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China
Japan

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Sora
Kitty
Mino
Amy

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Research question: Why did Japan have a drastic improvement in life expectancy and income after 1946?

Japan had a drastic improvement in life expectancy and income after 1946 due to the economic miracle that occurred right after World War 2, in which countless developments and changes were made to laws, medical care, education systems, and functions of economic systems

Usually, after wars, countries go into a negative economic state.

However, Japan began to economically develop dramatically after the second world war

Cause

A major cause of this is the U.S.'s help

Government's investment in capital goods (goods used to make other goods)

Competition between the major companies in Japan

Effect

GDP per capita substantially increased

life expectancy dramatically increased by an average of 13.7 years

the school lunch law in 1954 was enacted

32 health laws were introduced

the rate of enrollment increased

Image taken from Gapminder.

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Research question: Why did China's life expectancy and population improved rapidly during 1949~ 1980?
(Also why did life expectancy in 1960 dropped?)

Even Though life expectancy has increased rapidly during 1949~1980, the life expectancy in China is really low.

-Why life expectancy increased during 1949~1980
-Improvement in health care
-As there are more technical and health improvement, more medicine and vaccine are created when they are diseases.

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two child policy created. It was to stop the rapid growth of the chinese population. This was due to the shortage of resource and food.

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Birth rate
- one child policy created

That’s around when the graph starts declining

The one child policy is basically only being able to have one child per family

The second child is going to be fined

There are some rural areas that has exceptions from this law but overall it was really strict on the society

The numbers quickly declined after the policy started

The Chinese government thought the large population was affecting economic development, so they created the one child policy

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Due to an aging society and shrinking workforce, in 2016, China abolished the one-child policy, so people were able to have 2 children per family. (2 child policy)

Thought they recently demolished this law, people got used to having one children so child rate got lower than before.

Now the amount of elders far exceeds the younger generation

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Amy - Sora - Mino - Kitty - 2020 (Questions)

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Amy - Sora - Mino - Kitty - 2020 (Questions)

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What are the most
important factors for creating change?

The government's decisions

Example 1: China- the government abolished the one-child policy

The government took leadership and clearly decided to do something specific (abolishing a policy). To make this change, it would need lots of power and opinion as although it is just a policy, it can impact countless things in the country (socially, economically, and politically).

Example 2: Japan- the government invested in certain goods; the government accepted help from other countries

The government made itself (Japan) somewhat vulnerable and accepted help from others. I think this is what caused the change, meaning that in order for change to occur, some things need to be given up.
In addition, from the fact that Japan quite greatly invested in capital goods, it can be said that in order for change to occur, strong and somewhat bold decisions have to be made. (Certain risks need to be made)