Taiwan, and Korea. In his article, he not only looks at
Japan as a colonizer, but also an industrializer. I think that in both of the readings, it is amazing that each of the countries examined were able to industrialize so quickly. Northeast Asia industrialized in only decades, whereas it's taken the rest of the world centuries to do the same. In response to this, it is important to note the argument around the state's role in economic development, what Atul Kohli says is
"the extent to which state intervention was 'market conforming' versus 'market distorting' or, to use a related set of concepts, the extent to which the state
'led' rather than 'followed' the market." In each article we see what factors went into each country's economic development. It is interesting to note that
Japanese colonial governments were fairly harsh in ruling its colonies, but despite this, its subjects continued to work hard and obey.