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The oldest known pottery is made in Japan by 10,000 BC and rice may have been domesticated in northern Thailand or Vietnam by 4000 BC
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European traders begin to arrive at east and southeast Asia in the 1500s and 1600s they were not widely welcome to join the Korea or Japan each of which is restricted the movement of western traders
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after 1860 a new Japanese government developed and in the 1920s and 1930s launch its own program of industrialization and colonial conquest by 1940 Japan had conquered Korea Taiwan parts of mainland China and many Pacific Islands
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By 1960 most of former European colonies in the region gain independence the non-communist countries particularly Japan enjoyed rapid economic growth and prosperity between 1950 and 1990 under market economies a recession slowed growth of Japan and other Asian nations after 1990 the Communist China adopted some capitalist reforms and experience and economic boom
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