is this the man responsible for Japan being so much better than

That's not Truman

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That would be this sour-faced fellow.

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>>71023498
He was a puppet of the modernized government.
I appreciate pic.

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>>71023635
I ain't leaving until you let me take your money.

It was actually americans who made japan great for firts time

>>71023788
We may have indirectly dropped them into another (brief) civil war doing it, although the European powers had more influence on that outcome than we ever did.

Japan settled on the German model for pretty much everything after France got humiliated in the Franco-Prussian war.

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>>71023498
nah, japan was much better than neighbours even before modernization.
it's evident from japanese domination in the pic related (and you can see that top competitors in the list are all prosperous and advanced countries today).
japan already had a prosperous monetary economy, one of the highest literacy rates, some of the world's largest cities, and a lot of what it means to be a successful nation.
certainly meiji restoration was also a pretty important event, but it was accomplished rapidly because japan had had the power to implement it in the first place.

>>71024787
>top competitors in the list are all prosperous and advanced countries today Poland ?

>>71023528
Underrated post

>>71024897
poland has some, but not top competitors
>According to a report published by the Bank of Korea on May 14, 2008, investigating 41 countries, there were 5,586 companies older than 200 years. Of these, 3,146 are in Japan, 837 in Germany, 222 in the Netherlands, and 196 in France.[1]

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>>71023528
>>71023562
I wish we canget more better Anime in 2025 or some.