// MAPPED VIDEO
Every place Dwarkesh Patel mentions in "The Strategy That Turned Japan Into a Superpower - Sarah Paine", mapped
// THE CRUX Unlike Qing China, Meiji Japan studied Western institutions via diplomatic missions to modernize domestically before building an empire.
6 places, in order of mention
| 00:00 | Japan | So the Japanese unlike China which fights war |
| 00:01 | China | unlike China which fights war after war |
| 00:15 | Japan | the most famous one the Iwakura mission |
| 00:31 | Europe | and they arrive in Europe at a really |
| 00:35 | Germany | Otto von Bismarck is just finishing up the third war |
| 00:43 | Japan | because we're divided up into all these feudal domains |