Examples are the Gurkha kukri of Nepal, the Malayan kris, the Japanese tanto, and the Bornese kurong. ... In feudal Japan, knights called samurai were the sword bearing class. "Japanese sword play became an art as well as a skill, with carefully observed rules that typified he Japanese concern for style in all aspects of life" (8). Samurai swords with family names inscribed on them were often handed down from father to son, generation after generation. ... By the sixteenth century, this Japanese sword bearing class faced the challenge of firearms, which caused them to hide in the depths of the...

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., Europe, Singapore, and Japan they are developing software so that the mobile can direct motorists to car parks with empty lots and collect domestic service bills. ... In fact, the English language has already gone through several generations of change because of technology. ... Another major change in the trend is that, the past it was the older generation, with vast education and experience, who innovated change. ... For the older generation, which has been known to under-use fancy gadgets like heavy duty computers and laser printers for administrative letters and four-wheel-drive cars for...

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Because of Australia's proximity on the globe, trade to and from South-East Asia, in particular Japan and China, has seen a steady, overall increase in the amounts of imports and exports we perform over the last thirty years. There has also been much work on improving the tarnished relationship between Japan and Australia after the second world war, and a peaceful future looks promising as Australia leads the world in the amount of students studying the Japanese and Chinese language, for a nation that doesn't speak it natively. ... Before and after the war years Japan became a very...

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During the 1990s, literature on the international political economy was dominated by the idea of globalization. Dramatic decreases in transport costs and the rise of fast and cheap telecommunications technology have made geography less relevant and facilitated massive increases in global trade and new forms of multinational production. Whether or not such developments are good or bad is a topic of ongoing political debate. Some argue that an expanding global economy provides new opportunities for the developing world to integrate into global markets and to achieve rapid rises in living standar...

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