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LIFE OF EARLY PREMODERN JAPANESE
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This 4 page paper discusses the life of the peasant in premodern Japan, as depicted by Mikiso Hane. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: MBmikiso.rtf

Logical Fallacies
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A 4 page research paper that examines and discusses several types of fallacies. The term "fallacy" refers to errors in logical thinking that can be found in argumentative language (Haskins). This examination of this topic looks at three logical fallacies and how these errors in logic relate to the processes of critical thinking, and how its application can be found within the decision making process. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: khlogfal.rtf

Management Styles / Comparison Between The U.S. and Japan
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A 5 page paper comparing management styles in Japan and the US. Not until the American public was tired of expensive inferior quality and started turning to the Japanese for increasing numbers of cars each year did American manufacturing take Japan seriously. The management style in the US had been that from the behavior school, with a fair amount of autocracy included. The chasm between labor and management was particularly wide in manufacturing operations, while a healthy labor-management attitude operated in Japan. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: Mstyle.wps

Matsu: Japanese Pine
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A 6 page paper which examines the types, uses and symbolic nature of the Matsu, or Japanese Pine. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: RAmatsu.rtf

MEIJI-PERIOD IN JAPANESE HISTORY
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This 5 page paper discusses the Meiji Period in Japanese history as viewed by a primary Eurocentric source. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: MBmeiji.rtf

Memories Of Silk And Straw
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This 5 page paper looks at Memories of Silk and Straw : A Self-Portrait of Small-Town Japan by Junichi Saga and argues that the result of the patriarchal society has been the cultural devaluation of women. No additional sources are listed.
Filename: KTjappat.rtf

Milton Murayama's "Five Years On A Rock" – Japanese Family Formation
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5 pages in length. The Japanese family formation reflects some of the most loyal attributes of any familial system in the world; that the foundation of is based upon the tenets of gaman (perseverance) and gambaru (trying hard) speaks to the inherent dedication of both body and spirit when it comes to making some of life's most important choices. No additional sources cited.
Filename: TLCJapFamFrm.rtf

Modernization in Japan and China
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A 6 page research paper that discusses the fact that Japan managed to modernize in the middle of the nineteenth century while China did not and the effect that this had on these countries. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: 00modjc.rtf

Moving To The City / Japan's Graying Farms
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A 6 page essay examining Japan's current trend away from the farms and into the cities. Family farms are being worked by owners well past working age while the families' children are opting for the life of the city, which seems to be freer and easier to live. The paper includes an analogy between the current Japanese migration from their ancient agricultural heritage to the American shift from farms to cities, comparing the similarities and differences in the cultural views of agriculture and those who make it their living. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: Japanfar.wps

Musui's Story
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5 pages in length. Musui's Story tells of the life of a samurai in the lower class of his society who gave up the aspirations expected of him in order to learn from those who were beneath him according to societal rules of the time. It is a fact that religion in society played a role in Musui's story, and that is the focus of this excellent paper.
Filename: JGAmusui.wps