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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Japanese culture"”.
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Allusions to Samurai Culture in the Star Wars Universe, Especially in Jedi and Sith Characters
This paper provides a deep insight into the culture of the Japanese samurai and compares it to the culture of the Jedi and Sith characters of the Star Wars universe. The main points of comparison are the principles, weapons, and outfit. This thesis also attempts to prove that George Lucas used …
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Leading change management projects in international cross-cultural settings
… a need to increasingly take diverse national cultures into account in their operations. This extra dimension of International culture adds a layer of complexity that has been well studied in the past, though never in the context of Change Projects. This paper aims to look at how national …
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Internal marketing and employee satisfaction : a missing link in Japanese service management
… behavior. However, it is still uncommon for Japanese service companies to introduce these concepts, being strongly influenced by Japanese culture and tradition. This thesis first explains internal marketing and employee satisfaction through existing literature and actual examples of U.S. …
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Machi, Machinami, Machiya : a context for people's places in Japan
This thesis attempts to present the structure of Japanese towns as the connection between physical amenity and use, and the meaning of spatial structure as it is formed and textured by the people who inhabit it. This is organized into four sections, the first, a discussion of Japanese culture and …
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Ethical Issues in Business Communication: A Comparative Study of the Perceptions of Japanese and US Students
This study compared Japanese and US students' intended beliefs and behaviors relating to ethical business decisions. The study assessed the extent to which three of Hofstede's (1984) cultural indexes related to three ethical classifications of Vitell, Nwachukwu, and Barnes (1993). Participants were …
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Perceptions and Understanding of Family Violence Among Japanese Canadians
This study explores and describes how Japanese Canadian participants in Edmonton and Calgary perceive and understand family violence. A qualitative descriptive methodology was utilized as the research method, and data was collected from ten Japanese Canadians through individual and focus group …
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Comparison of Motivational Factors Between Japanese and United States High School Students
… and age groups, U.S. students rate poorly while Japanese students rate highly when subject to international testing. Japanese children complete twice as much homework as their U.S. counterparts and sometimes attend school on Saturdays. The literature review looks at motivation in both U.S. …
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American Shinto Community of Practice: Community formation outside original context
Shinto is a native Japanese religion with a history that goes back thousands of years. Because of its close ties to Japanese culture, and Shinto's strong emphasis on place in its practice, it does not seem to be the kind of religion that would migrate to other areas of the world and convert new …
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The effect of instruction on the acquisition of Japanese discourse marker ndesu
… pragmatic instruction on the acquisition of the Japanese discourse marker ndesu by second language (L2) learners enrolled in third- and fourth-year Japanese courses at the university level. The research was based on a quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest, and delayed posttest design using an …
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Anime as an adaptation. Anime‘s approach to the original source
Anime is a big part of Japanese culture. While some anime have original storylines, most of them are adapted from various other sources. The goal of this research is to find out how anime that are based on other sources approaches the original work. For this researched many manga and Light Novels …
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A sociolinguistic study of the effects of ethnocentrism and cultural traits on proficiency of Japanese speakers of English
… Japan has been acknowledged by both foreign and Japanese linguists and ESL teachers for nearly a century. Attitudinal and affective factors such as ethnocentrism, Japanese cultural traits, and values and beliefs expressed through modern myths were conjectured by several linguists and researchers …
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Alternative housing designs for changing life-styles in Japan
… underlying ideas of house, family and home in Japanese culture are analyzed to determine the factors which influence housing design and the way the Japanese live. Specific changes in life-style and housing design were analyzed in order to clarify certain issues which affect residential design. …
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Contemporary Art in Japan and Cuteness in Japanese Popular Culture
… of artists born in the 1960s who use popular culture to their own ends. From the seminal exhibition 'Tokyo Pop' at Hiratsuka Museum of Art in 1996 which included all four artists, to Murakami's group exhibition 'Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture' which opened in April 2005, …
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Education, Identity, and the New Asian Americans: The Case of Japanese Immigrant Families in the Midwest
… practices at the K-12 schools have had on Japanese American children's bicultural identity development. Thus, this study further explicates the dialectics of cultural continuity as a complex process by which compatriots have recreated representations of Japanese culture out of a collective …
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Redefining mental illness: medicalization, mental healthcare, and Morita Therapy, 1868-1938
… adapted Western mental health concepts to the Japanese context. At the same time, however, Morita attempted to extend concepts of mental illness that he considered to be Japanese culture-bound syndromes--specifically shinkeishitsu, which in addition to symptoms of neurasthenia caused patients …
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Beliefs And Motivations Of Foreign Language Learners
… purposes, and expectations for learning Japanese and/or Spanish language. A survey was conducted to collect data on EKU students’ demographics, as well as motivations and foreign language learning beliefs. Two hundred thirty eight students completed the questionnaire that includes a …
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Medieval Japanese Zen: Catalyst for Symbol System Formation
… to describe religious experiences, various cultures have developed complex symbolic languages whose purpose is to reference a culturally understood version of sacred reality as presented through religion. Religions contribute to shaping these cultural perceptions of reality by utilizing …
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Life Stories of Nikkeijin Seeking Better Opportunities: The Motivation of Brazilian Immigrants in Japan
The immigration of Brazilian-Japanese to Japan has started as recently as the early 1980s as a result of an economic downturn in Brazil and labor shortages in Japan. In a recent study published by the Ministry of Justice in Japan, there are about 250,000 Brazilians currently working throughout …
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No time and no place in Japan’s queer popular culture
… has remained potent in studies on contemporary Japanese visual culture. In hopes of addressing this issue, my thesis queries these queer narratives in popular Japanese culture through examining works which, although lying distinctly outside of the genre of BL, nonetheless exhibit queer themes. …
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‘My soul needs to be washed’: an exploration of the basic encounter group in Japan
… it became accepted and at the place it holds in Japanese life. The research began as I returned home to work as a counsellor after two years of counselling training in England. This thesis, therefore, tells the story of my process over eight years of inquiry, as a counsellor, facilitator and …
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