Japan does business in a wide range of industries and the Japanese are open to receiving imported products. ... Why is Japan so successful in their business endeavors? ... Culture can be defined as values, beliefs, ways of thinking, behavior, and customs that have been passed on from generation to generation. ... There are several virtues highly valued in Japan. ... Conversations may seem awkward in Japan. ...

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The first person is Jeanne Wakatsuki, a second generation Japanese American. ... Although Jeanne's family had some typical Japanese traditions, none of the children spoke any Japanese. Jeanne was a second generation Japanese American along with her brothers and sisters. This meant she was an American citizen, something her parents and other first generation Japanese Americans could not become. ... The wartime hate against Japanese was at its peak. ...

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Members of Girls' Generation Yuri and Seohyun in the music video for "Secret," made to promote Pantene shampoo However, it would be amiss to label the physical sales of music as the primary product being sold in the culture industry of K-pop. ...

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Mobile telephony has evolved over time and is classified as either first, second or third generation: 1st generation systems, AMPS (advanced Mobile Phone Systems) were predominantly based on analogue transmission. This system has now been switched off in Australia and replaced by Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA). 2nd generation systems which are digital with a European digital standard, Global Systems for Mobile Communications (GSM), was introduced into Australia in 1993 by Telstra and is used by Optus, Vodafone, Hutchinson/Orange. 3rd generation systems are also digital and availab...

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Ranging from th e times of the Chinese in California to the migration of Japanese and Korean workers on the sugar plantations in Hawaii, all faced various forms of racism and dealt with individual problems in their own fashions. ...

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In this new multicultural age American citizens could be of Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Haitian, Russian, Bosnian, Native American, or Indian ethnic descent. ... The following observation by a young professional businessman in China can be used to demonstrate our argument: It was reported that the Japanese made color TV sets dominated the imported TV set market in China during the period of later 1980s to the 1990s. ...

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In the past, second generation children were encouraged to adopt the customs, culture, and language of what was identified as the majority culture. ... According to survey data, even Spanish, a language thought to be particularly enduring in the United States, seldom lasts beyond the second or third generation. ...

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With the baby generation aging, opportunities exist for the penetration of new markets. The Japanese market accounting for a great chunk of the Asian Market is an untapped one for foreign manufacturers. ... The Japanese producers Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, and Suzuki are producing a full line of motorcycles ranging from scooters to heavyweights, and together control the largest share of the market. ... Japanese companies' success began with copying other products, but evolved to depend on innovative designs and technology. ... It is also to offer a guaranteed resale value (that most Japanes...

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Simplex has four sequential stages: problem generation, problem conceptualization, solution optimization, and solution implementation. ... For well over 50 years the United States have done a great deal of trade with Japan but over two-thirds of these negotiations fail even though both sides are interested in making a successful agreement (Herbig & Gulbro, 1997). ... Japan is considered a high context society that tends to use high context messages o...

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Outline 1. About Citigroup A. Company Information I. History II. Worldwide III. Community IV. The reason for Success B. Careers I. Employee Programs 2. Citigroup's Businesses A. Our Businesses I. Citibank II. Smith Barney III. Travelers Life &Annuity IV. Primerica B. Financial H...

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THE LAND 1. Vietnam, first of all, is an oddly shaped country, stretching like a letter "S- along the coast of mainland Southeast Asia from the Chinese border to the gulf of Thailand. Vietnam measures over 1,000 miles from north to south and often less than 100 miles from east to west. Its we...

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Many people of my parent's generation look up to Kennedy and realize his true importance as a real American hero, especially the African-American population. ... Kennedy when he saved his crew when the PT-109 he was commanding was split in two by a Japanese destroyer near the waters of Solomon Island. ... That night, John Fitzgerald Kennedy showed how a true American would not back down to anybody by standing up to the mighty Japanese destroyer. ... Because of his young, energetic, and ambitious political lifestyle he was presented as the new generation of politicians (Berry 6). ...

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Studies of families in which members of each generation develop bipolar disorder found that those with the illness have a somewhat different genetic makeup than those who do not get ill. ... In some families, major depression also seems to occur generation after generation. ... Japanese (like Roman) society has traditionally accepted or encouraged suicide where matters of honor were concerned. Thus, the president of a Japanese company whose food product had accidentally poisoned some people killed himself as an acknowledgment of responsibility for his company's mistake...

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"Since ethnic groups who migrate to North America form areas of lower risk (Japan, Southeast Asia) adopt the higher risk of the "average" woman in North America within 1-2 generations. ... If a family has breast cancer in three or more generations with several members of each generation affected, these families may benefit from genetic counseling. ...

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Many of their products reached neighboring countries such as Siam, Cambodia, India, China, Japan, Borneo and the Moluccas. ... The foreign trade was carried extensively with the neighboring countries of China, Japan, Siam (now Thailand), Borneo, Cambodia, India, Malacca, Java, Sumatra and others. ...

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Initially by the Japanese, then the Manchus. ... In the late 19th century this policy took its toll, while other countries were experiencing industrial and military growth, the Koreans were unprepared and fell to Japanese imperialism. The Japanese occupation ended at the close of World War II. ...

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 MA Curating Contemporary Design 2014/15 Title: "If the curator's task is to medicate between art and its audience, does her task differ when she deals with decorative arts from what she does when dealing with fine art?" Submitted by: Liu Shengnan + K1153705 Submission date: 07/Jan/15. ...

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Vampires: Folklore Throughout the Ages What, exactly, is a vampire? (Thompson: Motif E 251. Vampire- Corpse which comes from grave at night and sucks blood). Does a vampire require a long black cape, fangs, and a mansion in Transylvania? Or can a vampire be any undead person roaming around somewh...

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He was a seventh generation Roosevelt. ... Then when Japan went to war with Russia over control of Manchuria and Korea in 1905, Roosevelt arbitrated the dispute. He secretly agreed to Japanese control of Korea; in return the Japanese promised to keep their hands off China, Hawaii, and the Philippines. ...

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He was a seventh generation Roosevelt. ... Then when Japan went to war with Russia over control of Manchuria and Korea in 1905, Roosevelt arbitrated the dispute. He secretly agreed to Japanese control of Korea; in return the Japanese promised to keep their hands off China, Hawaii, and the Philippines. ...

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The Macroeconomics 2301 class enrolled at Tarrant County College " Southeast has organized in class research teams under the direction of Dr. McKizzie. The goals of the trams will be to focus on research toward closing the gap between two countries that have a germane resource. One country will be established as the prototype for performing best practices in the production, the distribution, as well as the consumption of a comparable resource and its effect on the prototype country's GDP growth and efficiency. The comparable country will be proven by data to be the under-performing ...

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According to Sirota, Mischkind & Meltzer (2005), from the analysis of their research on employee attitudes, which was based on never before-published case studies and data from 920,000 employees from 28 multinational companies over four years, resulted in the generation of hard data to prove that the share price of organisations with highly engaged employees increased on average by 16% in 2004 in comparison to the industry average of 6%. ...

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Heart disease is the number one killer in the United States and several other industrialized countries such as Germany and Japan. ... Morality enforces standards of behavior and expectations that, when not immutable, can take generations to change. ...

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Adam Ruppel Professor Stover Religion and the Modern World 4 December 2014 The After Life The afterlife and how one gets there is as diverse as the different religions explored in this research. In some form or fashion, on average, the religions explored for the purposes of this assignment, belie...

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* Thus, the first principle of public environmental order establishes the obligatory nature of this control system aimed at the evident general good not only of the present generation but those to come: sustainable development must not be abandoned to market forces but must be a responsibility of the state...

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