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Japan's limits on expanding steel production

Limited facilities and raw resources constrained Japan's expansion of steel production.

Notes

Japan is described as lacking both the room to expand steel-production facilities and the volume of raw material needed to support a major increase. Those limits constrain how far industrial output can rise. The comparison gives Japan a resource and infrastructure problem, while the American example concerns coordinating expansion and the British example concerns moving labor. Resources, coordination and workforce allocation present different obstacles to increasing output.