Economy of Japan

accompanied with the fact that it wasn’t glory stage of a bureaucrat near the end of Tokugawa period making his life harder to pay off livings for two daughters and a senile mother with just 50 koku (Samurai stipends in Edo period). Indeed, the Japanese economy in the end of Edo era encountered inflation due to the reduction of their…

catastrophe occurs when the Nazca plate released tension and descended 15 meters under the South American plate. Since the earthquake occurred in the middle of the Pacific Ocean it resulted with horrible tsunamis hitting the coast of Chile, Hawaii and Japan. This earthquake was enough to leave people homeless and dead. The destruction cost millions of dollars. Lastly, the seismic motion from the shaking of the earth caused huge landslides across Chile. One effect this earthquake had on, was…

research is Honda Motors Corporation Limited. Although it’s a Japanese automobile manufacturing company it is traded in the US stock market: New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Hence, I am conducting my country analysis on the USA. The USA economy is the world’s largest economy in the world having a GDP of $17.4 trillion with a growth rate of 2.4% as of 2014. It contributes 17% to the global GDP (Gross Domestic Product). The US GDP per capita is $54,170 which is the 10 largest in the world which…

all cartoon series in Thailand are from Japan, so Japanese culture normally shown in animation are familiar for Thai kids, especially 90’s kids. Children can learn what Japanese culture is, what the difference between Thai and Japanese. I think those Japanese cartoons, not only Doraemon have influence Thai society since all animations that we could find to in 90’s came from Japan. People view Japan as a cute and cool country, so it is not surprising that Japan is the country Thai travel to the…

An Unexpected Endemic Disease: The Internal Modernity Crisis of Samurai in Modern Japan If a survey were conducted across the globe that asked participants to describe what they felt was the defining characteristic of Japanese culture, the Japanese samurai would most likely be the top response. In modern Japan, the legacy of the medieval samurai is at the heart of the Japanese culture. Depictions of samurai’s absolute loyalty, high regard for honor, and continual analysis of shame, can be…

My interest in economics was developed since I was a child. I was given birth in a “financial family”; my parents’ works were all related to economics. Therefore, since I was young, I had the opportunity to observe and understand the financial work. In middle school, when my parents discussed economic events, I did not feel bored. To the contrary, I listened carefully and even made efforts to express personal opinions. Undoubtedly, sometimes my opinions were infantile and funny. However, my…

The present thesis, is aimed to analyze the social behavior of transnational corporations during the economic crisis of late 2000s. While the growth of world´s GDP was negative in 2009 (-2.1%) and many corporations experienced cuts in employment, limited access to credit, and reductions in capital and technological spending (Campello et al., 2010: 1), the social investment of many firms followed a counter-intuitive move by increasing their social contributions in more than 228%. Between 2004…

potentially dismantle the operating environment which these enterprises function within. These issues that we learn about, and the company profiles that were presented gave us an insight into some of the biggest macro challenges present in the world’s economy. These conglomerates are potentially disastrous macro-economic structures who have attained a status where it is necessary to be educated about them and understand how a seemingly unrelated event may have a profound impact on another.…

Response paper # 2 GEOG 473 SPRING 2016 Chad (Jong H) Lee I have never heard the term “Blockadia” before, but after reading her book, it makes sense to me now where the term came from. In my understanding, the term originally started by activists in fighting the Keystone XL pipeline in Texas, and people tried to stop it with their bodies, and their camp was called “Blockadia.” However, Klein mentioned that Blockadia is really the transnational space, roving space, where just regular people…

contrasting views of women and status quota for women. These views and positions are vital towards defining the success of a country’s economy. These views are generalized in three categories: high, fair and low. Countries that rate high in women-friendliness in education, tradition and women rights tend to have progressive outlooks on women and are advanced in it economy and human development. These countries are either developed or high…