What Are The Similarities Between India And Japan In The 1930's

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In the 1880’s through the 1930’s, Japan and India had more similarities in the worker pay and the changes affiliated with the cotton industry than differences. India copied Europe’s industrialization, while Japan took longer to begin mechanizing cotton production. The cotton gin and the cotton-spinning machine were the main machines used during the Industrial Revolution. Countries all around the world were beginning to industrialize with the use of machines. In the later 1930’s both India and Japan were involved in World War II.
Japan was later introduced to the industrialization of the cotton industry, and had a higher increase of cotton production percentage than India in the early 1900’s. Japanese cotton corporations paid very low wages

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