Research & data
Briefs
Explore how the region works through its writing systems, travel patterns and population data. Each brief links to the evidence behind it.
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Same Classics, Different Worlds: How East Asia Reinterpreted Its Greatest Thinkers
A source-backed comparison across eight East Asian settings: thinker biographies, intellectual connections, a timeline, concepts in original scripts, and exam practice for Japan, South Korea, Mainland China and Taiwan.
Open article ↗ · BriefScript and language policy in East Asia
The instruments that actually changed how East Asia writes: 21 of them, from 1443 to 2013, each dated, attributed to its issuing body and linked to the source.
Open article ↗ · BriefWhere people in East Asia actually go on holiday
Kyoto ranks eleventh among Japanese travellers and third among foreign ones.
Open article ↗ · BriefAsia in 2026: population and language use
Population and functional language-use estimates for 50 country-level entries across Asia: 136 language cells, 136 drawn from Unicode CLDR 49 as a common layer and 0 individually attributed to their publisher.
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