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GERMANY VERSUS JAPAN: BATTLE OF CARS

the United States, for example, we have the "Big Three" auto manufacturers which, fairly or unfairly, have been maligned for poor-...

Japanese Consensus Decision Making

the recommended decision a decision (Ala and Cordeiro, 1999). When the decision has been agreed upon, the final decision is record...

Sakoku: Japan and Modern Isolationism

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

Ken Adachi's The Enemy That Never Was A History of the Japanese Canadians

kept separate from others, and how many different policies worked to keep the Japanese under the thumb of the government. He indic...

Automotive Industry and Management Theory's Evolution

employed skilled craftsmen, and if an employee left a replacement would be easy to train (Taylor, 1998). The development of Sci...

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...

Formation of the Japanese Family in Five Years on a Rock by Milton Murayama

years of hard work they were still more than five thousand dollars in debt - by leaving her Hawaiian hell, however, she could no m...

Student Supplied Case Study on New Acme's Kazem Japanese Division

trust and empower employees. Looking to theory Zuboff (1988) saw structures that were flatter and gave employers more discretion a...

Early Literature and Poetry of China and Japan and Women

gap through which women continued to receive and even some praise from men in regards to their abilities as writers (Reichhold). ...

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:...

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 Differences Between How Japanese and Americans Communicate

in which: "most of the meaning is either implied by the physical setting or presumed...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Culture of Japan and Zen Buddhism

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

Japanese Wives Role Annotated Bibliography

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

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 ...

American and Japanese Cultures Case Study

just be that the customer service department gets an overhaul. In fact, many firms today are criticized for giving shoddy customer...

The Role of Married Women in Japan

entire society will suffer. Why limit the contributions of half the population because of the tradition of male dominance? Becau...

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...

Cultural Differences and Business Communications

They may all rely on email, fax transmission, and other forms of immediate and electronic communication but they are still steeped...

Kaizen Style of Management

approach work challenges by looking for dramatic results and the resurgence of reengineering demonstrates a desire for the huge re...

Japan and the Keiretsu Barriers to Trade

shocks (Ishinomori et al, 1996). Secrecy shrouds many of these family groups, and it is difficult to find out many allegiances, es...

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...