Ex post facto laws Name: Course: Institution: Tutor: Date: Ex post facto laws refer to laws that apply to acts committed before the enactment of such laws and are‚ therefore‚ disadvantageous to the affected persons. The United States constitution in article I‚ section 10 prohibits the state from enacting such retroactive laws. This prohibition protects individuals from unjust legislative acts. However‚ the ban on ex post facto laws applies only with regard to criminal and not civil laws
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annually on a regular basis and discuss issues regarding whaling (IWC 2011). After long-term discussions‚ Japan’s whaling practices have been restricted‚ and Japan is currently only allowed to perform whaling in the name of research in the northwestern Pacific and the Antarctic. (Morikawa 2009:5). Since this commercial whaling moratorium‚ Japan strives for the ‘’resumption of whaling based on research and scientific surveys’’ (ibid.‚ p.3). A couple of significant facts suggest that Japan’s stated argument
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Communication Style and Cultural Features in High/Low Context Communication Cultures: A Case Study of Finland‚ Japan and India Shoji Nishimura1‚ Anne Nevgi2 and Seppo Tella3 1 Waseda University‚ Japan 2 Department of Education‚ University of Helsinki 3 Department of Applied Sciences of Education‚ University of Helsinki Abstract People from different countries communicate in ways that often lead to misunder-standings. Our argument‚ based on Hall’s theory of high/low context cultures (1959‚ 1966
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The Case Study of “Bookoff‚ Amazon Japan‚ and the Japanese Retail Bookselling Industry” Una Hu 1 Why is the profitability of large Japanese retail booksellers relatively poor and their scale relatively small? According to the case‚ ‘stagnation in sales along with the steady increase of costs over time has reduced the profitability of both large chains and small stores’ (Peng 2009‚ p. 391). There are several reasons that results in the relatively poor profitability of large Japanese retail booksellers
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“The sentiments that Ex post facto laws are against natural rights is so strong that‚few‚if‚any ‚of the state constitutions have failed to proscribe them.The constitution indeed interdicts them in criminal cases only ;but they are equally unjust in civil as in criminal cases ‚and the omission of the caution hich would have been right‚does not justify the doing what is wrong.Nor ought it to be presumed that the legislature meant to use a phrase in an unjustifiable sense‚if by rules of construction
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How did Japan attack Pearl Harbor? Aloha! Such a peaceful Sunday morning‚ where everyone leisure around a beautiful serene Hawaiian Island‚ thinking about tropical fruits and beaches. How could anyone expect anything so terrible would happen? As we all know‚ Japan had been an aggressive country‚ expanding into their neighbor’s territory whenever they had economic problems. There had always been months of negotiations between Japan and U.S. It seemed that war was inevitable. With competent practice
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An Analysis of Differences of Toilet Culture between China and Japan ABSTRACT In an era of globalization and information explosion‚ culture difference has become one of those frequently-mentioned things. Now that most of the cultural topics are focusing on languages‚ food‚ fashion anything that is of high decency and attraction‚ this paper is to make an detailed analysis of culture differences between China and Japan by paying more attention to a “not-very-decent-aspect”‚ namely‚ the toilets
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brought on by many factors. One of the reasons Japan striked was due to crippling the United States since they both would have gone to war in the Pacific Ocean. By disabling the Pacific Fleet‚ they hoped to cripple the United States. This would also lead to United States submitting and a peace treaty which would benefit Japan. Also‚ since the United States lacked military power‚ they could have been an easy target. Tojo‚ who was the general of the Imperial Japan Army stated to the council ‘’a policy of
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last breath of mankind? Post-apocalyptic literature is paradoxical‚ as it grounds itself in an event so catastrophic‚ so destabilizing‚ that mankind should not physically survive; yet‚ against all odds‚ it does. It is from this paradox which makes the genre so interesting‚ for in the process of crippling mankind‚ it clears away all restrictions and social constructions holding mankind from a completely natural state which it’s true affinity can be examined. In such‚ post-apocalyptic literature creates
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Question Compare and contrast business systems in Japan and China. Answer with reference to relevant theories and use comparative country and/or corporate examples. Abstract The comparison and contrast of the business system between Japan and China Introduction In Japan much of its arts‚ languages‚ religion and culture are imported from China hence there are some similarity in both countries’ business system but over the centuries‚ Japan was able to convert this commonalities into differences
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