... of communal gains. While these beliefs may be centuries old, the ideas on regionalisation as a response to globalisation are new ones in the Asian world. It is for this reason that economic development in the East has been achieved through collective means and in a way that is ... imaginings, "Asia-Pacific" becomes an object which would rescue the West from its current economic woes, on the one hand; and affirm (East) Asian states" emerging political and cultural confidence in the world, on the other." (1997, p.221). Souchou further illustrates the importance of regionalism over globali...

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... 's campaign to enter the Second World War in 1942, the Japanese Americans were the minority most subject to prejudice, whether it was in their towns, or on a judicial level. Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor released a stigma within the American public. It was aimed at Japanese Americans. This stigma was that people of Asian heritage were a threat to the American way of life, and ... they should not enjoy the same liberties as the rest of Americans. Their internment was, without a doubt, an unjust consequence of racial and ethnic prejudice, war hysteria, and ... Harbor attack, which was su...

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... let their jobs consume their lives, they take two day weekends and escape to quite places like a beach. The Americans complain about declines in their steel industries but few Americans believe that it is a problem to import CD players and TV's. The United States government does not have any ... consumer is less damaging in the long run than the weakness of a nation's productivity base. This truthfully explains the Japanese and East Asian mentality. The idea of the invisible hand is one ideology brought on by the deceased capitalist Adam Smith. He stated that there should ... one of them...

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... and 1960s, Japan's policy in Southeast Asia revolved around economic diplomacy, where relations were low-key and focused more on economics than politics. Therefore it was after 1970s, with the Americans withdrawing from Vietnam, that the Japanese gained a strategic advantage in international politics. Japan had by this time reconstructed itself into an economic power, making use of the favourable external environment ... to become one of the economic power centers in not only the Southeast Asia region, also the wider Asia-Pacific. This stood true for so long that only during the Asian c...

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... destruction, I found myself automatically imagining the victims as Caucasian. I was disgusted at the realization of the assumption and am ashamed to admit it. Undoubtedly every character in Hachiya's accounts was Asian in heritage, but it has been statistically proven that you relate more easily to those who look like you. I would like to state that I am not racist, either intentionally or ... a diary involved me in their hopes for retaliation, as well as their personal experiences. They wished to see the flare of victory through the smoke of Hiroshima, the same way Americans did after ...

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... the creation of the Board of Trade (BOT). However this was loosely attached to the pre-war Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MCI) rather than the Foreign Ministry as the Americans preferred. Later on in 1948, along with Douglas MacArthur's nine-point plan for economic stabilisation, the Japanese abolished both BOT and MCI to create the Ministry of International Trade and ... the government. Japan has long relied on four industries for the bulk of its exports: cars, electrical goods, precision products and steel. However an appreciating yen and competition from other Asian countries hav...

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