Japan’s Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere In 1937‚ an engagement between China and Japan led to a bloody conflict between the two nations. This conflict and Japan’s desire to control East Asia dominated Japanese strategies until 1940‚ when Japan declared the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere. This Co-prosperity Sphere promoted a “bloc of Asian nations led by the Japanese and free of Western Powers” (Dower‚ 262). The position of Japan was superior and all other nations in
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“Thank goodness you have ssang-ku-pool. Your parents saved a lot of money‚” said a close family friend when I was five years old. Ssang-ku-pul is the line above the eyelid‚ which most every Caucasian has but is rare among Northeast Asians. According to Sandy Cobrin‚ only 25% of Koreans are born with the double eye-lid crease‚ and she describes eye-lid surgery as “stitching a permanent crease into the eye-lid.” After observing the Korean trends and Korean pop culture idols for many years from a Korean-American
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Chapter 13 Essay As the Chinese influence spread throughout more surrounding areas of southeast Asia‚ Japan‚ Korea‚ and Vietnam all imported the culture in different ways‚ as well as to different extents. Japan has its own way that they imported the culture‚ while Korea and Vietnam had a similar approach. Japan seemed more independent and self sufficient than Korea and Vietnam. Korea and Vietnam both seemed very reliant on the Chinese influence. During the Takia‚ Nara‚ and Heian periods‚ from
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civilizations ............................................................................................................... 8 European civilization ........................................................................................................ 10 East Asian civilization……………………………………………………………………10 India .................................................................................................................................. 11 India and China—different paths? .........................
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In Depth: Comparing Feudalisms 1. Do you think the characteristics of feudalism help explain the later success of Western & Japanese societies? Yes‚ the militaristic characteristics of the Western and Japanese societies help explain how much land they conquered and how powerful they were. 2. Have the political accomplishments of both Japan & Western Europe matched their economic achievements? Both Japan and Western Europe practiced feudalism and they were both unusually successful in industrial
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I agree that Winter Sonata is the pioneer of Hanryu. Like the article describes‚ Winter Sonata contain different elements which catch the eyeballs of middle aged women. The ‘pure love’ plots‚ the romantic and slow-paced scenes and the choice of actors blended and created a chemistry action which provide rooms for the audience to fantasize and envision themselves in the scenes of the drama. Winter Sonata not only fulfills the sensational needs of the middle aged women‚ but also fulfills their psychological
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Taiwan‚ and Korea. In his article‚ he not only looks at Japan as a colonizer‚ but also an industrializer. I think that in both of the readings‚ it is amazing that each of the countries examined were able to industrialize so quickly. Northeast Asia industrialized in only decades‚ whereas it’s taken the rest of the world centuries to do the same. In response to this‚ it is important to note the argument around the state’s role in economic development‚ what Atul Kohli says is "the extent to
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To what extent is Asia Pacific a region of great variety? Give relevant examples. Introduction Countries in the same region not necessary have to be identical in everything. To illustrate this‚ there are many countries located in the Asia Pacific region‚ but all of them are different in many ways‚ not just in people‚ culture‚ geography‚ but also in the development. Therefore‚ it has a contrast in their way of managing business. There are many factors that contributed to Asia Pacific to be called
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| Q5. Is ASEAN relevant to the regional security of Southeast Asia? | 16 pages‚ including cover page3‚176 words (excluding footnotes‚ endnotes‚ bibliography) | Yes‚ ASEAN is still relevant to the regional security of Southeast Asia. I will attempt to justify my case by elaborating how the 3 key political accords and the ASEAN way has helped shared ASEAN to what it is today. I will also provide a brief summary of ASEAN’s achievements and challenges till date. Finally‚ I will highlight
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Nisbett and Yuri Miyamoto‚ there is evidence that perceptual processes are influenced by culture. The research found that Western cultures focus on salient objects and use rules and categorization for purposes of organizing the environment‚ whereas‚ East Asian cultures focus more holistically on relationships and similarities among the objects when organizing the environment. In an illustrative study both rural Chinese and American children were shown a picture of a man‚ a woman‚ and a baby. The Chinese
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