Reshaping the international division of labour: Japanese manufacturing investment in South-East Asia

The aim in this paper is to set Japanese foreign direct investment (FDI) in Europe (including the United Kingdom) into its broader global perspective. The geographical form of Japanese FDI is the outcome of a complex interaction between economic and political forces, both internal to Japan itself and also in its external trading environment. The dominant foci of Japanese FDI are North America, and East and South East Asia. Initially, Japanese manufacturing investment was heavily concentrated in neighbouring countries of Asia but the emphasis has shifted more recently to North America. However, the organisational structure of Japanese investment tends to be substantially different in these two world regions. In East and South East Asia, in particular, a complex intrafirm division of labour has developed, whereas in North America (and in Europe) the Japanese plants tend to be directly market-oriented and established primarily in response to trading frictions. The recent massive revaluation of the yen promises to generate further substantial changes in the global geography of Japanese FDI.

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Understanding conflict resolution strategies in South East Asia

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e627722013-065 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Mrignaini Goel ◽

Mylliem Adrian Lambert ◽

Syafiqah Binti Yahya

Keyword(s):

Conflict Resolution ◽

East Asia ◽

South East Asia ◽

Conflict Resolution Strategies ◽

Resolution Strategies

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CIScoSI Study [Children Immunization Status and cases of Systemic Illness]

Medical & Clinical Research ◽

10.33140/mcr.03.03.02 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

Keyword(s):

Infectious Diseases ◽

East Asia ◽

Pediatric Patients ◽

Severe Disease ◽

Tertiary Care ◽

Immunization Coverage ◽

South East Asia ◽

Immunization Status ◽

Tertiary Care Hospitals ◽

Total Coverage

To determine the immunization status of pediatric patients under age of 5 years visiting pediatric department of tertiary care hospitals in South East Asia. The aim of this study was to appreciate the awareness and implementation of vaccination in pediatric patients who came into pediatric outpatient Department with presenting complain other than routine vaccination. we can also know the count of patients who do not complete their vaccination after birth. we can differentiate between vaccinated and unvaccinated patients and incidence of severe disease in both groups. Immunization is a protective process which makes a person resistant to the harmful diseases prevailing in the community, typically by vaccine administration either orally or intravenously. It is proven for controlling and eliminating many threatening diseases from the community. WHO report that licensed vaccines are available for the prevention of many infectious diseases. After the implementation of effective immunization the rate of many infectious diseases have declined in many countries of the world. South-East Asia is far behind in the immunization coverage. An estimated total coverage is 56%-88% for a fully immunized child, which is variable between countries. Also the coverage is highest for BCG and lowest for Polio.

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Maidstone's woodpecker – an unexpected bird specimen in the herbarium of Sir Hans Sloane

Archives of Natural History ◽

10.3366/anh.2014.0244 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 41 (2) ◽

pp. 230-239 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Charles E. Jarvis ◽

Joanne H. Cooper

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

East Asia ◽

East India Company ◽

South East Asia

It had long been believed that none of the bird, egg or nest specimens that had been in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane at his death in 1753 had survived. However, a specimen of a rhinoceros hornbill, originally in Sloane's hands, was discovered in the Natural History Museum's collections in London in 2003, and three more Sloane hornbill specimens have subsequently come to light. In addition, we report here a most unexpected discovery, that of the head of a woodpecker among the pages of one of Sloane's bound volumes of pressed plants. The context suggests that the head, like its associated plant specimens, was probably collected in south-east Asia about 1698–1699 by Nathanael Maidstone, an East India Company trader, the material reaching Sloane via William Courten after the latter's death in 1702. A detailed description of the head is provided, along with observations on its identity and possible provenance.

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The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474407205.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

Subject Matter ◽

Documentary Film ◽

East Asian ◽

South East Asia ◽

Post Colonial ◽

Historical Perspectives ◽

The Third ◽

Wide Range ◽

Global Understanding

Writing from a wide range of historical perspectives, contributors to the anthology shed new light on historical, theoretical and empirical issues pertaining to the documentary film, in order to better comprehend the significant transformations of the form in colonial, late colonial and immediate post-colonial and postcolonial times in South and South-East Asia. In doing so, this anthology addresses an important gap in the global understanding of documentary discourses, practices, uses and styles. Based upon in-depth essays written by international authorities in the field and cutting-edge doctoral projects, this anthology is the first to encompass different periods, national contexts, subject matter and style in order to address important and also relatively little-known issues in colonial documentary film in the South and South-East Asian regions. This anthology is divided into three main thematic sections, each of which crosses national or geographical boundaries. The first section addresses issues of colonialism, late colonialism and independence. The second section looks at the use of the documentary film by missionaries and Christian evangelists, whilst the third explores the relation between documentary film, nationalism and representation.

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‘Staring into All Their Yellow Eyes’: Where the Wild Things Are, the 1960s, and the Vietnam War

International Research in Children s Literature ◽

10.3366/ircl.2017.0218 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 59-73

Author(s):

Michelle Ann Abate ◽

Sarah Bradford Fletcher

Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

Vietnam War ◽

Political Engagement ◽

Critical Assessment ◽

South East Asia ◽

Psychological Perspective ◽

Literary Representation ◽

Military Involvement ◽

The 1960S ◽

Alternative Reading

Since its release in 1963, Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are has been viewed from a psychological perspective as a literary representation of children's inner emotional struggles. This essay challenges that common critical assessment. We make a case that Sendak's classic picturebook was also influenced by the turbulent era of the 1960s in general and the nation's rapidly escalating military involvement in Vietnam in particular. Our alternative reading of Sendak's text reveals a variety of both visual and verbal elements that recall the conflict in South East Asia and considers the significance of the book's geo-political engagement.

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