MARK 407 Asian Business Environment

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MARK 407Asian Business Environment

• Tim Beal13 March 2008

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Today

• Groups and countries
• Current schedule
• Japan

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Next week and beyond

• Me
• Chinese Economic Area
• You
• Groups initial presentations
• Individual research project topics
• Following week
• Me
• Korea and India
• Group and individual reports

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Japan

• Geography
• History
• DVD on the Kansai

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What is Japan?

• This?

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• Or this?

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Or perhaps this?
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Sumo

• Quintessentially Japanese?
• Most professional sumo are foreigners

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What is Japan?

• Old and New
• Indigenous and foreign
• A bit like everywhere else, only different

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Geography

• Resources
• Location and its implications
• Google map

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History

• Cultural influence from China via Korea
• Buddhism (but not Shinto)
• Confucianism
• Writing system

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Periods

• Tokugawa seclusion
• Meiji opening
• 20th century imperialism
• 1945 US dominance
• Economic stages next session
• Abe Shinzo normal state and remilitarisation
• Fukuda Yasuo from Sep 07

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Japan periods

• Meiji to 1945
• Rapid economic growth
• But Tokugawa Japan highly developed
• Exports Silver, Coppergtgtgtlight manufactures
  especially textiles
• Carving of empire
• Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

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1945

• Defeat, devastation, millions Japanese return
  from empire
• Americans consider keeping Japan agricultural,
  non-industrial economy
• Then 1950 Korea WargtgtJapan booms

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Post 1950

• Exports to US (military)gtgtquality improvement
• Japan bounces back, and bounces higher
• 1960s 10 growth
• Unprecedented in history
• 1970s (oil shocks) 5
• 1980s 4

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1990

• Bubble bursts, relative stagnation until recently
• Eg car industry
• Japan Tops World Auto Market, South Korea Ranks
  Fifth

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Military aspects - economic

• Defeated Japan had low military expenditure as
  of GDP
• Concentrated on civilian economy
• Contrast to UK, US
• Chalmers Johnson
• MITI and the Japanese miracle (1982)
• MITIgtgtMETI
• On US militarism

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Military aspects political

• Remilitarisation, perhaps nuclear weapons, on
  agenda
• Especially Abe Shinzo
• Motivates Japan policy towards North Korea
• Tim Beal Multilayered confrontation in East Asia
• Source of tension esp with China

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Contemporary Japanese economy

• Recovery due to China (and old demand)
• Demographic crisis

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DVD on Kansai

• Next week
• Chinese Economic Area
• Listing of individual essay topics
• Group reports