After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan adopted an expansionist and colonial attitude towards its neighbours. It sought to identify itself with the West and looked down upon the Asian continent as backward and inferior. For most of the next 70 years, Japan was at...
The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe. — Arthur Erickson Tags: #Japan, #Europe, #Lightness, #ArthurErickson, #Canadian, #ArchitectMini who’s who: Arthur Erickson : Canadian Architect Born: June 14,...
When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And...
Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone. — Gro Harlem Brundtland Tags: #Today, #Japan, #Europe, #GroHarlemBrundtland, #Norwegian,...
China is a great manufacturing center, but it’s actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that comes from the surrounding industrial – more advanced industrial centers – Japan, Taiwan, South Korea,...
