Essays on Tokyo

One of the main advantages of literature lies in its ability to communicate various cultural experiences and provide greater knowledge and deeper understanding of foreign traditions for the reader. In the Western civilization, Eastern religious traditions and cultures informed by them are perceived with interest, fascination and even fear; while lack of understanding can often impair successful interaction and communication. In addressing the issue of religious values, the authors of two books, Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us about Living in the West and Children of Dust: A Portrait of a Muslim as a ...

The Mars Climate Orbiter: A Multimillion Dollar Mistake

The Story Grossman (1999) addresses the incident of NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter in her article named “Metric Math Mistake Muffed Mars Meteorology Mission”. She explains how a simple unit conversion mistake caused the Orbiter to burn up in the Martian atmosphere. The vessel costed NASA a whopping $125 million when it vanished into the Martian atmosphere. The problem, later identified by a NASA review board, owed to a software glitch. The software was used to calculate the thrust in “pounds of force” while the other software took the input in “newtons”. This happened due to the fact that ...

Income statement analyses

This is also called the income and expenditure account analyses or the profit and loss analyses whereby the sales less the costs should either give a profit or a loss depending on the product line. With regard to the ViiToR XP, sales are expected to rise over the next two years given the activity as has been studied over the past quarter. In the Asia Pacific region the sales are expected to rise by 17.36% each quarter based on the sales that have been lost due to stock outs. The costs of producing these products are not going to ...

Communication

The cost of living – relative to other cities, the cost of living is arguably high in both the cities, going as high as hundred times higher in some instances. According to the Expertise cost of living index, New York City (United States of America) has a higher cost of living, ranking 169 per cent higher than Prague (Czech Republic), the central reference city. Tokyo (Japan), being 135 per cent more expensive than Prague, has a slightly lower cost of living than New York. This means New York is 34 percent more expensive than Tokyo in Japan. The cost of ...

Everyone desires to understand the significance of life, to unveil the importance of human beings and reconcile that importance to the surroundings. Many philosophers, alive and dead, from Descartes to Eve Cole, have indulged in the question of the significance of a human life, and the relationships that people form. In real life situations, many leaders; religious, political and academic, push forwards thoughts about life. Professional counselors and psychologists make a lot of money by telling people how they can achieve their full potential. In the literal works; Doll House by Ibsen, The Plague by Albert Camus, Ikiru by ...

Introduction

Geographic and Language The Asiatic geophysical location of Japan places its collective land masses in Eastern Asia, situated in the northerly Pacific Ocean, bounded by the Sea of Japan on the other side. According to the data source experts at Index Mundi, beyond the adjacent oceanic water bodies, its latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates are 36 00 N, 138 00 E (“Japan – Geography,” 2015). In terms of mapping references, Japan lies east of China’s enormous nation. For considerations of the business traveler who intends to travel to Japan, for pending negotiations settlements, the length of the trip alone presents ...

In his chapter about form Frank D. Ching claims that it is a multi-valued concept. It is represented by a recognizable appearance (his example is a man sitting on a chair) and a certain state the object or substance is in (solid, vapor, or another water form). Ching reminds us that the term of form often refers to the formal structure – as in the way we place and combine various elements making the composition whole and coherent. Ching’s ideas about form refer to the internal structure, to the outer silhouette, and to the principle of the object being ...

The Concept of the Collection: Japanese Warrior

Introduction Nature, the environment and the universe as a whole, provided a huge influence on mankind for a long time. It was particularly pronounced prior to the active development of technical progress. Japanese culture can be considered as one of the brightest representatives of such influence. It is a multi-faceted, surprising and unusual world of images and objects. Everything is living his own life in harmony with the surrounding space. Japanese style evolved over the centuries. Now it is an excellent example of the preservation of a constant shape in combination with the cycle of patterns and colors. The ...

Japan is often referred to in the field of international relations as the Land of the Rising Sun. With its economy being the third largest in the world, suggesting that this country and its inherent culture plays a significant role in the planet and especially in the region would indeed have some merits. The objective of this paper is to focus on Roland Barthes’ book about Japan as an Empire of Signs and the validity of the points he raised about the country, using other works such as that of Sofia Coppola’s lost in Translation, among others. The ...

Abstract

The Sony Corporation is a multinational conglomerate of Japanese origin. It is headquartered in Konan Minato, Tokyo Japan. This particular company has diversified its business through the production of multiple products and services. The main products produced by Sony include professional and consumer electronics, entertainment, gaming, and financial services. Sony’s vision is to create products that meet the imaginations of everyone and produce gadgets and devices that stimulate senses and rejuvenate the spirit. It strives to come up with ideas full of surprise and that never disappoint the consumer. The company is one of the major players in ...

What will make a young man who has just completed higher education to migrate from the rural set up to an urban one? This movement of inhabitancy from one geographical area to another either on temporary or permanent basis is caused by different factors that are either personal or occupational among others. Soon after independence, the third world states migration from rural areas to urban centers has been on the increase citing difference in economic opportunities and natural conditions, for example, the climate, soils or relief. Thus people migrate as their response to this. The high and better level ...

Located in the Itabashi-Ku district of Tokyo, Japan, the masterpiece created by Shigaru Ban has a total area of 179 meters2. The house is built on stilts, whereas the main living zone is located on the second and third floors. The site area is only 110 meters2, which is why the architect was forced to devise an ingenious decision of going upwards. Besides the multistory house managed to easily fit into the surroundings. The main aim of this paper is to analyze whether the building corresponds to the New Zealand building code. Considering Clause B1 on structure, the Shigeru ...

The film “Lost in Translation” is really about the difficulties in translation, but not so much in the linguistic sense, as in the human, - translation of others’ feelings ("Lost In Translation (2003)"). The film is not so much the words as the information, the mood and emotions are not concluded just in words. This is perhaps one of the few movies, where the characters’ silence can be comfortable and talk about many things. A slow, as it might seem, dragged action is not the lack of pictures – that's the essence of the whole atmosphere of loneliness – the characters ...

Although I had had several holidays in Western cities like London, Paris, New York and Berlin, I had never got any opportunity to visit a city in the Eastern Hemisphere. I had always been enthusiastic to have fabulous time in major cities of the world in the Eastern Hemisphere like Tokyo. I felt most enthusiastic about Tokyo because it is considered the capital of the Eastern Hemisphere. Tokyo is one of Japan’s 47 prefectures, and it functions as both the largest city and the capital of Japan. During the last summer, I decided to have an 11 day ...

The film industry during the World War II underwent major changes to help change the cause of the war. The world war II affected cinematography and the story lines of various movies that were produced at that time. These movies symbolized the Cardinal impulses that later came to captivate serious audiences, filmmakers, and critics after the war.

Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)

Rick Blaine, a businessman with a strict, but cool, cynical and efficient business man whose anger is reserved, an American expatriate is the owner of a highly rated nightclub and a gambling den in Casablanca. The movie develops complex characters who are ...

The Japanese artist Takashi Murakami was born in Tokyo in 1962. Takashi Murakami studied the art of Nihonga (traditional Japanese painting) within the National University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo. The unique and self-sufficient style of the author is expressed through many mediums, including painting, sculpture, industrial design or fashion. He is an artist of the pictorial language, one of those which were strongly influenced by both popular culture and the formal characteristics of traditional art, such as flatness, applying a boss and abundant ornamentation. In 1990, Murakami was introduced to contemporary art with the artist Masato ...

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According to John Arend, Mike Benkert, Audrey deFilippis and Saretta Tillmaand, when the Commerzbank building opened its doors in 1997, the “53-story” edifice became the one of the “tallest” buildings located in Europe (1). Nevertheless, the edifice’s distinctiveness did not come from its height, but, rather, it came from the way in which it combined “form, inventiveness, and technical expertise” (Arend, Benkert, deFilippis, & Tillmaand 1). The design and construction of the Commerzbank saw the “[b]reaking away from the American model of deep-planned, air-conditioned structures” that have a “central service core” (Arend, Benkert, deFilippis, & ...

A. Introduction

Toyota Motors Corporation (Toyota) is a ¥25.69 trillion (US$256.91 billion at ¥100.00:$1 exchange rate used in the 2014 annual report) automotive manufacturing enterprise (Toyota, 2014, p. 26) with four major market regions globally, namely: Japan (home), North America, Europe, Asia, and Other regions (see section C for details). Since 2010, it grew 35.57% from ¥18.95 trillion. Its return on equity has grown from 2.1% in 2010 to 13.7% in 2014, or 6.5 times. Moreover, its return on assets grew 6.7 times from 0.7% in 2010 to 4.7% in 2014. Toyota has one core product (automobiles) and core ...

Introduction

The primary purpose of this paper is threefold: First, is to provide a clear picture of Foreign Investment in Japan. Second, based on the investigation of available literature present an analysis of the performance of foreign firms in the country with a particular emphasis on the possible measures to protect foreign investment, challenges, and investment opportunities. Thirdly, is to assess the future of foreign firms currently operational in the country and the likelihood of other businesses entering Japan in the future. To answer these questions, the discussion presented herein examines the economic situation in the country and the place ...

The current publication on the literature of post-colonialism presents a lot of history as well as defining the evolution of certain societies. Author’s concerned with postmodernism have tried to explain the origin of societal characteristics that never existed until after the colonial era. Much of this literature dwell on the assumption that the colonizers were entirely superior compared to the characteristics of the colonies. India, in this case, presents a perfect study scenario where the interaction between the colonizer – Britain – and the immediate society surfaces behavioral changes. Such literature is well presented in the Novel entitled, “God of ...

Abstract

Shortly after WW2, Japan became a place where the Allies put on trial Japanese military criminals of different standing. Overall, the process looked methodical and well-though-out, with an ad hoc classification developed for determining the guilt of offenders. The post-war years witnessed the execution of generals and the punishment of soldiers following their brutal orders. However, several years later, a complex of factors like the deliberate destruction of evidence or the enormous number of cases halted the prosecution process expediting its termination. As unethical and immoral as it was, the USA had its reasons not to prosecute some of ...

Understanding of the political system of Japan is critical for understanding the major interests of this country and forecasting its behavior. Since the 1950s until the early 2000s the Liberal Democratic Party remained in power. But in the 21st century, it was temporarily ousted by other political forces. In 2012, it regained power and is ruling party in Japan now. What are the reasons behind the LDP’s domination? I will try to explain it not going deep into history but illustrating the most recent developments in Japanese policy. The result of the Japanese parliamentary elections of 16 December ...

ABSTRACT

This research paper is based on cyber-terrorism. Cyber-terrorism is committed by terrorists who perform acts of violence to influence the behavior of those who have different opinions from their own, with the use of computer based systems. The US government has been targeted by various terrorist groups though cyber-attacks. The nature of organizations which employ the use of Data-Controlled Systems enables such threats to have a great impact on organizations. Cyber threats in organizations arise from processes, staff and infrastructure. There is the need for organizations to come up with preventive measures and response systems to cyber-attacks. Inventory management, ...

In the contemporary society, manga or the Japanese visual novels became an integral part of propagating Japanese culture to broad audiences. The 1990s sparked an immense distribution of Japanese animation throughout the world. Even so, the manga published by the Japanese companies such as Shueisha and Kodansha became a high-valued commodity for all the ‘otaku’ fans in Japan and abroad. With the advent of the internet in the 2000s, these mangas became widely distributed amongst websites and even downloadable through scanlations made by the fans. One of the best mangas known throughout the world was the Rurouni Kenshin or ...

Introduction

Concerns with avoiding the adverse consequences of Global Warming and the effects of Climate Change has increased significantly over the past decades (Deutch et al.). The leading economies such as the United States are still reluctant to adopt comprehensive climate change policies despite pledging to do so. Nor has there been an agreement with the emerging rapidly-growing economies such as India, South Korea, China, Indonesia, and Mexico on the mechanisms to adopt Greenhouse Gas (GHGs) emission constraints (US Energy Information Administration [EIA]). With Global emissions of GHGs projected to continue to increase, there is the added urgency to not ...

“The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift” is an American crime film of 2006. It is the third film of the franchise produced by Neal H. Moritz, which tells a story about young people competing for girl`s attention. They decided to measure “modern swords” – to arrange races, the winner of which will have the girl. Besides love problems, there is a matter of illegal business in the film – there are some defects in reports that affect the business management a lot. Taking into account all the impetuosity of young people, who seek to prove his family that he ...

Issey Miyake

Historic Designer Research Paper Issey Miyake Modernly recognized as one of the greatest historical and contemporary fashion artists and designers to establish their very own unique and creative method of direct collaboration between artists and manufacturers; Issey Miyake thrives off of traditional artistic methods and their revival in direct response to the demand of times. The Japanese born artist has made a huge global impact within the fashion industry, while continuing to adapt contemporary, innovative, and industrial apparel designs, artistic exhibitions, and fragrances (Issey Miyake | Fashion Designer Biography, n.d.). First let us explore the background of the artist and ...

Women aren’t that dissimilar from men, although they face different biological, cultural and social pressure, some pragmatic women concede and act in response well to such pressures. The facts remain that the contemporary society treats women in a different ways as compared to men. Therefore, in this paper, I will discuss the role of women and the development of female character in a particular setting as portrayed by Nakamoto Takako short story The Red. In her work, Nakamoto begins by describing a picture of an unfortunate family that relies on Shige wife to Kanenari for survival. The writer's ...

The Fukushima Daichi is a technological disaster triggered by natural calamities on March 11th, 2011, when a massive earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale hit Japan. The earthquake originated from Honshu Island, and it created a tsunami. Following the tremor, reactors one, two and three automatically shut down. Reactors 4, 5 and 6 had been previously shut down for maintenance and repairs. Due to felled power supply lines, the Fukushima Daichi reactor complex was cut off from the electricity grid. As the operating reactors had shut down, they could not generate power for them to cool down, and ...

Movie Review:

While not seen as entirely award-worthy the latest installment in the “Fast and Furious” franchise has proven to be just as over the top as its predecessors. Centered on a dynamic pair in actors Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, along with their fellows in crime and racing, the storyline has developed from a peek into the world of underground street racing to a tale that involves far more than just the run of the mill action movie. Few could have predicted with any accuracy that the first film would spawn another, and another, and finally lead into the fan-favorite ...

Delhi-Mumbai Dedicated Freight Corridor

Summary The study is based on the basis that large infrastructure projects, like the proposed Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC), are essential drivers of the state economy and have significant implications for attaining low-carbon expansion goals. The intention of the study is based on whether the DFC project would concurrently support sustainable development, reduce freight traffic, and decrease carbon releases. For that reason, it would be a worthy project supporting development policies and climate change strategies at the end. Also, other massive infrastructure of this kind could formulate a strategy background for attaining the aims of low-carbon transportation and sustainable ...

In 1984, Edward O. Wilson, a Harvard University biologist, noted that human beings have innate and evolutionarily-based affinities to nature, and hence it is not possible to disconnect their subconscious from the natural environment. He coined the term biophilia to refer to this case, in which humans remain always attached to the natural environment. The most compelling reason why humans must affiliate themselves to natures, that is tree and water, is that they are needed for survival. Many architectural designers are being pressured to incorporate biophilia elements in their designs. Trees and the natural environment in general are needed ...

What is Cholecystitis and the common signs and symptoms associated with it?

Cholecystitis is termed for a disease of the gallbladder which is accompanied by the presence of the inflammation of the gallbladder. Most cases of gallbladder are not accompanied by symptoms and people with gallstones would not necessarily develop Cholecystitis. One of the major reasons for Cholecystitis is the blockage of the cystic duct by gallstones. Abdominal pain is a common sign of Cholecystitis but is often associated with the build-up of bile which increases the pressure within the gallbladder (Nikfarjam, M., et al. 2011). The inflammation of the gallbladder is mainly caused due to bacterial infection of the gallbladder ...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to take photographs of a movie while you are watching it? Well, that is how the famed photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto got his start. He was in a theatre that happened to be showing an Audrey Hepburn flick, and so he took some still shots of the movie as it was playing (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, web). That was just the first instance of Sugimoto finding innovative ways to represent the reality he sees in the world around him. It was when Sugimoto was 28 years old that his first formal ...

Does uber continuous business model upgrade help them to stay ahead of the local cab companies and the competition in the US cab industry?

Introduction

Uber Technologies Inc. was founded in 2008 by Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp and is based in San Francisco, California. It currently operates in 195 cities within North America and 207 cities in Central and South America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Uber is a downloadable on-demand app service created by Uber Technologies Inc that enable anyone to summon a car that is near him or her for a ride ...

Japanese Western-Style Painting

Introduction The history of art in Japan begins with ceramics production in the tenth-millennium B.C.E by the early inhabitants of the region. Development of religious and secular traditions contributed to the growth of art in Japan featuring Confucian and Buddhist themes such as the Zen philosophy. Over years, Japanese art gained considerable influence from foreign cultures particularly China and Korea (Akiyama, 2000, p.64). The western culture had vast influence on various parts of the world and gained identification as part of modernization. On the verge of economic development, Japan made a crucial decision to embrace modernity since it promised ...

About the paper

The paper is commissioned to evaluate the stock performance of Toyota Motors, a non-US based entity that is listed on NASDAQ and Tokyo Stock Exchange. However, since the currency units are different on both the exchanges,we will transform the stock price in terms of monthly return percentage from 2009 till present date.

About the company and its stock listing

Founded in the year 1973, Toyota Motors Corporation is a Japanese automobile manufacturer. The company is headquartered in Aichi, Japan and is the second largest automobile manufacturer after General Motors. As of December, 2015, the company had employed 3,44,109 employees and is also the ...

This assignment needs to be submitted in Week 8. The short reports are to be hand-written. Submit the work to your TUTORS Analyze the following graph and write a short report of not more than 150 words using the framework covered in the lecture for Week 4 on Graph Interpretation

Interpretation

This graph represents the monthly amount of rainfall (measured in mm) for an entire year of four cities. It can be seen from the graph that Tokyo presents the most significant variation of its rainfall levels within the year out of the four cities, seeing as the level in ...

Like every other successful American corporation, the Walt Disney Company embarked on a strong global expansion program that led to the opening of subsidiaries in Paris and Tokyo. The subsidiaries were referred to as Euro Disney, and despite the fact that the first subsidiary in Tokyo performed well, the one in France failed miserably leading to a general failure of Disney in Europe.

Reasons for the losses

There are many reasons given for the failure of Euro Disney, with the first one touching on culture and cultural differences. Coming from a background of the American culture, Euro Disney failed to take into consideration ...

Business Advice

Abstract Endowments funds are investment funds or financial assets that are donated to academic institutions like universities, NGOs, hospitals and churches. Endowments are generally invested by the fund management teams of the institutions into investment vehicles like real estate assets, equities, bonds and investment funds to generate an extra inflation adjusted income which helps in further asset formation and meeting the ongoing operational costs. XYZ University has decided allocate a portion of its endowment fund for direct investment in commercial real estate. The investment committee needs to take the decision by evaluating the options available in commercial real estate ...

Biography:

Creating a visual language with simple yet stunning white and black pictures seems to flow easy in the works of Hiroshi Sugimoto. Born in 1948 (Tokyo, Japan) he has proved to be a multi-faceted artist who is equally good in painting, installation and architecture apart from photography. His photography tries to capture the time and preserve it for the viewer. He has also explored several other themes such as empiricism, and metaphysics. In his works he tries to bridge the gap between what exists to a layman and how it can be transformed with a picture when laid in ...

Though Japanese attack on American naval base in Pearl Harbor was surprise, there was a set of factors, which could potentially lead to a war between the United States and Japan earlier or later. Both sides had a clear understanding of the processes, therefore each of the nations was preparing to the possible escalation. Propensity towards armed conflict increased significantly after Japanese overrun to Manchuria (a part of Chinese territory) in 1931. During the following years Japan kept on with expansion to China, which led to start of full-scale war between Japan and China (also referred to as Second ...

Introduction

Global Financial Advising Consultants (GFAC) is a specialized tax and financial services consultancy firm with its headquarters in New York with branches in London and Tokyo. The company is led by senior consultants who are specialized in one or two clients that they gain expert knowledge about and develop competencies in guidance and advisory services for. Recently, the company has created an offshore office in India which takes outsourced work from the New York, London and Tokyo offices of GFAC. This includes preliminary analytical works that combines data which culminates in information which is necessary for decision-making in these ...

All was relatively quiet in the world of technology until the summer of 05 when there was a demand that the world uses a uniform video format and that event even though not the first occurrence marked the beginning of the war between the HD-DVD and the Blu-ray. HD-DVD during the entire combat found a timing advantage despite delaying the release of the HD-DVD more than a year of the date it had announced, when the technology came out on April 18th, 2006. The reviews were generally above satisfactory, but the viewer’s felt that the hardware still had ...

Abstract

Founded in 1964 by Hiroaki Aoki, Benihana of Tokyo is a global restaurant franchise that specializes in Japanese Cuisine. Benihana targets diverse clientele across the globe who are interested in Japanese cuisine since that is the restaurant’s main menu. The key proposition is that the firm offers the best of Japanese cuisine experience. The restaurant’s main strength is that it offers exceptional steaks usually prepared in front of the customer. The main weakness is that the planned ambitious global expansion may lead to too high a number of hotels that may lead to brand dilution and hence ...

Introduction

The article, which is titled “Brave, New Social World”, is the focus of this rhetorical analysis, is written by Dennis MCCafferty. Its main focus is on the growing role of social media in the modern world and its impact on important historical occasions, businesses, and other social causes. The author of the article, Dennis McCafferty, emphasized on the notion that the social media is playing a potentially pivotal role in the modern society and experiencing increasing use as a weapon of choice by creative individuals, as they strived to contribute to the society via their opinions, experiences, news, and ...

Human beings respond very differently to disaster, whether its occurrence is natural or is induced by man. Natural disasters occur as a result of the dynamic nature of life and processes on earth and are not influenced by man’s activities altogether (Ragheb 1). Actually, the occurrence of natural disasters is totally out of human control. Examples of natural disasters may include floods, earthquakes and land and mudslides (Ragheb 2). Human-induced disasters occur as a result of the implications of man’s activities on the face of the earth for which man has control (Ragheb 52). Man-made disasters are ...

MANCHESTER

ASSIGNMENT OF tourist destinations 2016 NOVEMBER, GROUP 4 Tourist Destination Introduction There are different modes of traveling and the fastest is through the air. Most of the people prefer to travel through the air because it facilitates them in reaching all parts of the world. A lot of changes has been made from the inception of airplanes and now the customers have an entirely experience, as the airplanes offer several facilities to its customers. Today, aircrafts have become sophisticated, safer, faster, and cheaper. For these reasons, tourism has exploded. In 2013, 3 billion air passengers arrived at various world ...

Descriptive Paper:

Tokyo, Japan Stepping into the main streets of the city there is a feeling of connectivity that is felt not only by the crisscrossing power lines, fiber optics, and other black, silver, and white cords that adorn the spaces between buildings in several districts, but from the people as well. There is no one set style in the capital city of Tokyo, Japan. There are wonders to be seen on every corner, an abundance of lights, goods, and user-friendly conveniences that stand in stark contrast to the more traditional aspects of the fabled avenues. Tokyo is an old, much ...

I. Introduction Quality control refers to the policies and procedures a company institutes in order to ensure that its products or services are the best possible available, comply with external and internal standards, government regulations, and to decrease or eliminate any problem, errors or issues that might occur in the production or enjoyment of the goods or service. Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa was one of the first persons to advocate for company-wide/total quality control, or the integration of quality control practices in every facet of the company’s business model. In addition, Dr. Ishikawa was the father of the Japanese ...

Introduction

Films are used to portray social and psychological trends in society through the use of various cinematographic techniques and tools. Some authorities identify that the role of women in society is portrayed through their roles and the kind of stories they feature in – this include linking women’s fortunes, power and status in society and showing it in a film. The purpose of this paper is to examine the film, Lost in Translation within a feminist context. To this end, the paper will critique whether the film in question really “depicts a woman’s struggle to find a signifying ...

Tokyo, Japan

Stepping into the main streets of the city there is a feeling of connectivity that is felt not only by the crisscrossing power lines, fiber optics, and other black, silver, and white cords that adorn the spaces between buildings in several districts, but from the people as well. There is no one set style in the capital city of Tokyo, Japan. There are wonders to be seen on every corner, an abundance of lights, goods, and user-friendly conveniences that stand in stark contrast to the more traditional aspects of the fabled avenues. Tokyo is an old, much renowned city, ...

Introduction

The Ryukyuans are also known as the Lwechewan people. The Ryukyuans are the autochthones who are located in the Ryukyu Islands between the Taiwan and Kyushu Islands. The main subgroups of the Ryukyuans are the Okinawans, Amamians, Miyakoans, Yonagunians and Yaeyamans. The Ryukyuans mainly speak Japanese and dialects Japanese, a number of languages within the Japonic language families and some languages in the Ryukyuan language family. Because of the need to maintain the determined course of discussion, the discourse sticks to the Ryukyuans of Japan. Because of the need to limit this ethnography to the Ryukyuans of Japan, the ...

Video game is a form of art according to institutional, aesthetic, historical, expressive and representational theories of art. Video games combine the elements of music and narrative fiction. The designers are deeply concerned about aesthetic condition of the images in game similar to the novelists, animators, art directors for film and theater production. Developing the environments in the game require intensive efforts in creating level maps, set details, complexity of visual textures and lighting. From set designs to lighting techniques, video games draw upon the variety of aesthetic experience from ...

Introduction

Sony Corporation was founded in 1946 in Tokyo by Akio Morata and Masuru Ibaka. Initially known as Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Company, the company was involved in research and development of telecommunications and measuring equipment. Today, however, the company is involved with the creation, design, manufacture and dealing of electronic equipment and devices including game consoles and software (Berrak, Ferzly, Nguyen, Roach, and Ward 3; Gershon, and Kanayama 105). In addition, the company also engages in the production, marketing and distribution of motion pictures, home entertainment, television products as well as recorded music. Further, the company engages in ...

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1.1 Background developments

Traditionally, accounting standards have been developed by different countries on the basis of local legal, economical and cultural institutions frameworks (Elliott and Elliott, 2009, p. 158). As a result, the standard setting was very country specific. With the globalization process at work for the last 3-4 decades and increasing mobility of capital internationally accepted accounting standards have become necessary to facilitate cross border transactions and make financial reporting comparable between countries and companies thereby leading to a greater transparency for investors (Nobes, 2004). IASB has been set up as a private international standard setter with a mandate to create high quality accounting standards ...

Question one

International treaties are an international agreement that were set up to deal with the climate change. They were adopted at the United Nations conference in the department of environment and development. It is called the Earth Summit which took place in 1992. The treaties are considered to have played a major role that lead to the existence of the Kyoto protocols. The Earth Summit has resulted in the creation of a variety of agreements for the protection of the environments. Australia stands out as the most active country in the ETS markets. The requirement to have electric generators ...

Asian film industry has been entertaining audiences since a long time with the help of a strong story, music and different other aspects of film making. Asian cinema has lodged its strong presence across the world and Asian movies have won several prestigious international awards. This paper intends to discuss some very famous Asian movies like Red Sorghum, Ran, Eye in the sky, IndoChine and Dhobi Ghat along with further focusing, how masculinity has been portrayed in almost all these movies.

There are some favorite subjects of Asian movie makers. Aggressive Jingoism, fantasy, epic and masculinity are some important components of Asian ...

Executive Summary

An American research group has presented a latest review "Global Recruitment Market Report 2013 Edition" in its gigantic pool of research reviews. The staffing industry differs significantly from one nation state to another with the Japan, United Kingdom and United States displaying the highest level of disintegration (Rogers, 2013). The staffing industry is categorized into professional and general employment industries. General employment that contains low experienced, low salary blue collar workers has a greater share in comparison to professional employment that contains more experienced, more salary white collar workers. North America exhibited the single largest industry considered in terms of earnings ...

Literature

Apple Inc. maintains its head office in Cupertino, California. During the inception of its first product called the Apple I, the handmade computer kit was created by then Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. The first Apple I did not have a graphic user interface (GUI) so the buyers are required to provide their own keyboard and display. It was Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple was responsible for convincing Wozniak to sell Apple I to the market. Apple I was first presented to the public in 1976 and was sold for $666.66 (Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative, “Apple Inc.’s Ethical Success ...