Modern Japanese Affairs: A Comparative Study of China, Japan, and Korea Modern Japanese Affairs

Author: Song Xiye
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: At the beginning of the Year of the Rooster, with the implementation of the wise measures by the central government to revitalize the old industrial base in Northeast China, the region has been swept by a high tide of economic construction. Correspondingly, foreign language education in Northeast China has also entered a new stage. Cultivating applied and interdisciplinary foreign language talents for the construction of the motherland is currently an urgent task in foreign language teaching. This textbook, Modern Japanese Affairs in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, is one of the main textbooks for the Japanese-Korean bilingual program, jointly created by authors from China, Japan, and South Korea. The Chinese author team is composed of teachers from the College of Japanese Language and Culture at Dalian University, while the Japanese expert is Mr. Tada Satsuko, and the South Korean author is Dr. Choi Gwangjun, a Ph.D. in classical literature from Japan University and a professor at the University of New Rohan in South Korea. The main features of this book are: 1. It is the first textbook in China to introduce an overview of Japan in a trilingual format (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). 2. The content is up-to-date, comprehensive, and concise. It covers a wide range of topics, from history, geography, politics, and economics to science, culture, diet, daily life, sports, and arts, making it highly practical. It can not only serve as a textbook for studying Japanese affairs but also as an excellent resource for students from China, Japan, and South Korea to learn the languages of the other two countries.