from other Japanese writers by his Western influences.[9] Murakami studied drama at Waseda University in Tokyo‚ where he met his wife‚ Yoko. His first job was at a record store‚ which is where one of his main characters‚ Toru Watanabe in Norwegian Wood‚ works. Shortly before finishing his studies‚ Murakami opened the coffeehouse (jazz bar‚ in the evening) "Peter Cat" in Kokubunji‚ Tokyo with his wife.[10] They ran the bar from 1974 until 1981.[11] Many of his novels have themes and titles that
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Japan Geographical Setting Japan is an island country in the North Pacific Ocean. It lies off the northeast coast of mainland Asia and faces Russia‚Korea‚ and China. Four large islands and thousands of smaller ones make up Japan. The four major islands- Hokkaido‚Honshu‚Kyushu and Shikoku form a curve that extends for about 1‚900 kilometres. Topography Japan is a land of great natural beauty. mountains and hills cover about 70% of the country. IN fact‚ Japanese islands consist of the rugged upper
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the sea’s profundities. A scientist‚ Dr. Yamane‚ is dispatched from Tokyo and finds that an ancient animal has been stirred from undersea hibernation by late hydrogen bomb tests and is currently itself radioactive. Yamane reports his discoveries to the Japanese parliament‚ the Diet‚ and contends that Godzilla is an experimental example which ought to be contemplated‚ not crushed. Godzilla then continues the destruction of Tokyo‚ and along with it is the subplot of the protagonists Emiko and Serizawa
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Hana’s Suitcase: CBC Broadcast‚ 2001 ’Hana’s Suitcase’‚ a true story of a little girl from Czechoslovakia who was one of 1.5 million people murdered in the Holocaust. The story was told by Fumiko‚ a woman from Tokyo‚ Japan who has created a museum in Hana’s honor‚ and featured Hana’s older brother‚ George Brady. At the beginning of the broadcast‚ Fumiko told the audience that the first piece of Hana’s story that she obtained was a suitcase of hers‚ from Auschwitz‚ in Germany. The suitcase had little
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Q AP World History DBQ Essay: The Olympic Games There were many factors that helped shape the Olympic Games from 1892 to 2002. Originally‚ Olympic Games were conducted in Ancient Greece in hopes of uniting its city-states Athens and Sparta and to promote peace through sports activity. When Olympic
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Domestic violence can be seen as a private issue‚ as it is something that happened between Tokyo and Judy in the privacy of their home and it influenced the individuals involved on a personal level. In a lot of these cases the people involve blame and justify their actions on factors influencing the couple`s relationship. It is normally viewed
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References: AIR POLLUTION IN TOKYO. (n.d.). AIR POLLUTION IN TOKYO. Retrieved March 26‚ 2014‚ from http://ap-tokyo.blogspot.com/Aensiweb. (n.d.). Aensiweb. Retrieved March 26‚ 2014‚ from http://www.aensiweb.com/jasr/jasr/2007/147-154.pdf Air Pollution Air Pollution in New York City. (n.d.). Air Pollution
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yen means Japanese companies can invest abroad Flood of japanese goods into the US leads to resentment [invade us by momeny!!!!] "Jap bashing" The Bubble years(1986--1991) real estate prices skyrocket 1988 most expensive piece of Tokyo real estate $248‚000 per square foot japanese businesses buy up iconic
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Current Communications Trends in Business Kevin Lewis MGT 350 October 18‚ 2012 Professor Traci Herrera Introduction In the times we live in‚ communication and the technology that allows us to communicate have seen major advancements. I can remember being in college and having to actually leave my dorm room to make that track to a relatively unknown territory called the library. I left college and joined the military in 1991. During my entire time in the military‚ I can recall using a
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“the irrational behavior of industry and society could be corrected” (Ishikawa‚ K; 3) By his own admission Dr. Ishikawa became involved in Quality Control by way of data analytics. He began studying statistical methods while at the University of Tokyo; he found the data from his experiments to be widely scattered making it impossible to reach accurate conclusions. At that time the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) had the very information he felt would serve and asked to see their
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