Japan Article Reviews Samples For Students

Part 1:

Work ethics among Japanese youngsters are on the decline thanks to a long time obsession with entrance exams, insufficient career planning and excessive meddling from their parents resulting in them taking up part time jobs until they find suitable career options. Japanese Corporations are trying to steer clear of the long term obsession with top universities and entrance exams by tweaking their selection procedures to be independent of these factors. Youngsters in Canada and United States too are looking at short term and part time careers before taking up long term job options. Educators are now stressing on the need ...

In December 2013; the Japanese parliament approved a state secrets law. The leading party, The Liberal Democratic party, tabled the law in parliament. This is the party of the ruling Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The new law was established to protect state secrets. Despite a lot of criticism and stalling attempts from the opposition, the bill was finally approved into law. The upper house, whose majority members are from the ruling party, approved the bill by 130 to 82. This law gives mandate to heads of ministries and agencies to classify 23 types of information related to diplomacy, counterintelligence, counterterrorism and ...

Currency Wars

Currency Wars is also referred to as competitive devaluation. It is a scenario where countries compete against each other to gain a low exchange rate for their own domestic currency. As the country’s domestic currency falls, so does the price of exports from that country. The imports become expensive and the domestic industry flourishes due to increase in demand from the domestic and foreign markets. The leaders of G-20 nations met in Moscow and took some important decisions regarding currency wars. In a statement issued at the conclusion of the conference, the finance ministers of G20 promised, by issuing a statement, that ...

The article is about the fighting between the Japanese and the U.S. forces in the occupied provinces during the World War II. The article looks at Japanese resilience despite the imminent defeat and the costly nature of the war on the Japanese people and economy. The Japanese regime kept faith that they could hold on for a longer period hence the leadership was not prepared to negotiate peace. Conversely, the U.S. continuous assault on the Japanese cities was aimed at compelling Japanese regime to an unconditional surrender. According to the article, the U.S. was interested in overthrowing the existing fascist ...

Article analysis

Japan-the dominant power in Asia had developed hatred for nations that had colonies in the Asian mainland and pacific and these include the United States, Portugal and France. For this reason, Japan wanted to substitute these colonies with its own and form the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.” To achieve this, Japan was prepared to go to any extent including war citing the war in china in 1937. The author’s point is that the United States resolution to resolve the outstanding difference that existed between them and Japan in 1941 bore no fruits. Instead, Japan continued to occupy ...

Section A: Monetary policy

For instance, according to the article, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) is the monetary authority that is responsible for regulating the monetary provision in Japan. The article presents the economic inertia in the Japanese economy. Due to this economic inertia, the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, has come up with an economic plan that has three parts in order to rescue the country from the stagnant economic situation. This move to trigger a growth in the Japanese has also been initiated by the Bank of Japan. The Bank of Japan has adopted expanding its plan of “quantitative easing” in increasing ...

Article Review-1

Summary
This article analyzes declining economic growth of China. Additionally, it tells about several forecasts that predict even stronger slowdown of China’s economic growth in future, and discusses possible reasons of this decline. According to the article, average economic growth rate of China from 1980 and until two years ago was equal to approximately 10%. However, during the third quarter of this year, Chinese economy grew by only 7.3% year-on-year. Several sources, including experts from the Harvard University and the IMF, assume that the growth rates will fall to 6.3% by 2020.
One possible explanation for ...

Similar to the world economies, Japan experiences economic recession and its consequences. Science is one of the fields to be affected most severely. A different reason why a huge amount of Japanese female scientists goes to work abroad is because of the male scientists’ dominance in the country. Although women are equally hard working and compatible with men in science and in academia, the Japanese society does not accept the role of women as leading scientists and researchers. It is estimated that sixty percent of all the talented Japanese researchers who reside abroad are females, and just a tiny portion of ...

Question 1

Robert McNamara was the eight secretary of state for the US administration; he served under two presidents. Robert takes us through what transpired in the USA after world war two. The presence of the nuclear weapons was a threat to the US government in administering all kinds of war that it struck across Europe. The attacks at Tokyo, Japan are some of the main highlights of the application of the nuclear weapons. Plenty of civilians were killed as a result of a misguided war.
McNamara also takes us through the journey of how he moved from being the president of Ford ...

In the history of Japanese immigrants across Canada, Vancouver Riots were motivators towards changing the Canadian policies toward the Japanese immigrants, as well as the Japanese policies with respect to Canadian emigration. Similarly, this aspect becomes more important in a manner that it ushered in the establishment of other international relationships. This paper illustrates that the expectations developed by each of the countries had much involvement in ensuring that Canada and the Great Britain and United States complied.
A major reason the governments did not has many NIL interests in having to send people into other nations came about ...

http://www.iiss.org/en/publications/survival/sections/2013-94b0/survival--global-politics-and-strategy-june-july-2013-532b/55-3-04-choong-a0c9
This articles contains political issues and the foreign policies in Japan. The issues relating to resentful realism in improving regional and global security. This article contains Abe’s revisionist views concerning the history of Japan and the global role in the world of politics. The article also contains the issues relating to post war political system. The article relates too issues which are concerns the relations between Japan and Korea. The issues concerning enslavement of the women by the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second World War.
This article contains the effects of the conservative government ...

Article Review: Japan’s Growth Strategy is All Wrong

Abstract
The article Japan’s growth strategy is all wrong is about the policies implemented by the Japan government led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that is viewed to jeopardise the country’s low interest rate environment that is conducive for spending and investment. The purpose of the student in writing this paper is to present the economic problem faced by Japan as an implication of the policies executed by the government, applying the concepts and principles that I have learned in my Economics.
The article entitled Japan’s growth strategy is all wrong is about the ...

Question 1

Paul Anders Schwamm assertion that EBay’s move to venture in the Japanese Market was a wrong move to make is justified and well-founded. First of all, it is important to understand that before EBay’s entry into the market, Yahoo was functioning as a monopoly in the sector. This means that Yahoo had been able to become a well-known brand in Japan such that it suited the preferences and tastes in the Japanese Market. It is important to note that the perpetual operations of Yahoo in Japan allowed the companies to best understand the cultural context of its business environment. For ...

Comparing the 2008 Us Crisis with the Japan’s “Lost Decade”

Both the Japan’s lost decade and the 2008 United States and the world financial crisis were caused by excess savings and inflation of huge asset bubbles. By 1980s many Japanese resorted to a lot of savings on their income as they expected to retire. This translated negatively on the economy as it lowered the Gross Domestic Product and weakened local demand of commodities. Furthermore, much savings simply meant that the Japanese citizen had foregone consumption. However, this problem was disguised in the Japanese poor finance policy as well as financial technology. Inflation therefore arose from poor regulation of the ...

There are, undoubtedly, aspects of the self that are tied inextricably to an individual’s culture. Because it is impossible to raise a child in a cultural vacuum, it is impossible to determine exactly what aspects of personality are determined by culture and which aspects are determined by birth; the relationship between culture and identity is certainly tightly bound. Markus and Kitayama, for instance, point out that people are capable of framing their sense of self in a multitude of different ways, but that their method of identity is invariably tied closely to their culture. Staples, on the other hand, suggests that ...

Rentel (619) talks of the internment of the Japanese people during the World War II. During this time, the American government evacuated the Japanese from America due to what was seen as the fear of the Japanese that they would outdo the Americans economically, as well as the projections against their sexual characteristics. Rentel (620) gives the evidence and argues that these acts could have been among the worst discriminatory acts that the American government got involved in.

The film “Snow Falling on Cedar” can be a theatric projection of Rentel’s argument. According to Barbre (2), the film tells ...

The Snow Falling on Cedars film provides an insight of how the sex projection is portrayed by forgiveness. During the second world war, the Japanese-Americans’ culture experienced troubling and enduring effects of cultural prejudices. During this period love affairs and relationship between American and Japanese were critically affected by war. For instance love affair between a Japanese lady, Hatsue, and protagonist Ishmael chambers was challenged by condition of bigotry and war. However, the issue of forgives is raised by the film where the Japanese-American find a way to forgive despite the tribulations and suffering they had experienced in foreign country.
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Integration of ABM and ABC in Dow Chemicals Limited

The Dow chemical, an international chemical company, applied activity based costing in order to enable the global business to report the contribution margins according to the geographical area, specific products and customers. The management believed that the system would assist in better decision making in the use and the deployment of its resources. In the traditional accounting system, the costs were assigned to areas such as sales and purchases. However the method was inappropriate as it resulted to fluctuating cash flows since the main focus of costs was on prime costs. It did not provide the manager with accurate ...

Japan and Tariff-Free U.S. Rice
In 2015, Japan proposed a set of 70,000-ton import quota for tariff-free U.S. rice. This quota is substantially lower than what the United States had demanded. The United States quota was 175,000 tons. Rice is one of the key issues remaining between Tokyo and Washington. Currently, Japan imports 770,000 tons of tariff-free rice on year. This is approximately 7 percent of the total amount of rice consumed. Of that volume, only 100,000 tons of rice is bought for actual consumption. The rest of the rice is designated for its use ...

Political Science

Review of News Article
Introduction
In an article in The Diplomat (2014), Michael Green and Jeffrey W. Hornung have analyzed the myths being perpetrated in world media after Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe approved a proposal to end the self-imposed ban on allowing its military forces to exercise the right of collective self-defense (CSD). The authors have identified ten myths surrounding the announcement, and have proceeded to discuss and debunk each myth (Green and Hornung, 2014).

Review

Analysis
Japan’s amendment of the scope of activity it envisages in the case of its Self Defense Forces, and resultant expansion ...

The article The Recent Earthquake Wave on the Coast of Japan written by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore was published in the September 1896 edition of the National Geographic Magazine. Eliza Scidmore was a popular travel writer and geographer. She was a popular public figure and later became one of the first female board members in the National Geographic Society. In her professional career she spent much time traveling in the Far East and often wrote the articles and books about this region. Japan-related topics were of special interest to her. In 1890 Eliza Scidmore became a correspondent for the National ...

Article Summary

Japan is presently facing a shortage of both skilled and unskilled labor. The shortage has occurred from three primary reasons. One is the ageing population. Japan is facing a situation of falling demographic dividend as a higher percentage of the population is at the dependent age group of 65 years and above. The percentage of population in the workable age group of 16 to 65 years is lower in Japan. Secondly, strict immigration laws in Japan does not allow the gap between labor demand and supply be filled with foreign workers. Thirdly, there is a mismatch between the skill ...

The articles elaborate Johnson and Johnson's novel marketing strategy in Africa to gain a greater market share in the region. The company has recently turned to Africa to improve its future sales in the medical diagnostics and pharmaceuticals segments. Its primary marketing strategy has been investing in research and development in the continent. It is building relationships with the consumers by first providing the residents of South Africa with the desperately needed services such as mobilizing health facilities and drug distribution. (Johnson & Johnson 1). The company is investing in building these relationships because it presents them with a market ...

Article Review

a better teacher/student? Focus on the question/issues addressed and the findings as you relate these issues to practical use.

Chuansheng’s and Stevenson’s (1989) research paper titled “Homework: A Cross-Cultural Examination” explored the cross-cultural differences in homework among grade-schoolers, especially those in the first and fifth grades. The researchers investigated how cultural differences, beliefs and attitudes among Chinese, Americans and Japanese influenced academic success. The research methods used in the research included reading and math questionnaires, as well as, interviews of parents, teachers, and children. Even when Chinese learners were given extra homework over time, as compared to the ...

The Lament for Prince Peer of the Sun, of The Lament for Prince Kusakabe, is among the earliest poetic works of Kakinomoto no Hitomaro that have survived until modern days. The poem, which is an elegy in form, was originally intended to commemorate the late Japanese crown prince Kusakabe, a successor of the emperor Tenmu. The beginning lines of the poem point to the place of Kusakabe’s temporary burial palace and express the poem’s relation to the mourning period following Kusakabe’s premature death.
The first meaningful section of the poem is a clear allusion to Japanese ...

Charles L Mee, Jr’s article “A Good Way to Pick a Fight” (1977) focuses primarily on the Cold War and the events that led up to a tremulous time in American history. Mee begins his article with the death of President Roosevelt and the beginning of Truman’s presidency in which, one could argue, the relationship between America and Russia became strained as Truman chewed Russian foreign minister Motov out because of what Russia was doing in Poland (1). Mee then goes on to state “most people, most of the time, want peace in the world, and they ...

INTERNATIONAL LAW

In an article titled, ‘The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb,’ Henry L. Stimson, tries to justify why he and his team of scientists felt the need to drop the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Stimson, the then Secretary of War, in a race to beat Germany, used the atomic bomb over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. From Stimson’s view, while the use of the bomb was effective in bringing an end to the war, and also justified the huge sum of money and time spent on the ‘Manhattan’ project, it just couldn’t justify using it over ...

Racial prejudice and discrimination are issues that have occupied American social circles for the last four centuries that this nation has been in existence. American life has been characterized by race and class where a section of the population is deemed superior and others inferior. Racial discrimination is a historical issue that has seen people of the higher class discriminate against those of, the lower class, hat led to the historical slavery. The African American and other minority groups have often been depicted as underdogs and history have it that they have always been on the receiving end regarding ...

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The goal of the article is to show how victim consciousness can substantially transform society. The author illustrates the many struggles the Japanese nation has had to go through after the war. The post-war memories were full of trauma and guilt. Rather than deny those traumatic memories as well as war guilt, the author espouses the sense of embracing those events as a means of forgetting that trying moment.
Further, the author brings to the fore the different standpoints of the use of the bomb. While the American side justifies it as a means of lasting ...

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Article Number 1: “India’s Foreign Policy Crisis” by Harsh Pant (29 October, 2013)

This is an article on South Asian affairs published on YaleGlobal Online titled “India’s Foreign Policy Crisis” (Pant ). The overall purpose of the article is to analyze and evaluate the position of India in context if of its past 10yrs performance against the background of change world scenario. The author argues that India has failed to capitalize on past 10yrs environment. And when the role of America in world affairs is receding, it is finding lacking in depth in formulating an effective foreign policy. He further argues that the current Prime Minister, though a capable ...

Q1. What were the three signs that the U.S economy continued to improve at the beginning of 2016?
Ans: The three signs that showed that U.S economy improved is the consumer spending which grew from 1.8 % to 1.9 % from the previous year. The inflation rate increased by 0.7% from the year 2015 and the GDP growth rate increased from 2 % in the first quarter to third quarter(“U.S. Economy Staring 2016 on Solid Footing”,2016).
Q2. How does the current state of the U.S economy compare to macroeconomic conditions in Japan and Europe?
Ans: The U.S economy was more ...

Introduction

This is a story of a life-threatening situation that involved the redesigning of a fighter plane during the world war II. The story relates to the rental car due to the reason of how hard it is for someone to control a rental car controls due to the unfamiliarity of the cars control board hence the naming of the incident. The incident involved the pilot Dan Bowman, who found himself in a life-threatening situation when an air raid by the Japanese planes there were fighter planes on the ground that could have been easy targets for the Japanese hence ...

Abstract

This paper is an interpretation of a climate change article written by John Vidal in The Guardian newspaper. The first section will cover the summary of the article and the second section will include the analysis. The final section of this paper will cover the reasoning of this article on the basis of its relation with the issue of climate change.

Climate Change Article

Introduction
The article is based on the reneging of pledges made by the rich countries like Japan, Australia and Canada over cutting their carbon emissions. These countries have failed in their pledges by avoiding the cuts they needed ...

The clash of civilizations is an interesting article that attempts to change the conventional way of interpreting and discussing issues in International Relations. The author, Samuel Huntington, is of the opinion that the traditional approach to international relations no longer holds water and has been proved wrong and inadequate by the test of time.
Samuel Huntington has divided the article in nine main parts beginning from the introduction to what he considers as implications of this clash of civilizations to the west and maybe, specifically the United States of America (Huntington 02).
Huntington divides the world civilization ...

PSYCHOLOGY

Eating disorders, (ED) have long been associated with a particular perception. One which is today turning out not to be the only influencing factor when it comes to these psychological disturbance that affect many women worldwide, and are in fact on a steady increase. It has for a long time been generalized and assumed that the emergence of certain eating disorders such as binge eating and anorexia in several countries –not just America- was ascribed to the media image of “thin” being beautiful. Though this is trues and many cases support this hypothesis, there are however new incites in ...

The article- “The real reason why 4-inch phones are back in fashion”, published in www.thenextweb.com speaks about iPhone SE, the latest mobile phone from Apple, the business strategies, segmentation, pricing strategies and global marketing strategies . This paper will focus on identifying and analyzing the trends and significance of the event covered in the aforementioned article.

Business Strategy

IPhone, ever since its launch in 2007 has been one of the most sought after products selling millions of copies worldwide, across its product range. From the screen size of 3.5 inches in 2007, the phone kept on growing with every further launches and ...

Article Review:

1939-1945
1939-1945
In the article “Race, Employment Discrimination, and State Complicity in Wartime Canada, 1939-1945” Carmela Patrias explores the employment discrimination of minority groups during the World War II in Canada, focusing on lives of people of Japanese, African and European heritage, as well as Jews and Native people. Even though in times of war minority groups represented a great source of labor, racial difference was a significant factor to disqualify a person from working in war industries. The author describes different assumptions about “foreigners” - minority groups, that lead to social and economic inequality, as well as consequences ...

Article #1. Martins, S.R.M., & De Oliveira, D.S.F. (2014).
This article discusses the results of a two-stage speech therapy tests performed on the elderly, 45 in all and between the ages of 60 and 85 years old. The speech therapies resulted in improvements in 73% of subjects with dysphagia, and voice improvements on 62% after 11.6 sessions (Martins & Oliveira, 2014, p. 1120). Although the article makes no mention on the morbidity and mortality rates of dysphagia and dysphonia, it nevertheless affirms that “neurological diseases are common in the elderly” (Martins & Oliveira, 2014, p. 1120). In this respect, it can be ...

Problem

What is the problem the study was conducted to research?
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a global health issue. There is an increase in type 2 diabetes in African-Americans. Lack of knowledge in lifestyle and treatment interventions has led to the increase of T2DM in African-Americans. Type 2 Diabetes is a leading cause of blindness, renal diseases and lower limb amputations. African-Americans having T2DM also suffer from high blood pressure and low glycemic levels in blood.

Why is the problem an important one for nursing to research?

Diabetes has become a serious health issue among the public. Registered nurses should have latest knowledge about different interventions for diabetes. The article is ...

Richard B. Frank’s essay “Assessing Realities” is written to shed a light of perspective into the issue of what line of thinking went into the decision of Truman and his military advisor’s to use atomic weapons on Japanese cities at the end of World War II, and whether or not this was the ethical line of decision making for them to have made. As the author points out, American’s perceptions of the rightness of this decision has changed significantly since the time of the action, when far fewer Americans supporting this action decades after Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...

Analytical methods to evaluate seed dormancy in legumes

Abstract
Legumes are known to have multiple health benefits. The seed coat in particular contains a number of bioactive compounds which possess antioxidant activity. Of great interest is the relationship between the chemical composition of the seed coat and its role in seed dormancy. Modern technological approaches are currently used to further identify these compounds and determine their role in seed development; these include NRIS FTIR, mass spectroscopy, electron microscopy and chromatography. The following review describes the constituents of the legume seed coat and their respective roles in dormancy and other stages of seed development. The review also highlights ...

What is the thesis of Takasi’s Essay? What is the evidence that he offers for its truth? Do you find this argument convincing?
In the essay entitled the Harmful Myth of Asian Superiority, author Ronald Takaki tries explain that contrary to what other members of cultural minorities in the United States perceive or believe, Asian Americans are not superior both in terms of their personal and family income and educational background. Takaki exposes that most American cultural minorities such as the African Americans, for example, perceive that Asian Americans are superior to them as a cultural minority. The ...

That there was genocide in Rwanda culminating to the death of close to 1 million people is no secret. It has been 19 years since the world watched in disbelief as a nation descended upon itself in a move to exterminate one another. In order to bring justice to the victims, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) was formed to prosecute the core perpetrators. This court was established in November 1994 by the United Nation Security Council to try those responsible for the genocide and other violation of international law in Rwanda. These crimes ranged from planned exterminations of the ...

Mammography Adherence: A Qualitative Study (Watson-Johnson et al., 2011).
Mammography is a procedure that entails using radiation for early detection of breast cancer in women to facilitate proper management after diagnosis. Despite its proven efficacy in reducing breast cancer-related deaths and a pronounced increase in its use among women between 1987 and 2000, a sharp decline has been noticed in adherence to its continued use. Watson-John et al. in this study aims at uncovering the cause of this sharp decline in usage of mammography by various categories of women who have used it in the past.
In designing the methodology ...

NO
This is an interview between Miller and Stephen Mosher about the impacts of population growth in a given country. Miller asks a question while Mosher answers the questions asked. In the first question, Miller is asking Mosher the reason why the imminent population have not materialised and where the mistakes could have come from. However, Mosher says that the consequences of overpopulation in some instances from Malthus and Paul Ehrlich’s are deliberately exaggerated in attempt to frighten individuals into having not more than one or two children.
The second question Miller asked was if the projections about ...

- Introduction: Older Workers and the paradox
An older worker refers to that worker aged over 44 years. Most employers have adopted the image that such a worker is ageing and has reduced workmanship in their jobs or have a low value in the employment sector.
For this reason, and with the complete disregard to their strengths and worth, these workers are deemed as unemployable in the society of today that constitutes of an ageing population and reducing birth rates that would need to retain and sustain the older people.
- Summary of the Article
The authors’ ...

Many financial experts believe that international portfolio diversification substantially reduces the risk of an individual’s investment. Burhan Yavas gave this issue a critical look in his research entitled “Benefits of International Portfolio Diversification”. Yavas showed that foreign investment is a viable means to spreading the risk of investment. Although foreign investment is advantageous for diversification, investors should investigate underlying aspects that determine the success of international portfolio diversification.

The research carried out by Yavas rightly concludes that investors should consider foreign investment as a feasible means to diversifying their assets because foreign equities offer decent returns. Therefore, it is crucial for ...