Japan

Immigration into Medieval Japan was very hard for foreigners. In 1603 Tokugawa Ieyasu became the ruler of the entire country. Early in his rule, all foreigners were forced out of the country. Japan was isolated from the rest of the world until 1853 when Commodore Matthew C. Perry forced Japan to open its doors. If you was caught trying to sneak around the Japanese borders it is very likely that you could get in very much trouble or even killed. This is still very true in many border patrol…

Chiyoda Corporation, Japan Alex Uchrin Contents History: 3 Some of the company’s Business Fields: 3 Green energy 3 Environmental protection 3 Pharmaceutical 4 Petrochemical 4 Refineries 4 Upstream 4 Global network: 5 Upcoming project: 5 MHI (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries), Chiyoda plans first offshore hydrogen plant 5 Bibliography 9 History: Chiyoda started out as a small two-story wooden building in Tokyo, with 25 employees, in 1948. The founder, Mr. Akiyoshi Tamaki, had been a…

Japan is generally thought of as a nation with deep cultural values that are embedded in its business culture as well. Hard work with an emphasis on quality has always been a key feature in Japanese businesses that drove economic growth in the late twentieth century. With an economy once projected to take over the United States as the largest economy in the world, the perception of business in Japan has always been positive. According to Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index…

Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Nationalism in Japan’ is an analysis of the concept of the ‘nation’ and ‘nationalism’. Through this beautiful piece of writing, he has cautioned India and other nations that they must not thoughtlessly adopt the Western notion of Nationalism without first realizing the extent to which it can influence their non-Western culture and the cost that may come with it; “Therefore, you cannot with a light heart accept the modern civilization with all its tendencies, methods and…

In recent years since I’ve been learning about Japan and the Japanese culture in general, I’ve come to learn that a good amount of people seems to think Japan is some unsafe place where serial rapes, train-molestation, and kidnapping happen frequently. Where the Yakuza runs rampant and that it is just a big country of debauchery. Usually after people claim to be an expert on the crime rate and what crimes actually happen in other countries, it usually comes with steaking the claim that America…

As two neighboring countries, both of which containing exceedingly complimentary economics and societies, it seems absurd to many that Japan and China continue to struggle with relations. However, few know of the historical backgrounds, political relations and bilateral economics that have led the countries to have such an intricate relationship. Japan and China have many things to gain from a proper alliance, and under the administration of Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the two could…

Japan is a beautiful and interesting country. It is also very old country. When it comes to comparing it to America, there is not much that both countries have in common. Not only is the culture different, but so is the government, the problems it faces and their ideals. First and foremost, Japan does not have the same type of government as us. In America, we have a federal presidential republic. In a federal republic, there are partially self governing states or regions with a constitution…

From around 1600 to the middle of the 19th century, Japan and China chose isolation for themselves to avoid western cultures and their outside influences. As the world around them began to increase their powers and advance with new technologies, Japan and China realized the growing influences they’d once avoided was now upon them. They had to decide if these new western developments were a threat to their cultural identity and how they would be affected. In the beginning, the nations felt they…

Sakoku Policy During the 17th to the 19th century, Japan adopted a policy where their whole country isolated from the outside world. This long period of national isolation was called the Sakoku policy. Why did Japan adopt this Sakoku policy that isolated them from the world? One was to stabilize the country and the other one was the fear of foreign conquest and the fear of Christianity. Sakoku policy was the foreign relation policy where Japan isolated from the rest of the world. No Japanese…

Medieval Europe vs Feudal Japan After extensive research, I conclude that I would prefer to live in Feudal Japan. There are many factors that influenced my decision - some being that people in Japan led a cleaner lifestyle, had access to advanced medicinal treatment, had a diverse range of warriors, were accepted under multiple religions, were well protected, were well-rounded, had easy movement when fighting, knew and trained in multiple fighting styles and were overall, mentally healthy. The…