Assignment Instructions/ Description
1. What are the three main influences on the Chinese Legal System today? How do they manifest themselves in the enforcement and interpretation of law and order? What is the "minority question" in China? How has the government been effective or ineffective at dealing with the issue?
2. Explain how you think the policy of exclusion (isolationism) helped or hurt Japan during the 18th and 19th centuries? Was it proper for a western power, the United States, to “open” Japan?
3. What are the impacts of Fukushima incident from an economical, political and environment stand point? How did Japan use the “export” model of growth to become a world economic superpower? What lessons, if any, were learned/adopted by others in Asia to copy Japan’s success? Is it a model that Western economies could copy? Could the US adopt some of the aspects successfully?
4. What is Japan Inc? Who are the players and its impact of Japanese political economy? In what did Japan discover they had "comparative advantage" in the global market place?
5. What do you feel is the most important legacy of the Korean War? Be specific. Is the current North Korean threat for real?
6. In your opinion, what are the prospects for peace and prosperity in East Asia?
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