On Aug 26, 2014, at 4:45 PM, Evyn MacDude <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Mainly because the folks behind the Meiji restoration had witnessed what happened to China and Japan :-)
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> Yep, the speed of the change is what amuses me.

Well Japan was kind of uniquely situated both culturally and geopolitically to make this kind of sudden change. I can’t think of another country that’s done anything quite like it.

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