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Sometimes I get the impression, from reading this forum, that people think Japan went straight from katana waving medieval samurai to aircraft carriers. In reality the Meiji Restoration was the culmination of hundreds of years of indigenous Tokugawa era Japanese development. No, some random band of hunter-gatherers isn't going to "pull a Meiji" and become a first world nation out of the blue. That's projecting lazy Hollywood pop historiography onto our complex reality.
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