Comments | elliptic_curve: why is japan richer than south korea?

elliptic_curve

Nov 22, 2006 20:29

My question is: why is Japan so much better off than South Korea ( Read more... )

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anonymous November 23 2006, 03:35:12 UTC

Um... the Korean War?

look! over in the corner! it's an elephant! kiwano November 23 2006, 03:36:19 UTC

i think one factor that worked to japan's advantage might be that it didn't have a civil war shortly after wwii.

Re: look! over in the corner! it's an elephant! elliptic_curve November 23 2006, 16:18:19 UTC

oh yeah, that's a good point!

Re: look! over in the corner! it's an elephant! cpirate November 23 2006, 18:11:12 UTC

As a corollary, it might be interesting to see if the extra costs of maintaining a gigantic military lowered their growth since the war ended.

libertinette November 23 2006, 15:17:41 UTC

japan had the hot tenticle rape hentai market of waterloo to prop up their economy