service to the Empire of Japan. Death instead of defeat and shame is the primary tradition in the Japanese samurai culture. They lived with the bushido code: “Loyalty and Honor before death”. The short story in discussion is “A Family Supper” written by Kazuo Ishigoru. This story tells us about an evening when the son-the protagonist and the narrator of this story‚ returns to Japan to meet his family after spending two years in United States‚ and the unsaid tension between him and his father. This story
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The Japanese Accounting Review Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration‚ Kobe University ANNOUNCEMENT: Japan has one of the largest economies in the world‚ which holds substantial and growing interest world-wide. There are many English books and journals on Japanese management‚ but only a few books and no refereed journals on accounting. The Japanese Accounting Review will fill this gap‚ and meet an existing demand from Japanese and international scholars. The Japanese Accounting
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triumph and discover their true selves while others find themselves in a hole‚ clutching onto anything that gives them a sense of identity. In the case of Kathy‚ the protagonist of the novel Never Let Me Go‚ the crisis of identity is a prevalent one. Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go vividly tells the story of Kathy‚ Ruth‚ and Tommy‚ students of Hailsham‚ who were created purely to donate their vital organs. Kathy faces the issue of identity because she is a clone‚ stripped of any real human identity;
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“It’s hard to think when someone’s trying to kill you. We human beings aren’t wired to be rational and creative when we know our lives are in danger of a swift and violent end. The body has definite ideas of which survival strategies it prefers to embrace‚ and those are generally limited to "rip threat to pieces" or "run like hell." No thinking need be involved‚ as far as our instincts are concerned. Jim Butcher‚ Small Favor Morals conflicts with instincts In the novel Battle Royale‚ author
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Sharetrading or sharedealing is the act of buying and selling shares in a company for financial gain. Used as a long term investment plan for many there are are also those that gamble on short term trades relying upon market trends and the effect that certain events will have on the price of the share that they are trading. The financial capital of the UK is London and the majority of the trading companies are situated within the City of London or out at Canary Wharf which is a relatively new development
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Skateboarding is an Art‚ a Lifestyle‚ and a Way of Life. By Mike Lombardo -December 2012 People who don’t skateboard have no idea what I’m about to describe‚ but if you have a passion for skateboarding like I you will totally understand. Skateboarding is not a sport; we don’t have any couches telling us what we can and can’t do. We can literally do whatever we want on a skateboard‚ it is complete creativity and freedom. Skateboarding is an Art‚ a Lifestyle
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Comics didn’t interest me much until a few years ago: long Indian summers spent reading Archie digests out of utter boredom had convinced me that there wasn’t much to the form. It was only when a friend introduced me to Japanese comics (or manga) three years ago that I began to realize that the synthesis of image and text could produce complex layers of meaning‚ which shifted from reading to reading. In Japan‚ manga has "spread and diversified as a dominant (almost the dominant) medium in mass culture"
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Our brains change as we age. Many of us notice slower thinking and problems with recalling certain events as we grow older; nonetheless‚ confusion‚ memory loss and other key changes in how our minds work may be a sign that brain cells are failing. Many people confuse Alzheimer’s disease with dementia. Dementia is a set of symptoms that include problem solving‚ reasoning skills and memory loss while Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive disorder that is usually characterized by considerable dysfunctions
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Introduction Sony was founded in 1945 by partners Masaru Ibuka‚ (an engineer)‚ and Akio Morita‚ (a physicist)‚and was originally named Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering). The firm was launched in Nihonbashi‚ Tokyo. Four years later the company developed and produced Japans’ first magnetite-coated‚ paper-based recording tape‚ called Soni-Tape. In 1955‚ the firm began using Sony logo on Totsuko products. The group also launched Japan ’s first transistor radio‚ the TR-55‚ during
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itself against the rumblings of a rudely shaken world... Dostoyevskian.’ -- San Francisco Chronicle (full review) ’Changez’s voice is extraordinary. Cultivated‚ restrained‚ yet also barbed and passionate‚ it evokes the power of butler Stevens in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day... brilliantly written and well worth a read.’ -- The Seattle Times (full review) ’Some books are acts of courage... Extreme times call for extreme reactions‚ extreme writing. Hamid has done something extraordinary
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