LIFE OF EARLY PREMODERN JAPANESE
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This 4 page paper discusses the life of the peasant in premodern Japan, as depicted by Mikiso Hane. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Management Styles / Comparison Between The U.S. and Japan
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A 5 page paper comparing management styles in Japan and the US. Not until the American public was tired of expensive inferior quality and started turning to the Japanese for increasing numbers of cars each year did American manufacturing take Japan seriously. The management style in the US had been that from the behavior school, with a fair amount of autocracy included. The chasm between labor and management was particularly wide in manufacturing operations, while a healthy labor-management attitude operated in Japan. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Matsu: Japanese Pine
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A 6 page paper which examines the types, uses and symbolic nature of the Matsu, or Japanese Pine. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Memories Of Silk And Straw
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This 5 page paper looks at Memories of Silk and Straw : A Self-Portrait of Small-Town Japan by Junichi Saga and argues that the result of the patriarchal society has been the cultural devaluation of women. No additional sources are listed.
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Modernization in Japan and China
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A 6 page research paper that discusses the fact that Japan managed to modernize in the middle of the nineteenth century while China did not and the effect that this had on these countries. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Moving To The City / Japan's Graying Farms
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A 6 page essay examining Japan's current trend away from the farms and into the cities. Family farms are being worked by owners well past working age while the families' children are opting for the life of the city, which seems to be freer and easier to live. The paper includes an analogy between the current Japanese migration from their ancient agricultural heritage to the American shift from farms to cities, comparing the similarities and differences in the cultural views of agriculture and those who make it their living. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Musui's Story
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5 pages in length. Musui's Story tells of the life of a samurai in the lower class of his society who gave up the aspirations expected of him in order to learn from those who were beneath him according to societal rules of the time. It is a fact that religion in society played a role in Musui's story, and that is the focus of this excellent paper.
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Occupied Japan
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The rapid economic growth of Japan after the end of World War II can be attributed, to a large degree, to the influence of American business ideals and the financial backing to allow Japanese industry to enter into the technological age. This 2 page paper briefly examines the effect of the American occupation of Japan on their postwar economy. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Office Architecture: Similarities Between Japan and the United States
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A 10 page observation of the many similarities shared by Japan and the United States in regard to office design and architecture. Accounts for these similarities with the theory of dominant ideologies, noting the Western influence on Japan which has been particularly obvious in the last one hundred or so years. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Preparation Methods of Japanese Vegetables
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This 5 page overview provides useful information on the preparation of traditional Japanese vegetable dishes. Methods for cooking shiitake mushrooms, tempura, and ways of creating authentic salads and salad dressings are included. Bibliography cites 4 sources.
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Professional Ethics
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A 4 page essay that examines a specific scenario in regards to its ethicality under two ethical codes of software engineering practice. The scenario is that an immigrant to the US from Kosovo has been in this country for fifteen years and has been successful in establishing a small software company. Because of the war devastation in Kosovo, this immigrant decides to seek out and hire only programmers who are also refugees from Kosovo. Does this scenario violate the codes of professional ethics? The writer discusses this question. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: khethsof.rtf

Questions on Japan's Postwar Development
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7 pages in length. This model paper answers several questions concerning Japan's postwar development. It also includes an essay comparing the works of Mishima's Patriotism with Kawabata's Snow Country. Both sections delved into the subject matter with excellent research and response. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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