Japan

The keyword Japan is tagged in the following 6 articles.

Examining the Foundations of Documentary Film Through The Cove

May 1, 2012 - 3655 words | Film and Cinema » Documentary

Directed by Louie Psihoyos, The Cove (2009) is an Oscar-winning documentary that follows Psihoyos and a crew of devoted dolphin activists as they fight to stymie and bring attention to dolphin hunting in the small coastal village of Taiji, Japan. Psihoyos’ film... Read Article »

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The Cove Documentary Film Cinema Louie Psihoyos Japan

The Japanese Number System

May 13, 2011 - 1533 words | Mathematics » Number Systems

Borrowing heavily from the Chinese, Japan abandoned their own numerals many years ago and used the ones from China. When written and spoken, numbers are broken down into their key components, multiples of powers of ten. The Japanese combine the number with ten, hundred... Read Article »

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Japan Number Systems Ethnomath

The Liberal Democratic Party in Japan: Explaining the Party's Ability to Dominate Japanese Politics

October 6, 2010 - 4018 words | Political Science » Japan

The Liberal Democratic Party’s largely uninterrupted dominance of Japanese politics must be ascribed to processes which transverse electoral systems and periods of economic vigour. This essay proposes that clientelistic behaviour within the Japanese political... Read Article »

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Liberal Democratic Party Japan Clientelism Japanese Politics LDP

Women in Ancient Japan: From Matriarchal Antiquity to Acquiescent Confinement

September 15, 2010 - 1993 words | History » Ancient Japan

The role of women in ancient Japan elicits inconsistencies due to different influences that were integrated at various time periods. The primary influence that contributed to these inconstancies was religion. Integration of the two major religions of Japan, Shintoism... Read Article »

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Women in Ancient Japan Ancient Japanese Women Buddhism Shintoism Heian Women Tale Of Genji Samurai

Japan's Multilateral Gambit: Leading the Charge Toward an East Asian Community

June 24, 2010 - 940 words | Opinion » Japan

If Japan was a person, it would be an exceptionally wealthy yet rapidly aging individual, who, for two decades, had been struck by illness. One might therefore find it unexpected for this person to be busily working on constructing the new face of Asian regional economic... Read Article »

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Japan East Asia Multilateralism ASEAN East Asian Community EAC Hatoyama

Exploring Japanese Popular Culture as a Soft Power Resource

May 17, 2010 - 3087 words | International Affairs » Japan

Power is the ability to achieve one’s purposes or goals.[1] Through the scholarship of Joseph Nye, the concept of power occupies two distinct spheres: ‘hard’ and ‘soft’. The former purports to have a coercive function through economic... Read Article »

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Japanese Foreign Policy Japanese Soft Power Japanese Popular Culture Anime And Politics Soft Power Nye