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Japanese Work Ethics Vs American
2,092 words... annot hire, fire, or hold back promotions. The company does the hiring and the managers and supervisors motivate via style, trust, goodwill, and cooperation. Promotions are dependent on longevity first, ability and accomplishment second. Employees are placed according to their abilities with the brighter picking up the heavier load and the less able a lighter load. There are no stars. Everyone is part of the team. Management trainees are switched every two to three years in a circulating eff...
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Second World War Bomb Was Dropped
3,349 wordsAt 11: 02 a. m. , August 9, 1945 an atomic bomb exploded 500 meters above this spot. The black stone monolith marks the hypocenter. The fierce blast wind, heat rays reaching several thousand degrees, and deadly radiation generated by the explosion crushed, burned and killed everything in sight and reduced this entire area to a barren field of rubble. About one-third of Nagasaki City was destroyed and 150, 000 people killed or injured, and it was said at the time that this area would be devoid of...
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Billion Dollar Industry Animated Films
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592 wordsThe Japanese Tea Ceremony has been a tradition in the Japanese culture for many years. The ceremony incorporates much of the Buddhist religion with the ideals of Zen. The ceremony has many steps that end with drinking tea that is said to cleanse the spirit. In order to obtain a complete understanding of the cultural significance of the ceremony, it is necessary to understand the history behind the ceremony and how it evolved into what it is today. Tea was first introduced to Japan by a group of ...
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1,520 wordsCulture exists in every society. It is the specific learned norms based on attitudes, values and beliefs. Culture is often based on long standing traditions that have been passed from elders to the younger generation. It can be evolved through societal and religious influences. Changing culture, though difficult, can be done through choice or imposition. When culture are isolated they tend to stabilize and change is slow or ceases. When culture makes contact with other cultures, a type of cultur...
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Younger Generations Cultural Influences
1,603 wordsThe Japanese culture has allowed for very little diversity. This started very early in their history. The social controls used to eliminate diversity are the family, the power of gender, the poor treatment of minority groups, the corporate Japanese mentality, and the respect required by people in authority. However, due to globalization and the shrinking of the world, Japanese society is starting to make the change to diversity. The individualistic mentality shared by the new technology driven y...
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Examining Japanese Sports And Games
346 wordsThe topic I chose is Japanese sports and games, especially sumo and other sports. I chose Japan because I went to a camp where some Japanese tourists were staying and I met some great people. They were so friendly and kind that I want to find out more about their culture. I chose sports because I like to play sports and Im interested in what kinds of things they like to do in their free time. I took a Japanese odyssey class in elementary school and I learned some interesting facts about the Japa...
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One Of The Greatest Bruce Willis
1,442 wordsThe Similarities of Culture in Western and Samurai Movies Nowadays, in the times when the nations of the world try to find their own unique features, and differentiate each other on the global arena, it is oftentimes only the culture that unites the people of different states. Seemingly very different from the first sight, the American and Japanese cultures are very similar and close to each other in their essence. Through the long history of the US Japan relationships there were both: the rises...
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2004 From The World Wide Tea Ceremony
1,850 wordsCulture of Japan Because of its isolation from continental influences, Japan has developed a unique and fascinating culture, in which thousand years old traditions and customs are combined with wide using of modern technologies and innovations in every minute of peoples daily life. That is why Japan can be named as a country of contradictions, and there is hardly possible to find another place on earth overflowing with more differences and contrasts. Japan with the population exceeding 125 milli...
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Omniscient Narrator Cultural Beliefs
1,346 wordsSocieties are molded through beliefs, customs, and culture. Sociologically, culture dictates the way in which its respective society and its individuals act or react to certain instances and events. Culture is viewed as very important to many people and ethnic groups and can be as extreme as being the epitome of ones existence. In Mishima's Patriotism, the two main characters, Shinji and Reiko, depict strongly the impact and effects of a persons behavior due to cultural beliefs. The reader can n...
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Wife And Children Japanese Culture
496 wordsJapan: An Independent Dependant Nation The main element of Japanese culture is their idea of a family oriented nation. There is no focus on the individual. In the Japanese culture your job comes before your wife and children, your wife and children come before you, and you come before nothing. There is no individual separation; there is only group separation. There is also the idea of others benefit for your benefit. Along with these two ideas, creativity of the individual is very discouraged. Y...
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Martial Arts Tokugawa Period
1,258 wordsIn Japan, especially during the earlier periods of Japanese history such as the Tokugawa, physical adeptness was much revered and valued. This was mainly because of the fact that these strengths were the basis on which much of the population depended upon for survival during these fairly turbulent periods. Throughout time, Japan has been a very organized and scrupulous society, and even its style of physical combat has been sorted into specific categories according to what particular method is b...
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Tea Ceremony Zen Buddhism
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Parent Child Relationship Retirement Funds
4,140 wordsJapanese Work Ethics vs American Ethics For an American to consider the Japanese from any viewpoint for any reason, it is important for us to remember that they are products of a unique civilization, that their standards and values are the results of several thousand years of powerful religious and metaphysical conditioning that were entirely different from those that molded the character, personality and habits of Westerners (De Mente, p. 19). To understand the Japanese, it is necessary to have...
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Billion Dollar Industry Animated Films
1,321 wordsThe term anime refers to a distinctive tradition in Japanese animation that is almost immediately recognized by its superior artistic quality. Animation from Japan, also known as anime or japanimation is quite different from any other kind of animation including America? s. Animation in Japan is like that of the movie industry in America. There are categories ranging from sci-fi and action adventure to romance. Anime in the Japanese culture plays a major role in their lives. Voice actors become ...
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Manga And Anime Japanese Culture Women
438 wordsManga and Anime, as inviting and open as they may seem, are at heart the products of Japans culture. Despite its technological advancement, Japan somehow manages to retain much of its historical character, in addition to blending in the overwhelming influences of the West. The Japanese treatment of gender and gender relations has taken many turns over the last millennium, and manga and anime reflect those changes. Still, at the core of the culture lies certain fundamental beliefs that are provin...
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Japanese Animation Japanese Culture
2,263 wordsMickey Mouse Ni Ugoku (Move over Mickey) Cartoons are what most children grow up on. Watching the wacky antics of the talking cartoon animals and comically drawn human characters can amuse a child to no end. Yet when a child grows up, cartoons are no longer a socially acceptable and other forms of entertainment have to be found. Cartoons are classified as juvenile. This is just a tiny glimpse of an American view on American cartoons. It is true that cartons are basically made for children, but w...
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Cultural Identity Japanese Society
3,674 wordsJapan has always been considered a monolingual / monocultural country (cf. Grosjean, 1982). Although we have always had non-Japanese populations among us, there has never been any official policy to accept these peoples as Japanese. Lambert and Taylor (1990) note that in the United States, the majority of the population at least accept multilingualism and multiculturalism to be a positive phenomenon. However, although no statistical data exist to verify it, the Japanese are still a very homogene...
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Writing This Book Japanese Army
1,792 wordsThe main Nanking Chapter One The main point in chapter one was to give us a history of the Japanese people, and to rationalize why the Japanese army went to such extremes in Nanking. She uses examples of training rituals used by the Japanese army like extreme teaching procedures and terrible school conditions in Japan. I dont think she was trying to make an excuse for the Japanese army but she wanted to site a possible reason for the abuse. She talks about Japanese history and gives us lots of b...
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Lucent Technologies Japanese Culture
1,348 wordsTrip to Tokyo, Japan Trip to Tokyo, Japan Purpose of Trip: I will be traveling to Tokyo, Japan for six months on a business trip. I will be traveling with five other members of my organization at Lucent Technologies to assist Lucent- Japan in their process of developing and implementing an Indirect Channel in their country. Since I will be living in Tokyo for six months, it is expected of me to research and learn as much as possible about the Japanese culture and the proper etiquette expected of...
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