Japanese economic miracle
1955–1973 · Event
Nearly two decades of ~10% GDP growth (to the 1973 oil crisis) turn Japan into the world's second-largest economy by 1968; export-led industrial transformation.
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More from Japan
- Edo period (1603)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- VJ Day / surrender of Japan (1945)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Oda Nobunaga (1534)
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi unifies Japan (1590)
Around 1955
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)