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Communication and Perception

from the West in so many respects, including the manner in which different cultures go about conducting business. Following are e...

Japan's Outlook on World Politics

to repair the damage done its reputation by its fierce attacks on its neighbors throughout the region in the 1930s and 1940s. A re...

Protectionism in Japan

Japan's protectionist practices under the Meiji government have come under attack from the west, as a more open market for importe...

Japanese History

This paper discusses the history of Japan in 7 pages which includes the Tokugawa Shogunate and its importance, contrast and compar...

Middle East Foreign Policies of Lebanon

nation. The term welfare may be focused on the economy, achieving peace in a nation or region, or any other goal that nation might...

John Dower's Embracing Defeat

Postwar Japan's development as presented by John Dower in Embracing Defeat is examined in a paper consisting of five pages....

Foreign Policy of Indonesia

The colonisation of the Indonesia may be seen as starting with the establishment of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in 1602, an...

Japan and Population Migration

barrier, anecdotal evidence suggests that substantial transfer of Japanese production methods has taken place and that this transf...

Terrorism/Comparing Countries

the threat of bio-terrorism (Dammer and Fairchild 304). France : France, also, has long had to cope with terrorism, as the Frenc...

One Way to Determine Effectiveness of Leadership Development

A journal article is reviewed in this essay, Understanding the effects of leadership development on the creation of organizational...

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...

Office Ladies of Japan

them may be university graduates (The Economist, 1998). In Japan at present there are over 10 million young unmarried women, by y...

Japan and Juvenile Delinquency

In nine pages Japan's youth culture his historically considered in a discussion of juvenile delinquency with East and West social ...

Corporate Culture: Impact Upon Customer Relations And Social Responsibility

is not something often at the forefront of modern day business dealings. According to Lena C. Pripp-Kovac, head of corporate resp...

Behavior and the Effects of Culture

community or society. A set of values, beliefs, and attitudes shared by most members of that community" (Crane, 2005). Crane (200...

Starbucks In South Korea

the South Korean offers this privilege. Another important practice is to share ones business card with everyone, the most apprecia...

Japan, Contrasting Views

Japan's emergence as a modern power has been chronicled as a major tale of the 20th century. This paper compares Kenneth Pyle's Th...

Patient Care and Issues of Culture and Language

student--in respect to hospitalization. One question that also arises is whether the culture of the non-English speaking patient p...

A Theoretical Approach To Cultural Change Within An Organization

are required. The concept of culture may be seen as the embodiment of the norms, values and beliefs. These may be seen...

Can Cultural Values Have A Significant Impact On Business Structure, Strategy And Economic Performance At A National Level?

in the following way; " if the market is the fundamental means of allocating resources then, in order to work properly, it must be...

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...

Culture of Japan and Zen Buddhism

into Zen Buddhism, which absorbed much of its metaphysical orientation from Taoist teachings (Suzuki 4). Unlike Indian Buddhism,...

Transracial Adoption

families differ there is the potential for a number of problems. Transracial adoptions might be considered necessitated by ...

Constructing a Research Interview

to ask questions that will elicit meaningful responses but not embarrass or insult the interviewee. That answers one of our questi...

Symbolic Representation Of National Identity

over of very specific boundaries that prove to delineate a mandated proximity and/or behavior man has imposed upon his own species...

Postcolonialism In Korea, China And Japan

mean that a country or region was "colonized" by another nation. It can simply refer to political or other ideals and how they hav...

Religion: Symbols, Systems, Thought and Practice

strong independent Church (based on the assumption of the Corpus Christianum common to all three confessions) through which he des...

Political Questions Pertaining to Asia

Democracy, say Communist opposition, is necessary for China to modernize, inasmuch as the fundamental essence of modernization is ...

Economic Relations Between Thailand and Japan

In twenty pages the economic relationships between these two nations are discussed in a consideration of such topics as Thailand's...

Chinese and Japanese Economic Relationship

In fifteen pages this paper discusses how Chinese economic prosperity has been linked to exports to Japan and Japanese foreign dir...