Geopolitical and Economic Backgrounds for Japan’s Participation in International Associations at the Present Stage

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-224
Author(s):  
Konstantin A. Korneev
Keyword(s):  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Economic Space ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
World Markets ◽  
Macroeconomic Indicators ◽  
Japanese Corporations ◽  
Industrial Groups

Japan is one of the undisputed economic leaders in the Asia-Pacific region, despite the fact that in a number of macroeconomic indicators (for example, in nominal GDP) it gave the primacy to China in the late 2000s. Nevertheless, the positions of Japanese financial and industrial groups in the automotive and shipbuilding sectors, information technology, telecommunications systems, and power equipment manufacturing are still strong in the world markets. Tokyo also feels confident in the international political space - most regional problems are solved with the active participation of Japan. Accordingly, the Japanese government has all the possibilities to conduct a clear and consistent foreign policy with a maximum consideration for its own interests, as well as it has opportunities to attract a wide range of overseas partners to mutually beneficial cooperation within the framework of multilateral agreements. However, nowadays in the Asia-Pacific markets, Japanese corporations face increasing competition from Chinese and South Korean companies, which forces Japan to take into account new geopolitical situations and strive to softly promote its vision of regional development. The purpose of the study is to analyze Japans approaches to participation in current international associations and to assess the overall impact of these approaches on the geopolitical and economic space of the Asia-Pacific region. The research methodology is based on the apparatus of social sciences (comparative analysis, content analysis, economic and statistical analysis, synthesis, historical and logical methods), and is supplemented by a systematic approach to the research topic through the search and interpretation of the appropriate information.

The strategic role of Hawaii in disaster coordination in the Asia-Pacific

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 211
Author(s):  
Ross Prizzia, PhD
Keyword(s):  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Us Army ◽  
Support Organizations ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Strategic Role

The purpose of this article is to describe and explain the strategic role of Hawaii in disaster coordination in the Asia-Pacific region. Hawaii is of critical importance in the prevention of, preparation for, and response to disasters in the Asia-Pacific region as is demonstrated through the effective coordination of Hawaii-based institutions such as the Pearl Harbor Naval Base, US Pacific Command (PACOM), US Army Pacific (USARPAC), Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS), East- West Center (EWC), Pacific Disaster Center (PDC), Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC), and other related disaster management support organizations based throughout the Hawaiian islands. The State of Hawaii seems prepared to respond to natural and human-caused disasters. As the only island state located in the Pacific Ocean, Hawaii continues to require advanced technology for warning systems and effective coordination of emergency management capability to respond to a wide range of natural disasters and the threat of terrorism and an extensive network of coordination, cooperation, and collaboration among relevant disaster and emergency Hawaii-based government agencies at the local, national, and international levels. While some of this network may be unique to Hawaii and the Asia-Pacific region, most is not and can provide useful “best practices” for other practitioners and jurisdictions.

scholarly journals RESEARCH OF WORLD MARKETS OF ENERGY RESOURCES, OPTIONS AND CONDITIONS OF SUPPLY OF MINERAL RESOURCES FROM THE ARCTIC REGIONS

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 310-315
Author(s):  
Vasiliy Y. Nemov
Keyword(s):  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Processing Industry ◽  
Arctic Regions ◽  
World Markets

The article presents the results of a study of promising directions and methods of supplying energy resources from the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation. Reviewed and quantified the energy markets in the Asia-Pacific region. The importance of the development of high-tech industries of the processing industry in the east of the country is shown. The importance of the Asia-Pacific region market for the Russian processing industry has been substantiated.

scholarly journals K-pop boot camps in choreographic co-creative labor

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 372-388
Author(s):  
Kai Khiun Liew ◽  
Angela Lee
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Consumer Demand ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Free Labor ◽  
Boot Camps ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds

The worldwide popularity of South Korean popular music has generated global consumer demand for variations of its grueling training regimen offered by talent recruitment agencies and dance studios. Using the case study of the South Korean popular music boot camps offered by the Australia-based agency, The Academy, this article seeks to frame these performative engagements along more cosmopolitan notions of choreographic co-creative labor. In contrast to the highly competitive South Korean popular music machinery, participation in these boot camps can be characterized as affective prosumer “free labor” from trainees from diverse backgrounds, abilities, and motivations. Through programs that enable trainees to “re-present,” “re-organize,” and “re-interpret” K-pop dance performances, studios like The Academy leverage on K-pop’s popularity and its training pedagogies so as to open new fields of creative labor. Accompanying such openings are the strengthening transnational connectivities in the activities of The Academy in intensifying existing multicultural networks in Australia. The studio is also part of a more cosmopolitan platform in orienting traditionally Eurocentric mainstream Australia culturally toward the Asia-Pacific region. By further democratizing the dance abilities of K-pop choreographies, initiatives like The Academy serve in enlarging creative labor in transnational rhythmic communities.

scholarly journals Priorities of the Republic of Korea in Integration Projects

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 144-157
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Fedorovskii
Keyword(s):  
Free Trade ◽  
Free Trade Agreements ◽  
Trade Agreements ◽  
Republic Of Korea ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
South Korean ◽  
The Republic

The article deals with the main purposes, opportunities and risks of the Republic of Korea’s involvement in integration projects. The author stresses the basic principles of South Korean foreign economic strategy, including common views of the different president administrations on key foreign economic priorities, including constant support of business expansion towards the most prominent markets. The analysis focuses also on new methods of support of national business interests: the transition from rigid defense of domestic market to adoption to growing competition at home as far as foreign partners agreed to open their markets to South Korean export. The paper describes role of bilateral Free Trade Agreements (FTA) and regional mega-projects in South Korea’s foreign economic diplomacy. Comparison study of bilateral Free Trade Agreements between the Republic of Korea on the one side, European Union, the USA and China on the other sides. The author characterizes growing role of China and other East Asian countries for South Korean economy the ROK-China Free Trade Agreement, including some obstacles and limitations to upgrade development of bilateral economic exchanges. Special attention paid to positive and negative factors, influenced on economic integrations between China, Japan and the Republic of Korea. The paper describes Seoul’s interests in economic integration projects in East Asia, including involvement in joint economic projects with ASEAN. The author analyses the Republic of Korea’s attitude to regional mega-projects in Asia-Pacific region such as Trans-Pacific Partnership. Finally the article describes modern stage and possible development of Russia-South Korea economic relations and contains forecast of the main trends of the Republic of Korea’s involvement in integration projects in East Asia and in Asia-Pacific region in general.

Public Attitudes toward Government Spending in the Asia-Pacific Region

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHONG-MIN PARK
Keyword(s):  
Government Spending ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
The United States ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Neoliberal Reform ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Mass Publics ◽  
State Contraction

AbstractThis article describes public attitudes toward government spending in Australia, China, India, Japan, Russia, and the United States, the six major economies of the Asia-Pacific region. An analysis of the 2008 AsiaBarometer Survey data shows that ordinary citizens of the sample countries favored increased, rather than reduced, government spending on a wide range of policy programs. It is also found that support for state activism was stronger in former state socialist countries than in market capitalist ones. Although economic interests, symbolic predispositions, and social positions influenced spending preferences to varying degrees, left–right ideology was particularly conspicuous in most countries surveyed. It is evident that the mass publics of the major economies of the Asia-Pacific region did not strongly endorse state contraction or retrenchment, even in the wake of economic globalization and the neoliberal reform movement.

scholarly journals Antimicrobial Activities of Garenoxacin (BMS 284756) against Asia-Pacific Region Clinical Isolates from the SENTRY Program, 1999 to 2001

2004 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 2049-2055 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. J. Christiansen ◽  
J. M. Bell ◽  
J. D. Turnidge ◽  
R. N. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Partial Correlation ◽  
Antimicrobial Activities ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Oxacillin Resistance ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Ciprofloxacin Resistance ◽  
High Level ◽  
Level Resistance

ABSTRACT Between 1999 and 2001, 16,731 isolates from the Asia-Pacific Region were tested in the SENTRY Program for susceptibility to six fluoroquinolones including garenoxacin. Garenoxacin was four- to eightfold less active against Enterobacteriaceae than ciprofloxacin, although both drugs inhibited similar percentages at 1 μg/ml. Garenoxacin was more active against gram-positive species than all other fluoroquinolones except gemifloxacin. For Staphylococcus aureus, oxacillin resistance was high in many participating countries (Japan, 67%; Taiwan, 60%; Hong Kong, 55%; Singapore, 52%), with corresponding high levels of ciprofloxacin resistance (57 to 99%) in oxacillin-resistant S. aureus (ORSA). Of the ciprofloxacin-resistant ORSA isolates, the garenoxacin MIC was >4 μg/ml for only 9% of them. For Streptococcus pneumoniae, penicillin nonsusceptibility and macrolide resistance were high in many countries. No relationship was seen between penicillin and garenoxacin susceptibility, with all isolates being susceptible at <2 μg/ml. There was, however, a partial correlation between ciprofloxacin and garenoxacin MICs. For ciprofloxacin-resistant isolates for which garenoxacin MICs were 0.25 to 1 μg/liter, mutations in both the ParC and GyrA regions of the quinolone resistance-determining region could be demonstrated. No mutations conferring high-level resistance were detected. Garenoxacin shows useful activity against a wide range of organisms from the Asia-Pacific region. In particular, it has good activity against S. aureus and S. pneumoniae, although there is evidence that low-level resistance is present in those organisms with ciprofloxacin resistance.

scholarly journals INTEGRATION TENDENCIES UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF GLOBALIZATION TRANSFORMATIONS

2019 ◽  
pp. 16-22
Author(s):  
Irina Afanasyeva ◽  
Dmitriy Uznarodov
Keyword(s):  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Economic Space ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Internal Sources ◽  
Is Integration ◽  
National Economies ◽  
Increasing Trends

At the turn of the XX—XXI centuries, transformation of the world economic system is determined by a complex of processes, among which globalization occurred as the basic trend of the world economy, despite the contradictory comprehension of its imperatives and consequences in the world economic space. The current process of globalization is the result of increasing trends in polarization of the world architecture in terms of economic power and empowerment. This phase of the functional configuration of the world space causes the emergence of global problems and conflicts, predetermining the need for the economies of the world to cooperate closer and more openly on the design of the most effective mechanism for economic synthesis. Thus, the main line of today’s interaction of national economies at the global level is integration which is creating internal sources for economic growth and development. In the context of the above, the authors consider that integration trends in the global community have been caused by the ongoing globalization trends. The specifics of such changes are presented on the example of the Asia-Pacific region. At the same time, the main directions of Russian geopolitics and its role in the formation of integration associations in the Asia-Pacific region are shown.

Measuring Economic Integration in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Principal Components Approach

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Chen ◽  
Yuen Pau Woo
Keyword(s):  
Principal Component Analysis ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Composite Index ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Economic Convergence ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Macroeconomic Indicators

This paper measures economic integration in the Asia-Pacific (AP) region using a composite index. The weights of the index are obtained from a two-stage principal component analysis. In the first stage, we obtain a convergence index to measure the extent of convergence among the main macroeconomic indicators of a sample of AP economies. In the second stage, we use indicators of trade, FDI, and tourism, as well as the convergence index, to compute the weights for the composite index. We found that economic convergence in the AP region increased until 1998 but has since fallen back. The integration of trade, investment, and people flows increased between 1990 and 2000, weakened slightly to 2003, and has since picked up again. Among the 17 sample economies, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Chinese Taipei are the most integrated with the AP region and Indonesia and China are the least integrated.

scholarly journals Measuring what matters? mapping higher education internationalization in the Asia–Pacific

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
James H. Williams ◽  
Will Brehm ◽  
Yuto Kitamura
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Internationalization Of Higher Education ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Status ◽  
Higher Education Internationalization

PurposeThis paper sought to understand at one time point what was known and not known about the status and use of indicators of internationalization of higher education in Asia–Pacific. More specifically, we identified and mapped publicly available indicators of international of higher education in the region. We examined the ways by which internationalization has been measured and the indicators used, setting up discussion of what may be missing from internationalization efforts.Design/methodology/approachThe primary questions were: (1) What are the current available sources of data in the Asia–Pacific region? (2) How is internationalization measured in publicly available databases and academic materials in Asia–Pacific? To answer these questions, we carried out a structured search of academic and agency literatures. Review of these literatures led us to develop definitions and a classification system by which indicators were classified and examined.FindingsIndicators clustered almost exclusively around measures of student mobility, neglecting a wide range of other possible measures. The authors discuss the implications for internationalization of higher education in the region and draw on existing critical literature to speculate why this might be the case, and what dimensions of internationalization are likely overlooked with such a limited focus.Originality/valueInternationalization of higher education has gained considerable momentum worldwide in recent years, and higher education in the Asia–Pacific region is arguably the world's most dynamic. Despite such dynamism, no research to our knowledge has mapped the way in which internationalization is measured by actors in the region.

Review of Counseling in the Asia-Pacific Region.

1995 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-384
Author(s):  
Terri Gullickson
Keyword(s):  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region
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