Sanitized Sex

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Kramm
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Venereal Disease ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Postwar Japan ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Spatial Formations

Sanitized Sex analyzes the development of new forms of regulation concerning prostitution, venereal disease, and intimacy during the occupation of Japan after the Second World War, focusing on the period between 1945 and 1952. It contributes to the cultural and social history of the occupation of Japan by investigating the intersections of the ordering principles of race, class, gender, and sexuality. It reveals how sex and its regulation were not marginal but key issues in the occupation politics, as well as in postwar state- and empire-building, U.S.-Japan relations, and American and Japanese self-imagery. An analysis of the “sanitization of sex” uncovers new spatial formations in the postwar period. The ways and means in which the sexual encounter between occupiers and occupied was regulated and experienced were closely linked to the disintegration of the Japanese Empire and the rise of U.S. hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region during the Cold War era. An analysis of the sanitization of sex thus sheds new light on the configuration of postwar Japan, the process of decolonization, the postcolonial formation of the Asia-Pacific region, and the particularities of postwar U.S. imperialism. More than a book about the regulation of sex between occupiers and occupied in postwar Japan, Sanitized Sex offers a reading of the intimacies of empires—defeated and victorious.

scholarly journals APEC’S place in modern political and economic processes in Greater East Asia

2020 ◽  
pp. 337-346
Author(s):  
Dmitrij V. Mosyakov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
International Security ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Issues

This article is devoted to the history of such an authoritative international organization as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation-APEC. This organization, created to address issues of economic integration in the Asia-Pacific region, has gradually turned into the main platform for political negotiations, at which key issues of international security and international relations are discussed.

scholarly journals Loss to Followup in HIV-Infected Patients from Asia-Pacific Region: Results from TAHOD

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jialun Zhou ◽  
Junko Tanuma ◽  
Romanee Chaiwarith ◽  
Christopher K. C. Lee ◽  
Matthew G. Law ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Viral Load ◽  
Drug Regimen ◽  
Clinic Visit ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Hiv Viral Load ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lost To Follow Up

This study examined characteristics of HIV-infected patients in the TREAT Asia HIV Observational Database who were lost to follow-up (LTFU) from treatment and care. Time from last clinic visit to 31 March 2009 was analysed to determine the interval that best classified LTFU. Patients defined as LTFU were then categorised into permanently LTFU (never returned) and temporary LTFU (re-entered later), and these groups compared. A total of 3626 patients were included (71% male). No clinic visits for 180 days was the best-performing LTFU definition (sensitivity 90.6%, specificity 92.3%). During 7697 person-years of follow-up, 1648 episodes of LFTU were recorded (21.4 per 100-person-years). Patients LFTU were younger (P=0.002), had HIV viral load ≥500 copies/mL or missing (P=0.021), had shorter history of HIV infection (P=0.048), and received no, single- or double-antiretroviral therapy, or a triple-drug regimen containing a protease inhibitor (P<0.001). 48% of patients LTFU never returned. These patients were more likely to have low or missing haemoglobin (P<0.001), missing recent HIV viral load (P<0.001), negative hepatitis C test (P=0.025), and previous temporary LTFU episodes (P<0.001). Our analyses suggest that patients not seen at a clinic for 180 days are at high risk of permanent LTFU, and should be aggressively traced.

Intergroup Communication: Asia/Australasia

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuang Liu
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Asian Immigrants ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Intergroup Communication ◽  
The Past ◽  
Asian Immigration ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
History Of

Located in the Asia Pacific region, Asia and Australasia have established a long and close relationship over the past centuries. Asian immigrants play a key role in the development and maintenance of this relationship between the two continents. As Australia not only occupies 86% of the Australasia region but also has a long history of receiving Asian immigrants, dating back to the 18th century, research on intergroup communication between Asian immigrants and host nationals tends to be concentrated in Australia. Under the early White Australia Policy, restrictions on Asian immigrants were imposed to protect the White Australia. This reflected the values and attitudes at the time when many Australians considered Asia as a threat and defined themselves as separate from it. Since the removal of this policy in 1973, particularly in the past four decades, there has been a substantial boom of Asian immigration to Australia. They transformed Australia’s economy, society, culture, and more importantly, Australians’ attitudes toward Asia and Asians. Asian immigrants are therefore central to the study of intergroup communication in Australasia.

Brian Herbert Kay 1944–2017

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Michael F. Good ◽  
Scott A. Ritchie ◽  
Darryl McGinn ◽  
Richard C. Russell
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Young Researchers ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Scientific Achievements

Brian Kaywas a renowned entomologist and arbovirologistwhoworked in academia and with local and international governments to make major and lasting improvements in public health. Particular highlights were the first ever elimination of a saltmarsh mosquito in the world and elimination of dengue from many hamlets and villages in Vietnam. He is also remembered for the development of the careers of many young researchers in Australia and overseas. When thinking of Brian Kay, three things come to mind immediately. First, Brian was a great character–a man of fun and passion and always good to be around. He had a great cheeky smile. Second, Brian was deeply committed to the careers and well-being of those around him–exemplified no better than how he acted so caringly for the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) staff when he served for several years as Chairman of the QIMR Staff Association; and third, Brian was an outstanding entomologist, biologist, scientist. Here, we give a little history of his background and attempt to distil a few of Brian's many scientific achievements and paint a picture of a man who was greatly admired and loved by those who worked alongside him in various parts of the world, but predominantly in Australia and the Asia Pacific Region.

Myth and Misrepresentation in Australian Foreign Policy: Menzies and Engagement with Asia

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 57-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Benvenuti ◽  
David Martin Jones
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Conventional View ◽  
Regional Policies ◽  
History Of

The prevailing orthodoxy in the academic literature devoted to the history of Australia's post-1945 international relations posits that a mixture of suspicion and condescension permeated the attitude of the governments headed by Robert Menzies (1949–1966) toward the Asia-Pacific region. Menzies's regional policies, according to this view, not only prevented Australia from engaging meaningfully with its Asian neighbors but also ended up antagonizing them. This article rejects the conventional view and instead shows that the prevailing left-Labor assessments of Menzies's regional policy are fundamentally marred by an anachronistic disregard of the diplomatic dynamics, political challenges, and economic realities of Cold War Asia.

scholarly journals Priorities and New Areas for U.S. Economic Cooperation with the Asia-Pacific Region

2021 ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Ksenia Chudinova
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Cooperation ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Current Stage ◽  
Rules And Standards

The article analyzes the first steps of the Biden administration to strengthen the resilience of American supply chains and expand interaction on key issues with allied economies in the Asia-Pacific region (APR). Critically important areas of cooperation were identified, and the agreements reached with partners at the current stage were analyzed. It is illustrated that the Biden administration is gradually forming around the United States an association of &quot;techno-democratic&quot; countries, in which the allied economies in the APR will play an important role. One of the most important goals of the alliance is to reduce dependence on supplies from China and reduce the influence of the PRC, potentially through the introduction of a new set of rules and standards.

scholarly journals Trans-Pacific Partnership: History of Gradual Development of Regional Integration in the Asia-Pacific Region

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-122
Author(s):  
Wan Juntao ◽  
D. E. Lyubina
Keyword(s):  
Economic Integration ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Investment Climate ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Financial Cooperation ◽  
Gradual Development ◽  
History Of

The Asia-Pacific region today represents an example of deep regional economic integration. This was largely facilitated by the creation of the TRANS-Pacific Partnership. The undisputed advantages of the Trans-Pacific Partnership are the following: opening markets to all member countries, unifying trade rules, removing obstacles to financial cooperation, creating a favorable investment climate and new guarantees to protect small and medium-sized businesses. The analysis of historical stages of creation and development of a such kind of regional association allows us to trace the evolution of economic integration processes and assess the effectiveness and attractiveness of this type of integration. The study of the specifics of the origin of such a large integration Association in Asia is of interest from the point of view of searching for new “growth points” for integration associations in the Eurasian region and in particular in the post-Soviet space.

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