Fiction: a genre favored by billions of people because of its diversity and colorful characters. The worlds that spring up from this genre are endless. The book The Emperor of Nihon-Ja is no exception. Written by John Flanagan‚ this story is about a civil war in the fictional country of Nihon-Ja. All these characters and events are full of courageous acts‚ heroic sacrifices‚ and loyalty to certain people. These traits and actions are some of the most common forms in fiction‚ but what happens in stories
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What is LEAN? The core idea is to maximize customer value while minimizing waste. Simply‚ lean means creating more value for customers with fewer resources. A lean organization understands customer value and focuses its key processes to continuously increase it. The ultimate goal is to provide perfect value to the customer through a perfect value creation process that has zero waste. To accomplish this‚ lean thinking changes the focus of management from optimizing separate technologies‚
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MUDA- Wasteful Activity MURA- Unevenness MURI- Overburden Muda (無駄?)[1] is a traditional Japanese term for an activity that is wasteful and doesn ’t add value or is unproductive‚ etymologically none (無)+ trivia or un-useful (駄) in practice or others. It is also a key concept in the Toyota Production System (TPS) and is one of the three types of waste (muda‚ mura‚ muri[2]) that it identifies. Waste reduction is an effective way to increase profitability. Toyotamerely picked up these three
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Both books are written by the same author John Flanagan and are in the same series. The Icebound Land takes place around eight years before The Emperor of Nihon-ja (Icebound Land is the third book while the Emperor of Nihon-ja is the tenth book in the series). The Icebound Land takes place immediately after the second book with the two main characters (Will and Evelyn) being captured after trying to burn the bridge in order to destroy the enemy’s main way of transporting armies into their providence/hometown
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in Japan‚ rice has also been used to brew sake‚ a traditional alcohol drink which always appears in every kinds of Japanese restaurant today‚ such as Izakaya. Traditionally‚ a meal contains a bowl of rice and seasoned side dishes for each one person. (Naomichi Ishige 2000) However‚ in Izakaya type restaurant‚ people sharing food is a unique izakaya tradition. Japanese cuisine first became to a distinctive style of cookery in Nara and Heian eras. In Kamakura eras‚ Japanese cuisine was influenced
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activity that is wasteful and doesn’t add value or is unproductive‚ etymologically none (無)+ trivia or un-useful (駄) in practice or others. It is also a key concept in the Toyota Production System (TPS) and is one of the three types of waste (Muda‚ Mura‚ Muri) that it identifies. Waste reduction is an effective way to increase profitability. Toyota merely picked up these three words beginning with the prefix mu-‚ which in Japan are widely recognized as a reference to a product improvement program
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Continuous development in social media Based on the article indicated on the trends‚ Maria Ressa‚ a writer in Rappler‚ said that new media technology and the internet changes the way we think‚ and the way we act. Thus‚ creating an opportunity for Jiro Izakaya to create a promotion that can generate a positive ripple effect to move the people. 4. Filipinos unhealthy eating habits Filipinos are fund of eating fatty‚ high in preservative‚ and unhealthy food‚ thus bringing their health at risk. In an article
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Japanese Toilet Etiquette If you are planning on taking that special trip to Japan‚ do bear in mind as you make all the neccessary packing and arrangments‚ that unlike the West the toilet and bathtub belong to separate rooms in Japanese homes‚ each has its own set of rules for proper behavior as well as usage. Toilet Etiquette: There are two types of toilets in Japan‚ the traditional Japanese-style and the modern Western-style‚ although most private homes now have the Western-style toilets‚
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lean production‚ often simply "lean"‚ is a systemic method for the elimination of waste ("Muda") within a manufacturing process. Lean also takes into account waste created through overburden ("Muri") and waste created through unevenness in workloads ("Mura"). Working from the perspective of the client who consumes a product or service‚ "value" is any action or process that a customer would be willing to pay for. This Lean manufacturing is derived from Toyota Production System (TPS) which is based on
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Changes in The Land Review Jesse Mura-Pelkey Prof. David Deacon 9/28/14 "Changes in the Land" by William Cronon offers countless intimate observations and gatherings regarding the ecology of New England and the encounters between the colonists and the native americans. Cronon interprets and analyzes the different happenings in New England’s plant and animal environments that occurred with the shift from Indian to European dominance. As the distant world and inhabitants of Europe were introduced
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