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and individuality as young children, they begin to assimilate their role in Japanese culture via such conventions as school unifor...

the Japanese woman is "framed" by a pond that features water lilies, reeds and bamboo, as well as two figures in a boat, two frogs...

(Wise, 2005). One of the major health issues in the U.S. and other Western countries is obesity (Wise, 2005). It is estimated tha...

In the eyes of propaganda, the American cultural commitment to individualism was transformed into overwhelming self-interest and a...

some traditions are simply not embraced. The zori is also known as the flip flop (Kim, 2003). Obviously, the Zori is rather sophis...

Pursuing profitability at the cost of social responsibility (i.e., decisions about European cutbacks) can provide positive results...

into Zen Buddhism, which absorbed much of its metaphysical orientation from Taoist teachings (Suzuki 4). Unlike Indian Buddhism,...

which would result in very expensive litigation in both Japan and the United States. The situation will cause the company to lose ...

such as the labor theory of value and economic determinism. Economic determinism, above all, embraces the concept that economic fa...

a fourteenth-century palace that doubled as a fortress during the war, housed Japanese soldiers far beneath its fortified structur...

just be that the customer service department gets an overhaul. In fact, many firms today are criticized for giving shoddy customer...

to ask questions that will elicit meaningful responses but not embarrass or insult the interviewee. That answers one of our questi...

Coca-Cola products are available in virtually every county in the world now, but company leadership recently has discovered that i...

to the advent of jazz, improvisation was an integral part of European music, as the improvisational skills of such composers as Ba...

and electrical to the high tech industries of the 1990s, the industry was changing and as one form of job was lost other took ove...

differences they expect to find as they observe mothers with their children are not gross; that is, they dont expect to find Ameri...

hand-in-hand in relationship to the future. It seems that through the most generous of perspectives the United States helped rebui...

us to the issue of competition. Starbucks has grown rapidly in America benefiting from a lack of any single chain being able to of...

currently have no access to Starbucks products; Schultz seeks to make China "the second-largest market behind North America" (Gues...

pictured Japanese soldiers as monkeys in military garb and machine guns, swinging through the trees (Dower 183). Likewise, the Jap...

ends up on the tables of local homes and restaurants and in vacuum-packed bags in supermarkets" (McNeill). Estimates are that by M...

is the country that invaded China in 1937 and brutalized its people until the end of the Second World War eight years later. This ...

in reality a "wide range of transactions" is still subject to some sort of government control, either formal or informal (Capital ...

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...

to evaluate the efficacy of a specific diabetes management program that was instituted in Japan. Literature review As the resear...

noted that the emperor had announced defeat, which meant surrender (Dower, 2001). Yet, the woman who Dower notes on the first pag...

boy of 16, was less than polite to the Nakamura family and seemed very racist, constantly telling the family he had wanted to go t...

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

may be assessed using a framework. Hofstede (2003) has developed a framework to examine culture. This is undertaken by loo...

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