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Japanese Wives Role Annotated Bibliography

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

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 ...

Resurfacing a Lost Tale of Courage, Survival and Injustice in Doug Stanton's In Harm's Way

the survivors accounts of the torpedoing of the Indianapolis by the Japanese on July 30 and the desperate efforts to survive that ...

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...

Why Pearl Harbor Was Unavoidable: A Japanese Perspective

Great Britain, Japan would be limited to constructing ships of three tons (Slackman 4). This, combined with the increased U.S. pr...

“The Line” by Arch and Martin Flanagan

five men he knows who "fought and suffered in the Asian theatre of World War II," four returned with "the imprint of Eastern philo...

American Life through Japanese Eyes

were very aware of, and proud of, their ethnic heritage. In addition to saying "Im Catholic," a person might also identify their e...

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...

JIT, TQM, Quality

Companies who adopt JIT usually gain all of these benefits, which gives them a competitive advantage. Adopting the JIT philosoph...

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...

Analysis of Rashomon

has probably viewed this film, this writer/tutor has not. Also, the Paper Store charges a considerable fee for watching a film in ...

Japanese and Maasai Cultures

that it is comprised of many different cultures. This paper briefly considers two: the ancient cultures of Japan and the Maasai tr...

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....

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...

Sakoku: Japan and Modern Isolationism

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

Japanese Automobile Industry

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

Japanese Values and Business Culture

means that the Japanese revere them greatly, and that they are important parts of current Japanese culture. Their cultural values...

Prostitution in Japanese Culture

1886, "it maintained the system in its colonies" (Yuki and Ross, 1997, p. 135). The United States never instituted such a nationw...

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...

The Japanese Samurai

century, for example, the Japanese Emperor Go-Daigo attempted to overthrow the shogunate, the defacto government vying for power w...

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...

Twentieth Century Immigration in America

Spanish-language rhetoric on the radio and in the cafes" (29). In addition to conveying the flavor of Latin-American life, Tobar ...

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...

Relationships: The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang

set for hatred and anger from the Japanese, who were bitter towards any race not their own. They believed that action against Chin...

The Myth of the Melting Pot

we like, and in public, since these people attacked us first. The problem with this distorted thinking is that it is the product...

Stories: Japan

boy of 16, was less than polite to the Nakamura family and seemed very racist, constantly telling the family he had wanted to go t...