[lbo-talk] Kees van der Pijl

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Grant Lee wrote:
>
>>  Some would argue that Japan has done better because it was a "second
>>  division" imperial power itself. (As was Australia.)
>
>Some would argue that Japan has done better because it had access to 
>the US market in the post WWII period.
>
>Ulhas

Had Japan been a colony of a European power or the United States, 
like the Philippines, neither of the above would have happened.
-- 
Yoshie

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