Cultural Dynamics: Rise of Manufacturing Japan Technology in Postwar
Japan was one of the countries that had been devastated by the holocaust of the Second World War. Despite the devastating experience that the country experienced during the war, Japan dedication has made the country to become one of the top technologically developed countries in the world comparatively with the United States and German.
The objective of this study is to review the article titled " In Search of 'Wakon': The Cultural Dynamics of the Rise of Manufacturing Technology in Postwar Japan"[footnoteRef:1]. The book reveals that Japan develops a unique cultural dynamic to achieve a rise in the manufacturing technology. [1: Koizumi, Kenkichiro. "In Search of Wakon: The Cultural Dynamics of Manufacturing Technology in Postwar Japan.]
Review of the Article
Koizumi was amazed about the technological advancement that happened to Japan 25 to 35 years after the second world war[footnoteRef:2]. Few years after the war, there was a wide technological gap between Japan and Europe, however, Japan was able to overtake Europe and reach the technological expertise with the United States few decades after the war. According to the author, several theories attributed to the rapid advancement in the technology that Japan has experienced. Some commentators believed that the Japanese post-war advancement was attributed to the implementation of policy introduced by the MITI (Ministry of International Trade and Industry") (29).[footnoteRef:3] using single-minded implementation of industrial policy similar to Meiji Restoration of 1868, which was designed to nurture the Japanese...
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