Industrialization: Similarities Between Russia And Japan

During 1750-1900 Russia and Japan both getting a late start to industrialization face similar as well as complete differences due to the process. Compared to Russia, Japan was able to seperate themselves from Asian persuasian ans survive as a strong independent nation, and still lock down raw materials from Korea. Russia had been able to control a warm-water port and actually expand into Asia and Europe. Both nations had developed so that they were able to avoid dominaion by the west.
One similarity between Russia and Japan resulting from experiencing the process of industrilization is the threatened social hiearchies in society. Russian aristocracy had consisted of a tsar whos power was unchecked and the society being dominated by upper nobility.