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How World War II Bankrupted Japan — The War That Ended an Empire

In 1937, Japan was the world's fifth largest economy. By 1945, it had ceased to exist as an economic entity. Let me show you what that actually means. Eighty percent of Japanese cities destroyed. Not damaged, destroyed. The currency inflated three hundred and fifty times in eight years. Three hundred and fifty times. A nation that produced five million tons of steel annually, that built the fourth largest navy on Earth, that dominated Asian manufacturing, reduced to a population of starving survivors picking through rubble. And here's what should terrify you about this story. The atomic bombs didn't cause this collapse. They ended a war, but Japan's economy had already died months earlier. This isn't a story about military defeat. This is a story about how a war bankrupted an empire before the first mushroom cloud ever appeared in the sky.