Japan

The zaibatsu was a large financial and industrial cooperation where various manufacturing processes were concentrated.

By 1937 the four largest zaibatsu controlled 21% of the banking, 26% of mining, 35% of shipbuilding, and over 60% of paper manufacturing and insurance.

The concentration of wealth led to growing economic equalities, city workers were poorly paid and housed.

Economic crises added to this problem shortly after WWl when inflation in food prices led to food riots and shortages.

Shortages in food were caused by rapid increase in population.

During the first two decades of the twentieth century, Japan moved toward a more democratic government.