On Aug 27, 2014, at 10:07 AM, Greg Chalik <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

> Japan didn't industrialize until 1996, so not sure about 'speed of change'
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Do you perhaps mean 1896 instead?  This was 40 years after the Treaty of Kanagawa, a time period where Japan went from an agrarian TL2 backwater to a TL4, nearly TL5 world power capable of defeating one of the world’s largest navies.

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