Japan's Industrial Revolution
nBy the 1890s huge industrial syndicates (zaibatsu) had
been formed.
•Thus by 1900 Japan was fully engaged in an industrial revolution.
nIts success in managing foreign influences was a major accomplishment, but Japan before World War I was still behind the West.
•It depended upon Western imports - equipment and coal -
and world economic
conditions.
•Successful exports required inexpensive labor, often
poorly paid women.
•Labor organization efforts were repressed.
