economy in Japan, China

http://thesouthasianidea.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/is-overpopulation-the-cause-of-poverty/

Japan and China both have relatively small endowments of such land while the latter has the largest population in the world. Yet Japan, despite its relative lack of natural resources, is amongst the richest countries in the world. And China has been recording very high economic growth rates for many years lifting millions of its people out of poverty. The simple proposition fails to explain much of what has been going on in these two countries either.