Essays Tagged: "Tokyo"

Corporate Culture

ld's is an example of such an organisation. You could walk in to a McDonald's restaurant in London, Tokyo or Moscow and expect to see staff dressed in the same uniform serving the same food from withi ...

(6 pages) 545 0 4.8 Mar/1996

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

The Taiwan Independence Movement

l 1916. After 1916, the Taiwanese engaged in modern anti-Japanese Taiwan nationalistic movements in Tokyo, China, and Taiwan. During the whole Japanese period, except for a few occasions, most of the ... 8, 1947.Near the end of 1949, Thomas Liao (member of Taiwan Communist Party) and his group moved to Tokyo, and in cooperation with a group of Taiwanes compatriots under the leadership of Wu Chen-nan, ...

(2 pages) 74 0 2.2 Nov/2002

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Protesting during international financial conferences.

m 150 countries for a new round of global trade talks. Like the Uruguay Round begun in 1986 and the Tokyo Round started in 1973, the Seattle Round looked to slash tariffs, abolish subsidies and open u ...

(8 pages) 74 0 3.4 Jan/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Early Japanese Films.

irst public showing of a film was held on 25 November. This was soon followed by showings in Osaka, Tokyo and the rest of Japan. In February 1897, the Cinematographe, invented by the Lumiere brothers, ... the opening of Japan's first permanent cinema in October 1903. The Denkikan, an X-ray clinic in the Tokyo entertainment quarter of Asakusa, was equipped with projection facilities. This was followed b ...

(7 pages) 71 0 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film History

Japan country analysis- overview of Japan. geography, government, etc.

. About 75 percent of Japan's area is mountainous, and scattered plains cover the other 25 percent. Tokyo is set on the Kanto plain, which is only 13,000 square kilometer. The total land area of Japan ... nsive coastal shipping compensates for the lack of navigable rivers. The pacific coastline south of Tokyo consists of generally long narrow rivers, which has created many natural harbors. However the ...

(7 pages) 270 2 4.3 Jun/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Understanding Organisations

ld's is an example of such an organisation. You could walk in to a McDonald's restaurant in London, Tokyo or Moscow and expect to see staff dressed in the same uniform serving the same food from withi ...

(5 pages) 89 0 5.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Japanese Street Fashion

recently, a movie called "Lost in Translation" written and directed by Sofia Coppola was all about Tokyo culture.Many American young people seem especially interested in Japanese street fashion. Teen ... ung people hang out. The magazine "Teenvogue" shows photos of an American girl with young people in Tokyo. The weekly magazine, "The New Yorker", had seven very interesting pages about the fashion sce ...

(5 pages) 123 1 3.1 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Design Arts

An Imaginative Proverb Story

played games, and attended school together. After graduating from high school, the sisters moved to Tokyo in pursuit of college education. Even though they shared their lives and the two-room apartmen ... A thinly built man in his early twenties trod through a gentle cherry blossom flurry. April in Tokyo always had a faintly romantic atmosphere, but the falling petals only tensed the man as he rea ...

(3 pages) 21 0 3.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

Japan vs. China vs. America

there are also many local dialects that differ greatly in pronunciation. However, Yokohama said the Tokyo dialect is the standard form of spoken Japanese. Many Japanese can also speak English, but not ...

(6 pages) 59 0 5.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Total Quality Management:The role in operation management.

c requirements, into instructions on how a product should be developed. Dr Mizuno, the Professor of Tokyo created the QFD system and was first applied in Mitsubishi, Heavy Industries, Ltd, in Kobe Shi ...

(1 pages) 151 0 1.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

China's Rise to Economic Power.

y. Twenty-five million new companies, mostly small, have sprung up in China in the past decade. The Tokyo Candle Inc., for example, established in 1918, revived its successful business by relocating a ...

(4 pages) 121 0 4.2 Jan/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Economics: Lenders

wers can also be supplemented by borrowing from overseas financial systems, these include New York, Tokyo, London, Zurich, Singapore and Hong Kong. Banks and financial intermediaries from overseas len ...

(2 pages) 45 0 0.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Japan and its problems

127 million-That's 336 people per square kilometre! Its area is 337.835km2 and the capital city is Tokyo. It has 67 million more people that the UK even though it is only slightly bigger.In Japan Chi ...

(2 pages) 24 0 4.0 May/2006

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

The Values of American Society (from a fast food perspective)

try the unknown. To a customer, nothing is more important than knowing that the Big Mac he buys in Tokyo will taste exactly the same as one bought in New York. A similar trend can be seen in the medi ...

(5 pages) 126 1 3.8 Nov/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Economic impacts of BSE (Mad Cow Disease)

finding has negatively impacted U.S. beef exports to primarily eastern locations such as Taiwan and Tokyo. These cities together imported more than $1.6 billion worth of U.S. in 2003 before they impos ...

(2 pages) 46 1 5.0 Dec/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Memoirs Of A Geisha Review

he mentioned that he had learnt Japanese in college and at graduate school then went on to work in Tokyo. While he was there he had met several acquaintances and then became more engrossed in the lif ...

(3 pages) 7 0 0.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Outline The Social And Technological Development Of The Internet

ld records on other countries. We can invest in all the world's economies, because stock markets in Tokyo, London, and New York are linked electronically to form a huge 24-hour-a-day business opportun ...

(8 pages) 19 0 3.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

"Terror"

e terrible illness? This can be seen when the narrator says, "It was early last June while I was in Tokyo that the illness menaced me." (p.85).The way this story is written, it makes the reader ...

(2 pages) 1562 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Overpopulation

astating for their health and welfare of their community. Guess what, I bet you didn?t know that in Tokyo the population is so large that the cemeteries are on top of there roofs. We asked people what ... astating for their health and welfare of their community. Guess what, I bet you didn?t know that in Tokyo the population is so large that the cemeteries are on top of there roofs. We asked people what ...

(4 pages) 17 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues