Category: Japan

By Dale Dye, Robert O'Neill

ISBN-10: 1849087164

ISBN-13: 9781849087162

On December 7, 1941, because the jap dived out of the clouds above Pearl Harbor, America's destiny used to be essentially altered. Ever because the first international clash, the U.S. had resisted the temptation to be drawn into wars outdoor of its borders. yet with this one shock assault the United States used to be necessarily thrown into the fray because the moment global struggle erupted. This new historical past by means of army experts, Osprey Publishing, unearths all the battles the United States may struggle opposed to Imperial Japan from the naval clashes at halfway and Coral Sea to the determined, bloody battling on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. every one bankruptcy finds the horrors of conflict and the bleak selection to wrest victory from definite defeat. utilizing an outstanding selection of wartime imagery and entire with dozen of full-colour maps, this can be a useful visible consultant to the line to victory.

By Mark Felton

ISBN-10: 1591142636

ISBN-13: 9781591142638

Even the main an expert reader should be surprised by way of the level of the crimes dedicated opposed to servicemen and civilians printed during this chilling new research. From the typical execution of POWs to the abandonment of survivors, Mark Felton takes an in depth examine this darkish bankruptcy within the historical past of the japanese army in international warfare II. sooner than this account, eastern struggle crimes at sea have bought particularly little consciousness in comparison to insurance of the japanese army's barbaric behavior. Written by means of an established resident of the some distance East, this new paintings takes into consideration the tradition that ended in such appalling atrocities. Upon book within the united kingdom, the booklet drew significant information insurance.

By Charles Shirō Inouye (auth.)

ISBN-10: 0230615481

ISBN-13: 9780230615489

ISBN-10: 1403967067

ISBN-13: 9781403967060

This ebook explores the japanese idea of hakanasa - the evanescence of all issues. Responses to this concept were a number of or even contradictory: asceticism, fatalism, conformism, hedonism, materialism, and careerism. This publication examines the binds among an epistemology of continuing switch and Japan's formal emphasis on etiquette and visuality.

By Amanda Sun

At the heels of a kinfolk tragedy, the very last thing Katie Greene desires to do is circulation midway the world over. caught along with her aunt in Shizuoka, Japan, Katie feels misplaced. on my own. She doesn’t be aware of the language, she will be able to slightly carry a couple of chopsticks, and she or he can’t appear to get the dangle of taking her footwear off each time she enters a building.

Then there’s attractive yet aloof Tomohiro, celebrity of the school’s kendo crew. How did he relatively get the scar on his arm? Katie isn’t ready for the reply. but if she sees the issues he attracts begin relocating, there’s no denying the reality: Tomo has a connection to the traditional gods of Japan, and being close to Katie is inflicting his skills to spiral uncontrolled. If the inaccurate humans become aware of, they'll either be targets.

Katie by no means desired to flow to Japan—now she won't make it in another country alive.

By David L. Howell

ISBN-10: 0520240855

ISBN-13: 9780520240858

By Yoichiro Sato, Keiko Hirata

ISBN-10: 1403984484

ISBN-13: 9781403984487

This edited quantity places forth a theoretically and empirically rigorous research of eastern international policy.  It explains the effect of norms on Japan’s international coverage habit, drawing on 3 significant paradigms of diplomacy scholarship—constructivism, realism, and liberalism. via 9 case stories on Japan’s safety, financial, and environmental regulations, this booklet examines how norms do or don't consultant jap international coverage and the way they have interaction with pursuits and tool. In doing so, this booklet explores even if the rationalist and constructivist faculties of idea are very likely complementary or at the same time exclusive. 

By H. Mori

ISBN-10: 0333670671

ISBN-13: 9780333670675

Within the moment half the Nineteen Eighties Japan has emerged as one of many new significant vacation spot nations for migrants from Asia. The migrant labour pool was once then joined by means of jap descendants from South American nations within the Nineties. Japan's coverage of preserving the labour marketplace closed to overseas unskilled employees has remained unchanged regardless of the 1990 immigration coverage reform, which met the growing to be want for unskilled labour now not via starting the 'front-door' to unskilled employees yet by way of permitting them to in via intentionally-provided 'side-doors'. This publication throws gentle on a variety of features of migration flows to Japan and the current prestige of migrant employees as conditioned by way of Japan's immigration keep watch over procedure. The research goals to discover how the large arrival of migrants affected Japan's immigration coverage and the way the coverage segmented the overseas labour industry in Japan.

By Dag Leonardsen

ISBN-10: 0230235549

ISBN-13: 9780230235540

Japan is frequently defined as an inclusive society, and yet the media reports record highs in crime and suicide figures. This book examines felony justice in Japan, and questions no matter if Japan fairly is dealing with social malaise, or if the media are easily making a 'moral panic'. 

By Boye Lafayette De Mente, Henk de Groot, Yasuko Tsuji

ISBN-10: 0804833664

ISBN-13: 9780804833660

Rapid jap helps you to fast and simply meet humans, buy groceries, journey the subway, ask for instructions, order food and drink, and masses extra! This completely revised moment variation of Boye Lafayette De Mente's vintage, bestselling word ebook exhibits scholars and tourists tips to maximize their verbal exchange abilities. the belief is simple-learn a hundred phrases and say 1,000 issues. The trick is understanding which phrases to profit. This publication offers a uncomplicated vocabulary that may be used time and again. all the words are given in either general Roman and jap scripts. a quick consultant to pronunciation is helping you are saying the words safely. And an easy-to-use, 250 observe vocabulary record lets you translate from jap to English and vice-versa. Grammatical and cultural notes are awarded in transparent, available language.

By Masahiko Aoki, Gregory Jackson, Hideaki Miyajima

ISBN-10: 0199284512

ISBN-13: 9780199284511

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This ebook makes use of comparative institutional research to provide an explanation for alterations in nationwide fiscal functionality. nations have their very own principles for company governance they usually have assorted industry preparations; and those changes in ideas and association have an effect on the way in which corporations behave. international locations additionally are inclined to advance conventions of organizational architechture of organisations, no matter if their hierarchies are sensible, horizontal, or decentralized. This impacts the best way they approach details, and knowledge administration is more and more obvious as being of the most important significance to a firm's functionality.

Aoki accords extra significance to those components than to the standards conventionally utilized in using a neoclassical version of monetary potency. He applies online game conception, agreement concept, and knowledge concept. by means of describing the foundations and norms in Japan, america, and the transitional economies, Aoki indicates how enterprises can in attaining aggressive virtue in foreign markets if those conventions and principles are like minded to the economic zone during which the corporations function. he's relatively eager about how Japan, with its major financial institution and lifetime employment structures, in addition to information-sharing company organizational constitution, may reform its associations to keep up aggressive virtue on the earth economic climate.