A History of the World From the 20th to the 21st Century

proved so strong, with widespread demonstra- tions against it, that Washington agreed to revise it in 1960. The changes were cos ...

The inner workings of a society are often obscured by outward appearances. This is cer- tainly true of Japan. Its early industri ...

exports of ships, textiles, cars and electronic goods during the 1960s. The effects of this expansion percolated far beyond the ...

The Yoshida faction and followers dominated Japanese politics from 1946 through to the 1980s. A rival was Hatoyama, who had earl ...

was a turbulent time in internal LDP politics, and from 1978 to 1982 further tame successors were found. In November 1982 the LD ...

leader of the LDP; he pulled the party together and promised to rid it of corrupt politicians. It was enough. In 1990 the LDP wa ...

much frustration and crime. In the early 1990s growth stalled, industrial and banking profits plunged. The last decade of the tw ...

cessive LDP governments and the uninspiring choice of leaders by a cabal of powerful elders behind the scenes. Hasimoto admitted ...

number of nuclear bombs, heightened the tension in the new millennium. In the face of the threat Japan has not sought to shelter ...

expired in 1997, and the prosperous colony of Hong Kong rejoined the rest of China. Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government ...

US fleet, which was offered facilities in Singapore after the Americans lost their Philippine bases. In 1990, unlike other south ...

South Korea’s first president, Syngman Rhee, lasted until 1960. By then the old autocrat had lost his grip and was forced to bow ...

INDIAN OCEAN SOUTH KOREA NORTH KOREA COMMONWEATH OF INDEPENDENT STATES (former USSR) AFGHANISTAN CHINA JAPAN TIBET BANGLADESH LA ...

By 1994 North Korea’s nuclear programme had raised fears and tensions between North and South and the South’s ally, the US, to n ...

brought before the courts. General Chun Doo Hwan was accused of instigating the 1979 mili- tary coup and the 1980 massacre in th ...

The December 2002 presidential elections were won by the more progressive Roh Moo-hyn who beat a conservative candidate. The iss ...

Of the inhabited continents of the world, Australasia is the least developed and the most empty of people. The Aborigines had be ...

Australian volunteer divisions fought side by side with the British in Europe and the Middle East. These were distant wars in de ...

pale northern Europeans proved insufficient, the government encouraged, at first discreetly, immi- gration from the Mediterranea ...

ment, businessmen and technologists are welcome in Australia. Australians can no longer look to Britain to safeguard its securit ...