... no age limitation for comfort women. Although a military document of 1940 reveals that Japanese stationeries in China put the age limit at 16, the rules of the most of military comfort stations contained no line on the age of comfort women. Former comfort women who reported to the Korean government say they were drafted when 14 to 19 years old. (Horn) This means that, except a ... a criminal act, even according to the Japanese laws of the time. This falls into a crime of allurement, kidnapping, detention and rape. However, tribunals on war crimes and crimes against humanity were held onl...

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... the stress on democracy, economic liberalization, human rights ). We also witness the reversal of Japan's and Russia's post war roles, with Russia now being the one buffeted in the goings-on between China and Japan. Furthermore, the continental landmass of Asia, dominated by Russia and China occupies the physical and strategic core of the area, a core that has radiated its effects through the sub-regions of the Korean peninsulas, and SEA and to the ... surrounding archipelagos. "Today the core is weak and unsure of itself ... ...

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... FAR EAST AND JAPAN IN PROMOTING ECONOMIC COOPERATION IN THE NORTHEAST ASIA The relation between the Russian Far East and Japan is 'near and far'. In the Cold War period there existed an 'invisible wall' in the Sea of Japan. The Cold War ended about 10 years ago. Although a tense atmosphere remains in the Korean Peninsula, people's comings and goings and cultural exchange between ... of municipalities across borders'. Although there are still high hurdles between the Western Europe and the Eastern Europe at the national level in the integration process, the integration of the both parts ...

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... easily seen as a truly remarkable living legacy of the past. From the dohyo matsuri (ring consecration ceremony) that takes place on the day before a sumo tournament, to the ganbai uchiwa ("war" fan) wielded by the gyoji (referees), to the tsuna (white rope-like belt) worn by the yokozuna (Grand Champions), to the purification ritual of spraying salt on the ring before each bout - the rich body of symbols in sumo are drawn from ... before the beginning of the Nagoya tournament. (N10) The striking think about the banzuke is that leading positions of two American yokozuna (in the West Div...

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... largely due to changes in the decision-making structure of the US and I feel mainly to ease the mounting cost on the United States. Some of these changes in policy were fewer pressures for a decentralization of the zaibatsu. And by the end of the occupation a new zaibatsu emerged called the keiretsu. No matter what policies were put into motion by the occupation it was not till the Korean War that Japanese economy started ... to take off. It was then that the dodge line was put ... ...

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... there was a war plan involving a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. This information was relayed to Roosevelt. On August 10, 1941, a top British agent told the FBI that a planned attack on pearl Harbor would occur soon. The FBI told him his information was "...too precise, to complete to be believed." They disregarded it as a trap. In early fall, an agent for the Sino-Korean People's League ... told an employee at CBS that the Korean underground had proof that the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor sometime before Christmas. In late October, the same agent told a US senator that th...

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... than the old zaibatsu. This was because the central bank stood behind as the implicit guarantor of the high debt positions of the major groups. This meant that all a banker had to concentrate on was the expansion of a bank's share of loans and depositors. The city banks did every thing in their power to discover and help growth industries. Monetary expansion during the Korean War also ... led to greater competition in the economy ... than is common in other open economies dominated by oligopolies. The foreign exchange laws enabled the government to concentrate all foreign ... ...

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... there was a war plan involving a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. This information was relayed to Roosevelt. On August 10, 1941, a top British agent told the FBI that a planned attack on pearl Harbor would occur soon. The FBI told him his information was "...too precise, to complete to be believed." They disregarded it as a trap. In early fall, an agent for the Sino-Korean People's League ... told an employee at CBS that the Korean underground had proof that the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor sometime before Christmas. In late October, the same agent told a US senator that th...

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... South Korea was somewhat similar to this, as their markets were dominated by the Korean "Chaebol" with firms such as Daewoo and Samsung reaching international recognition very quickly. The exceptions to this were Hong Kong, which practised a very open market with low corporate tax and China, who, after the transition to a market-based economy in 1978 attracted large international investors because of ... well as economic growth, employment creation and a healthy balance of payments. It also aided Taiwan towards entering new, more sophisticated and capital-intensive product lines and marke...

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... Japan's labour force totalled 67.35 million workers representing 61.5 percent of the whole population. The traditional low unemployment rate of 3.3 percent in 1996 rose to a post-war height of 4.8 percent by early 1999. In 2001 men comprised 58 percent of the labour force and women 42 percent. The services industries have gained in importance for Japan's economy, representing 23.5 ... pause often, and avoid colloquialisms. 2.3 Location of Japan 2.3.1 Location relative to Australia Japan is located in Eastern Asia, an island chain between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, eas...

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