Why Is Japan So Rich?

Why is Japan so Rich? How did the Land of the Rising Sun become one of the wealthiest countries in the world? This video will start from Japan's isolation to the Meiji Restoration all the way to the Asian Financial Crisis in the 1990s.
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Credits
Research: Mrs Scope
Animation: rbbrduck.nl
Audio: Seb. Soto
Writing and Voice Over: Avery from History Scope

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Sources
R. H. P. Mason, J. G. Caiger (1997) A History of Japan. Tuttle Publishing, Tokyo
C. Totman (2000) A History of Japan. Blackwell Publishing, Malden