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Book Japan   s Rise as a Regional and Global Power  2013 2023

Download or read book Japan s Rise as a Regional and Global Power 2013 2023 written by Gilbert Rozman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rozman and Glosserman follow a momentous decade in the transformation of Japanese foreign policy from 2013 to 2023 that unveils Japan in a new light as a leading power more closely aligned with the United States than ever before but with distinct aspirations. The book presents a comprehensive chronology, a broad sweep of relations with regional partners, and an unprecedented look at new relations with Europe. Zeroing in on the legacy of Abe Shinzo, it pays special attention to the leadership of Kishida Fumio in response to the Biden administration, the Ukraine war, the growing alarm about China, the swings in ties to South Korea, and the hopes to be a bridge with Southeast Asia and India. It is a vital read for students of international relations in the Indo-Pacific and of Japan and advanced undergraduate courses on Japanese foreign policy, Asian regional studies and comparative international.

Book Emerging Technologies in Business

Download or read book Emerging Technologies in Business written by Andrei O. J. Kwok and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Factory Directory in Thailand 2022 2023

Download or read book Factory Directory in Thailand 2022 2023 written by Comm Bangkok and published by COMM BANGKOK CO., LTD.. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "FACTORY DIRECTORY IN THAILAND 2022(pdf Book)" includes 6,000 of factories data, especially in industrial estates. - Company Name and Abbreviation - Factory Address, Tel, Fax, E-Mail, Website - Name of Key Executive - Establishment Year - Authorized Capital - Shareholders by Nationality - Main Shareholders - Number of Employees - BOI - Line of Business, Products - ISO Classified into 24 Business Categories - Petroleum, Mining, Energy - Foodstuff - Textile, Textile Goods - Wood, Wooden Product - Paper, Pulp - Chemical - Synthetic Resin, Plastic - Rubber, Rubber Goods - Leather, Fur - Ceramic, Glass - Iron, Non-Ferrous, Metal Goods - Machinery - Electric, Electronic Machinery - Transport Machinery - Measuring, Analytical Instrument - Optical Apparatus, Watch - Medical Instrument - Silverware, Jewelry, Accessory - Sundry Goods - Shoe - Transport, Warehouse - Printing, Book Binding - Real Estate, Construction, Interior - Protection of Environment, Waste

Book Business Groups and the Thailand Economy

Download or read book Business Groups and the Thailand Economy written by Natenapha Wailerdsak and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business Groups and the Thailand Economy examines the role of business groups, specifically state, local, and foreign capitals in the economic development of emerging economies and highlights why business groups are essential in helping a country break out of the middle-income trap. Wailerdsak reviews Thailand’s industrial and economic growth strategies through the local and international investors and explains why business groups are one of the key drivers of economic advancement and why they help to avoid the middle-income trap. The author also examines their business power expansion methods, including selection and specialization, political influence, mergers and acquisitions, outward FDI and business alliances. The book concludes with policy recommendations of how the government can engage business groups to accelerate high-tech industrialization and create jobs. The middle-income trap issue faced by Thailand would be of interest to many emerging economies, especially scholars and policymakers researching on Asian business and management, Asian economies, developmental economics, political economy, policy studies, corporate governance, entrepreneurship, and private company strategic management in emerging countries.

Book Southeast Asian Affairs 2024

Download or read book Southeast Asian Affairs 2024 written by Daljit Singh and published by ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Southeast Asian Affairs, first published in 1974, continues today to be required reading for not only scholars but the general public interested in in-depth analysis of critical cultural, economic and political issues in Southeast Asia. In this annual review of the region, renowned academics provide comprehensive and stimulating commentary that furthers understanding of not only the region’s dynamism but also of its tensions and conflicts. It is a must read.” – Suchit Bunbongkarn, Emeritus Professor, Chulalongkorn University “Now in its fifty-first edition, Southeast Asian Affairs offers an indispensable guide to this fascinating region. Lively, analytical, authoritative, and accessible, there is nothing comparable in quality or range to this series. It is a must read for academics, government officials, the business community, the media, and anybody with an interest in contemporary Southeast Asia. Drawing on its unparalleled network of researchers and commentators, ISEAS is to be congratulated for producing this major contribution to our understanding of this diverse and fast-changing region, to a consistently high standard and in a timely manner.” – Hal Hill, H.W. Arndt Professor Emeritus of Southeast Asian Economies, Australian National University

Book JAPANESE COMPANIES IN THAILAND 2022

Download or read book JAPANESE COMPANIES IN THAILAND 2022 written by COMM BANGKOK and published by COMM BANGKOK CO., LTD.. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "JAPANESE COMPANIES IN THAILAND 2022" includes the information of 6,106 Japanese companies in Bangkok, Pathumtani, Ayuthaya, Saraburi, Nakhon Ratchashima, Samutprakarn, Chonburi, Rayong, Prachinburi, Kabinburi, Lamphun and etc. - Company Name - Address - Tel - E-mail - Website - Business activities

Book Mobile Japanese Migrants to the Pacific West and East

Download or read book Mobile Japanese Migrants to the Pacific West and East written by Etsuko Kato and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores “self-searching migrants,” a new group of indefinitely globally mobile people whose purpose of overseas stay is the search of true self and the work they really want to do, using Japanese trans-Pacific sojourners as the case study. Utilizing testimonies collected from interviews with Japanese migrants in their twenties to forties who had entered the job market between the early 1990s and 2010 and left for the English-speaking countries of Canada, Australia, and Singapore, the book argues that their practices are both ubiquitous and unique, the products of global and local contexts of a specific time. As semiskilled migrants from an extra-Western, postindustrial country, their struggles show a different picture of the West-centric world power system from those experienced by migrant workers from the Global South. Including extensive qualitative research and interview material collected over a 20-year period, this book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Japanese culture and society, cultural anthropology, and migration.

Book Norm Diffusion Beyond the West

Download or read book Norm Diffusion Beyond the West written by Šárka Kolmašová and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores norm diffusion in non-Western contexts. It analyzes how norms transfer and what mechanisms or sources of leverage facilitate their diffusion. The individual chapters follow an interdisciplinary framework that analyzes social norms beyond the theoretical tradition of international relations, and focus on particular cases of diffusion—both successful and unsuccessful—across the non-Western world. In this way, the book challenges existing perspectives and advances critical norm research that diversifies the agency of norm entrepreneurs beyond processes of norm localization. It makes a twofold contribution—by deepening our theoretical understanding of norms and their dynamics and by broadening the geographical scope of norms research.

Book Empirical Research on Environmental Policies in China

Download or read book Empirical Research on Environmental Policies in China written by Kiyoshi Fujikawa and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-02-09 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an empirical study of the effects of environmental policies on China and its neighboring countries, with a focus on waste and climate policies in China. The two major carbon policies have to do with carbon markets and renewable energy. The authors first examine the effectiveness of the Asian carbon market. Because of the consumption of goods beyond provincial borders, nationwide carbon markets are rather difficult to operate; therefore, a desirable initial allocation in the carbon market is proposed in this book. As for renewable power, its sources have not been fully utilized owing to a regional mismatch of supply and demand, so optimal locations of renewable energy are shown. The book also contains an analysis of the environmental and economic impacts of changes in resource circulation in East Asia. Although motorization is advancing rapidly, the vein industry for recycling used cars has not progressed. The authors estimate the amount of materials from used cars including new energy vehicles (electric and fuel cell vehicles) and propose desirable policies for used vehicles. East Asia is interdependent with respect to carbon and waste as well as the economy. China has regulated the import of waste recently and has started recycling its own wastes, putting pressure on neigboring countries to recycle their waste domestically. The authors estimate the environmental and economic impacts of such policy changes.

Book Overseas Energy Investment of Korea and Japan

Download or read book Overseas Energy Investment of Korea and Japan written by Seong-ik Oh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the contraction of global energy supply brought on by geopolitical situation, this timely book addresses how resource-scarce developing countries respond to challenges in energy security. In particular, for countries underpinning efforts for an autonomous supply of energy, either oil/natural gas, nuclear power or renewable energy, this book revisits the evolution of overseas energy investment of two industrial giants in East Asia, Korea and Japan. It will provide meaningful lessons of how the state sets up policies and navigates political procedures for energy security. While a historical case study, it also offers its readers new insight into the international energy market by taking the stark déjà vu in its repetitive nature and putting it into context. The book provides an in-depth study highlighting the differences in political systems which led to contrasting outcomes. The one with a small number of veto players succeeded in establishing and expanding state-owned oil companies while producing policy inconsistency at the same time and vice versa. This comprehensive review of East Asian politics will add value to East Asian Studies by presenting a new approach through a universal theory rather than cultural uniqueness. As a readable case study on energy security, this book will be an essential reference for scholars, policymakers, industry insiders and citizens who are interested in how nations respond to historic challenges in a political and international context.

Book Japan and its Partners in the Indo Pacific

Download or read book Japan and its Partners in the Indo Pacific written by Srabani Roy Choudhury and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book studies the development of Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) vision. As strategic competition grows, the lessons from the pandemic, the deepening Sino-US rivalry, and the United States losing grip on the current world strategic environment all compel Japan to focus its attention on the Indo-Pacific region. The volume examines Japan's foreign policy through an analysis of its strategic agenda, economic calculations, maritime security concerns, and soft power policies. It looks at Japan’s relations with United States, Australia, India, Vietnam, Africa, South Korea, Indonesia, and the United States in the context of Japan’s bilateral and multilateral arrangements. An important contribution to the study of politics in the Indo-Pacific region, the book will be an indispensable resource for students and researchers of political science, international relations, foreign policy, geopolitics, security studies, strategic studies, as well as area studies – namely East and Southeast Asian studies and Indo-Pacific studies.

Book Foreign Direct Investments in Emerging Asia

Download or read book Foreign Direct Investments in Emerging Asia written by Paul CHEUNG and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign direct investments (FDI) play an integral role in the growth story of Emerging Asian economies. As an essential source of foreign capital, FDI bolsters the path to economic recovery from recessions, including the one caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This book is a collection of essays investigating the reconfiguration of FDI flows to the Emerging Asian economies of ASEAN, China and India following the pandemic and FDI policy reforms. This book broadly covers the trends in greenfield FDI flows to Emerging Asia in the context of three pertinent themes. Part I explores the rebalancing effects in global FDI flows after the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the experience of Emerging Asian economies. We also evaluate the nature of the pandemic’s impact on existing FDI linkages between China and ASEAN. Part II delves into the implications of a cross-border policy framework such as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). In particular, we examine ASEAN trade activity after China's investments through BRI. We further discuss the future of BRI in ASEAN economies amid the emergence of global competitors. Part III of the book zooms in on the effectiveness of domestic FDI policy reforms. We discuss the cases of Indonesia Special Economic Zones and the Make in India initiative. This book is written for scholars, policymakers and industrial practitioners who wish to gain more knowledge on the recent FDI dynamics of Emerging Asia.

Book FACTORY DIRECTORY IN THAILAND 2024

Download or read book FACTORY DIRECTORY IN THAILAND 2024 written by Comm Bangkok Co., Ltd. and published by COMM BANGKOK CO., LTD.. This book was released on 2023-10-11 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "FACTORY DIRECTORY IN THAILAND 2024(pdf Book)" includes 6,450 of factories data, especially in industrial estates. - Company Name and Abbreviation - Factory Address, Tel, Fax, E-Mail, Website - Name of Key Executive - Establishment Year - Authorized Capital - Shareholders by Nationality - Main Shareholders - Number of Employees - BOI - Line of Business, Products - ISO Classified into 24 Business Categories - Petroleum, Mining, Energy - Food, Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries - Textile, Textile Goods - Wood, Wooden Product - Paper, Pulp - Chemical - Synthetic Resin, Plastic - Rubber, Rubber Goods - Leather, Fur - Ceramic, Glass - Iron, Non-Ferrous, Metal Goods - Machinery, Factory Automation - Electric, Electronic Machinery - Transport Machinery - Measuring, Analytical Instrument - Optical Apparatus, Watch - Medical Instrument - Silverware, Jewelry, Accessory - Sundry Goods - Shoe - Transport, Warehouse - Printing, Book Binding - Real Estate, Construction, Interior - Protection of Environment, Waste

Book Economic Law Reforms in the ASEAN Emerging Economies

Download or read book Economic Law Reforms in the ASEAN Emerging Economies written by Terukazu Suruga and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews the periodic changes in the legal policies of the late-developing ASEAN countries, often known as the CLMV countries (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam), in their continuous path toward globalization after the collapse of the socialist bloc. The book also identifies the characteristics of the legal reforms in their present stage guided by the common framework under the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) moving toward 2025. The first stage is illustrated by the ASEAN-style utilization of foreign investments as reflected in all investment laws and policies of CLMV countries in the 1990s, which featured entry control (as “sticks”) and investment incentives (as “carrots”). Those controls and incentives were the means to induce investors to assume various performance requirements to contribute to industrial policies. The second stage witnessed a shift toward enhanced liberalization as an endeavor toward the WTO accession during the 2000s, as seen in the integrated investment laws that appealed for the national treatment of foreign investors. At the same time, those investment laws emphasized the substantive provisions (e.g., fair and equitable treatment and indirect expropriation) and procedural protections (e.g., provision of Investor–State Dispute Resolution mechanisms) as an appeal for stabilization of the investment climate. The third stage of legal policy, as evidenced by the recent amendments to the investment laws, is newly focused on environmental and social considerations, which seems to be an indispensable response to the increasing social protests against the negative impacts of investment promotion. Simultaneously, the means of administrative controls over investors, established in the first stage, are uniquely utilized for the realization of new goals.

Book The Korean Wave in a Post Pandemic World

Download or read book The Korean Wave in a Post Pandemic World written by Geon-Cheol Shin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Introducing Foreign Models for Development

Download or read book Introducing Foreign Models for Development written by Izumi Ohno and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book studies how foreign models of economic development can be effectively learned by and applied to today’s latecomer countries. Policy capacity and societal learning are increasingly stressed as pre-conditions for successful catch-up. However, how such learning should be initiated by individual societies with different features needs to be explained. The book answers this pragmatic question from the perspective of Japan’s past experience and its extensive development cooperation in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Since the late nineteenth century, Japan has developed a unique philosophy and method for adopting advanced technologies and systems from the West; the same philosophy and method govern its current cooperation with the developing world. The key concepts are local learning and translative adaptation. Local learning says that development requires the learner to adopt a proactive mindset and the goal of graduating from receiving aid. Meanwhile, translative adaptation requires foreign models be modified to fit local realities given the different structures of the home and foreign society. The development process must be wholly owned by the domestic society in rejection of copy-and-paste acceptance. These ideas not only informed Japan but are key to successful development for all. The book also asks how this learning method should—or should not—be revised in the age of SDGs and digitalization. Following the overview section that lays out the general principles, the book offers many real cases from Japan and other countries. The concrete actions outlined in these cases, with close attention to individual growth “ingredients” as opposed to general theories, are crucial to successful policy making. The book contains materials that are highly useful for national leaders and practitioners within developing countries as well as students of development studies.

Book Sustainable International Business

Download or read book Sustainable International Business written by Pratik Arte and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: