During the second half of the 20th century, Japan became one of the richest and most developed countries in the world. It even has the longest life expectancy on the planet. However, Japan wasn’t always the economic power we all know. Far from it. Until the mid-nineteenth century, Japan was a backward and poor country that was under a political and economic system that was very similar to that of Middle Age Europe. How did Japan leap to the modern age? How did they manage to become an industrial powerhouse? In this and a future video we’ll tell you how Japan managed to move from the time of the Samurai to the time of the robots. * To create this video, we had the invaluable collaboration of the Argentine historian, Alejandro Gómez, Professor of the CEMA University and Visitor Professor in the UFM

At the end of World War II, Japan was a defeated country, its economy was shattered and the Japanese had suffered unimaginable damage. Just a few decades later, Japan was already one of the richest countries on the planet. So given the situation that Japan suffered in 1945 the question we all may want to ask ourselves is, how in the world did Japan manage to become one of the greatest economic powers on the planet in such a short time? How did the Japanese recover so quickly and with such strength? We’ll tell you all about it in this video.