41. Human security in Asia
(Panorama/Development)

... very frequent in export factories in China and elsewhere, even where workers are paid "above-poverty" wages.  Even in Japan, fully one-third of employees have "irregular" contacts, double that of a decade ...

42. Reassessing Asia's economic miracle
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... the previous century of internal conflict and colonization by Japan and European powers had also set the country back. The Japanese economy had been substantially destroyed through its losses in World ...

43. Human development in Asia
(Panorama/Development)

... just not the curious case of Cuba.  In Asia, Japan is ranked as having the region's highest level of human development, even though its income is lower than Hong Kong, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam, ...

44. Beating global poverty?
(Panorama/Development)

... to the effects of food, energy, financial and other crises, or natural disasters. While emerging Asia is leading the developing world in terms of poverty reduction, Japan is sharing the unfortunate trend ...

45. China: recent political developments
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

...  Naming BO Xilai as Party Secretary there was another boost. BO had been a successful mayor of Dalian in North-East China where he had pleased, inter alia, Japanese investors by cleaning the city and ...

46. Asian Century Hype
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... external invasions from Japan, Russia and Western countries.  And then there was civil war. China would thus find itself in 1950 with a GDP per capita little different from its levels both 1000 and 2000 ...

47. Urbanization in Asia -- 12 things to know in 2012
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

... seen before. These new configurations will take the form of mega-regions, urban corridors and city-regions. For example, it is estimated that Japan’s Tokyo Nagoya-Osaka-Kyoto-Kobe mega-region will have ...

48. Asia's services challenges
(Panorama/Change and innovation)

...  But what is striking in Asia is that although the region's leading economies of Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore all have dominant service sectors, Japan's service sector is not nearly as dynamic and competitive ...

49. Is Australia merely America's poodle in the Asia-Pacific?
(Panorama/Governing globalization)

... the US has been the key to maintaining peace and security in the Asia-Pacific through its alliances and relationships with Japan, Australia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan and so on.  China was ...

50. Will China overtake the US?
(Panorama/Globalization winners)

... income country is usually much easier than the next step of graduating to an advanced country.  Increasingly sophisticated governance and capabilities are required. Japan is an interesting case in point. ...

51. Tobias Harris's blog "Observing Japan"
(Web Links / Blogs)

52. Japan Institute of International Affairs
(Web Links / Civil society organisations)

53. Migration
(Category)

Deep down, we are all migrants from somewhere.  And most advanced OECD countries need more migrants.  Even Japan is opening up gradually to migration notably through an intern program.  International migration ...

54. Globalization winners
(Category)

What do the following 13 countries all have in common – Botswana, Brazil, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Malta, Oman, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand?  They all experienced annual ...