The role of the embassy revolves around facilitating Japan-Canadian relations in Japan. ... Canada's imports from Japan totalled C$13 billion. ... Japan's Foreign Direct investment in Canada in 2011 was C$12.8 billion, which came from 330 Japanese subsidiaries and affiliate companies that worked in Canada. ... Influencing many American game designers to created what games we play in Canada today. ... This takes the form of various programs and events in Japan. ...

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By creating a single North American market for vehicles, the Auto Pact allowed for the rationalization of the North American market for vehicle production. ... This was due from the rising complaints from countries like Japan. Japan and the European Union filed complaints with the World Trade Organization because they wanted to be able to export vehicles duty free into Canada from their plants from Japan and Europe. ...

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Starting with Japan, the appreciation of the yen after the Plaza agreement of September 1985 led to Japan's rapid increased FDI in East Asian Countries. Towards the end of the 1980s Japan turned out to be the world's largest source of FDI. Although almost 40% of this went to North America, up to 80% of all FDI to developing nations went to the ASEAN countries(Association of South East Asian Nations) and China with Japan still the most significant investor in South Korea, Thailand and Indonesia2. ... Although the effect is quite minimal in comparison to that of Latin America; Hong Kon...

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The key exchange in the Pacific Asian area in the post-Second World War period has been that of the Japanese and the Americans. It is this link that has provided the context of Japanese recovery and prosperity. The countries of the inner periphery of East Asia have prospered over a long period of economic development in the political and military shadow of the USA and the economic shadow of Japan. Thereafter the countries of the outer periphery of Southeast Asia have recently reoriented themselves towards the economic model of Japan. ... Yet in conclusion, it seems clear that the global in...

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Society usually speaks of culture in reference to origin, such as Japanese culture or Russian Culture, but we do not distinguish between the numerous groupings inside a national boundary. ... In English "Imperialism:" the Japanese have more to gain than lose by learning the language, a government panel recommended Japan consider adopting English as an official language in the future (45). ... The result of this is that in much of the world there is now a competition between two cultures, the local and the American. ... American culture is not by any means a world culture but it is making an...

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Teenagers in America watch TV at least for six hours per day, the minimum average elsewhere is for five hours per day. With such figures is not surprising that American inputs so much energy and of course money, into this business. Not only American money, but also foreign flows are invested in the US, market. ... Japanese Sony (n5), Canadian Seagram (n15), Dutch Philips (n18); and Australian News Corporation (n27), (O"Sullivant, 1990:179). ...

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Headquartered in Japan, the company has stayed competitive by setting up plants around the world using the entry mode strategy. ... Hyundai started off by sending employees to the US and Japan to gain knowledge on the automotive business. They were able to make an agreement with Mitsubishi in Japan who agreed to have the Korean company build nameplates with their designs, improving Hyundai's technical capabilities (Hyung & Jong-Sung 2011, p.7). ...

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Subway fast food chain is a prime example of globalisation where the American originated store has impacted on a global scale. ... New Zealand is particularly reliable for fruit and vegetables on off seasons, as well as products, which cannot be produced locally; for example, the multinational franchise Starbucks coffee imports their coffee beans into New Zealand from three main sectors of the world, Africa/Arabia, Latin America and Asia Pacific (About Starbucks Coffee Company New Zealand, 2013). ... Due to globalisation New Zealand's food opportunities have a broad range from westerni...

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Many wealthy European countries, the U.S.A and Japan use these tactics to support their own domestic economies, making it impossible for smaller, or less developed countries to gain a foothold in the global marketplace...

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Heller also mentioned that Canada was now looking for employees from Asian countries like India, Japan, China, Sri-Lanka and Malaysia to fill up their service sector and boost their economic transactions with customers in those Asian countries. ... Benitez was arguing is that whenever American Economy is booming and when they need cheap labor during war-time, they open the doors to all those Mexican labors waiting on the other side of the border to get a cheap job in USA. Then these American services toil these cheap laborers and extract all kind of work from them and sometimes even pamper the...

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The UN has sponsored a Global Compact to establish and promote a shared set of core values in the areas of labour standards, human rights and environmental practices between the UN and the business community The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) develops economic and social policy for its 29 members, which include the countries of North America, Western Europe (including Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland) and Japan, Korea, Australia and New Zealand. ...

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Empirical data and statistics provide substantial evidence that exposure to global economy has significantly boosted the economic growth in many developing countries especially in Asian countries like China, India , Japan and Singapore. ...

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