Tag: Japan (country, East Asia)*
-
Cambodia Water Facility
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M147 Creator: Anya Greenberg ’20 Data Science Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is a semi-governmental agency devoted to supporting socioeconomic development and economic recovery and stability in developing nations. In Cambodia, the agency is supporting economic development through different projects in multiple different sectors including health care, education, governance, and many others.…
-
Thailand Railroads
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M146 Creator: Junyi Zhao ’21 Computer Science During WWII, Japan built Thai-Myanmar Railroad in favor of transporting necessary resources including rubber, steel and oil to fuel its war machine. This decade, Japan competed China for Bangkok-Chiang Mai HSR to nationally invest in Thailand and open the market in a larger scale to…
-
Vietnam North/South Imports
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M145 Creator: Jade Seguchi ’22 International Relations During the Cold War period, especially between 1955 and 1975, Japan was a key economic partner to Vietnam. It is essential to point out that such relationship happened with both the North Vietnam (communist regime) and the South Vietnam (ally of the U.S.) regimes. The…
-
Taiwan Railroads
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M144 Creator: Naoya Kuwabara This map shows how railways are used differently in Taiwan before and after 1945. During pre-war, trains were built and used mainly for transporting sugar to Japan. Taiwan was called the “Kingdom of the Sugar” for its quantity of production. During WWII sugar factories were heavily bombarded and…
-
Major Railroads in the Second Sino-Japanese War
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M094 Creator: Andrew Hodge ’22 Mechanical Engineering In 1937, the Second Sino-Japanese War began in China. Railways played a pivotal role for the Chinese military to transport troops across China’s extensive land mass. But as the Japanese military progressed, they began to control areas of track that were then used for their…
-
The Spread of Religion through the Silk Road in Chinese Tang Dynasty (7th – 9th Century)
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M055 Creator: Yixin Cao ’19 Financial Economics
-
Exchange of Gunpowder Technology, 904 – 1548
ElyaDatabase ID Number: M046 Creator: Charles Gould ’21 History & Environmental Science