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, Korea ]] , Japan ]] , China ]] of Singapore ]] , taken from Tsim Sha Tsui , Kowloon , Hong Kong ]] ''Far East'' is sometimes used synonymously with East Asia , which may be defined in geographic or cultural terms to include historical China (excluding Tibet and Xinjiang ), Japan , Korea , and Vietnam . But it commonly encompasses the states and cultures of Southeast Asia , such as Cambodia , Malaysia , Myanmar , and Thailand , Indonesia and the Philippines . It was well popularized in the ''. In Orientalist usage, it evokes cultural, as well as geographic separation, an exotic in addition to a distant locale. ''Far East'' never refers, for instance, to the culturally western nations of Australia and New Zealand, which lie even farther to the east of Europe than much of East Asia. ''Far East'' in this sense is comparable to terms such as ''the Orient '', which means East ; the '' Eastern world''; or simply the '' East ''. The United Kingdom and United States historically used "Far East" for several units and commands in the region:
In addition, the post- World War II trials of Imperial Japan ese war criminals was titled the International Military Tribunal For The Far East . Use of the term in the Western World has become somewhat circumscribed due to its Eurocentrism and association with European Imperialism In Asia . The more precise ''East Asia'' and ''Southeast Asia'', or larger umbrella terms, such as ''Pacific Rim'', are preferred in cultural and economic studies. The region's growth has given new meaning to the term as meaning the Far East of the world (i.e. the easternmost continental land in the Eastern Hemisphere ) rather than to the Far East of Europe. Many commercial enterprises and institutions are named "Far East," like that of Far Eastern National University in Vladivostok, Far Eastern University in the City of Manila, and as South Korean's Far East University , and the Hong Kong -based '' Far Eastern Economic Review ''. References
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