تجربة التحديث في اليابان 1868 م – 1989 م

Abstract

Japan witnessed profound transformations after 1868, not only at the level of producing material technologies, but also at the level of reproducing a new system of values, showing the extent of the Japanese people’s keenness to advance their reality, its strength: a mixture of value, moral and educational rules, whose roots are derived from the national heritage And the data of the new life in the second half of the nineteenth century, and among its most important principles: commitment, accuracy, and order or discipline at the collective level.

The research discusses the experience of modernization in Japan through three stages, the first stage is the Meiji experience 1868-1912, the second stage is the Taisho experience until the end of World War II 1912-1945, and the third stage is the experience after World War II until the end of the Showa era 1989. Before those stages The research reviews the events that paved the way for that experience, especially the Japanese-American Treaty of 1858, and the subsequent transition of Japan from an agricultural country to a country that entered the industrial era, to begin with one of the most successful modernization experiences in history.

The research also focuses on the success of the experience of rising again after the loss of World War II to form Japan an economic empire that continued to dominate Asia until the twenty-first century. To be leading countries that allow specific forms of production to leak to peripheral countries, and explain that vision that Japan is a major economic power that can lead East Asian countries to industrialization.