Sociology
SociologyBy: Joey Buttafuco
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The five countries examined are Japan Taiwan Korea Singapore Through his study the author demonstrates that there was no miracle They applied specific strategies that were adapted to their local Some of these strategies worked some didntThe author says that by examining these nations one may be able The book is divided into three partsPlaces the author tells where these countries started fromThe people of these countries had different outlooks on the world thus different behavioral tendenciesPart I is divided into five chapters each examining a countriesWoronoff begins Chapter 1 Japans Two Miracles by discussing Japans In 1853 when Commodore Perry opened Japans ports to foreigners It was not very evolved nor very modernAgriculture was good but not enough for the growing populationJapan wanted to learn from the WestJapan sent many students to Europe and the United StatesThese zaibatsu dominated industry and commerceThey manipulated politics to suit their own needsJapan soon began concentrating own building a War MachineJapanese War the country went into a recessionBut after the First World War Imperial Japan began growing up The war left Japan resouceless and heavily overpopulatedThe victorious Allies gave or rather imposed democratization The United States provided much financial supportJapans economy then began growing very fastThe Japanese protected themselves by implementing quotas and Companies such as Sony Honda and YKK improved production methodsBusinessmen and bureaucrats worked togetherKeiretsu was a sort of lateral conglomeration of banks and companies The author concluded that the 1980s Japans economy had surpassed those of France and Britain and rivaled the United States economyThe Japanese could now purchase many luxury consumer goods but Their obsession with production as their prewar obsession with Lack of urban planning has led to urban congestion with subsufficient Their economic success came at the cost of living conditions The author begins Chapter 2 Taiwan Industrial Island with a brief Taiwan the island of Formosa was once a Dutch trading centerThen it became a part of the Chinese province of Fukien in 1683With this Chinese began immigratingThe Japanese realized the agricultural potential of the islandThey built roads railways and harborsAfter the Second World War the islands economy which had been based on exporting food and raw material to Japan was now greatly In 1949 when the Kumintang moved to the island so came over one million refugees fleeing from the communist mainlandThe first priority of the new Republic of China was its militaryin 1953 in the form of the Mutual Security TreatyTaiwan attempted many things to help its economyThese implementations made matters worseThe Nineteen Point Program of Economic and Financial Reform enabled local businessmen to act more efficiently and purposelyDespite many factors against it the Republic of China has been able to steadily grow economically and is likely to continue Made Miracle the author explores the history of KoreaKorea has long had a history of Chinese dominationBut as China became more an more under western spheres of influence Korea began to be dominated by Russia and JapanJapan used Korea...
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