<Ol> <Li> Rostow is historical in the sense that the end result is known at the outset and is derived from the historical geography of a developed, bureaucratic society . </Li> <Li> Rostow is mechanical in the sense that the underlying motor of change is not disclosed and therefore the stages become little more than a classificatory system based on data from developed countries . </Li> <Li> His model is based on American and European history and defines the American norm of high mass consumption as integral to the economic development process of all industrialized societies . </Li> <Li> His model assumes the inevitable adoption of Neoliberal trade policies which allow the manufacturing base of a given advanced polity to be relocated to lower - wage regions . </Li> <Li> Rostow's model does not apply to the Asian and the African countries as events in these countries are not justified in any stage of his model . </Li> <Li> The stages are not identifiable properly as the conditions of the take - off and pre take - off stage are very similar and also overlap . </Li> <Li> According to Rostow growth becomes automatic by the time it reaches the maturity stage but Kuznets asserts that no growth can be automatic there is need for push always . </Li> <Li> There are two unrelated theories of take off one is that take is a sectoral and a non-linear notion and other is that it is highly aggregative . </Li> </Ol> <Li> Rostow is historical in the sense that the end result is known at the outset and is derived from the historical geography of a developed, bureaucratic society . </Li> <Li> Rostow is mechanical in the sense that the underlying motor of change is not disclosed and therefore the stages become little more than a classificatory system based on data from developed countries . </Li> <Li> His model is based on American and European history and defines the American norm of high mass consumption as integral to the economic development process of all industrialized societies . </Li>

Japan would be in what stage of rostow's ladder of development