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Essays 601 - 630

The 'World Window' of Animations

important role in education, especially for children. In a recent UK Communications Reform White Paper it was stated that "TV sche...

Atomic Bomb and Decision Making

"To achieve the desired goals or maximize utility, an actor must choose among certain alternatives" (Model Theory, 2002). The alt...

Natural Function of Performance Appraisals

survival of the species, but the females of many species look with disdain on the losers of battle between the males. These femal...

One Method for Quality Improvement

Dr. W. Edwards Deming was a statistician and was asked to help the Japanese government with their post-war census. While there, he...

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...

Guangzhou Guowei Piped LPG Development Co., Ltd. Financing

Chinese market and knows it well. It has suggested that it extends a $10 million loan to GG at an interest rate equal to LIBOR (L...

Mabuchi Motor Company Case Study Analysis

kudos from the United States. The issue being addressed is management in different cultures and through the use of one case stu...

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...

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...

Religion in Japan

Because of this syncretism, this merging of major religious philosophies and beliefs, understanding Japanese religion can sometime...

Case Study of Japan's Komatsu Limited

such as the "F and F" project - Futures and Frontiers. Through this project, the company asked all employees to contribute ideas a...

US Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Cannot be Justified

inhumanities against our fighting forces" (Benson V1-V2). Supporters for dropping the bomb have conveniently skewed the fac...

Cultural Ideals and Plays of Chikamatsu

giri. Osan says, "I could see that you were drifting towards suicide. I felt so unhappy that I wrote a letter, begging her as one ...

Japanese Management Styles and the Employment Relationship

would sit down and hold negations. This was a situation where neither side would actually win, but it is this confrontational styl...

A Review of the Eighteenth Century Play The Love Suicides At Sonezaki

only option it seems is for him and Ohatsu to commit suicide. In the last lines of the poem he laments:...

Yoko Ono, Artist

the likes of John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns (Wiener, 1998). In 1961, Yoko returned to Japan with Cage in order ...

Australia's Orix Fleet Services Planning

In six pages this Australian owned subsidiary of a Japanese company is discussed in terms of goals, performance, and parent corpor...

Analysis of Harvard Business School Komatsu Case Study

success. While a firm can have a lot of things, image can prove quite valuable. Komatsu has handled itself well. Komatsu has been ...

Student Supplied Case Study on a Japanese Joint Venture and Labor Problems

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

Japanese Wives Role Annotated Bibliography

4. Izuhara, M. (2000). Family Change and Housing in Post-War Japanese Society. Burlington, VT: Ashegate Publishing. This analy...

Japan, American and European Cars

motor vehicles were sold, 180,166 of them were not Japanese brands (Kyi, 2003). German brands had the greatest share of foreign ca...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Second World War and Japanese Internment in the US

most of whom were U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens. They were detained for up to 4 years, without due process of l...

Overview of the Case Korematsu v. United States

In five pages this essay discusses this controversial case in an overview that also examines a previous Japanese American curfew d...

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...

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...