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AbstractAlready leading the world in the development of consumer electronics, South Korea and Japan have been leading innovators in the creation of digital content economies. Both governments recognized both the commercial potential and the employment possibilities associated with the digital content industry. The sector, however, did not fit easily with existing industrial and technological models of economic development, particularly due to the small size of digital firms, the youth culture orientation of most products and services, and the antiestablishment ethos of the creative industries generally. In Japan, digital content firms created a robust domestic market but struggled to get international market share. Government policy, therefore, has focused on building international interest in digital products. Although South Korea has enjoyed considerable success through their K‐pop cultural exports, it has really capitalized on the country's highly successful online gaming industry. South Korean policy initiatives emphasize public promotion of Korean digital content with sizeable investments in creator and incubator spaces for start‐up firms. Together with initiatives in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, the Japanese and South Korean efforts demonstrate how Asian countries have sought to integrate the digital content sector into their national innovation strategies and to jump‐start a promising and potentially valuable economic sector.

As the host for the United Nations conference that resulted in the Kyoto Protocol, Japan has been intricately linked to the global climate change agenda. Once known for the high levels of industrial pollution in the country, Japan has opted in recent years to position itself as a world leader in environmental sustainability. The result has been an aggressive set of policies on recycling, environmental protection, new technologies, and on a concerted effort to combine environmental initiatives with the creation of new export industries aimed at delivering made-in-Japan solutions to the global marketplace. (Asian Perspect/GIGA)

Intro -- Digital Media in East Asia -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Digital Media Defined -- 2. East Asian Digital Media and National Innovation Systems -- 3. Digital Innovation -- 4. Infrastructure and the Asian Internet -- 5. Digital Media Showcase Places, Programs, and Plans -- 6. Digital Content in East Asia -- 7. Digital East Asia -- Bibliography.

1. Pioneers of globalization : Tokugawa's cross-cultural communications / Jay Goulding -- 2. Mind the gap : Japanese corporate web sites and the missing war years / Jeffrey W. Alexander -- 3. 'Kids these days.' : globalization and the shifting discourse of childhood in Japan / Dawn Grimes-Maclellan -- 4. Restructuring and returns in Japan 2000-2001 / Dick Beason. [et al.] -- 5. An overview of corporate governance reform in post-bubble Japan : institutional change and selective adaptation / Masao Nakamura -- 6. Competing in the new global economy : exploring the roots of Japanese scientific and technological innovation / Ken Coates and Carin Holroyd -- 7. Soft power and the globalization of Japanese popular culture / William M. Tsutsui -- 8. Wakon-Yosai [Japanese characters] and globalization / Norio Ota -- 9. Caught in a 'restless dream' : contemporary Japanese women writers and the era of globalization / Janice Brown -- 10. Japan and the Cold War frontiers in East Asia in the era of globalism / Kimie Hara -- 11. National mobilization and global engagement : understanding Japan's response to global climate change initiatives / Carin Holroyd.

The multiple and diverse forces of globalization have, indeed, affected Japan significantly over the past decades. But so, it must be said, has Japan influenced a variety of critical global developments - globalization is not a one-way street, particularly for a nation as economically influential and technologically advanced as Japan. The chapters in this collection examine the impact of globalization on Japan and the impact of Japan on the forces of globalization from the various disciplinary perspectives of business, the economy, politics, technology, culture and society. They also explain the manner in which the nation has responded to the economic and cultural liberalization that has been such a profound force for change around the globe. This comprehensive collected works brings the latest research to bear on this important subject and provides evidence of the long history of global influences on Japan - and Japanese impacts on the rest of the world. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of globalization, Japanese Studies, and Asian Studies.

1. Introduction: The Circumpolar Dimensions of the Governance of the Arctic -- Part I: Indigenous Peoples and Arctic Social Dynamics -- 2. Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic: Re-taking Control of the Far North -- 3. Indigenous Internationalism in the Arctic -- 4. Demographic Changes in the Arctic -- 5. State Expansion and Indigenous Response in the Arctic - A Globally Integrated Northern Borderland Emerges from the Historical Synthesis of Northern Frontier and Northern Homeland -- 6. The Economy of the Arctic -- 7. Extractive Energy and Arctic Communities -- 8. Innovation, New Technologies, and the Future of the Circumpolar North -- 9. Arctic Advanced Education and Research -- 10. Circumpolar Business Development – The Paradox of Governance? -- 11. Multinational Corporations in the Arctic: From Colonial-era Chartered Companies to Contemporary Co-management and Collaborative Governance -- 12. The Future of Work in the Arctic -- Part III Policies of Arctic Nations -- 13. Russia's Arctic Regions and Policies -- 14. Government, Policies, and Priorities in Kalaalit Nunaat (Greenland): Roads to Independence -- 15. Arctic Policy of the United States: An Historical Survey -- 16. Iceland as an Arctic State -- 17. Svalbard: International Relations in an Exceptionally International Territory. 18. Europe's North: The Arctic Policies of Sweden, Norway, and Finland -- Part IV: The Arctic and International Relations -- 19. The Arctic in International Affairs -- 20. East Asia (Japan, South Korea, and China) and the Arctic -- 21. The History of USA-Russia Relations in the Bering Strait -- 22. Canada and Russia in an Evolving Circumpolar Arctic -- Part V: Arctic Legal and Institutional Systems -- 23. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the Arctic Ocean -- 24. Arctic Policy Developments and Maritime Transportation -- 25. Emergence of a New Ocean: How to React to Massive Change? -- 26. International Indigenous Rights Law and Contextualized Decolonization of the Arctic -- 27. The Future of the Arctic Council -- Part VI: Arctic Security -- 28. The Evolving North American Security Context: Can Security Be Traditional? -- 29. The Arctic and Geopolitics -- 30. The Militarization of the Arctic to the 1990 -- 31. Arctic Climate Change: Local Impacts, Global Consequences, and Policy Implications -- Part VII: Reflections on Future of the Arctic -- 32. The Future of the Arctic: Policy Prospects for the Twenty-First Century -- 33. Dotting the Ice