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Japanese Architect Studios and a Team Zoo

In ten pages this paper discusses the Nago City Hall and Miyashiron community center in a consideration of a Japanese architectura...

Comparing Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai with Homer's 'The Iliad'

heroic ideal of the young and noble combatant who appears to be destined to die at an early age on the battlefield. Achilleus is ...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombing Causes

In five pages this paper discusses the events that culminated in the U.S. bombing of these Japanese cities. Five sources are list...

Conflict and Pressure

inherent ability to pursue even the most complex of concepts. Not unlike his myriad other works, which include the famous Floweri...

Book Reviews on the Japanese Samurai

In ten pages this paper reviews various texts on the Japanese Samurai class including Harry Cook's Samurai: The Story of a Warrior...

Post 9 11 and Civil Rights

accident. Of course, China tells almost the opposite story. One wonders then how much propaganda is being disseminated. During a t...

Zen Buddhism and the Japanese Tea Ceremony's Importance

years, was defined by a set of Vedic scriptures (Basham 8). Following a distinct separation from Hinduism, the Buddhists followed...

Sculpture of Early Japan

figurines represented the earliest of the Japanese deities and were included within the religious observances. One sculpture, in ...

Comparing U.S. and Japanese Politics

governed by a Prime Minister who is elected by the members of the Diet. The Prime Minister then chooses members of his cabinet, mu...

Postwar Success of Japan

Emperor was stripped of his rank and power, most would say that he and the nation of Japan lost much face because of it. In Japane...

Kaisha, a Japanese Corporation According to Abbeglen and Stalk

the evolution of both U.S. and European industry in order to check the advances of the Japanese (1985). The sinister conspiracy th...

Economy Growth and Employment of Japan

In twelve pages this paper discusses the post Second World War creation of the Japanese Employment System and how it is currently ...

Hybridized Identity and Canada's Little Tolerance

the pain and suffering forced upon the Japanese Canadians after a political panic swept through post-Pearl Harbor. Their experien...

Architecture of a Hawaiian Home for an Irish Japanese Family

human being and the human beings relationship to both community and structure. Sissons (1998) explains that in many circumstances ...

Second World War Japanese Canadians' Internment and Treatment

(National Association of Japanese Canadians, 2002). During World War II, the War Measures Act allowed the Canadian Cabinet to expe...

Black Rain Review and Criticism

yet sympathetic short stories about ordinary people in Japanese life. Black Rain is considered a novel distinct from all other tex...

Ethnic Groups in the United States

views. Generally, the idea of ethnic or racial tolerance takes two approaches; in the one, acceptance consists of ignoranc...

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...

UK Supermarket Tesco's and Possible Japan Expansion

In ten pages this paper discusses a proposed Tesco's expansion into the Japanese market in a discussion of competitive advantages,...

Shinto vs. Buddhism

West (pp. 8). But he also makes a statement that reflects the points to be covered in this report when he explains that each of th...

Swordsmithing of Japan

a better sword (Japanese Sword Making). When Muramasa held his sword upright, it cut every leaf that graced its tip perfectly in ...

Second World War Torturing of US Prisoners of War by Japan

forgive and forget. It does however help to explore what happened in those camps in Japan during World War II. Although by and la...

Japan and Crime

the number of misbehaving children and incidents of juvenile delinquency" (Ministry of Education, 2001). The objectives of the r...

Overview of the Exotic but Very Poisonous Puffer Fish

exist in controlled conditions for economic purposes (Labb?e, 2003, p. 42). Puffer fish earned its name because when threatened, ...

1400 to 1700 Japanese Relations with the West

Shogun Yoshimitsu had developed trade relations with Ming China and indirectly acquired Western goods. However, the new government...

Early 20th Century U.S. Immigration of the Japanese

For the purpose of comparison two articles from vastly different publications were chosen from the extensive list which immediatel...

Goodbye Tsugumi and N.P. by Banana Yoshimoto

narrates her story with forthright honesty. She explains that--while she is named after the Virgin Mary--she is far from saint-lik...

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...

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 ...