A violent storm that develops over the Pacific Ocean.
What is a typhoon?
100
The spreading of ideas or practices from one culture to other cultures.
What is cultural diffusion?
100
The leader of the Chinese Communist party in 1949.
Who is Mao Zedong?
100
In the early 1990s, Japan experienced this period of time when their economy began to shrink.
What is a recession?
100
The area that separates North and South Korea in which no weapons are allowed.
What is the DMZ (demilitarized zone)?
200
The largest country in East Asia?
What is China?
200
The most ethnically diverse country in East Asia.
What is China?
200
Bands of radicals formed by students.
Who were the Red Guards?
200
This tradition helped explain why Japanese companies formed keiretsu.
What is the tradition of working together?
200
The economy of North Korea is based on this.
What is government ownership?
300
The difference between a developed country and a developing country.
What is a country with many industries and a well-developed economy (developed) and a country with low level industrial production (developing)?
300
The difference between homogeneous and heterogeneous cultures.
What are groups that are mostly similar or identical (homogeneous) and groups that are fairly diverse (heterogeneous)?
300
The difference between the Chinese and Taiwanese economies.
What is government-controlled factories, businesses, and farms in China and the free enterprise privately owned economy of Taiwan?
300
Three high-technology industries developed by Japan since the 1960s.
What are robots, watches, cameras, cars, electronic goods, skiing gear, bicycles, steel, ships, televisions, and CDs?
300
Two major challenges that face South Korea.
What are a lack of natural resources and the threat of North Korea?
400
Two farming techniques that East Asian farmers use to make up for a shortage of farmland.
What are double-cropping and terraces?
400
These "emperor's generals" made laws for most of Japan's early history.
What are shoguns?
400
The two most famous programs of Mao Zedong.
What were the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution?
400
The way the role of Japanese women has changed in the labor force following World War II.
What is that more women are working outside the home than staying at home?
400
Two reasons for North Korea's struggling economy.
What are a government run economy, a lack of new technology and ideas, poor farming methods, famine, and sanctions caused by their nuclear program?
500
The four main islands of Japan.
What are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu?
500
China was opened up this way.
What is by countries in Europe and Japan gaining control of different parts of China until 1899 when the U.S. announced they would be open for trade equally?
500
The four main areas of improvement in Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations.
What are farming, industry, science, and defense?
500
Two contributing factors to Japan's lack of labor.
What are a low birthrate and few immigrants?
500
A major benefit for each of the Koreas if they were to reunite.
What is more natural resources for South Korea and more industries and a technology for North Korea?