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Sorry, I'm a dumb fuck.

Not to be pedantic, but neither Japan nor the USSR were part of the Third World. The Third World is a fairly modern term that doesn't simply refer to a country being poor, as apparently you are using the word and many others do, but it merely states that during the Cold War a country wasn't explicitly aligned with the Western capitalist nations (First World) nor the Soviet Union (Second World).

>>12707
Maybe it might be better for OP to say undeveloped?

>>12710
Looking at Japan in the 19th century I don't see how it makes sense to call them "underdeveloped" either unless you really want to insist everything needs to run like in Europe for something to be considered "developed" even when their society was fully functional. That aside, this video is a great Marxist analysis of Japan's path toward an imperialist nation. It's in Russian but it has subtitles. Don't be a brainlet about it, it's a good documentary.

>>12723
>in russian
>hour and a half of subtitles

I might as well just read a book. Do you have a book?

>>12725
How do you watch foreign media man

>>12727
When I watch a kurosawa movie I'm watching a movie. Subtitles are fine. But like, why would I watch a 2 hour documentary in another language when I could just read a book.

>>12730
Fair

Isolationism during the Tokugawa Shogunate produced a powerful and independent urban bourgeoisie, and the mass importing of industrial equipment from Europe and America and mercantilist policies during the Meiji Era established soft power over mainland Asia
Kozo Uno kind of discusses it in this book, alongside the other big monopoly powers of the late 19th early 20th century