Data brief ·
Asia in 2026
Population and language context for 50 country-level entries — 138 language cells, each attributed, with the full table and the underlying data on the page.
2026 edition
Understand East Asia through its sources
Look up the terms, law and figures behind Japan, the Koreas, China, Taiwan and Mongolia — and the wider region where it genuinely connects. Every page states where its figures came from, and every term names the instrument that gives it force.
Look up a concept → How East Asia writes →
Everything published
- Briefs · Script 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. 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 · Where people in East Asia actually go on holiday 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.
- Concepts · Concepts — East Asian terms in plain English 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.
- Crime · Crime and illicit finance A terminology layer for East and Southeast Asia — which native term carries statutory weight in which jurisdiction, what the issuing body itself calls it in English, and the instrument behind each. With a dated enforcement chronology and three jurisdiction studies.
8 concept entries, 138 attributed data cells across 50 countries, and a crime and illicit-finance reference of 22 terms. More explainers and comparisons are in preparation — search everything.