... workers are for the most part individualist. They prefer to act independently and try to be as self-sufficient as possible. While we can easily find Japanese workers sit together singing the company's traditional song, Americans view this action as such a culture of tribe. Secondly, although people in the two countries both have a strong sense of nationalism, there are many racial conflicts ... resigned than U.S counterparts. Some of them are even married to their company for a lifetime. This does not mean to say that American workers are less hard working than the Japanese, but the Ame...

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... thousands of Japanese-Americans were forced to relocate into Japanese-American relocation camps which had both pro and con arguments. Although the text's authors" considered the camps "unnecessary and unfair", this was an opinion that differed by the individual. In the case of the relocation camps, they regulated Japanese-American activity ... being that in time of war, any type of sabotage, little or big, could be greatly consequential and destructive. Many officials feared that Japanese-Americans would relay information back to their ancestral home, Japan, and thus cause a calamity. In...

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... Tradition in Japan. First, the Emperor didn't not intervene in political affairs as he was considered to be above such petty human politics, and second, the Japanese code of honor which puts death before dishonor. The Americans had intercepted messages from the Foreign Minister Togo, to Ambassador Sato expressing the desires of the Emperor for a peaceful end to the war, "[h]is Majesty ... bomb adopted the ethical standards common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. Apart from the thousands of Japanese lives that were taken, the bomb also fell on home, killing approximately 23 or more Am...

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... a much more separate and detached life pursuit; they engage in competition and conflict to achieve self-worth and distinction. The Japanese are a consensual society while the Americans are individualistic. Personal relationships are beneficial to the Americans but essential to the Japanese (McDaniel, Samover, 1997). Due to this difference, the amount of communication on the job is far more important to ... psychological separation that might interfere with communication, such as status distinction and private offices that the Americans employ. Privacy is not an important factor to the Jap...

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... it secretly positioned a powerful aircraft carrier strike force for a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet at its Pearl Harbor base in Hawaii, the Japanese government had ordered its envoys in Washington to engage the Americans in intensive diplomatic negotiations. World War II came to America's Hawaiian Islands shortly before 8 a.m on 7 December 1941. It was a quiet Sunday morning. ... Fleet. There had been no prior declaration of war. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, most Americans did not want to become involved in Nazi Germany's war against Great Britain. The treach...

• Word Count: 1961
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... Britain -German bombers bomb RAF bases, then bombed London by mistake, then intentionally more; aerial battle Pearl Harbor - Cause: When Japan took French Indochina, US put trade embargo on Japan. Japanese wanted to destroy the US' Pacific Fleet in order to clear the way to conquer Southeast Asia - US reacts by declaring war on Japan and inspiring men to enlist in ... , fuel, shoes, coffee, sugar, fats, oils, nuts, butter, and canned goods were rationed - 12 million African Americans, 50,000 Native Americans, and 2 million women worked on army supplies - to control prices, the government...

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... thousands of Japanese-Americans were forced to relocate into Japanese-American relocation camps which had both pro and con arguments. Although the text's authors" considered the camps "unnecessary and unfair", this was an opinion that differed by the individual. In the case of the relocation camps, they regulated Japanese-American activity ... being that in time of war, any type of sabotage, little or big, could be greatly consequential and destructive. Many officials feared that Japanese-Americans would relay information back to their ancestral home, Japan, and thus cause a calamity. In...

• Word Count: 306
• Approx Pages: 1
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... willingness to die in the face of overwhelming odds had been intense. Their refusal to surrender caused the Americans to use excessive force in order to triumph over the Japanese. Although Japan was seeking to negotiate a peace settlement, President Truman and British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee released ... an end to the war and practically guarantee victory. Lastly, the inefficiency of a military blockade made the bomb an essential last resort. Japanese defiance and resistance seemed to intensify as American landings reached nearer to the islands. The American marines attacked the i...

• Word Count: 949
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... it often had very different experiences. This is illustrated very well in the autobiographies of two men who were a product of this period in Japanese history. Fukuzawa Yukichi and Kayano Shigeru were both men who were directly affected by the Meiji Restoration. Fukuzawa was a low ranking samurai under ... sharply contrasted by the life story of Kayano Shigeru. Kayano was born on the northernmost Japanese island of Hokkaido and was a member of Japan's ethnic minority, the Ainu, which are often compared to Native Americans of North and South America. While Fukuzawa Yukichi was one of the ...

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... Eastern Asia, Indo China and the Western Pacific. In July of 1940, the United States placed an embargo on materials exported to Japan, including oil, in the hope of curbing Japanese expansionism. America's determination to remain isolated from the World War II changed abruptly, following Japan's "surprise attack" on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Tensions increased between the ... countries since then as Americans expanded conventional bombing techniques and tightened their increasingly successful naval blockade. The Japanese began the stock piling of aircraft, amassed a giant conscri...

• Word Count: 1599
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... of military material had ended. Factories were stripped of equipment to provide for reparations to the countries that had been victims of Japanese aggression. It were the bitter memories of the period of Occupation, led by the US, that the Japanese later found hard to forget. Japan became a US ally later on during the Cold War only when the Occupation ended and ... 's policy in Southeast Asia revolved around economic diplomacy, where relations were low-key and focused more on economics than politics. Therefore it was after 1970s, with the Americans withdrawing from Vietnam, that the Japa...

• Word Count: 795
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... in distance education and health care delivery. The Rural Utilities Service (formerly the Rural Electrification Administration) funds educational and health care projects providing advanced telecommunications technology and services for rural Americans. Many states are offering inducements to the carriers to accelerate the upgrading of their facilities and to provide access to schools and other community locations. State governments are also providing ... fiber optic cable by the year 2010. Japan's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) estimates the cost of building this networ...

• Word Count: 535
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