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Historical and Cultural Differences in Photography and Printing in the East and West

how large. Interestingly enough, it is also the case that the artistic documentation of culture also serves as the instrument thro...

Japan and Korea/Immigration Issues

society, as with the Japanese, focused on negative factors, the positive orientation was, overall, more prevalent in Korea. On the...

COUNTRY RISK ANALYSIS: TELSA MOTORS AND JAPAN

2010). Added to this, we need to consider that certain types of business entities (such as branch offices and certain types...

A Rethinking of the Value of Nuclear Power

The April 2011 Japanese Earthquakes and the resulting Fukushima...

The Transition of Shinto to the Modern World

describing kami in too theological a fashion, because oftentimes these spirits are not understood to be literal spirits, but rathe...

DOING BUSINESS IN JAPAN VERSUS THE UNITED STATES

Provides a side-by-side comparison about doing business in Japan versus the United States. There are 3 sources listed in the bibli...

Civil Order Control, A Country Comparison

that describes the duty of local police to respond to any situation in which two or more citizens require supervision or control i...

Analyzing World Cultures and Gender Issues

much of her research on the importance of masculinity in Palestine, and how the Israeli occupation of their homeland has shaped th...

East Asia History, Tradition and Changes

of two, had found feet.3 This practice involved binding the feet of the child so tightly that it broke the bones, causing excrucia...

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...

Second World War and Racial Propaganda

In the eyes of propaganda, the American cultural commitment to individualism was transformed into overwhelming self-interest and a...

Traditional Japanese Footwear Geta and Zori

some traditions are simply not embraced. The zori is also known as the flip flop (Kim, 2003). Obviously, the Zori is rather sophis...

Automobile Industry Competitors Detroit and Japan

Japanese Toyota Fore Runner and the Japanese Nissan Pathfinder are leading the pack in sales. Even though General Motors Corpora...

East Asia Negotiations

is macho, it is akin to war, something that reflects their concept of masculinity (Martin et al, 1999). They have already decided ...

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...

The Reasons Why the Predictions of Karl Marx Never Materialized

such as the labor theory of value and economic determinism. Economic determinism, above all, embraces the concept that economic fa...

Reasons Behind Atomic Bombing of Japan by the United States

lost on the world, and is one of the reasons why the attacks remain controversial to this day. This paper explores the reasons gi...

U.S. Bombing of Japan

politically expedient to do so; Russia was about to enter the war, and Truman felt that dropping the bomb would show the Russians ...

Justifications for the Use of Atomic Bombs in World War II

is to argue that while we might have been misguided in our decision to utilize the newly devised atomic weaponry against Japan, ou...

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...

EBay and the Problems in Asia

is dealing with the Asian markets. When looking at China as an example some of these problems may be easier to assess. The strat...

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...

Why eBay Failed in Japan

trying to start a business there. Yahoo! Japan Auctions, by contrast required no such information to register. Furthermore, the ...

Japan and China After the Second World War

emperor asked the people of Japan to agree to peach "by enduring the unendurable and suffering what is insufferable by surrenderin...

Stigler and Hiebert's The Teaching Gap

to them the previous Friday and goes over this one (Stigler and Hiebert, 1999). The teacher explains how to do one of the problems...

A Review of Research Evaluating Green Tea Extract

A careful review of the experimental design and the potential motivations of the researchers is always wise. Otherwise the impact...

International Websites and Marketing

France (www.pepsi.tm.fr) falls somewhere between the two, with several frames of text included on a page that also includes "Pepsi...

Water Temple Design of Tadao Ando

of what might seem a harsh medium, concrete, the Water Garden is a collection of curving concrete walls that gently lead to the ob...

Overview of Okinawa, Japan

a fourteenth-century palace that doubled as a fortress during the war, housed Japanese soldiers far beneath its fortified structur...

Germany, Japan, and UK Identity Politics

cherished force in creating the national identity" (Allott, 1998). Minorities, therefore, seem to be less important in this conte...