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96 Cards in this Set
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Critical of Japans work style and its ramifications on japanese lifestyle
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Revisionist
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Familistic grouping of unlike firms under umbrella of a single bank or trading company Post WWII
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Keiretsu
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elaborate process of employee involvement in production; bottom to top
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J-mode
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uses economies of scale to provide R and D for new firms and facilitates closeouts of firms going out of business
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Rationilization Cartel, Depression Cartel
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operates fiscal policy, collects revenues, makes expenditures, tax laws all to stimulate new products and tech
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Ministry of Finance
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Buys stock in corporations, makes loans to corporations
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Giant commercial Banks
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extends long term loans at subsidized interest to basic domestic industries
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Japan Development Bank
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most powerful government agency in japan Guides Industry
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Ministry of International trade and industry MITI
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primary household savings institution
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Postal Service
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revisionists criticize its workers as robots in rabbit hitches
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Japan
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educated males in large companies enjoy early retirement and generous pensions
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Japan
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Practices socialism
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Iran
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gov owns little infrastructure, provides few transfers, only a minimal safety net, and makes little attempt to redistribute incomes.
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Japan
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citizens gain suffrage at 18 previously 15
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Iran
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Highest standard of living if gauged by longevity and education
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Japan
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nationalized industries in the early 1980's
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Iran
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occupied by USSR and Britain in WWII to protect oil
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Iran
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fastest growing post WWII economy to 1990's
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Japan
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council of guardians manage elections resulting in higher conservatism
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Iran
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practices conflict/liberal corporatism
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Sweden
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economic IRON triangle
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Japan
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corporatism/codeterminism both labor and management at the table
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Both sweden and Japan
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fastest growing economy from 1870 to 1950
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Sweden
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practices industrial corporatism
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Japan
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infamous for bubble economy
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Japan
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inidicative planning state directed capitalism
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Japan
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social market economy
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sweden
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increasing dependency ratio
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japan
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discriminates against indigenous populations
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both japan and sweden
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protects domestic industries through bureaucratic red tape rather than quotas and tariffs. Accused of dumping inexpensive products into US
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Japan
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practiced relative backwardness to its advantage post WWII sometimes called imitator rather than innovator
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Japan
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women enjoy the highest standard of living
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sweden
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practiced weak monetary policy. used faulty bank practices during 1990s generous loans at low rates
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Japan
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In EU not EMU
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Sweden
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falling exports and embargo by US
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Iran
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practiced relative backwardness to its advantage post WWII sometimes called imitator rather than innovator
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Japan
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women enjoy the highest standard of living
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sweden
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practiced weak monetary policy. used faulty bank practices during 1990s generous loans at low rates
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Japan
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In EU not EMU
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Sweden
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falling exports and embargo by US
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Iran
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first chief of state of ROC
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Chiang Kai-Shek
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PRC's chief of state after Deng Xiaoping
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Jiang Zemin
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last constitutional President of China
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Chiang Kai-Shek
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pursued egalitarianism and self sufficiency
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Mao Zedong
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led GPCR great proletarian cultural revolution
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Mao Zedong
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supported Stalinism
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Mao Zedong
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vilified gov assistance and glorified wealth accumulation
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Deng Xaioping
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first chief of state of PRC
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Mao Zedong
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one of our WWII allies
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Chinag Kai-Shek
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great leap forward failed
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Mao Zedong
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aimed to destroy traditional culture and social values to create sameness
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GPCR
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resembled stalins and Kims communes and collectives
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GLF great leap forward
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upper echelon selects president
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CCP chinese communist party
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former communes converted to rural industrial enterprises owned by local gov and sold finished output in markets
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TVE town and village enterprises
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significant water and air pollution
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china
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US would like its currency Yuan, to rise in value
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PRC
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wants to absorb Taiwan "one country two systems"
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PRC
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not a current Asian Tiger
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PRC and India
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savings rate fell with intro of credit cards
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ROK
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one of the worlds most laissez faire economies after 1997
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HK
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CEA includes PRC ROC HK but not ROK
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True
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asian tigers are said to be within the sinosphere
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True
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controlled by japan from 1895-1945
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ROC
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first person to use term Iron Curtain
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Winston Churchill
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President=HU Jintao
Premeir=Wen Jibao CCP Beijing |
PRC
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Chancellor=Angela Merkel
President=Christian Wulff Christian Democrats Berlin |
Germany
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Supreme Leader=Khamenei
President= Ahmadinejad Islamic Society of Engineers Tehran |
Iran
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PM= Naoto KAN
Democratic party which is more Conservative of two in Japan Tokyo |
Japan
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General Secretary= Kim Jong-ll
Workers party of Korea Pyongyang |
DPRK
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President= Lee Myung-bak
PM= Kim Hwang-sik Seoul |
ROK
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PM= Frederick Reinfeldt
moderate Stockholm Parliament= Riksdag |
Sweden
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President= Ma Jing-jeon
Kuomintang Taipei |
ROC
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President= Hugo Chavez
United Socialist Party of Venezuela Caracas |
Venezuela
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Canada, france, germany, italy, japan, russia, UK, and US
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Group of Eight G8
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supported absolute power of the authoritarian state
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Legalism
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opposed commerce, industrialization, and relations with the outside world. Wanted foreign barbarians to kowtow and pay tribute.
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Taoism
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Written by Confucius
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Analects
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Also called Quotations of Chairman Mao
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the 'Little Red Book'
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Written by Lao-tzu
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Tao Te Ching (two philosophies)
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Forced all landlords to sell to tenants in exchange for gov bonds, practiced in ROC
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land to tiller program
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policy shift which resulted in growth in agriculture and industry
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Period of Adjustment
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Agriculture, industry, science and technology, and national defense
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Four Modernizations
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exited to Taiwan when Mao Zedong came to power on the mainland. This became the Nationalist party of the ROC
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Guomindang (KMT, Kuomindang)
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resulted in deceleration of industrial output growth and a catastrophe in agriculture
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Great Leap Forward
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China is currently experiencing...
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significant water and air pollution
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Annexed by Japan in 1895
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Formosa
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It would like to absorb Taiwan, it promises "one country, two systems"
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PRC
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Economy whose 20th century history most closely resembles South Korea
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ROC
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Established in 1949
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Both PRC and ROC
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Dengism rejects the devices of capitalism and calls for a return to Stalism
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False
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ROC practices a directed form of capitalism and Japan practices a guided form of capitalism
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False
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subdivision of the FDJ free german youth
ages 6-14 in east germany |
young pioneers
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east germany
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German Democratic Republic
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west germany
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Federal Republic of Germany
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official youth movement of the GDR
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FDJ free german youth
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political party associated with the FDJ, successor to the KPD
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SED Socialist Unity Party of Germany
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