I picked “Farming the Home Place” at the beginning of this semester is because a particular Japanese American Community story seems more interesting to me than a general immigrants and American Society book. Valerie J. Matsumoto is the author of the book‚ she is a PhD graduated from Stanford and she is a professor in UCLA‚ department of history. “Farming the Home Place” is one of her books about the ethnic community studies. Matsumoto’s books more focus on the study of small rural ethnic communities
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The United States is a nation of immigrants. Everyone in the country has heard this statement most people worldwide can tell you the same. Nowhere in the country is this more obvious than in the state of California‚ the nation’s most diverse state. It should be no surprise to most people that Japanese immigrants have a long history in California due to their visible presence there. My argument is that the Japanese are an integral part of California and also our country and have been instrumental
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Japanese Work Ethic The work ethic of Japanese Work Ethics could not be more different to the work ethic of American. Japanese culture is very different from the American. All aspects of Japanese life‚ especially business relations‚ are governed by strict rules of etiquette. A foreign business person who is either ignorant or insensitive to Japanese customs and etiquette needlessly jeopardizes his company’s prospects in this country. It goes without saying that the Japanese work ethic and culture
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Executive Summary Mr. Nakamura had built a substantial business and the Crysanthemum brand became Japan’s best selling brand. But he had no business outside of Japan and the Japanese market was already flooded with lot of other handicrafts. So he needed to look for new markets. This was the situation when he received offers from two highly recommended U.S companies. Each offer has been evaluated in terms of brand representation‚ cost reduction and maximization of profit margin. It is
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Situation Analysis: In 1948‚ when Mr. Nakamura took over the business family‚ observed the high demand of lacquer ware in the Japanese market but supply was not in accordance to that. In 1952‚ he built a substantial business for mass production of 500000 sets of lacquer table ware using numerous men power.The Nakamura “chrysanthemum” brand has become Japan’s best known and bestselling brand in terms of its good quality and middle class users. However‚ Outside of Japan he was restricted as per government
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GLOBALIZATION POLICY OF THE NAKAMURA LACQUER COMPANY SUBMITTED TO: MR SANJAY KUMAR GUPTA DATE OF SUBMISSION: 18.08.2008 SUBMITTED BY: JOYDEEP MUKHERJEE (20081020) To Mr Nakamura The Nakamura Lacquer Company From: Joydeep Mukherjee Date: August 18‚ 2008 Subject: Report on Globalization Policy of the Company Dear Sir The issue of Globalization of the Nakamura Lacquer Company has been addressed in this
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role management should play in workplace psychology is to understand yhat the employees are very important so instead of bringing Ayame down all the time and making her not want to do what is her best in her work performance. Ayame should feel just like everyone else at the company no matter what her cultural background is. The manager should reconizge Ayame for her hard work and reconizge her for her cultural background on what the manager may think is correct in how her performance is. The manager
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countries‚ which has successively changed from a mainly ethnically homogeneous society into a multi-ethnic society due to international migration. Meanwhile‚ the issue of population aging are challenging social work practice in Sweden. This article gives an insight into social work for elder immigrants in Sweden‚ who are vulnerable because of previous events‚ cultural differences and communication difficulties. An interview case is introduced at the beginning to elicit some worrying conditions as well as
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building nine storey GUSS hostel buildings. This is the first phase of the project of thirteen storey building project. This project will cover an estimated six years of construction. This first phase is going to take about four years for completion. Every storey has at least six floors and a maximum of nine floors. Each floor has a minimum of four rooms and a maximum of six rooms‚ each room has a back corny and a washroom. This project commenced on the 1st of September 2012 and I had the chance to have
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Hutchinson INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT WORK 3 1 WHAT IS A PROJECT ? What is a project? The best way to answer this question is to show some examples of projects. The following pieces of project work were done by students aged 11–15 in Slovakia and Hungary. Project work is not a new methodology. Its benefits have been widely recognized for many years in the teaching of subjects like Science‚ Geography‚ and History. Some teachers have also been doing project work in their language lessons
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