10/16/2012 | | | | TSUNAMI HITS JAPAN NATURAL DISASTER KILLS THOUSANDS Japan suffered a devastating earthquake 230 miles northeast of Tokyo on March 11‚ 2011 which caused a seven meter tsunami that surged through cities and villages in the countries north destroying everything in its path. According to the United States Geological Survey the Earthquake hit with a magnitude of 8.9 to 9.0‚ this is the largest recorded earthquake in Japans History and it moved the island by up to eight
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PROJECT: IDENTIFICATION OF PHILANTHROPIC COMPANIES AND THE EFFECT PHILANTHROPIC ACTS HAVE ON THE COMPANIES Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a process with the aim to embrace responsibility for the company’s actions and encourage a positive impact through its activities on the environment‚ consumers‚ employees‚ communities‚ stakeholders and all other members of the public sphere who may also be considered as stakeholders. Corporate philanthropy is the act of corporations donating a portion
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parts‚ reached more than five kilometres inland.The meteorological agency issued its top-level evacuation alerts for the entire Japanese coast amid warnings of a tsunami of between six and 10 metres. Towns and farms around Sendai city in northern Japan have been engulfed by a seven-metre tsunami‚ while a four-metre wave swamped parts of Kamaishi on the Pacific coast.Residents have been ordered to high ground and stay away from the coast as tsunamis can strike in several waves.Seismologists say the
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about it. But how does Japan view the war? In their culture‚ a loss of a battle is the ultimate disgrace. What do they teach students about this war? Did their government hide the true outcome of the war from them? What about the Kamikazes? So many questions are asked‚ and we hope we can answer some. Japan took over northern French Indochina. This sparked something in our government‚ as we then started to refuse exports to Japan‚ and denied Japanese immigrants. Then‚ Japan signed a treaty with the
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Investigating Earthquakes – Japan Gurjit & Ashwin Preliminary questions: a. Why do earthquakes happen in this location? b. Does this location fall on any fault lines? c. What are they doing to prepare themselves? d. How often earthquakes happen in this location? e. The last earthquake? f. The strongest earthquake? g. What are the hazards of earthquakes in this area? h. How are the structures built in this area Investigation: i. Japan is located in an area where several continental
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China and Japan From 1500 to 1800‚ China and Japan tried to politically and economically established their countries in very different ways. Japan fought war after war for a century before they changed their ways. China on the other hand slowly established a government and used education as a tool to be politically and economically strong. Japan would later do the same. China was one of the most politically and economically strong countries during 1500 1800. The state was identified as
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The Act decriminalises company law. There are very few remaining offences such as the falsification of records‚ publishing of false information‚ refusal to respond to a summons and similar matters‚ which relate to the administration of justice in terms of the Act. Any such offences must be referred by the Commission to the National Public Prosecutor for trial‚ in the Magistrate’s Court. The Act generally uses a system of administrative enforcement in place of criminal sanctions to ensure compliance
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Barriers of Development Identifying problems Not all children acquire adequate social skills simply from the “Developing process.” Delayed and handicapped children will tend to have more than their share of problems in social development‚ but some children who seem normal in other areas may be viewed as poorly adjusted socially. The failure of develop normal social skills is often identified in one of the following ways: Separation problems: A child beyond age two continues to have extreme difficulty
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Aya Kamikawa- Reformation in the land of conformity Scholars have suggested that in the modern Japanese society‚ transgendered individuals (transgendered individuals and transsexuals are interchangeable and are referred to in the context of the Japanese society) are only valuable to the entertainment industry (Mackie 412‚ McLelland 167-168). In a country where mainstream conformity is promoted and preferred‚ any career outside of the entertainment and sex industries would seem impossible to
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practices JAPANSE GAAP Japan in the year 2010 had a GDP of 4.31 trillion dollars making them the 4th largest in the world 1. With this being said it is important that other countries doing business in the nation have a strong knowledge of their accounting practices. Japanese accounting practices have been going through some major changes over the past 10 years. In 2001 Financial Accounting Standards Foundation (FASF) was formed as well as the Accounting Standards Board of Japan (ASBJ) was created
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