Japanese Logging
In recent decades the timber industry has intensified efforts to harvest logs from tropical, temperate, and boreal forests worldwide to meet an increasing demand for wood and wood p...
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Since the end of World War II, in 1945, and the dropping of the atom bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan has begun developing a place among the leading powers of the world. Immediately following t...
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The end of World War II saw a war-ravaged Japan whose basic infrastructure, to say nothing of the financial sector, was almost completely obliterated. Yet, in the space of just a few years, Japan m...
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The Meiji Era
The political economic and social changes in Japan during the Meiji era propelled Japan into a major imperialist power in the early 20th century. These changes were essentially the west...
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