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East Asia: Japan & Korea
Two mountainous, resource-poor, export powerhouses: Japan's islands and Ring of Fire, Korea's divided peninsula and the DMZ, energy import dependence, chaebol and keiretsu, the world's lowest birth rates, and a wary partnership under the US alliance.
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Key idea
Prereqs: China; Chokepoints. Next: Southeast Asia; Demographics: the Zeihan thesis. Sources: Geography Now (Japan; South Korea); Statistics Korea; Japan Statistics Bureau; RANE/Stratfor 'Essential Geopolitics'.Next: 1. Japan