People were suddenly able to choose their occupation and move about without restrictions. The government led the way by, building railways and shipping lines, telegraph and telephone systems, mines, and finally consumer industries. This whole process was very expensive, this strained government finances, so then in 1880 the government decided to sell all these industries to private investors. (Columbia University 2009). Throughout the change of the economy industrialization was the primary goal of the government, which directed the development of strategic industries, transportations, and communications. (Encyclopaedia Britannica 2014). The way that Japan became a world power is that they modernized there economic system, and changed the way people have lived in the past few hundred
People were suddenly able to choose their occupation and move about without restrictions. The government led the way by, building railways and shipping lines, telegraph and telephone systems, mines, and finally consumer industries. This whole process was very expensive, this strained government finances, so then in 1880 the government decided to sell all these industries to private investors. (Columbia University 2009). Throughout the change of the economy industrialization was the primary goal of the government, which directed the development of strategic industries, transportations, and communications. (Encyclopaedia Britannica 2014). The way that Japan became a world power is that they modernized there economic system, and changed the way people have lived in the past few hundred