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🌊 Ripple · counterfactual

What if the Meiji Restoration had gone differently?

1868 · japan

Japan dismantles its feudal order and industrialises deliberately in a generation.

If it had gone differently: Japan stays closed and agrarian; the idea that a non-Western state can industrialise fast has no example.

What it set up
  1. 1870The first globalisation, The world economy stays a patchwork of regions; no belle-époque boom, and no 1914 shock when it unwinds.

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