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The Ghost Map

Johnson described the people who lived within the city as a group of somewhat organized scavengers. "The scavengers...lived in a ...

Cabanatuan, a Textbook Operation

mission and saved the American prisoners of war (POWs) being held by the Japanese at the Cabanatuan internment camp in the Philipp...

Japan Corrections: An Overview

The Japanese correctional system is managed at the state level. This enables the state to provide for the careful standardized tra...

Japanese and German Economies in the Post Cold War Environment

the west, but this did not compensate for the difficulties, which included increasing unemployment, a lack of internal capital for...

The Great Mirror of Male Love/Ihara Saikaku

narratives, as he created collections of short stories that are unified by a specific theme. This is true in regards to Great Mirr...

Book Summary and Critique of The Feminine and the Sacred

This paper summarizes the book, but also includes a brief critique. The book is the only source listed in the bibliography of thi...

Book III of Psalms

p. 107). However, the psalmist goes on to indicate that this reaction was foolish as this simply took into account the current sta...

Cultural Change in Early Twentieth Century Taiwan

Colonialism inevitably had incredible effects on indigenous peoples around the world. These effects are recorded in a variety of...

Obstacles to Correct Pronunciation for Japanese Learners of English

with a fixed pronunciation. For instance, the letter "a" in English can be pronounced many different ways, such as in the words "a...

A Look at Rath and Clifton's How Full Is Your Bucket?

adds to their insecurity; when someone is tempted to do this, according to authors, they should pause and think about it ("Negativ...

Japanese Consensus Decision Making

the recommended decision a decision (Ala and Cordeiro, 1999). When the decision has been agreed upon, the final decision is record...

Rampo's fiction and Ero-Guro-Nansensu

movement in Japan, which became prominent in the 1920s focused on the "prewar, bourgeois cultural phenomenon that devoted itself t...

Where the Red Fern Grows

"I asked him not to say anything to my father. He promised me he wouldnt" (Rawls 20). He finally has enough money to buy the puppi...

Sakoku: Japan and Modern Isolationism

cultural and civil development, engaged in practices of national isolation. There were many justifications given for such practice...

Emerging Christianity in the Book of Acts

have had too much wine" (Acts 2:13). Peter addresses the crowd, pointing out that the men are sober and relating this mira...

MacArthur Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Postwar Japan

The years following World War II were a time of great change for Japan....

Freakonomics The Truth About the Economics of Dealing Drugs

Our popular conception of drug dealers is a guy with gold teeth and gold chains driving a BMW or...

Book Industry Approaches to Communication Technologies

communication technologies have led to our age being branded the "Information Age". What this means in todays business environment...

Behind the Attack on Pearl Harbor

proposes that World War I and World War II were not separate conflicts but one long struggle with a cease-fire in the middle. This...

FDR and Pearl Harbor

The writer examines the claim that President Roosevelt knew the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor, and in fact had maneuv...

Gulliver Adaptations

the protagonists "descent into madness and misanthropy" (Stallcup 87). As Stallcup observes, this is "hardly a likely candidate fo...

From the Light into the Darkness of Japanese History

from one epoch to another. The title symbolized customs of the past, but it could also be adapted to whatever future social or ec...

Japanese and Western Poetry: Ryokan and Burns

When his master died he began to wander and travel, as a pilgrim (Hermitary). After a few years of traveling it seems that a perso...

The Injustices of World War II: Japanese American Internment and Atomic Bombs

hatred and prejudice was not the result of anything they had done but rather the result of the physical and cultural differences b...

The Transfer of TQM Practices from Japanese to US Companies

been conducive to increasing adoption and adoption in the US. By looking at the developments in Japan the similar pressures that f...

Varying Factors Affecting Japanese and American Crime

The American correctional system is considered one of the most advanced in the world. That said, it...

Korean, Chinese, and Japanese Communication and Education and the Internet's Impact

In five pages this paper examines how the Internet has affected communication and education in these countries. Five sources are ...

Contemporary Japanese Women's Roles

Roles of women in contemporary Japan are the focus of this paper consisting of five pages in an overview from political and socioe...

Case Study of the Japanese Company Kyocera

In eighteen pages this business case study focuses on Kyocera in a discussion of the stakeholder, company's position information a...

Japanese Heian Era and the Role of Women

This paper considers the 794 to 1192 Heian Era in Japan in terms of women's status in society and the growing prominence of female...