Industrialization in Japan

-The Japanese government hired thousands of foreign people to come and teach the Japanese people techniques about modern industry
- The government also decided it would be best to establish new businesses and schools that specialized in technology
-Railroads were constructed, mines were opened, a banking system was created and industries were producing ships, weapons, silk, cotton and chemicals
-Once businesses had been opened, the government would sell them to entrepreneurs that wanted to build on the businesses and turn them into big industrial empires.
-These industrial empires were called zaibatsu (similar to trusts and cartels)
-In the beginning of the 1900's, Japan was the most technologically advanced and industrialized land in Asia