Environment
The #1 environmental problem in East Asia.
What is Air and Water Pollution?
What is superconurbation?
The writing system in this region
The self-governing island that China’s ruling Communist Party claims as its territory.
What is Taiwan?
The name of China's current large economic/globalization effort?
What is the One Belt One Road Initiative?
The #2 environmental problem in East Asia?
What is seismically active region (earthquakes and tsunamis)?
The major area of urban concentration between Tokyo and Osaka.
What is the Tokaido region?
The major religion in Japan
The proportion of the Uyghurs in China who have been sent to "re-education" camps.
What is 10%?
The name of the two economic disasters China experienced in the 50s and 60s.
What are The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution?
The main cause of poor air quality in China?
What is reliance on coal for energy (associated with lax environmental regulations)?
The geographic areas of China and Japan that have the highest population density.
What are the lowlands?
The predominant spoken language in China
What is Mandarin Chinese?
The name of the Chinese province which was for a short while the First East Turkestan Republic.
What is Xianjiang?
The proportion of Japanese women who leave the workforce for at least a decade after having a child.
What is 70%?
The act or practice of making a product, policy, activity, etc. appear to be more environmentally friendly or less environmentally damaging than it really is.
What is greenwashing?
The TFR in South Korea.
What is <1 (0.89)?
The two unifying characteristics in the region from a cultural standpoint.
What are ideographic writing and Confucian legacy?
What is decide to not reincarnate?
What enabled the "economic miracle" Japan experienced in the 1960-1980s?
What is just-in-time manufacturing?
The three causes of the #1 environmental problem in East Asia?
What are:
- large population
- massive industrial development
- physical geography
The number of children a couple is legally allowed to have in China in 2020.
What is two (2)?
Confucianism stresses the importance of obedience to _________, social _________, and ___________ attainment.
What is obedience to authority, social order, and educational attainment?
The two "Special Administration Regions" in China.
What are Hong Kong and Macau?
The Chinese economic surge has resulted in growing _________ and _________ differentiation.
What is social and regional differentiation?