Japan
established the ministry of industries in 1870 as one of the key of government
agencies, setting overall economic policies as well as operating specific
sector. During the 1970s and early 1980s, the rate of Japan's industrial growth
surpassed that of any other non-Communist industrialized country of the 26
largest industrial companies in the world in the mid-1980s—those with sales of
$20 billion or more—four were Japanese[1]. The
contributions of Japan government to the development of industrial are as
follows.
To
ensure good uses of natural resources although many kinds of minerals were
extracted throughout the country, most mineral resources had to be imported in the
postwar era. Local deposits of metal-bearing ores were difficult to process
because they were low grade. The nation’s large and varied forest resources,
which covered 70 percent of the country in the late 1980s, were not utilized
extensively. Because of political decisions on local, prefectural, and national
levels, Japan decided not to exploit its forest resources for economic gain.
Domestic sources only supplied between 25 and 30 percent of the nation's timber
needs[2].
Agriculture and fishing were the best developed resources, but only through
years of painstaking investment and toil. The nation therefore built up the
manufacturing and processing industries to convert raw materials imported from
abroad. This strategy of economic development necessitated the establishment of
a strong economic infrastructure to provide the needed energy, transportation,
communications, and technological know-how[3].
Provision
of universal education system this education stressed science and the
importance of technical subject along with political loyalty to the nation.
Elite students at the university level also took courses that emphasized
science and many Japanese student went abroad to study technical subject in
other countries. Japan government allow many people to study technical study in
and out of the country in low amount of money and also the government provide
sponsorship to the students who take scientific subjects, such as Tokyo
Empirical University[4].
The
government has also decided to reduce corporate tax and to phase out automobile
tax and guilds
and internal road tariffs were abolished, Japan
has one of the smallest
tax rates in the developed world, create a national market and help in creation
of transportation networks and international market of the manufacturing goods
and product this lead more construction of industries in Japan because
government have to ensure of getting raw material to feed their industrial and
availability of market to their manufacturing goods and production[5].
