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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Lost Decade"”.
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The Effect of Outward Foreign Direct Investment on Exports in Japan during The Lost Decade, 1985-2005
<p>This study will utilize an OLS analysis of the panel data coming from various databases such as the World Bank, Federal Reserve and etc. to determine if there exists a significant correlation between the exports of Japan and its foreign direct investment (FDI) in the period of 1985-2005 with …
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Strategic challenges of the Japanese investment banking industry
… first developed in the late 1990s, after the "lost decade". They have competed with Japanese and foreign rivals mainly in the domestic market. This thesis explores both the external and internal strategic challenges confronting a Japanese investment bank seeking to survive and become a global …
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An Analysis of Japan’s Immigration Policy on Migrant Workers and Their Families
… in the 1980s as well as the first series of the lost decade in the 1990s, Japan’s interests shifted to welcoming more foreign migrants and immigrants. However, many Japanese officials and citizens still show slight hostilities when such a radical change has the potential to impede on their …
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Teenagers, Everyday Life and Popular Culture in 1950s Ireland
… within the wider social discourses of the decade including emigration, unemployment, globalisation and the rise of mass culture. Understanding the social structures of young people’s lives provides a deeper context to their access to and interactions with popular culture. In this study, …
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The Crisis of Language in Contemporary Japan: Reading, Writing, and New Technology
… practices that have been problematized in recent decades. By calling attention to underlying moral assumptions, established sociocultural protocols, and socio-technological conditions of the everyday, I theorize the concept of embodied reading and writing thresholds. The scope of analysis is …
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A History and Development of the Intercultural Communication Field in Japan (1950-Present)
… the Intercultural Communication field over the decades. Three research questions were posed for this study: one, why did the Intercultural Communication discipline become established in Japan as the first place after the United States, two, what was it about Intercultural Communication that …
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Look at Me: Japanese Women Writers at the Millennial Turn
… their mid-30s. The late 1980s/early 1990s (the "lost decade") was an important historical juncture that shapes this fiction. Not only were all of the texts published after 1990, but also the protagonists are representative of a "lost generation" that grew up in the aftermath of the economic …