In the 1980s the countries of Asia-Pacific first experienced -economic miracles.- After a short period of stagnation and retrenchment in the 1990s, economic prosperity is again in full swing from the beginning of the twenty-first century. The major driving force behind this is the rapidly growing economic and technical cooperation among countries--China, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asian countries--in the region, attributable to liberalization of trade and Free Trade Agreements efforts which are expected to lead to the establishment of a common market like the EU. This book is the...