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Canada, Japan, Lithuania, and Education Reform

felt these programs were not well supported or consistent across the territorial and provincial systems. In addition, most educati...

John Hersey's Hiroshima

loss of life and suffering. Many continue to claim that in reality there were no feasible alternatives to the use of atomic bombs...

U.S., Germany, and Japan Economies and Globalization

its influence is vast. This is both positive and negative. On one hand, the people are afforded some help from the government, but...

Questions About Economic Scarcity

an educated workforce are two factors that organizations look for when choosing an international site. Again, certainly the count...

HRM Practices in Europe and Asia: the Case of The UK and Japan

equality. However the employment relationship and foundation of HRM may be argued as going back to the days prior to the Industria...

Criteria Determining Quality of Life

and healthcare, needs that are obviously directly related to things such as longevity. What many fail to realize, however, is tha...

Origins and Influences of Buddhism

and responsible for the advent of Buddhism. To some extent, his unique history would lay the groundwork for his interest in spirit...

Conflict Over the Dolphin Slaughter in Taiji, Japan

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

PM CO. AND ASIAN MARKETS

culture -- in other words, they think on a collective level, rather than thinking individually, and will make decisions on a colle...

Connection Between Government Policy and Technology

as other, apparently unrelated policies that have an indirect effect and can either support or undermine the technology policies. ...

Japan Questions Answered

individual judgement in the name of spirit" (195-196). While military traditions are honored in the US, they are not innately asso...

Japan and Germany's Human Resource Management Policies

right to reward tenacity over productivity and performance. Right or not, pay based on seniority was the standard in each of the ...

Operations Management and Production of Japan

is touted as "Japans biggest pure consumer electronics company" (Anonymous, 2004), acknowledge how there was an unsettling impress...

Japan and Spreading Western Religion

that they were in contrast to many of the characteristic elements of Japanese culture (4). By 1564, some say that the missionarie...

Employment Destinations of Thailand and Korea

listen well, and communicate easily, patience as well as determination, the ability to transfer skills and apply knowledge across ...

China, Japan, and Europe Changes in Management

principle to be a need for consensus among all parties, neither predetermined by a contractual relationship nor by class distincti...

Foreign Direct Investment in Japan Proposal

low rank in foreign direct investment in the country has been due to cultural, legal and economic barriers (Jadallah, 2002). Japan...

New York City and Asian American High School Students

Asians account for only 13 percent of the high school student population but they account for a disproportionately large percentag...

U.S. and Japan Cultural Memory Influences of the Atomic Bomb

the United States make it as clear as possible that there was to be no more armed conflict. This second attack was instrumental i...

American and Japanese Street Crime

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares street crime in Japan and the U.S. from a sociological perspective. Ten sources ar...

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...

Rulers, Government and Religion

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

Japan and India as Potential Business Markets

this has been accompanied by lax lending policies and corruption leading to economic problems in the country over the last few yea...

Japan Airlines and eTicketing

airline which was bureaucratic and unfriendly. The main rival was that of All Nippon Airways (ANA) which was perceived in a more p...

Cultural Influences on HRM

arguments regarding the lack o of equality and the presence of the glass ceiling, the way that the issue is seen and the ways it i...

Education in Japan

student should note in that paper that MEXT designs curriculum; dictates administration; creates policy; and enforces policy. ...

Electronic Government

from their homes is unconscionable to the old fashioned. Of course, a good point is that there is more that can go wrong to compri...

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...

Cross Culture and Differences; Japan and the UAE

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

Why eBay Failed in Japan

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