Where There Are Asians, There Are Rice Cookers – How "National" Went Global via Hong Kong

Yoshiko Nakano is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Japanese Studies at the University of Hong Kong where she teaches intercultural communication and media. With Alan Knight, she has co-edited a volume of essays on international press coverage of the Handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997 entitled Reporting Hong Kong.

The book meticulously describes the process by which the Chinese and Japanese worked hand-in-hand to create products that would appeal to local people. Nikkei Business