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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...

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...

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...

JAPANESE ECONOMY

and a corporate investment boom (Madsen and Katz, 2009). Combined with that were huge trade surpluses, which caused GDP growth and...

AIBO in the US

space, as such the role of a pet in a confined space, or where pets are not allowed by landlords, is not a large market. However, ...

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...

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 ...

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...

Structural Changes in the Japanese Workforce

permanent employment contract (Ogura, 2005). In many countries, especially those where there has been a general lower level of com...

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...

Art Analysis

superb, as its various elements naturally move the viewers gaze into the landscape and onward as the artist takes the viewer on a...

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...

RELIGIOUS BELIEF AND JAPANESE LITERATURE

Century Japan. Much like Genji, Bridge of Dreams has the same lyrical, almost dreamy prose to it. But unlike the men in Genji auth...

Japanese Management Style

as rotating jobs to avoid boredom and routine as well as the practices of having a career ladder program in each company (WIN Advi...

YEN, APPRECIATION AND G-7 ALTERNATIVES

would the G7 banks need to take to handle appreciation of this type? To answer this, it would be helpful to first understand what ...

JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF KOREA

adopt Japanese names and convert to Shintoism, the native Japanese religion (Life in Korea, 2006). Korean citizens were also prohi...

American and Japanese Women at Work

is nearly impossible to have a career and a family in Japan (Fackler). It is called the glass ceiling in America and the concrete...

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...

AMERICAN CONNECTOR AND DJC

his vision, and this could spell dire trouble for American Connector. One case in point is the companys design and implemen...

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...

1930s' Japanese Aggression and Its Reasons

would spring up and this influenced future governments to pass factory legislation that was sorely needed (2002). Japanese livin...

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 ...

Comparative Analysis of Japanese and Swahili Languages

as Zipfs law, that human languages follow a pattern that is characterized by the frequency of different words (Ravilious, 2003). ...

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...

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...

Japanese and British Societies and Cultures

Time is also significant in respect to the use of time, measures of time, as well as time orientation (2001). There are difference...