Content analysis of Asian newspapers

The data consist of content analysis of news items taken from newspapers of four Asian countries, published during the last three months of 1962, 1966, 1970, and 1972. Variables describe domestic events and foreign interactions involving Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, and Singapore. General categories of data are domestic events in Japan, relations between Japan and the other three countries, relations between Japan and the rest of the world, domestic events in Thailand, Indonesia, and Singapore, their relations among themselves, and their relations with the rest of the world. Further data were collected during 1970 concerning the relationship between each of the three nations (Thailand, Indonesia, and Singapore) and the following nations: United States, United Kingdom, Australia, West Germany, and Holland.