Driving a Bargain: Automobile Industrialization and Japanese Firms in Southeast Asia

1992 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 582
Author(s):  
Michael Smitka ◽  
Richard F. Doner
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Japanese Firms

scholarly journals Environmental Change, Protest, and Havens of Environmental Degradation: Evidence from Asia

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Hall
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Tree Planting ◽  
Tree Plantation ◽  
Japanese Firms ◽  
First Case ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Japanese Fdi ◽  
Japanese Companies ◽  
Pollution Havens

This paper explores the relevance for the debate on “pollution havens” of two cases from the international political economy of Japan-Southeast Asia relations. It begins by suggesting that the typical focus of the pollution havens literature is too narrow, and concentrates instead on the broader question of the extent to which the environmental transformations associated with particular sectors influence their international siting patterns. The first case—the changes in Japanese FDI to Asia in the 1970s—demonstrates that Japanese firms and the Japanese state consciously attempted to relocate highly-polluting industry in order to escape anti-pollution protest in Japan. The second case—the effort to create in Asia and the Pacific an export-oriented industrial tree plantation (ITP) sector supplying regional pulp and paper markets—shows, somewhat counterintuitively, that political contestation related to the environmental problems caused by ITPs has encouraged Japanese companies to concentrate their tree planting activity not in Southeast Asia but in Australia.

On The Possibility of an Autonomous History of Modern Southeast Asia

1961 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. W. Small
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

It is generally accepted that history is an element of culture and the historian a member of society, thus, in Croce's aphorism, that the only true history is contemporary history. It follows from this that when there occur great changes in the contemporary scene, there must also be great changes in historiography, that the vision not merely of the present but also of the past must change.

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