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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…

Lois Lowry Lois Lowry is known for writing about the importance of human connections. She started writing young adult literature after a Houghton Mifflin editor read one of her published stories (Franklin 280). Lowry is a successful author who regardless of her life struggles has accomplished multiple outstanding awards and achievements. Lois Lowry’s childhood made an outstanding impact on her future and influenced it. She was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on March 20, 1937 (“Biography” 1). She is…

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…

When Hollywood stepped into the new millennium, it looked like Hollywood had a difficulty of making a new original movie. They has been keeping making sequels and remake old movies. To be more specific of this topic, Hollywood loves to remake Asian Horror films. They bought countless of Asian horror films, and turned them in to Hollywood style, such as the first Thai turned Hollywood, Shutter. Thai Shutter is one of the most successful Thai movie of all time. American Shutter, on another hand,…

International Relations theory of “realism” is the most adequate theory to understand the Senkaku/ Diaoyu Island dispute between China and Japan. Realism talks about a State to take decisions for national interests of the State, and I believe that this conflict clearly revolves around national interest of nations and the hunger for power. The Senkaku/ Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea have been the heart of the dispute between China and Japan for decades. The uninhabited islands cover a…