https://www.eastasianjournal.com/ Research, data and context from East Asia. en Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.eastasianjournal.com/briefs/script-policy/ https://www.eastasianjournal.com/briefs/script-policy/ 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. Five jurisdictions read against one spine, so that the synchrony is visible: four states legislated on their own script within thirteen years of the war ending, each by a different kind of instrument. Where the popular account departs from the text of the instrument — hangul’s promulgation, the 1948 hanja ban, Pinyin as a replacement script — the entry says so and cites the primary source. Briefs Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT 2026-08-04 https://www.eastasianjournal.com/briefs/where-locals-go/ https://www.eastasianjournal.com/briefs/where-locals-go/ Kyoto ranks eleventh among Japanese travellers and third among foreign ones. Seoul is eleventh for Korean overnight trips, behind Gangwon by a factor of six. And among Japanese people in their twenties, travel to see family and friends slightly outweighs travel for leisure. Three national statistical agencies publish all of this; almost none of it is read in English. Briefs Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT 2026-08-02 https://www.eastasianjournal.com/crime/ https://www.eastasianjournal.com/crime/ A terminology layer for East and Southeast Asia: 22 entries covering which native term carries statutory weight in which jurisdiction, which is merely colloquial, which an agency has retired, and what the issuing body itself calls it in English. Each entry names the instrument that gives the term its force. Crime Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT 2026-08-01 https://www.eastasianjournal.com/crime/enforcement/ https://www.eastasianjournal.com/crime/enforcement/ Dated public enforcement actions against organised crime and illicit finance in the region — 7 read against the issuing body's own notice, with those that could not be verified at source listed separately rather than omitted. Crime Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT 2026-08-01 https://www.eastasianjournal.com/crime/jurisdictions/jp/ https://www.eastasianjournal.com/crime/jurisdictions/jp/ How Japan names fraud in its own law, and the dated record of what its government has done about its nationals in the Southeast Asian compounds — including the single zone it has raised on scam-compound grounds. Crime Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT 2026-08-01 https://www.eastasianjournal.com/crime/jurisdictions/kr/ https://www.eastasianjournal.com/crime/jurisdictions/kr/ Korea moved faster and harder than either neighbour, and is the only one of the three to place named Cambodian zones under an outright travel ban. Every Korean repatriated in the period was handled as a suspect rather than a victim. Crime Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT 2026-08-01 https://www.eastasianjournal.com/crime/jurisdictions/cn/ https://www.eastasianjournal.com/crime/jurisdictions/cn/ The only one of the three with a dedicated national statute for this offence category, and the source of the judicial definition that makes the term for a scam compound legible: a criminal base includes the enterprise parks and development zones built to house one. Crime Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT 2026-08-01 https://www.eastasianjournal.com/concepts/ https://www.eastasianjournal.com/concepts/ 8 reference entries for terms that arrive in English half-translated. Each gives the original script, what the word actually denotes, what it is commonly mistaken for, and the native-language terms to search. Concepts Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT 2026-08-01 https://www.eastasianjournal.com/briefs/asia-2026-population/ https://www.eastasianjournal.com/briefs/asia-2026-population/ Population and functional language-use estimates for 50 country-level entries across Asia — 138 language cells, 129 drawn from Unicode CLDR 49 as a common layer and 9 individually attributed to their publisher. Briefs Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT 2026-08-01