Violence in Japanese Schools
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A 5 page argumentative essay that contends school bullying will continue to be a major problem facing Japanese society. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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War Crimes:
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This 8 page paper discusses the history of war crimes and focuses specifically on what factors lead soldiers to commit crimes. This paper discusses specific war criminals as examples. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945”: A Critique of the Book by Edward Stanley Miller
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A 5 page critique of the contentions presented in this book concerning the relative value of internal verses battlefield planning which occurred between the latter years of the nineteenth century through the years of World War II. Examines the author’s categorization of military strategists into the categories of realists, adventurists, cautionaries, and thrusters. Supports his contention that it was the cautionaries and the realists who won the war, not the adventurists and thrusters. No additional sources listed.
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Western Influence on Asia and Africa
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A 6 page overview of the varying interactions of African and Asian countries to Western influence. Provides specific examples from Sudan, Gold Coast (Ghana), Kenya, Morocco, Japan, China, Ethiopia, and elsewhere. Emphasizes that these reactions varied from almost total cooperation to armed resistance and were dependent on a number of factors including time period, previous interrelationships, degree of Western penetration, and economics. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: PPAsiaAf.wps

What Should Japan do Now?
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A 10 page paper discussing the impasse at which Peru and Japan have arrived concerning extradition of Peru’s former president Fujimori, who Peru has charged with gross corruption and crimes against humanity. Fujimori was born in Peru of parents who had immigrated from Japan. They registered his birth, resulting in dual citizenship. Japan refuses to extradite based on Fujimori’s citizenship status plus the fact that it has no extradition treaty with Peru. The paper reviews the significance of the issue, the various arguments from both sides and provides a list of possible alternatives, including deferring to an international mediator for resolution. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: KSperuJapanFuji.rtf

Wiesel & Levi / Two Views On The Holocaust
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A 10 page research paper which analyzes the work of the two most preeminent witnesses to the Holocaust-Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi. The writer looks specifically at The Drowned and the Saved by Levi and the Night, Dawn, Day trilogy by Wiesel, and demonstrates that although these two men went through similar experiences, their ultimate orientation to those experiences are extremely different. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Women's Role During Japan's Heian Era
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10 pages in length. Women during Japan's Heian era (794-1192) were represented as a combination of an oppressed yet liberated gender, inasmuch as there existed significant patriarchal overtones but at the same time these oppressive tendencies were responsible for unleashing a wealth of literary mastery that may have forever lay dormant. While there was a certain population of women during Japan's Heian era who held high social position due to their business or personal relations, the primary focus rests upon those women who, by way of patriarchal influence, sought to break free from such constraints through the written word. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: TLCheian.wps

Women's Roles in the Work of(Japanese author) Hayashi Fumiko
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(4 pp) Hayashi Fumiko's work places Japanese women in the role of hero/heroine in a world that has previously only allocated that status, or "badge of honor" to men of prestige. As a person and an author she claims the right to wear that badge herself.
Filename: BBhayasi.doc

Yakuza
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A 25 page in depth paper on the Yakuza (Japanese Organized Crime Syndicates). The writer details the history, organization, activities of the Yakuza in Japan and abroad and also talks about Yakuza's linkage to other organized crime groups. Provided, are in depth discussions of past and recent Yakuza bosses, Yakuza activity in the international drug trade, sexual slavery, financial sabotage, corporate manipulation, loansharking, etc. Report is based on information obtained from Yakuza: Past & Present. Primary source cited in Bibliography.
Filename: Yakuza2.rtf

“A Modern History: Japan” by James L. McClain: Chapter 16
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A 5 page paper which summarizes chapter 16 of “A Modern History: Japan” by James L. McClain. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAjapan.rtf

“Comparison between Murakami and Akinari”
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A seven page paper which looks at the work of Haruki Murakami and Ueda Akinari, in particular TV People and Bewitched, and considers the way in which the themes of alienation and the influence of the supernatural on the real world are treated by the two writers. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: JLmurakami.wps

“Dimensions of Japanese Society: Gender, Margins and Mainstream”
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A 3 page review of the book by Kenneth Henshall. The author of this paper asserts that this book is not the typical exploration of Japanese society that we have come to expect from the modern press. The book distinguishes itself from the vast majority of the work written on Japan and her culture, in fact, in that it delves not only into the mainstream of Japanese culture but also the marginal aspects of that culture. Included is an expose on issues such as homosexuality and patriarchal domination, and the various other factors which serve to marginalize certain components of Japanese society. No additional sources are listed.
Filename: PPjapSoc.rtf