Globalization and Regional Dynamics

1. Front Matter

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2. International Competition, Globalization and Mechanisms of the Expanding Crisis. Is the Simultaneity of the Crises in Japan and Korea a Coincidence?

   • Hisashi Watanabe

   Pages 1-17

3. The Asian Crisis: Its Causes, Course and Spread, and Stabilizing Options, from a German Perspective

   • Willy Kraus

   Pages 19-41

4. The Strategies of the Japanese Government and Trade Associations

   • Michiteru Nagamine

   Pages 43-49

5. The US Dollar, the Euro, and the Yen: An Evaluation of Their Present and Future Status as International Currencies

   • Rainer Beckmann, Jürgen Born, Wim Kösters

   Pages 51-79

6. Effects of Globalization and Crisis upon Competitive and Cooperative Relationships in Asia: The Example of the Japanese and East Asian Electronics Industries

   • Sachio Imakubo

   Pages 81-107

7. Globalization and Crisis and Their Effects upon Japan and China — Judged by Assessing Their Regional Positioning and Foreign Mergers and Acquisitions

   • Wolfgang Klenner

   Pages 109-125

8. Effects of Globalization and of Regional and Business Adaptation upon Employment

   • Shuichi Yatsubayashi

   Pages 127-146

9. Effects of Globalization on Employment and Wealth

   • Christian Watrin

   Pages 147-165

10. Some Features of Japanese Direct Investment after the Second World War from the Perspective of East Asia

    • Johzen Takeuchi

    Pages 167-197

11. Financing Industrialization in Emerging Economies by Capital Inflows: A Matter of Regulation or Deregulation? Experiences from Asian Countries

    • Günter Heiduk, Nicole Pohl

    Pages 199-224

12. The Economic Trend of the Last Three Years in Japan

    • Takafusa Nakamura

    Pages 225-233

13. Effects of Globalization on National Financial Systems

    • Herbert Hax

    Pages 235-248

14. Arisawa Lecture: The Life and Work of Professor Hiromi Arisawa, with Special Reference to his Relationship to Germany

    • Takafusa Nakamura

    Pages 249-253

The wntmgs by Japanese and Gennan economists presented here originated against the backdrop of ongoing globalization processes and notable fluctuations in regional economic dynamics observable at the same time, primarily in the East and South East Asian area. They provided the occasion for these writers to come to tenns with globalization processes, and in particular with the stabilizing and destabilizing elements at work in them. This is the basis for their investigation of the options provided by economics and economic policy for stabilizing an ever more tightly interwoven world economy. The regional focal points of the contributions are the East Asian realm and the European Union, and the points of view are in every case both from the Japanese and the Gennan side. Questions of international competition and mechanisms of the spread of the crisis in the wake of globalization processes lie at the centre of the analyses by Hisashi Watanabe and Willy Kraus. Hisashi Watanabe focusses on the relationship, an especially important one from the Japanese perspective, between Japan and South Korea and takes up the problem of South Korea's demand that Japan should energetically promote its own transition to a service-sector-oriented society and withdraw from certain areas of manufacturing. This, it is argued, will grant Japan's Asian neighbours better chances for development and make a positive contribution to the economic stabilization of the region.

• Asia
• China
• EU
• East Asia
• East Asian Financial Crisis
• Economic Development
• European Union
• Globalization
• Japan
• Ostasiatische Finanzkrise

• Sektion Wirtschaft Ostasiens, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany

  Wolfgang Klenner

• Faculty of Economics, Tokyo Keizai University, Kokubunji-shi, Tokyo, Japan

  Hisashi Watanabe

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