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Originally Posted by Ghap
I hate to play devils advocate but that second statement contradicts itself.
Limiting tach and goverment is limiting a society...hence the rapid change during the Meiji (sp) period..
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The original poster is asking specifically about limits in "food, resources, space, and time." The limits that existed in Japan at the time weren`t related so much to an actual limit in the resources available - they were related to limitations in other areas. Mostly development, really.
With what the original post was asking about - resources and space - the size of Japan isn`t really as big an issue as it appears to be to modern eyes as the population was much lower. In a closed environment, resources control the population - there was no group of people suddenly dropped into an area, breeding out of control, and unable to secure resources.