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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 ...

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...

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). ...

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:...

Cultural Differences Between How Japanese and Americans Communicate

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

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...

The Diverse Disease of Dengue, Plague, Malaria, and the West Nile Virus

malaria first received widespread attention when it began to affect returning servicemen that had contracted the disease while se...

West Misperceptions of the History of East Asia

of French historian Michel Foucalt, and makes three principal arguments. The first argument that Said presents is that Orientali...

Thinking in the East and West

Eastern thought the teachings have originated from Tao thought and from ancient prophets more than philosophers. Nisbett (2004)...

Islamic World, the West, and the Relevance of Medieval History

is based solely upon the influence of culture. Louis Rene Beres 2001 article entitled Terrorism and the Global Clash of Civilizat...

Francis Parkman's La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West

which Parkman immediately begins to idealize La Salles character. For example, Parkman states that La Salle, as a youth, was attra...

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 ...

Sexual Culture of the West and Christianity's Impact

in Western cultures and set a standard for social expectations regarding virginity that separates the sexual identities of women a...

Ghana, West Africa Case Study on Breast Cancer, Behavior, Attitudes, and Knowledge

detected are already in the later incurable stages (Jones, 1999). There are many arguments regarding issues such the ethical res...

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 ...

Research Results on Ghana, West Africa Case Study on Breast Cancer

Research Report, 2002). Figure 1; Respondents Age Group Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent Valid Age...

Harvard Case Study of Japanese Businesswoman Sumiko Ito

value associated with women in the workplace. This discrimination then becomes a motivation, she is determined to get good job a...

Culture of Japan and Zen Buddhism

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

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...

Taoism, West, and Hinduism

Hinduism. There is not a very large population in the United States of practicing Hindus, but there are some, and it pays to explo...

Shinto The Kami Way by Ono

kami intuitively at the depth of their consciousness and communicate with the kami directly without having formed the kami-idea co...

Korematsu v. United States and an Assessment of the Patriot Act

them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antago...

Japanese Edo Art and Vincent Van Gogh's The Courtesan

the Japanese woman is "framed" by a pond that features water lilies, reeds and bamboo, as well as two figures in a boat, two frogs...

U.S. and Japan Health Care

(Wise, 2005). One of the major health issues in the U.S. and other Western countries is obesity (Wise, 2005). It is estimated tha...

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...