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It is hardly possible to overrate the Pacific Basin in its economic
and political importance. Currently, it is one of the economic
regions with the highest dynamic growth throughout the world.
Economically this region is sometimes considered to be the future
centre of the world econom- often with reference to well-known
authors such as Arnold Toynbee and Herman Kahn who predicted the
inevitable approach of a Pacific century. The economic development
of the Pacific Basin has proceeded far already following Japan's
ascent into the position of an economic superpower. Considering the
concentration of East and South-East Asian dynamic developing
countries the Pacific Basin has meanwhile developed into a regional
centre of economic activities. Furthermore the ambitions and in
terests of three nuclear powers - the USA, the Soviet Union and
China - collide in this region. Obviously these countries
increasingly perceive and take into account the political and
strategic importance of this region."
The highly developed industrial countries today have to face the
challenge of accelerated structural change. The problems arising
from this process are tackled in very different ways. In the public
discussion the different approaches of Japan on the one side and of
Western European countries on the other have received consider able
attention. Structural change in its economic, social and political
aspects has been the subject of the 8th German-Japanese Seminar on
Economics and Social Sciences, held at Cologne from the 24th to the
27th of September, 1984. The tradition of German-Japanese Seminars
on Economics and Social Sciences goes back to 1966, when the first
meeting was held at Tokyo. Among the first participants were Dr.
Hiromi Arizawa, Dr. Kazuo Okochi, both professors at the University
of Tokyo, and Dr. Karl Hax, professor at Frankfurt University. The
objective of all seminars, which have been held since, has been the
analysis of eco nomic and social problems of immediate interest in
both countries. The records of former seminars, which have been
published partly in Japanese, partly in German throw light upon the
shift of empha sis toward new problems which took place during
aperiod of 18 years."
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