[lbo-talk] Kees van der Pijl

[Grant Lee]

> >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

Not necessarily. There have been examples of imperialised countries becoming
imperial countries.