EAST ASIA III

(CHAPTER 9: 464-485)

THE JAKOTA TRIANGLE (MAP)

THE JAKOTA TRIANGLE

CHARACTERISTICS

Great cities

Enormous consumption of raw materials

State-of-the-art industries

Voluminous exports

Global links

Trades surpluses

Rapid development

CHALLENGES

Social problems

Political uncertainties

Vulnerabilities

JAPAN(MAP)

JAPAN’S CORE AREA (MAP)

OUTLINE OF JAPANESE HISTORY

600 - 800 Chinese cultural influence

1000 -1300 War, Medieval society arises, shoguns evolve

1600 -1867 Tokugawa Shogunate, isolation, foreigners and Christianity expelled, individualistic culture, emphasis on Shinto belief system

1853 - Commodore Perry acquires new treaties with the outside

MEIJI RESTORATION

1868 Rebellion brought in reformers

Reinstated the emperor and began to transform Japan from a Feudal society with pre-machine age technology to an industrial power

Adopted aspects of the British model

Launched a systematic study of the industrialized world

Focus was on industrialization and education system

EXPANSIONIST JAPAN

TAIWAN1895

KOREA1910

PACIFICISLANDSPOST W.W.I

MANCHURIA1931

CHINA1937

HONG KONG1939

SOUTHEAST ASIA1941

JAPAN’S POST WWII TRANSFORMATION

1945 –1952: Allied Occupation

 Economic reshaping

 Labor legislation

 Constitution

 Civil rights

 Land reform

 U.S. “Helping hand” policy

POPULATION COMPARISONS(BAR GRAPHS)

POPULATION PROFILES

DECLINING JAPANESE POPULATION

Population:127.4 million

Birth rate: 8 births/1,000

Death rate:8 deaths/1,000

Growth rate:0.0%

Life expectancy:78 (M), 85 (F)

Urbanization:78%

KOREA (MAP)

KOREA

The size of “Idaho” but with a population of 73 million

Turbulent political history:

A dependency of China

A colony of Japan’s

Divided along the 38th parallel by Allied Powers > WWII (1945)

Cease-fire line established in1953

NORTH-SOUTH CONTRASTS

NORTH KOREA

55% of the land, 1/3 of the population, extremely rural

Antiquated state enterprises

Inefficient, non-productive agriculture

Limited trade – former Soviet Union and China

SOUTH KOREA

45% of the land, 2/3s of the population, highly urbanized

Modern factories

Intensive, increasingly mechanized agriculture

Extensive trade – US, Japan, and Western Europe

THE KOREAS

POPULATION 23,600,00049,200,000

GNP (BILLIONS)$ 21.3$ 508.3

GNP/CAPITA$ 920$ 17,300

AGRICULTURERESTRICTIVEGOOD

(as % of GNP) 25 % 8 %

(% work force) 36 % 21 %

LAND USE PATTERNS (MAP)

SEOUL

Capital of Korea (late 1300s - early 1900s)

9.9 million people

Located in the northwest corner of South Korea – just south of the DMZ

The urban-industrial center!

Textiles, clothing, footwear, electronic goods

Vulnerabilities?

SEOUL(MAP AND PHOTO)

TAIWAN(MAP)

TAIWAN

Historical background:

A Chinese province for centuries

Colonized by Japanin 1895

Returned to China > WWII

1949 – Chinese Nationalists (supported by the US) fled from the mainland and established the Republic of China (ROC)

Territory - approximately 14,000 Square miles

Population – 22.7 million

77% urbanized

FOUR ECONOMIC TIGERS

Identification

FOUR ECONOMIC TIGERS

THE FOUR TIGERS(ISSUES AND CONCERNS)

Vulnerability to Global Market Fluctuations

Land Use Competition

Urban Problems

Environmental Degradation

Political Questions

Post Industrial Economy