... to the next period of Japan economic development. This period was between 1960 and 1973. The author Dennis Smith describes the years between 1960 and 1973 as having "aura of a golden age for Japan" (Smith, Page 96). One popular explanation for the tremendous amount of economic growth in Japan was called the Japan Incorporated. This model of decision making still continues to ... on Japan's economic growth. Earlier growth was easy because they could import western technology without the costs. Now Japan had to pay the cost of its own research development. The golden era did however come ...

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... place. A controlled chain reaction had been achieved. These successful experiments proved that it was possible to make an atom bomb and also use atomic power for peaceful means. The nuclear age had begun. (7) Many different methods were used in order to find enough uranium and plutonium for use in several bombs. Engineers worked out how it could be detonated by charges ... explosion; and what an explosion! The lighting effects beggarded description. The whole country was lighted by a searing light with the intensity many times that of the midday sun. It was golden, purple, violet, grey ...

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