Why does Japan worship the west?
>>18579910in the 1800s they saw that adopting western tech would help them outpace the rest of asia
>>18579910>5% were Japaneselet's be honest, it's probably less than that but they had to throw themselves a bone
>>18580000nice quads, also the treaty of amity and commerce was signed in 1858, very auspicious post
>>18580005Depends on how you rank inventors. Japan had quite a few notable ones in the 20th century, but how notable? Top 100? Probably a couple, maybe. Top 50? Eh
>>18579910How does one objectively calculate the importance of an invention?
