East Asia Pacific Rim Ningxia Three Gorges Dam

East Asia

Pacific Rim

Ningxia

Three Gorges Dam layout

Three Gorges Dam construction

Three Gorges Dam site

Huang He (Yellow) River

Loess plateau terraces

Loess plateau School in loess cave

Eroding cliffs around tableland, loess plateau

Gullying, loess plateau

North China Plain – Flooding along Yellow River

Animal body parts for medicines in China Deer antlers Rhino horns Tiger penises

Sequential View Map, Japan

Ainu

Minimata Disease

Minamata Museum

Hirohito's Surrender Broadcast, 15 August, 1945 “We have resolved to pave the way for a grand peace for all the generations to come by enduring the unendurable and suffering what is insufferable…. ”

Mac. Arthur with Hirohito in Japan Hirohito ruled Japan from 1926 -1989

Yukio Mishima ". . . and I found that any opposite extremes, . . . aboslute and relative subject and object mind and body life and death. . at last meet each other.

Mt. Fuji

The Kanto Plain

Tokyo-Yokohama

Tokyo

“Lost in Translation”

Manchu Dynasty 1644 -1911

Confucius (551 -479 B. C. )

Chinese civil war 1926 -1949 Chiang Kai. Shek (Kuomintang [nationalist] leader Mao Tse-Tung (Communist leader)

Kanban • • • In the manufacturing kanban system, a machine shop supplies components to final assembly. Assembly is a manual operation with little setup and produces in lot sizes of one, to customer requirements. Machining is more automated and has significant setup costs. A small quantity of each part is maintained at machining. By observing the quantities, the machinists know what products need to be made.

Chiang Kai-Shek memorial, Taipei

Taipei

Mao’s Cultural Revolution 1966 -76 A Cultural Revolution poster from China, inscribed with the characters, "We must learn from our highest director, We must carry out that faithfully, and truthfully and courageously. "

Tiananmen Square 1989

Tiananmen Square

Shanghai

Hong Kong Pearl River Delta Hong Kong Island

Hong Kong

Feng shui, Hong Kong

Chinese ideographs

General Douglas Mac. Arthur statue in Inchon, South Korea

Korea DMZ

DMZ

The world’s highest flag tower on the North Korean side of the DMZ in Panmunjeon village.

Kim Jong-Il

North Korean nukes?

North and South Korea at night Seoul Tokyo

Seoul

Pyongyang

Hang’ul alphabet

Korean foods Dol sot be bim bop Kim chee Bulgogi with side dishes

Pusan

Pusan

Kanji

Hiragana

Katakana