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Essays 541 - 570

Japanese Literature: "Essays in Idleness" and "An Account of My Hut"

dwelling places are like that, always changing (Chomei). The water imagery calls Walden Pond to mind; it also is strongly remin...

The Role of First Language in Second Language Acquisition

expected and takes places as part of the usual culture, as seen in areas such as Mallorca, where the dialect may be seen as very s...

Japanese Management vs Western Management

manage them more effectively. Mayo undertook the Hawthorne studies, here a group of workers were separated and given special treat...

Expansion Strategy Simulations

Another lesson was to take the long view in light of current and short-term needs. When conditions in Europe demanded that MM...

Korematsu v. United States and an Assessment of the Patriot Act

them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antago...

U.S. and Japan Health Care

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

3 Simulation Expansion Strategies

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

The Dominican Republic and Asian Status

be wise and benevolent at times, but at other times it became clear that he was "a tyrant bent upon retaining the Dominican Republ...

Social and Ethical Implications of the Avian Flu and Japanese Biotechnology

in addressing this virus. Japan, in particular, has played a prominent role in the research on this disease and in the production...

Robert McNamara/An Ethical Analysis

film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...

China and eBay

Japan, the company had entered the Chinese internet auction market at a much earlier stage of development and as such may avoid th...

John Okada's "No-No Boy" - Optimism and Hope

afford him the ability to move forward. "In any other country they would have shot you for what you did. But this country is di...

Japanese Automobile Industry

automakers focus on the dynamics of that relationship and how well the assembler performs. Instead, these authors investigated the...

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...

MacArthur Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Postwar Japan

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

Loneword Adaptation in Japanese and its Effects

/a/ is only adapted into the foreign language a [a] when it occurs in the stressed syllable in the English loanword. The sound /a...

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-...

Sakoku: Japan and Modern Isolationism

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

AMERICAN CONNECTOR AND DJC

his vision, and this could spell dire trouble for American Connector. One case in point is the companys design and implemen...

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...

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...

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION ISSUES IN THE WORKPLACE

his first name as she did with her old boss, and asking him about his family and his experiences in the U.S. She also told him how...

Bushmen and Midwestern Town, An Anthropological View

African societal influences. For instance, as farmers bought land, they cut off access Bushmens to natural waterholes, displaying ...

Management at GM

make amazing strides in the level of manufacturing output of those factories while producing at a higher level of quality. After ...

JAPANESE ECONOMY

and a corporate investment boom (Madsen and Katz, 2009). Combined with that were huge trade surpluses, which caused GDP growth and...

AIBO in the US

space, as such the role of a pet in a confined space, or where pets are not allowed by landlords, is not a large market. However, ...

Post 1989 Japanese Stock Market and the Nikkei

In six pages this paper examines the Nikkei in a consideration of the post 1989 Japanese stock market. Twelve sources are cited i...