Japan has always been a model for state development, which several Asian states, including Thailand, look up to; ever since the Meiji Restoration until nowadays.
Even though, unfortunately, the disastrous Second World War had disrupted the promising progress of a reformed Thailand during the 1930s which took Japan as a model to develop and modernize the state, plunged Thailand back into the Western influence, branding the era of following Japan's example during the 1930s and WW2 to be ultra-nationalistic and warmongering in nature, which almost made Thailand lost the WW2, Japan is still considered to be a model among Asian states in present days.
Thailand can definitely learn much more from Japan to develop itself further to become a developed country, the lessons during the 1930s are still relevant and must be inclusively taken into a thorough consideration.