Abstract
This paper discusses the perceptions of modern day China, Japan and Korea. The paper essentially argues that the misconceived notions that China, Japan and Korea are not modern countries is related to the fact that they were isolationist towards the west and because they did not follow the European modernization concept.

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"The relationship between China, Korea and Japan with the West is both complicated and filled with misconceptions. The largest misconception about China, Korea and Japan in the West is that these countries have followed isolationist foreign policies. For example, in "China Attempts to Soften Its One-Child Policy" Jessica Bernman suggests that China had isolated itself from the rest of the world and is just now beginning to open its borders (Bernman 567). Japan has also been thought of as a country that had isolated itself from the world for centuries (Toby 6)."

Tags:china, japan, korea

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This paper reviews how China, Japan and Korea are often referred to as `leaders' in the world economy. The paper discusses how each country reflects a different kind of modernization and, mainly in the post-World War II period, an accelerated development success story, just as each country indicates its own kind of economic and political achievement. This paper argues that this view of the three powers in question is most problematic, especially in view of their respective defects.

Tags:chi/jap/korea, postwardevt, critique

Abstract
In the past, America has always had to choose between China and Japan. Before the Second World War the United States had friendly relations with China and Japan was the adversary, and after Japan was defeated in the war and nationalist China was defeated by Mao and his communist revolutionaries, the United States and Japan became allies. But this historical pattern of alternating adversaries does not have to be repeated in the 21st century, for the United States, China, and Japan can interact politically and economically in ways that will be beneficial to all three countries. The question requiring examination and analysis is whether the United States, China, and Japan will interact politically and economically for their mutual benefit.

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The United States, China, and Japan: An Analysis In the past, America has always had to choose between China and Japan. Before the Second World War the United States had friendly relations with China and Japan was the adversary, and after Japan was defeated in the war and nationalist China was defeated by Mao and his communist revolutionaries, the United States and Japan became allies. But this historical pattern of alternating adversaries does not have to be repeated in the 21^st century, for the United States, China, and Japan can interact

Tags:china, japan, u.s.

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This paper consists ofanswers one question about the status of women in China and Japan, and the other discusses foreign influences on political reform in Japan.

Tags:ASIAN STUDIES / CHINA, history china - japan

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The paper examines the various sectors of the societies in China and Japan, including the military, government, religious, intellectual, economic, and provides an analysis of pertinent cross-cultural influences. The paper also analyzes the key similarities and differences that emerged by the Middle Ages and includes a listing of key periods and figures in the history of China and Japan in table form as appendices to the paper. A table is included in the body of the paper as well.

Outline:
Review and Discussion
Conclusion

From the Paper
"Throughout its lengthy history, Chinese society has been divided into the social classes of peasants, merchants, soldiers, bureaucrats and the ruling elite; each of these classes recognized their place in Chinese society and sought, like people everywhere, to maximize their advantages within this class (Burling, 1965). Although much changed in China over the millennia, these classes could still be identified by the Middle Ages (Burling, 1965). According to Benn (2002) ancient China was characterized by three separate traditions: (a) the state cult (often loosely labeled Confucianism), Buddhism, and the Taoist religion (p. 487). Indeed, Topley (1970) emphasizes that, "Religion in China has always been deeply embedded in the social system, and it is not possible to consider one without the other" (p. 457). The historical record shows that religion in China notes that the development of religion is truly ancient, dating back at least to the Shang Dynasty of the 18th to 12th centuries BCE (Topley, 1970). During the Chou Dynasty, roughly the 12th and 13th centuries BCE, religion became of means of social control by assimilating the majority of the local cults and bringing them under the all-encompassing umbrella of Chinese rule (Topley, 1970).
"During the Han period from 200 BCE to 220 CE, an enormous expansion of religious dogma occurred in which a complete theory of the universe and mankind's place in it emerged (Topley, 1970). By the second century CE, Benn notes that, "Taoist priests were not rulers, but servitors. Their investiture entailed the transmission of a commission that empowered them to intervene for the welfare of the ruler, the people, and themselves. The priest was a functionary, the lowest creature in a cosmic bureaucracy that stretched upward to the celestial realms and downward to the subterranean domains" (p. 487)."

Tags:feudal, systems, bureaucrats, peasants, Confucianism, Shinto, Buddhism

Abstract
This paper discusses economic reforms required by China and Japan for economic advance. For China, the biggest obstacles to overcome is to depoliticize the economy; while in Japan there is a need to end corporate collusion and protective regulations which keep economic growth depressed.

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"In "Japan: The System That Soured", Richard Katz maintains that, "The changes in Japan are likely to be at least as far-reaching as the reforms that Deng Xiaoping made in China in the ...s." For both China and Japan, the economic and social reform process is ongoing with significant reforms still required by both nations that are plentiful and interconnected. To continue economic advancement, both China and Japan need to implement a number of reforms. Chief among these reforms for China is a..."

Tags:land, local officials, corruption, protectionism, one-party system, government, Koizumi, Wen Jiabao

Abstract
This paper explains that the evolvement of fashion trends throughout history have come to mean more than merely a choice of dress and style for its own sake. Rather, they reflect the evolution of culture and national identification. The impetus of fashion is an integral part of cultural studies, semiotics, sociology and history. The author points out that, in contrast to the fashion uniformity prevalent during the Cultural Revolution as a mandatory symbol of national identity and cultural commonality, more modern styles were introduced to represent a new found freedom in social and political life. The paper relates that the ideals of citizenship and expected cultural and national standards is reflected in Japan in the uniforms that children wear to school.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Cultural Construction
Fashion and Culture in China and Japan
The Shaping of National Identity

From the Paper
"Possibly one of the most obvious examples of the connection of fashion and the cultural construction of reality is the fashion or dress code that was dominant during the Chinese Maoist Cultural Revolution. Studies and reports of China during the late years of Maoist influence between 1949 and 1976 remark on the congruity between the style and fashion in clothing of the time and the communist doctrine of equality for all. The impression of China in those years was that it was a poor, fairly undeveloped country despite its glorious past."

Tags:reflection, citizenship, post-mao, school-uniforms, communist

Abstract
This paper examines the challenges to the historical concepts and practices of human resource management that exist in countries where economic structural change is occurring. As examples, the move towards privatization in the emerging economy of China, or the challenges to the "life-long" employment concept of the family firms in Japan are discussed.

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The writer discusses the policy of direct investment and various forms of incentive governments utilize to encourage foreign investment. The paper shows how countries can protect and nurture their growth toward mutual benefit of the investing organization and the country receiving the investment. The paper follows the plan China has used to its benefit and also cites the less positive results in Japan.

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"During the 1980's China recognized a need for significant foreign investment, particularly in those infrastructure and productive areas in which a complete modernization and/or overhaul was needed. Foreign investment encouragement in the form of tax reductions and exemptions was implemented, especially in the coastal "Special Economic Zones"; this has expanded into the interior. (Braham and Ran, p.9)."

Tags:foreign, tax, incentive, economy, benefit

Abstract
This research paper discusses the role of China in the origin, course and the outcome of World War II. Because of internal Chinese divisions, weaknesses in the Chinese Nationalist government and the priorities accorded to other theaters of war, China never played the role envisaged for it by some Allied leaders and war planners; nevertheless, events there served to enmesh Japan in an unsustainable military adventure on the Asian mainland and to weaken its overall war effort.

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"CHINA'S ROLE IN WORLD WAR II

This research paper discusses the role of China in the origin, course and the outcome of World War II. Because of internal Chinese divisions, weaknesses in the Chinese Nationalist government and the priorities accorded to other theaters of war, China never played the role envisaged for it by some Allied leaders and war planners; nevertheless, events there served to enmesh Japan in an unsustainable military adventure on the Asian mainland and to weaken its overall war effort.

1937-1941
World War II began at different times for different nations. For Britain, France, Poland and Germany, it began in 1939, for Italy in 1940, for Russia in June 1941, for the United States with the Pearl Harbor attack and the German declaration of war in ..."