Singapore and Malaysia contain a rich racial mix, while Korea and Japan are very homogeneous societies. ... Japan shifted from the role of a dependent to a manufacturing and financial powerhouse. ... (Graph 7.4, P.279) Additionally, Japan created a lucrative automobile industry, along with a steel industry that rivaled and surpassed the American industry and electronics. ... Their annual percentages were even greater than America's annual GDP percent growth for those equivalent years. ... In contrast to Korea, Japan, Malaysia, and Singapore, those nations that did not develop signific...

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The most obvious and famous of the triangles linked the Soviet Union, China and the United States, but the Soviet-US- Japan triangle was also important. ... Sino-Soviet -Japanese triangle 2. ... The great post-war exception was the Soviet-US-Japan triangle. Relationships among the three countries scarcely changed, apart from fluctuations in US-Soviet and US-Japanese relations from time to time. ... The Soviet-Japanese-American triangle drove Soviet policy towards Japan, since the Soviets viewed Japan as a creature of American engagement in Asia. ...

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The Korean War 1950-1953 was the first proxy conflict of the Cold War costing 5 million lives, 54,000 of which were American soldiers, yet it has often been described as America's, "forgotten war." ... However, the Korean conflict was particularly central to American policy and indeed world security as it outlined the American policy of containment from NSC 68, and demonstrated that America, to quote President Truman that America was committed to, "the cause for a just and peaceful world order through the United Nations.... " Furthermore, by acting in Korea this would be the f...

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Soon after V-E Day, the war against Japan had reached its final stage (millercenter.org). An urgent plea to Japan to surrender was rejected. ... Japanese surrender quickly followed (whitehouse.gov). ... Forty years of Japanese rule resulted in Korean knowing little about freedom and politics, and they were always told what to do by the Japanese (Ferrell 110). ... Truman knew that doing nothing in Korea would have a devastating effect on the occupation of Japan, with North Korea having airfields near Japan's major cities (Ferrell 115). ...

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The people of Korea had suffered extreme duress and hardships while the Japanese had occupied their country. ... When the Japanese tightened their rule in the 1920's, the people began to migrate into Manchuria, China, and the U.S.S.R. ... Hodge, the commanding general of the American military government in Korea, was assigned to " remove Japanese imperialism, maintain order, and prepare the Koreans for eventual self governance" (Cumings 1983:107). ... The occupying American forces suppressed opponents to this regime, which often resulted in bloodshed. ... The leftist north began to...

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Starting with Japan, the appreciation of the yen after the Plaza agreement of September 1985 led to Japan's rapid increased FDI in East Asian Countries. Towards the end of the 1980s Japan turned out to be the world's largest source of FDI. Although almost 40% of this went to North America, up to 80% of all FDI to developing nations went to the ASEAN countries(Association of South East Asian Nations) and China with Japan still the most significant investor in South Korea, Thailand and Indonesia2. ... Although the effect is quite minimal in comparison to that of Latin America; Hong Kon...

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This was the year in which World War 2 began in the region, during the period of Japanese expansion. ... Although Japan was very strong during the war (this was shown when they attacked Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, in 1941, and severely depleted the American forces there) the tide turned in 1942 at the Battle of the Coral Sea, which was the Allied forces" first naval win in the region. ... After Japan had been defeated and the European powers weakened, many Asian and Pacific nations wanted independence. ... How strong it was came to light when American troops came to Australia to help protect it fro...

• Word Count: 1983
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The population of "the West," which includes Western Europe, North America, and Asian capitalist economies, such as Japan, Singapore, and South Korea, has remained flat since the latter half of the 20th century, with some populations, such as Japan's, experiencing a steady decrease. ...

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It has good economic relations with Japan, the Unites States, and China mainly and is member of many international economic organizations such as: APEC, OECD(Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), and WCO(World Commerce Organization). ... Korea was under rule of Japan at the end of the Second World War. After the successful landing of the USSR the United Stated emitted an order for Japan telling it to surrender the northern part of Korea from parallel 38 to the USSR ad the southern part to the Unites States. ... The United States immediately gained UN Security Council support ...

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Although Kil was wary about applying Christian doctrine to politics, he nonetheless participated in the March 1st independence movement of 1919 against the Japanese and faced two and a half years of jail time as a result of this participation. ... "" This interpretation of the apocalypse resonated with Korean people because it provided hope that something else was possible in the dark period of domination under the Japanese colonial empire. ... Also, like Kil, he was imprisoned by the Japanese (four times in fact) for his spiritual and political views. ... Ironically, it was in Ja...

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Congress that was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan in 1984.This institution is an American non-partisan, independent, federal institution that works to prevent, mitigate, and resolve violent conflict around the world. ... Israeli relations have evolved from an initial American policy of sympathy and support for the creation of a Jewish homeland in 1948 to an unusual partnership that links a small but militarily powerful Israel, dependent on the United States for its economic and military strength, with the U. ... Unlike America, North Korea, which is a communist country, is ranked 1...

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Since 1910, Korea had been under control of the Japanese government. In 1945, the communist Soviet Union invaded North Korea, quickly forcing the Japanese to surrender. ... This struck fear into the hearts of Americans, as seen in NSC-68, a military report on military power in the U.S. and USSR which called for increased military spending to combat communism; "This excessive strength, coupled now with an atomic capability, provides the Soviet Union with great coercive power for use in time of peace in furtherance of its objectives and serves as a deterrent to the victims of its aggression...

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So like the Japanese, they sent their pictures back home in hope of finding themselves a "picture bride". ... A total of 951 Koreans immigrated to America by way of these so-called "picture brides." ... Even when they reverse the traditional order of their names to conform to American conventions, they are often met with confusion because their family names resemble common American person names. Korean Americans have sufferend from the discimination leveled at all Asian Americans since the beginning of their migrations. ... Despites sometimes brutal prejudice, Korean Americans have continue...

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Korea had been occupied by Japan and Vietnam had been occupied by France. ... The Americans took this act as a sign that Kim II Sung was utilising a communist take-over, thus in October of the same year America, with UN sanction, invaded North Korea. The Korean War became the first American war ever waged solely as an ideological war. "For the first time in the nations history Americans were asked to fight and die to contain an idea". ... On 30th April 1975, South Vietnam fell to the communists, and America lost the war against communism. ...

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