GLOBAL marketing class CULTURAL SENSITIVITY IN GLOBAL MARKETING: AUSTRALIA–MALAYSIA RELATIONS Australian companies have been exporting‚ forming joint ventures and setting up wholly owned overseas operations since the middle of the last century. In the 1880s Colonial Sugar Refinery Limited (CSR) invested in the Fijian sugar industry and Burns Philp and Co Ltd established stevedoring‚ shipping‚ retailing and copra production throughout the South Pacific. Early this century‚ Australian mining
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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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There was once a time in Japan called the Edo period (1603-1868‚ ending when Tokugawa Yoshinobu resigned) - this was a period where Japan was ruled under the Tokugawa Shogunates‚ a feudal military government. Japan had a stable population‚ and a popular enjoyment of art and culture. However‚ they had an uncompromising policy prohibiting any foreign contact‚ ultimately making it completely isolated from the western world. There was also a strict social order‚ where everyone knew their status. Emperors
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Religion in Japan In Japan today‚ religion is freely practiced and‚ at least in small numbers‚ a multitude of religions are present. The religious beliefs of Japan’s populace breakdown to 91% Shinto‚ 72% Buddhist‚ and 13% other (less than 1% is Christian). Although in the West religious faiths are viewed as mutually exclusive‚ in Japan it is common for a person to adopt beliefs from more than one theology. The majority of the population therefore is both Buddhist and Shinto. Both of these faiths
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This week’s topic was how cultural norms can influence behaviors and outcomes. The sociocultural perspective people is the world view people have because of the environment they grew up. There are so many different cultures in this world‚ and because of globalization the differences between the cultures is not something only anthropologist study‚ but because of technology‚ more people get exposed to on a daily basis. Personally‚ when I grew up I did not get much exposure to other cultures and when
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Prostitution in Japan In Japan‚ there are several applicable laws for crimes related to prostitution‚ such as the Anti-Prostitution Law‚ the Penal Code and the Child Welfare Law. These penal provisions have been appropriately enforced. Prostitution was officially sanctioned by the Japanese government during the Tokugawa regime. Families which were poor sent their daughters to big cities to find work at brothels and other niches in the sex industry‚ having them enter into “slavish bondage” with
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Impact of Industrialization on Japan from 1750-1914 In the 1750s‚ Japan was ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate‚ which had seized control of the country at the beginning of the 17th century. The shogunate centralized Japan and transformed it from a constantly warring collection of disunified states into a single country at peace. The Tokugawa shogunate ruled Japan from the early 17th century until 1868‚ a period when Japan was well behind the industrialization of other nations. During the Meiji period
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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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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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diversity affects the global business environment Words count: 1405 Due date: 17/03/2011 Date submitted: 17/03/2011 Time submitted: 08.45 am Teacher’s signature: I hereby declare that: i) ii) iii) This work is entirely my own. All sources used in the preparation of this assignment are fully referenced. No part of this work has been submitted for assessment in any other course of study. Signature: Date: 17/03/2011 How diversity affects the global business environment During
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