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"The Asian Studies WWW Monitor" (ISSN 1329-9778) was established 21 April 1994. the journal, a pioneering and the only publication of this kind in the world, provides virtually daily abstracts and reviews of new/updated online resources of significance to research, teaching and communications dealing with Asian Studies. It is published by the Internet Publications Bureau RSPAS ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. the periodical forms a key element of the global, cooperative project Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library. For further details see a page About the Asian Studies WWW Monitor. the journal is complemented by its sister publication Pacific Studies WWW Monitor which was established in April2000.

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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: Dec 2007, Vol. 14, No. 17 (274)

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THIS ISSUE
Entries accepted for publication: 7
Entries rejected: 6
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In mid-November 2007 I have succumbed to an illness. A few weeks later the situation got under control, and now I am doing well. However, my recovery proves to be a sluggish affair and thus I am unlikely to return to my work duties before the late February 2008. In other words, for the next two months the Monitor will be largely dormant.

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31 Dec 2007
5star
Japan Focus: An Asia-Pacific Journal - Issue Dec 31, 2007
japanfocus.org, Ithaca, NY, US
Supplied note: "The following articles were posted on Dec 31, 2007 at Japan Focus.
* Imai Noriaki & Norma Field, Why I Went to Iraq. Reflections of a Japanese Hostage
* Andre Vltchek, From the Kwajalein Missile Range to Fiji: The Military, Money and Misery in Paradise
* Eika Tai, Multicultural Education in Japan
* Koichi Hasegawa, Chika Shinohara and Jeffery Broadbent, Volunteerism and the State in Japan
* Roger Pulvers, Half . . . or Hana's Story
Find them at http://japanfocus.org - m.selden."
URL http://japanfocus.org
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://japanfocus.org
Link reported by: Mark Selden (ms44--at--cornell.edu)
* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: over 3,000 [in fact 8,280]

30 Dec 2007
5star
Lingua Mongolia - Uighur-script Mongolian Resources
Lingua Mongolia, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK
Self-description: "Lingua Mongolia is a web site [est. Dec 2004] which aims to help people learn written Uighur-script Mongolian. All the resources are provided free of charge in the interest of furthering this particular field of Mongolian studies."
Supplied-note: "We thought you might be interested to know that we will shortly be releasing a new Mongolian-English Dictionary, focussing solely on Uighur-script Mongolian, which will be available from 1st January 2008 from www.linguamongolia.co.uk. The dictionary is the first of its kind in the world and has taken over four years to produce and brings the study of Classical and Uighur-script Mongolian into the twenty-first century.
The dictionary includes the following features:
* Over 23,000 headwords; * Thousands of usage examples; * Ability to search using Uighur-script Mongolian; * Ability to search using standard transliteration (Vladimirtsov-Poppe-Mostaert-Cleaves); * Ability to search for English words; * Wildcard searches; * Regular Expression searches; * Intelligent VirtualKeyboard for entering Mongolian. - erep."
Site contents:
* Home; * Script; * Grammar; * Translation; * Software; * Resources (Interactive Exercises, Poetry, Literature, Digitised Books); * [Online] Dictionary [Mongolian, English]; * Bibliography (Learning Mongolian, Dictionaries and Phrasebooks, Language, Books in Mongolian, Primary Sources and Works in Translation, Mongolian History, Mongolia - General, Genghis Khan); * Links (Universities and Professional Institutions, Independent Language Resources, Bookdealers, Miscellaneous Resources, Manchu Resources); * What's new; * Contact.
URL http://www.linguamongolia.co.uk/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.linguamongolia.co.uk/
Link reported by: Emyr R. E. Pugh (linguamongolia--at--bluebottle.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Other
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 1000 [in fact, 429]

29 Dec 2007
2star
Benazir's Assassination: The Aftermath
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, on the above subject is now available at the web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below] - br."
Extract: "One had expected the whole of Sindh to blow up and rise against Musharraf after the assassination. Surprisingly, this has not happened so far---not even after the funeral of Benazir in her native village. The absence so far of uncontrollable street anger probably indicates a certain disenchantment with her attempts to make a deal with the Army before she returned from exile on October 18, 2007, and with her pro-US policies. Her strongly pro-US statements did not apparently go down well even in Sindh and this is reflected in the absence of massive protests so far. [...] 5. The removal of Benazir from the scene is unlikely to redound to the benefit of Nawaz Sharif in any substantial measure. Thus, the short-term political beneficiary of the removal of Benazir from the scene would be Musharraf and the PML (QA) [Pakistan Muslim League (Qaide Azam) - ed.]. [...] 6. The US is in a dilemma. It realises the folly of uncritical dependence on Musharraf. Had Benazir been there and done well in the elections, she would have provided it with another card. With her gone, the US is back to its pre-October 18 position of having only the Musharraf card. It would not like to throw away this card for the present." - b.raman
[The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India. - ed. ]
URL http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers26/paper2523.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) - the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.southasiaanalysis.org - ed.
Link reported by: B. Raman (ram1994--at--vsnl.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

26 Dec 2007
3star
India-China Joint Anti-Terror Exercise: An Assessment
Chennai Centre For China Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, on the above subject is now available at the web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below] - br."
Extract: "C3S Paper No.91 dated December 26, 2007, B.Raman [...] till August,2007, China had participated in eight anti-terror military exercises. Of these, two were multilateral under the SCO and the remaining six bilateral - two with Pakistan and one each with Russia, Kyrgyzstan,Tajikistan and Thailand. The smallest in terms of troop participation was with Thailand and the largest with Russia. The bilateral exercise with Russia was even larger than the multilateral exercises under the SCO.
3. The following were the defining characteristics of these exercises: * Totally confined to the Armed Forces. No participation by civilian counter-terrorism agencies either as observers or in any other capacity. * The focus was on the military (commando) approach to counter-terrorism in certain situations such as cross-border terrorism, hostage-taking in urban areas and aircraft hijacking. * The objective of the exercises was to familiarise each other with their respective capabilities for countering terrorism, with their training methods and methods of action; to demonstrate separately each other�s methods of action and to have a joint exercise at the end in which the two sides can test their ability to act jointly. * There was no brain-storming on the experiences and insights of the participants in dealing with specific situations in the past and the lessons drawn. 4. The limited scope of these exercises did not permit them to be trend-setters in the joint fight against terrorism. Their main achievement was in enabling military officers of the participating countries to get to know each other and in increasing their comfort level towards each other. [...]
8. The theme reflected more Chinese concerns over the possibility of alleged Tibetan extremists from the diaspora staging cross-border raids into Tibet in the event of instability in Tibet after the death of the Dalai Lama. This theme would be of little relevance to India since we have no reason to fear any cross-border terrorism against India originating from Chinese territory unless one day Al Qaeda seizes control of Xinjiang in China and the Northern Areas (Gilgit and Baltistan) of Pakistan. Such a possibility is remote. 9. A more useful theme would have been to visualise different terrorist scenarios during and before next year�s Beijing Olympics and see how the intelligence,counter-terrorism agencies and the armed forces of the two countries could co-operate with each other to deal with the situation. " - b.raman
[The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India. - ed. ]
URL http://www.c3sindia.org/military/172/india-china-joint-anti-terror-exercise-an-assessment/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) - the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.c3sindia.org - ed.
Link reported by: B. Raman (ram1994--at--vsnl.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

24 Dec 2007
5star
Japan Focus: An Asia-Pacific Journal - Issue Dec 24, 2007
japanfocus.org, Ithaca, NY, US
Supplied note: "The following articles were posted on Dec 24, 2007 at Japan Focus.
* Kamanaka Hitomi, Tsuchimoto Noriaki and Norma Field, Rokkasho, Minamata and Japan's Future: Capturing Humanity on Film
* Daniel P. Aldrich, Site Fights: Divisive Facilities, NIMBY and Civil Society in Japan and the West
* M K Bhadrakumar, Russia, Iran and Eurasian Energy Politics
* Cemil Aydin interviewed by Michael Penn, Imperial Japan's Islamic Policies and Anti-Westernism
* Rumiko NISHINO, The Women's Active Museum on War and Peace: Its Role in Public Education
* Anna Fifield and Ruediger Frank, Famine and the Market: North Korea Meets Keynes
* Kato Shuichi, Two Trivial Matters
* Interview with Hatoyama Kunio, "Why I Support Executions"
Find them at http://japanfocus.org - m.selden."
URL http://japanfocus.org
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://japanfocus.org
Link reported by: Mark Selden (ms44--at--cornell.edu)
* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: over 3,000 [in fact 8,280]

18 Dec 2007
5star
Japan Focus: An Asia-Pacific Journal - Issue Dec 18, 2007
japanfocus.org, Ithaca, NY, US
Supplied note: "The following articles were posted on Dec 18, 2007 at Japan Focus.
* Gavan McCormack, Japan as a Plutonium Superpower
* Rumiko NISHINO, The Women's Active Museum on War and Peace: Its Role in Public Education
* Kim Yeong Hwan, Promoting Peace and Reconciliation as a Citizen of East Asia: The Collaborative East Asian Workshop and the Grassroots House Peace Museum
* Raju Thakrar, Ocean of Wit and Wisdom
Find them at http://japanfocus.org - m.selden."
URL http://japanfocus.org
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://japanfocus.org
Link reported by: Mark Selden (ms44--at--cornell.edu)
* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: over 3,000 [in fact 8,280]

03 Dec 2007
5star
Japan Focus: An Asia-Pacific Journal - Issue Dec 03, 2007
japanfocus.org, Ithaca, NY, US
Supplied note: "The following articles were posted on Dec 03, 2007 at Japan Focus.
* Chisato ("Kitty") O. Dubreuil, The Ainu and Their Culture: A Critical Twenty-First Century Assessment
* Mark Morris, The Question of the Other: Kara Juro and Letters from Sagawa
* The Asahi Shinbun, Ramesh Thakur, Richard Tanter & Robert Ayson, Power Shift? Australia and the Asia Pacific
* Yoshizawa Tatsuhiko, The Manchurian Incident, the League of Nations and the Origins of the Pacific War. What the Geneva archives reveal
* Noam Chomsky, Kevin Hewison, From Indochina to Iraq: At War With Asia
Find them at http://japanfocus.org - m.selden."
URL http://japanfocus.org
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://japanfocus.org
Link reported by: Mark Selden (ms44--at--cornell.edu)
* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: over 3,000 [in fact 8,280]