Meiji-dori and Omotesando on the 6th floor is huge and been great too.

The Tokugawas worked hard to prevent the Daimyos from taxing their peasants too hard (as a means of restricting their power), which resulted in a lot of commercial growth in the pre-Meiji period.

It's how every successful East Asian country has done it - Japan (Meiji bureaucracy and then LDP post-WW2), South Korea (Park Chung-hee), Singapore (Lee Kuan-yew), Taiwan (KMT in the 70s/80s), and now China (CCP).