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Essays 601 - 630

Differences Between Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism

18). The words of Buddha were not written down until several centuries after his death and the first divisions within Buddhist b...

Buddhism and Its Teachings: Effective or Ineffective?

old age, death, and finally, a monk "who had given up everything he owned to seek an end to suffering" ("Following the Buddhas Foo...

EBay and the Problems in Asia

is dealing with the Asian markets. When looking at China as an example some of these problems may be easier to assess. The strat...

Japanese Management Style

as rotating jobs to avoid boredom and routine as well as the practices of having a career ladder program in each company (WIN Advi...

Justifications for the Use of Atomic Bombs in World War II

is to argue that while we might have been misguided in our decision to utilize the newly devised atomic weaponry against Japan, ou...

Why eBay Failed in Japan

trying to start a business there. Yahoo! Japan Auctions, by contrast required no such information to register. Furthermore, the ...

"Youth Do Not Care About Politics": Why, and What Can be Done?

material possessions and feelings of isolation from political officials and institutions. Forbrig, Joerg. Revisiting Youth Pol...

Negative Impacts to Cultural Diversity at the Hands of Globalization

ends of the scale in terms of to what degree they have been affected by globalization. Consequently, by examining these cultures ...

Life in the Heian Court

seems to be excited, worried and self-conscious at the same time. And religion plays a huge part in the scene. The Queen is very u...

Structural Changes in the Japanese Workforce

permanent employment contract (Ogura, 2005). In many countries, especially those where there has been a general lower level of com...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Unnecessary Victims of the Cold War

Conclusion Introduction When the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Japan in August, 1945, it brought a swift end to the S...

Japan as a Destination Market for an Orphan Drug

on the attractiveness of the market. The Japanese pharmaceutical market in 2006 the market accounted for approximately 11% of th...

Rulers, Government and Religion

the centuries has seen a rather constant existence, with Buddhism establishing itself as a primary staple of belief and stimulatin...

Army Supply Chain Efficiency

a new area initiates "automatic" supply chain activities that will ensure that the end customer (the soldier) has the supplies and...

RELIGIOUS BELIEF AND JAPANESE LITERATURE

Century Japan. Much like Genji, Bridge of Dreams has the same lyrical, almost dreamy prose to it. But unlike the men in Genji auth...

A Rethinking of the Value of Nuclear Power

The April 2011 Japanese Earthquakes and the resulting Fukushima...

The Transition of Shinto to the Modern World

describing kami in too theological a fashion, because oftentimes these spirits are not understood to be literal spirits, but rathe...

Civil Order Control, A Country Comparison

that describes the duty of local police to respond to any situation in which two or more citizens require supervision or control i...

Analyzing World Cultures and Gender Issues

much of her research on the importance of masculinity in Palestine, and how the Israeli occupation of their homeland has shaped th...

COUNTRY RISK ANALYSIS: TELSA MOTORS AND JAPAN

2010). Added to this, we need to consider that certain types of business entities (such as branch offices and certain types...

Historical and Cultural Differences in Photography and Printing in the East and West

how large. Interestingly enough, it is also the case that the artistic documentation of culture also serves as the instrument thro...

Japan and Korea/Immigration Issues

society, as with the Japanese, focused on negative factors, the positive orientation was, overall, more prevalent in Korea. On the...

Determining Market Entry Strategies

Once a country has been access as viable and a market assessed as accessible the next stage is for the firm to examine potential m...

Assessment of the Japanese Market for Mangoes

that of Japan, a developed market, where it appeared there is an increasing demand for mangoes at the current time. In order to as...

Varying Justifications for World War II

The reasons nation enter into warfare are on the one hand diverse. On the other hand, however, they most often relate to one degr...

BARNES & NOBLE NOOK AND JAPAN

Focuses on how the Nook e-reader can and should be promoted in Japan. There are 9 sources listed in the bibliography of this 9-pag...

Reasons Behind Atomic Bombing of Japan by the United States

lost on the world, and is one of the reasons why the attacks remain controversial to this day. This paper explores the reasons gi...

U.S. Bombing of Japan

politically expedient to do so; Russia was about to enter the war, and Truman felt that dropping the bomb would show the Russians ...

Automobile Industry Competitors Detroit and Japan

Japanese Toyota Fore Runner and the Japanese Nissan Pathfinder are leading the pack in sales. Even though General Motors Corpora...

East Asia Negotiations

is macho, it is akin to war, something that reflects their concept of masculinity (Martin et al, 1999). They have already decided ...