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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...

MacArthur Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Postwar Japan

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

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...

Sakoku: Japan and Modern Isolationism

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

GERMANY VERSUS JAPAN: BATTLE OF CARS

the United States, for example, we have the "Big Three" auto manufacturers which, fairly or unfairly, have been maligned for poor-...

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...

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...

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...

Ancient Japanese Architecture, an Overview

This research paper offers a brief overview of ancient Japanese architectural history. Three pages in length, three sources are ci...

Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life, Doc Hata

endeavor to keep the comfort women debate controversial by providing arguments that call into question whether or not the comfort ...

Banana Yoshimoto's Fiction

In four pages this essay examines two books by Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto in a consideration of how her works capture young ...

And Then by Natsume Soseki

to ones social superiors was the supreme value, tended to foster hypocrisy. Modernization, while sweeping away the old system, fai...

Literary Depiction of Cultures

but complications arise. Not one, but two suitors join them on their trip. During the trip both men vie for her affections. In the...

Asian Culture in Art and Film

way or another by the culture itself. Now, while there are numerous contemporary artists and also numerous styles this section ...

Educational System of Japan

to examine that education system. A specific emphasis will be placed on the phenomena we know as "exam hell", a process through w...

'The Bridegroom' by Ha Jin

concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...

Premodern Japanese Peasant Life

their unswerving and loyal oath, many peasants were beginning to grumble about the heavy handedness of the Warlords. Marikos hom...

Lockheed's Bribing of the Japanese Government

without being asked, in order to facilitate a transaction (with that "something of value" referring to money). There is no coercio...

Laws of Exclusion and Japanese Immigration

workers from immigrating to the US (Peck 12). Ironically, the exclusion of the Chinese served to encourage Japanese immigration, ...

Comparative Analysis of Three Seasons Film by Tony Bui with My Year of Meats Novel by Ruth L. Ozeki

finds that her conscience has problems with this assignment and she ultimately rebels. Paralleling Janes story is that of Akiko...

Japan and Abortion

of her people when she states that "Fetuses should be buried properly in accordance with socially accepted ideas even when they ar...

Traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony

multiple courses, intermission in a garden and then the "solemn thick Tea Ceremony," which is followed by the less solemn thin Tea...

Healthy Cooking by the Japanese

on Japanese cooking, one can derive the healthy benefits with more prepared supermarket finds in the frozen section. For example, ...

Toyota and Honda Compared

greatest focus currently is China, a country that will likely become the second largest consumers of automobiles by 2010 (behind t...

Japanese Workplace and Women

books to protect and career opportunities exist. Still, many women find themselves in the bedroom rather than in the boardroom. Th...