[SEL] Japanese engines

[Chuck Balyeat]

> Chuck-san,
> Surely, there must be SOME really old Japanese iron laying about,
> under a collapsed barn or half buried in a creek.  We Gaijin are
> taught in school that the pre-WWII Japanese were nothing better than
> feudalistic ox drivers, but that's just western propaganda.
>
Herded around by the cleverest of the lot .  At least they werent communists
At first glance I see 180,000 tons of iron in 1909 , double that to 350 by 
1916 ,
and then WW1 really freaked somebody out, so they immediately  took it to 
750 thousand
as of 2006 China was making about 600K tons a year .



> This morning I was reading an article, written in 1909, about the
> Japanese coal, iron, steel and shipbuilding industries.  I'm no expert
> and don't care to look up numbers, but I would wager that the Japanese
> industrial capacity in 1909 surpassed the industrial capacity of 90%
> of the worlds countries in 2008.