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Japan
- Land of the Rising Sun
 Yukio Hatoyama
 – new PM
Kuril Islands
– source of dispute with Russia
World’s second and
Asia’s largest economy
Oldest
still ruling Royal House in the world
Monarch sits on
Chrysanthemum Throne
No standing army
No manufacture, supply or storing of nuclear weapons
 
 
China
- 3
rd
Largest by Area
Hu Jintao
– President;
Wen Jiabao
– PM
Is building GWADAR port in Pakistan, also
Karakoram
 Highway to Pakistan
World’s
largest FOREX
reserves - more than $1 trillion
Built THREE GORGES DAM on
 Yangtze River 
, world’slargest hydro-electric dam
Built
world’s highest railway
– linking Lhasa in Tibetwith Golmund; nicknamed Qing-1
Manufacturing hub of world
Third largest economy
 
 
Thailand
King
Bhumibol Adulyadej
completes 60 years inpower,
world’s longest reigning monarch
Thaksin Shinawatra
deposed as PM in a military coup
Abhisit Vejjajiva
new PM
Bangkok
– capital,
Baht
- currency
Never colonised
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