We love sports partly because of their ability to bridge cultural divides. Many of the sports that Americans love most have been catapulted into the international sphere in recent years; just look at baseball’s influence in Japan and Korea or the NFL’s huge promotional events across the glob...
'Getting tough' and 'getting smart': politics of the North American - Japan wood-products trade The authors compare the Canadian and the US approaches to developing exports in the wood-products sector. They focus specifically on exports of sawn lumber... Hayter,Edgington,DW - ENVIRON PLAN C-...
Previous cross-cultural studies of shyness have generally reported a higher level of shyness among adults in Japan than in the United States. This study examined two aspects of culture potentially related to different levels of shyness among the Americans and the Japanese: complementary relationship or...
For example, Americans eat a lot of meat and only a small amount of grains, fruit and vegetables.Because of the way they eat, they have a high rate of cancer and heart disease. In Japan, people eat large amounts of grains and very little meat. The Japanese also have a very low ...
in Japan will no longer accept teachers who smoke. It wants to create a healthier environment for workers and students. The university’s president S. Kono said, “Our job is to look after our staff(职员). We think we have to discourage them from smoking.” He added, “There will be ...
Nutrient intakes of middle-aged men and women in China, Japan, United Kingdom, and United States in the late 1990s: the INTERMAP study. The purpose of the study was to compare nutrient intakes among Chinese, Japanese, UK, and US INTERMAP samples, and assess possible relationships of ...
International University of Health and Welfare (IUHW) was founded in 1995 in Otawara City, Tochigi Prefecture, as Japan's first comprehensive university specializing in health and welfare, aspiring to foster professionals in the fields of health and welfare and improve their status. Hitachi: Fundamen...
Facing the Rising Sun: African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro〢sian Solidarity. By Gerald Horne. New York University Press. 2018. 227pp. $30.00doi:10.1111/1468-229X.13007REBECCA CRUNDENHistory
Mother and child in Japanese socialization: A Japan–U.S. comparison delineate Japanese strategies in implementing double socialization in early childhood / characterize the mother–child dyad as a cultural trope for other relationships / offer another comparable model for North Americans in contradistinc...
The Dark Past and Uncertain Future of Nuclear Energy in Japan byAndrew Small, Asian Studies 2023 In October 2020, then-Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide declared that Japan would reach net-zero greenhouse gas emission by 2050, an extremely high hurdle for the country to achieve in just thirty years...