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documentary that asked why American manufacturing enterprises could not be as successful as Japanese enterprises (Heller, 2005). B...

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

manage them more effectively. Mayo undertook the Hawthorne studies, here a group of workers were separated and given special treat...

century, for example, the Japanese Emperor Go-Daigo attempted to overthrow the shogunate, the defacto government vying for power w...

comply with U.S. labor laws, including the EEOC, no matter where their operations are but they must also comply with local laws an...

dwelling places are like that, always changing (Chomei). The water imagery calls Walden Pond to mind; it also is strongly remin...

expected and takes places as part of the usual culture, as seen in areas such as Mallorca, where the dialect may be seen as very s...

1886, "it maintained the system in its colonies" (Yuki and Ross, 1997, p. 135). The United States never instituted such a nationw...

set for hatred and anger from the Japanese, who were bitter towards any race not their own. They believed that action against Chin...

boy of 16, was less than polite to the Nakamura family and seemed very racist, constantly telling the family he had wanted to go t...

When his master died he began to wander and travel, as a pilgrim (Hermitary). After a few years of traveling it seems that a perso...

hatred and prejudice was not the result of anything they had done but rather the result of the physical and cultural differences b...

the Keiretsu structure, how it operated and how it may impact on the commercial environment and the operations of the member and n...

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

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...

about three or four percent of the population with either Buddhist, Daoist or Muslim at one or two percent ("China," 2005). Japa...

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

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

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

a direct influence of globalization in Japan, for leading world economies are so interlaced and interdependent as globalization pr...

presented a lot of problems and a lot of burdens for many people. "Since the daimyo was a person of considerable status, he was ex...

traditions and societies" (Said, 1979, pp. 45-6). Nakashima (2001) touches upon an issue that has long eluded multicultural...

had asked the court to dismiss the case, but the citing of the US case was key in influence a denial of that motion at the Osaka c...

franchising with the Krispy Kreme Corporation. The first legal issue would be whether or not franchising was legal in Japan. Other...

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

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares street crime in Japan and the U.S. from a sociological perspective. Ten sources ar...

from one epoch to another. The title symbolized customs of the past, but it could also be adapted to whatever future social or ec...

only recourse was to allow Korea to become annexed by Japan. Japanese militants occupied Korea and attempted to quell the disquiet...

the other religions of the land. This, he believes, is a wise move, and it would seem to echo what was happening in England at the...

Harbor" (Sageous, 2002). The fact that they went ahead with the attack was based on their assumption that the attack would elimin...