... ASEAN and China in accordance with technology heirachies in hosting countries; while sophisticated level of design, research intensity stages of production in some high-tech industries were kept in the home countries such as Japand and or other NICs, a great deal of final assembly stage had been relocated to ASEAN, China and the developing countries for offshore production.HENce, the spatial ... sphistication of different stages of production. (11) Therefore, though final products of high-tech industries were from many developing Pacific Basin countris, but many strategic components wer...

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... . Another function is that of intelligence gathering, where ambassadors collect information about the host state, its conditions, developments and policies, and report them directly to the home government. This is important in providing the home government with information and advice for the formulation of policies towards that host country. This has become increasingly complicated with the expansion of the scope of foreign ... dispensable to the international community. Improved technology and communication, and the presence of an international media are challenging the function of the ...

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... to the land. The unity between people, nature, and the divine is a prominent theme of Japanese religion. The religious character of the family is also an important theme, considering the home is the center of religious devotion, and the family is the most important social and religious institution. The family connection is significant for maintaining the practice of rituals honoring ancestral ... ...

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