Geography of Japan anyone, what role have the goverment had in helpign the economy in Japan?

Question

help geography assignment! very stuck :( please dont copy and paste tons of wikepda!! thankyou !!! xx

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Answer 1

You've omitted a critical part of the question: when?

During the Tokugawa Shogunate, the government deliberately tried to stifle innovation and economic development, and was reasonably successful.

After the Meiji Restoration, the government encouraged economic development by importing experts from all over to teach and sending promising young people abroad to study. Again, they were quite successful.

More recent governments have tried to target development and have been unsuccessful, for a number of reasons well described in Wikipedia.

They have also been interested in preventing the sort of economic development that would hurt their supporters; in that they have been very successful. Again, details in Wikipedia.

Answer 2

In Japan, there is or was a policy where the government would choose promising new companies and help them financially, giving them contracts, etc.

That program might have been shut down because it became public that there was a lot of bribery involved.  I don't know any more than that.