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Vol.1, No.1, 2011/2012

Int er na tio na l J o u rna l o f E a st A sia n St u d ie s

International Journal of East Asian Studies Vol.1, No.1, 2011/2012

Contents

Revisiting Japanese Food Consumption Patterns 1

Abdullah Alias, Hajime Kobayashi, Ichizen Matsumura, Hassan Maizom, Zakaria Mustafa, Md Nasrudin Md Akhir, Rohayati Paidi,

Asmadi Hassan and Mohd Ikbal Mohd Huda

Japanese Halal Food Production in Malaysia: A Prospective Survey 25 Md Nasrudin Md Akhir, Yuka Ishii, Rohayati Paidi, Asmadi Hassan,

Mohd Ikbal Mohd Huda, Siti Rohaini Kassim, Azmi Mat Akhir

Environmental Security and Sustainability: Kita-Kyushu 37 Eco-Town Project as a Case Study

Syeda Naushin Parnini

Non Performing Loans Management in Japan during Baburu 53 Keizai, 1989-2001

Wong Mei Hui, Abdullah Alias and Zakaria Mustafa

Can North Korea Be Trusted to be Serious about 81

Returning to the Six Party Talks?

Erwin Tan

Policy Responses to the Asian Currency 97

Crisis: The Cases of Malaysia and South Korea Tan Soo Kee

The Security of the Korean Peninsula and 20 years of Diplomatic 115 Relations between South Korea and Russia

Park Chang Kyoo

The Visualization of the Chinese Economy 133

from A Multi-dimensional Perspective: 1979-2009 Mario Arturo Ruiz Estrada and Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh

China’s Shadow Over India’s Myanmar Policy 139

Rabindra Sen

Sino-Indian Relations: Implications for East Asia 159 Sudhir Kumar Singh

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International Journal of East Asian Studies Vol. 1, Number 1, December, 2011

Editorial Board

Managing Editor Geetha Govindasamy

Department Editors Alias Abdullah Asmadi Hassan Isa Ma Ziliang Md Nasrudin Md Akhir

Park Chang Kyoo Rohayati Paidi

Tan Soo Kee Zakaria Mustafa

Editorial Advisory Committee

Beatrix Mecsi, Elte University, Hungary Fang Xiu Yu, Fudan University, China Kato Tsuyoshi, Ryukoku University, Japan

Kim Seung Jin, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea Ko Suknam, Gyeongsang National University, Korea

Mako Yoshimura, Hosei University, Japan

Contributors

Abdullah Alias is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of East Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Administration at University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Asmadi Hassan is a Lecturer at the Department of East Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Azmi Mat Akhir is the Deputy Director of the Asia Europe Institute at University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Emile Kok-KhengYeoh is the Director of the Institute of China Studies at University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Hajime Kobayashi is a Professor at the United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tottori University, Japan.

Hassan Maizom is a Senior Fellow Researcher at the Institute of Biology System, National University of Malaysia.

Ichizen Matsumura is a Associate Professor at the United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tottori University, Japan.

Mohd Ikbal Mohd Huda is a Tutor at the Department of East Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Md Nasrudin Md Akhir is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Asia Europe Institute at University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Park Chang Kyoo is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Department of East Asian Studies at University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Rabindra Sen is a Professor and Coordinator of the Centre of Advanced Study (CAS) Programme, Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University,Kolkata, India.

Rohayati Paidi is a Fellow and a Doctoral Candidate at the Department of East Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Siti Rohaini Kassim is the Deputy Director of the Asia Europe Institute at University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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Sudhir Kumar Singh is a Professor at the Department of Political Science in Dyal Singh College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.

Tan Soo Kee is a Lecturer, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Malaya and Doctoral Candidate in International Studies at the Seoul National University, Korea.

Wong Mei Hui is a postgraduate student at the Department of East Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Yuka Ishii is a Japan Foundation Visiting Professor at the Department of East Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Zakaria Mustafa is the Head of Department of East Asian Studies, faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.

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Style

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Manuscripts will be reviewed by the Editorial Board and then a panel of referees. Comments will be made available to the contributors without disclosing the referees' names The manuscript will be evaluated based on its appropriateness, contribution to the discipline, cogency of analysis, conceptual breadth, clarity of presentation, and technical adequacy. To ensure that manuscripts are evaluated solely on their merit, the author's identity is concealed from referees during the review process.

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Abstract

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Information on Referencing

The Chicago Manual of Style is to be followed. Please use footnotes not endnotes. If footnotes

are not used then provide a list of references.

For periodicals and dailies- Include full author name and title. Give volume number, issue number and date, per publication’s numbering and dating system:

Larry M. Cosen, “Measuring the European Conventional Balance: Coping with Complexity in Threat Assessment,” Asia Pacific, Vol. 11, No. 8, Winter 1984/85, pp. 74.

Selig S. Harrison, “A Breakthrough in Afghanistan?” New Policy, No. 51, Summer 1983, pp. 23.

Gerard C. Cook, “Time is Running Out,” Asiaweek, 31 January, 1980, pp.9.

For books- Include author’s full name and provide full page number:

John J. Mearsheimer, Conventional Deterrence, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1963, pp. 163-164.

For article or chapter in edited volume-Use book’s full title and subtitle:

Edward N. Luttwak, ‘The Operational Level of War,’ in Steven E. Miller, ed., Conventional Forces and American Defense Policy: An International Security Reader, Princeton, N.J.:

Princeton University Press, 1966, pp. 211-229.

For translated and edited version:-Luis Albertini, The Origins of the War of 1914, 3 vols., trans.

And ed., Isabella M. Massey, London: Oxford University Press, 1992, p. 171.

For unpublished paper or dissertation:-Alexander L. George, ‘Case Studies and Theory

Development’, paper presented at the Second Annual Symposium on Information Processing in Organizations, Carnegie-Mellon University, 15-16 October, 1962, pp. 2.

Stephen W. Van Evera, ‘Causes of War’, PH.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1974, pp. 1.

For citations after the first full citation, Ibid., can be used but not op. cit.; instead, use the author’s name and a short form of the title, in the following format:

1. Albert Finkle, War of 1914, pp. 180, p.183.

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Disclaimer

Although the Department of East Asian Studies is the publisher of the International Journal of East Asian Studies, the views presented in the Journal are entirely those of the contributors and do not reflect the official stand of the department. The department does not hold itself responsible for the accuracy of any article published.

For further information, please contact Dr.Geetha Govindasamy at geethag@um.edu.my