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Recognizing the trend was one of the critical reasons Japan had succeeded.

Since the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese Government had been trying to cling to the British, even though John Bull did not take much notice of them and did not accept this eager junior partner.

But decades of consistent effort always earned some impression points. However, in international competition, impression points alone were not enough; what mattered more were opportunities.

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