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In September 1947, the MOE announced that it would introduce a textbook screening system in 1948. This order also claimed the halt of the publication of state-authored textbooks. In 1950, the MOE announced that it would cease writing textbooks, though it tried to reintroduce its own textbooks in 1952. Then, the MOE decided to stop publishing state-authored textbooks. In 1952, new non-governmental history textbooks published by seven different presses started to enter Japanese middle schools. The…

Growth is usually seen in the most prosperous regions of the world, with cities like Tokyo and Osaka. According to a 2014 report by the U.N Tokyo is the world’s largest city with a population of 38 million inhabitants. That is big enough to fit the entire population of California. Surprisingly, Tokyo has been tracking slow growth in recent times. Nagoya a city in Japan grew about 6 percent in recent years, and Tokyo has only seen a 7 percent growth in recent years. The UN stated in a report…

due to compliance violation including tax evasion, financial window-dressing, frauds, embezzlement, unpaid wages, food fraud and mislabeled foods (Tokyo Shoko Research, 2016), and the total amount of liabilities due to business failures is approximately 2.1 trillion yen (US$20.2 billion) and the compliance violation accounted for approximately 13.3% (Tokyo Shoko Research, n.d.). For this reason, to manage CSR is bare essentials for continuing business activities as global…

1. Who is the Author/artist? What influenced him? Keiji Nakazawa was influenced by his personal experience as a survivor, during the Hiroshima bombings in 1945. In 1961, he moved to Tokyo, Japan to express his stories through his art. 2. What is the full Title of the piece? What is the meaning of this title? Hadashi no Gen, translates to Barefoot Gen. This title has the lead character’s name, Gen, meaning “root” or “source” in Japanese and “Gen” also being a piece of the word “Genki” which…

It was our last night in Tokyo. As much as I was sad to leave this intriguing city, I was excited to try one of the best sushi restaurants in the city. The trip ended with one of the most memorable meals of my life. The restaurant was tucked in a tangle of alleyways in a quiet, residential area of Tokyo. Small, welcoming and clean: the restaurant’s exterior represented the delicate and exquisite food that we were about to taste. Two elderly chefs, who were behind the counter, were filleting a…

Sumitomo Copper Scandal (1995) Impacts on the Sumitomo Corporation The Sumitomo Copper estimated that the copper scandal, the financial scandal, gave rise to losses of $1.8 billion in June 1995. According to the company, the case would not affect their activeness and they would swallow the entire loss in the current fiscal year, which was about nine months after it took place. In order to cover the $1.8 billion losses, they would set aside a fund from the original executive bonuses and canceled…

It can be just a matter of perspective whether we hold the view that there are somewhat inevitable connection among events or there only exists sheer chance. For how can we judge the existence of relationship, a invisible thing? In that case, it is more fruitful to think about what is the healthy way to cope with seeming contingency than to be engrossed in the discussion about something is a chance product or not. It is because paranoia no less distresses its possessor than a world with no…

Across the globe, we have different unique cities that bring out the best of culture, tradition combined with modernity, a state of class buildings and with huge commercial activity. Many cities are very modern with technological advancements and they spell class and wonder to the eyes of the beholder. Adelaide, Australia It is a beautiful capital city of South Australia and is often referred to as the green city. The numerous parks and boulevards of Adelaide make it a perfect green place to…

It was magnitude 8.9. Tokyo is on the eastern edge of the Eurasian. Honshu Island which is at the intersection of 3 tectonics plates '' Eurasian plate, Pacific and Philippine sea plates''. Pacific plate is going under the Eurasian plate because the ocean plate is heavier than…

It starts with Kaneki Ken, an average quiet college freshman who loves reading books and hanging out with his only friend, Hide. Then everything changes when Kaneki is turned into a flesh eating ghoul. The main focus of the show was on two things, how our main character, Kaneki handles not being human anymore and how he deals with fighting the urge to be toward human flesh, which of course disgusts him. Also now having to deal with the world where ghouls are hunted down by the CCG, an…