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Osaka Spinning Company (1883)
1883 — Shibusawa Eiichi’s steam-powered cotton mill, with over 10,000 spindles worked day and night in two shifts, proves private industry can pay in Japan. By 1897 Japan exports more cotton yarn than it imports.
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- Industrialisation of Meiji Japan (chapter 10 of Industrial Revolution)
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- The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914
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