1, American support for Japan under the background of "Cold War".

After the war, the United States supported and transformed Japan from its strategic needs in the Asia-Pacific region, making it a force to contain the Oriental Group. Under the impetus and influence of the United States, Japan's war reparations of hundreds of billions of dollars were exempted.

The United States carried out democratic reforms in Japan, including trying war criminals, amending the Constitution, changing autocratic monarchy into constitutional monarchy, controlling the development of armed forces, dissolving the old chaebol group, reforming agricultural land, and establishing a small-scale peasant economy with yeomen as the main body. These reforms are conducive to eliminating the remnants of militarism and feudal forces in production relations and laying the foundation for economic development.

2. Japan has formulated a development strategy suitable for its national conditions.

As an island country with poor resources, Japan formulated an export-oriented economic development strategy, established the policy of "building a country through trade" in the 1950s and 1960s, actively explored foreign markets, promoted exports, and obtained a large amount of foreign exchange.

3. Pay attention to national education.

After Meiji Restoration, Japan attached great importance to the development of education, and had popularized four-year and six-year education before the war. By 1950 after the war, nine-year compulsory education had been completely popularized, and the enrollment rate of school-age children reached 99%.

From 1956 to 1978, Japan's education expenditure accounts for 20%-23% of administrative expenditure, ranking first among capitalist countries. The popularization of compulsory education in primary schools and junior high schools laid the foundation for the popularization of higher education in the 1960s, further improving the cultural quality of the people and making Japan a higher education society.

4. Pay attention to the research, development and application of emerging technologies.

In the early postwar period, Japan's scientific and technological level was far behind that of developed countries in Europe and America. The government has formulated a policy of actively introducing foreign advanced technology and paid attention to the latest trend of world science and technology development.

From 1950 to 1977, Japan introduced 15066 advanced foreign technologies, which took more than ten years to absorb almost all the technological achievements developed by countries all over the world for half a century. It can be said that Japan has taken a shortcut to catch up with advanced countries.

5. The national quality is good.

The Japanese people love the country, are rigorous, serious and dedicated, and are committed to national construction, which has become an important internal driving force for the rapid rise of Japan's economy after World War II.

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