... in restructuring and restrictions on foreign participation. The problems inherent in a special treatment approach are compounded by regional protectionism. A study by Wei [2002] indicates that provincial and municipal government use regional protectionism to limit the inflow of potentially competing goods or otherwise protect the interests of regional companies. Local officials use regional protectionism to accomplish their personal political objectives ... to the issues of automobile industry is introduced by the emergence of environmental protection. Wei [2002] reports that in terms of...

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... , Japan expected that "China should have been grateful to them for expelling the Russians from South Manchuria and by extension for removing the threat to the independence of the Chinese Government." This could only be an illusion; China, indeed, rightly began to fear for Japan's potential expansionist ambitions. 2. 1907-1914: Japanese economic expansion in China. Although China ... example of Japan's economic expansion in China during this period. Although the United States proposed the "Open Door" Policy in China in 1899, intending to maintain an integrated Chinese government, Japan cla...

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... quot; 2012). In addition, a Japanese cabinet-level decision was made to annex the islands and make them part of the Okinawa prefecture. It was at that time when the Japanese government leased the Senkakus to a Japanese businessman, Tatsuhiro Koga, who established a fish-processing plant that employed 200 workers (Scoville, 2015). The islands were eventually abandoned due to the onset of ... sparked massive protests and anti-Japanese demonstrations throughout China, which led to the suffering of Japanese businesses operating in China ("How Uninhabited Islands," 2014). Even though the Chin...

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... freedom. He believed that the sprite could eventually make Japan equal to other civilized nations. Fukuzawa found there was a lack of independent spirit in Japanese political system: people just follow government's decisions; there was no opportunity of expressing their devotion, and the entire country was in a state of drift. As a result, there is no progress, only digression. People were just satisfied ... 's minds, the new civilization could not give its full benefit to this country. In his determination to save the coming generation, he was prepared even to face single-handed the Chi...

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... and is described as a Prehistoric and Neolithic Period. The Japanese as a race consists of different origins. These include the Ainu, Mongolians, Hans, Fins, Kumaso and a large immigration of Koreans and Chinese from 300 AD to 700 AD (Riley, 2000). The Japanese Culture is one that is distinct and ethnocentric. Any military force (the U.S. occupation was considered too civilized) has never successfully ... among the Japanese population, although it has set a foundation for the basis of social and family relationships for the Japan of today. A branch of Neo-Confucianism created by a young ...

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... common. This, plus the lack of land reform and frequent natural disasters made life at best precarious and at worst desperate for most Chinese peasants. Rebellions thus became common, the most notable of these being the Taiping Rebellion of 1847-64. By the late nineteenth century ... West managed to regain control. Once the Boxer Rebellion had been defeated, the Western powers imposed another harsh, unequal treaty on the Chinese. The Chinese eventually learned that they had to change their society if they were going to survive. A belated attempt at reform finally came after ... Korea wo...

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... specifically, a hypothetical Russian war (which eventually became reality) which enabled the Japanese to solidify a central army against a central external threat. The Chinese, however, with their focus on local disputes could mobilize provincial forces but not unite them. The first clash between China and Japan took place ... 7.7 million pounds from the Boxer Rebellion to establishing cultural projects in China. In 1923, Japan brought over hundreds, possibly thousands, of Chinese students to Japan to study. The remaining portion of the Boxer funds went to establish the Toyo Bunku Kenyuj...

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... a powerful empire. In fact, according to Meniscus, " a defensive war is justified only if an actually or potentially virtuous and capable ruler (one who aims to provide peace and benevolent government), with the support of his people, must resort to violence to protect his territory against would-be conquering hegemons. The punitive expedition should only be launched if the conquering ruler ... universal system as we seen in the "expansion to universal empire" secondary strategy in Confucian solution. The expansion to universal empire strategy's  main objective is to create a global go...

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... western influences in the market caused society to seek changes in the political system leading to the cultural- revolution. Even though the desire of the Chinese citizens to end the Communist regime and establish a democracy resulted in the government returning to its conservative roots, the revolution was a wake up call to the west to act against the oppressive acts of the ... Chinese regime. Meanwhile, countries in Asia, especially the four tigers were industrializing rapidly as other third world countries like Bangladesh continued to face economic crises. Countries ... a system shou...

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... Sui, China was not unified. "The new faith spread slowly at first, but then began to appeal more widely as the political order disintegrated and Chinese, with their traditional distaste for chaos, turned to Buddhism's otherworldly message and its doctrine that the real, observable world of human affairs was illusory and ... the sixth century in 552; however, this new adoption was not too smooth. Buddhism in Japan was seen as a threat to power of the government. "Buddhism was at first opposed by many as an alien religion, but was championed by the Soga uji, which vanquished many of its ri...

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... school with modern organization) 1868 (the first year of the Meiji) there was a very, in our terms, conservative Japan. People were in an upheaval upon the oncoming changes of government being implicated. There was constant struggle between the Shogun and imperial court concerning Japan's noninvolvement into international relations. The Shoguns, according to the imperial court, were not moving fast enough ... was the only school of primarily Western ideas and in the future would become the only school specializing in English as it primary language when conventional Japanese still sought...

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... of the victorious powers to dismantle their imperial empires in the Pacific, their peoples racked by poverty, famine and cultural ferment, Asia's leaders sought new strategies for change. Chinese writer Lu Xun and Japanese right-wing philosopher Kita Ikki are profiled as intellectuals who sought to resolve the conflict between the national character and international standing of their homelands ... of nationalism were the ruthless economic exploitation of the country by the European imperialists. Besides this, the social, economic and political exploitation of the Chinese by the reignin...

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... Therefore, young women from Korea were regarded as endless supply for military comfort stations. This was also in compliance with the ethic liquidation policy rapidly implemented in Korea after the Chinese-Japanese War. Opened to the West in 1854 by the US, Japan had a high productivity compared to other Asian states. However, it was at the same time constantly in ... names into Japanese. In addition, from 1937, the Japanese authorities carried out another policy aimed at ethnically eliminating Koreans; they pushed for intermarriage between Koreans and Japanese. Although the Japanese gov...

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... lagging behind the west, different due to Japan maintaining independence from European control because they came out of isolation while China was controlled by the west due to their traditionalist government corrupting the economy which made it easy for the Europeans to control, and different due to Japan being able to maintain political and thus economic vigor through the 20th ... nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but most resided in the beginning of this time period. Both Japanese governments and Chinese governments were isolated at the beginning of the 1860s. The conservative ...

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... a city that rich in cultural and human capital. It contains the largest amount of residents compare to rest of cities in the world and administered by a democratic and progressive government. Through the process of globalization, the interregional interaction and networks of activities is improved. People will have a strong feeling is called "Time-Space Compression"(p.3) that shrinking ... cities according to the traditional assumptions. First of all, the ethnic composition of Tokyo's population is simplex. 98% of the total residents are Japanese, the foreign population (which including...

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... The idea of Japanese imperialism and their dominance started after the introduction of Meiji Restoration, a reform, renovation, revolution, and renew of the government system, and it brought the practical imperial rule in Japan in 1868. During the restoration, Japanese political system was returned to the Emperor ... Mutsuhito, and he seized military power from the Shogun and established new government. Direct imperial rule immediately became widespread, and citizens showed their loyalty to the Emperor. To catch up with western colonial power, ... Japan moved aggressively into other cou...

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... of production, natural calamities as well as hoarding of goods by the supplier. On the other hand an increase in demand is mainly caused by increase in government expenditure, increase in private expenditure, increase in consumer spending as a results of modern-day credit purchases, reduction in taxes, governments repaying their debts, increase ... at 3.5% > the key to get the cycle starting again to create inflation, as wages were not increased or decreased through statistics released by the government database. However, its important that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe balances the nations c...

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... direct investor, the low level of inward FDI coming from elsewhere was cited as evidence of the closed nature of Japan's market overtaken by government supported conglomerate firms known as the "Keiretsu". These firms were also looking to multi-nationalise, and so wanted to monopolise the Japanese market with ... a series of reforms to de-emphasise central planning. It began to establish special economic zones, where foreign businesses could form joint ventures with the Chinese and play host to more trade. The southern provinces have since been closely integrated to Hong Kong and Taiwan...

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... that the tax reduction will facilitate entry by foreign companies into the domestic market, and also " aim to make the country more competitive and fuel a recovery driven by government spending and record monetary stimulus ", Deputy Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said in an interview with Bloomberg News in New York (Jakarta Globe, 2015). It is known as a good strategy to ... move for A&F trying to broadcast to the rest of Asia. According to David Marx, a freelance writer and fashion market analyst in Tokyo, A&F could use the store as a way to tell Chinese customers and other Asia...

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... a new twist to the trade; they started importing opium from India into China. The use of opium took off like a rocket in China, soon it became a serious issue for the Chinese government, which then instituted measures to try and stop it. This decision eventually led to two Opium Wars, China was no match for British military superiority and was badly defeated. Following ... Xavier arrived in Japan during the mid sixteenth century. He began converting Japanese into Christians. The Japanese authorities saw this as a form of European cultural colonialism. In retaliation, the Japanese govern...

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... will become available to the people. Short term benefits such as new jobs and cheaper consumer goods increase the standard of living. Additionally long term advantages such as social and government change, and maintained peace among nations are the rewards of the expansion of free trade. Americans are incredibly reliant on free trade and the global economy. According to the National ... global corporations. Numbers like these cannot be ignored by traditional governments, and in China they have resulted in many more freedoms for citizens both economic and political. According to the Chin...

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... on the sport" (1985:13). Tradition in sumo has also prominently figured in Japanese nationalist discourse. For instance, a small book published by the Board of Tourist Industry of the Japanese Government Railways in 1940 as part of a series intended to familiarize foreigners with facets of Japanese culture claims that, Sumo, or Japanese wrestling, is an art of exercising the body and ... possible means according to a subjective hierarchy of "good" and "bad" social outcomes. One of the main strands of "modernization," in Hall's account, are the "industrialization of the economy, bureaucr...

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... world; it would become necessary to leave the old world behind. China's worldly view would perhaps be the key to their lagging assimilation of western influences. The ideology that the Chinese upheld consisted of: China is fully self-sufficient, China is superior, China is the center of the world, everybody outside of China are barbarians. With such a chauvinistic inward view and ... . The Meiji sent out officials to Europe and the United States to learn technologies, politics, economics, agriculture and military all of which was turned over quickly to modernized Japan. The government wa...

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... , the Renminbi, is currently pegged to the value of the dollar. This has preserve implications. As the dollar has fallen relative to the Euro, so to, has the Renminbi, making Chinese products cheaper in Euros along with American. Additionally, Japan has used purchases of the United States securities to try and stem the appreciation of the Yen against the dollar, although ... theory has political implications in the real world, Japanese and European citizens abhor adjusting the values of their currencies caused by "Profligate American consumers and an even more profligate American governm...

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