Jacob: good material thanks paxil sales 2009 After Japan (unwillingly) opened up in 1868, it quickly modernised, gaining one of the five major world power status by 1919. That reindustrialisation took the proportion of employment in agriculture down from 78 percent in 1876 to 65 percent in 1900 and 42 percent in 1940 (today, it’s less than 5 percent).