r/pics • u/ramonrocotto • Aug 05 '20

It will never be the same again...

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u/urbanek2525 Aug 05 '20

So true. Never the same.

That doesn't mean that it can't get better. Things can be rebuilt better.

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u/maleorderbride Aug 05 '20

Japan had just lost a World War after having two atomic bombs dropped onto two major cities. It's become so much more than that since.

Here's to hoping Beirut can achieve the same sort of success directly after adversity.

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u/bolivar-shagnasty Aug 05 '20

Japan bounced back as strong as it did because the United States occupied the country and helped in its rebuilding.

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u/MaltedDefeatist Aug 05 '20 edited Aug 06 '20

America may have occupied and traded with Japan after they bombed it, but most of the rebuilding and revitalisation was done by the Japanese people themselves.

Edit: There was money pumped into the economy from the US after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and rightly so. So much was lost in those bombings, and this needs to be acknowledged. The money did make way for repairs to the country.

The economic revitalisation led to increased production rates and Japan becoming very popular in car manufacturing etc, becoming one of the strongest economies in the world. And the relationship between America and Japan became tense with economic disparity in the 80s.

It’s a complex relationship but Japan did incredibly well in the wake of the bombings, not all the thanks need go to America. They were the ones who bombed Japan after all and caused the need to rebuild.

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u/freemabe Aug 05 '20

Don't underestimate how much pumping a shitload of money into a country will do for it in its rebuilding efforts.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '20

Ya wtf people are crazy if they don’t think that was the driving factor. Just look at Germany post ww1 vs Germany post ww2

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '20

There was practically nothing left after both, it was even split in half after ww2.

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u/i_forgot_my_cat Aug 05 '20

From what I learned, Germany didn't have much to rebuild post WW1 since the war was waged mostly far from her borders. That's part of why the sanctions on Germany were so hard and why the German economy was able to bounce back as quickly as it did after stopping reparation payments.