Samurai today enjoy widespread popularity due to their depiction in western media as katana wielding warriors with a strict code of honor‚ comparable to the knights of arthurian legends. In reality‚ these two were not so different‚ as each upheld a similar code of conduct and chivalry. The Japanese variant‚ the samurai‚ followed a code of honor named Bushido‚ literally “The Way of the Warrior”. When the Chinese visited Japan in the early 5th century BCE‚ they brought not only their writing
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The Last Samurai Think about your friends‚ family‚ and your loved ones for a second. Think about what luxuries you have and how you have come to love them. Doesn’t it make you feel blessed and lucky to be who you are? Now imagine being thrown onto enemy territory‚ a lonely and dangerous place with nothing. In order to survive you must communicate with the enemy and learn to live their way—the total opposite culture you hate. In the movie‚ The Last Samurai‚ the author portrays a Civil War veteran
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Effective ways of management that will led Toyota Motors to Boom Submitted by: Syed Abdur Rab Submitted to: Dr. Zaira Wahab Iqra University Main Campus‚ Defence View‚ Karachi Dated: April 11‚ 2012 Abstract: Toyota Motor Company. (TMC) is a company assembling and distributing Toyota Japan’s cars in Pakistan. Currently it is the largest car assembler in Pakistan. The firm was founded in 1983 as a joint venture between the Indus Motor
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LEGACY OF THE SAMURAI _The characteristics‚ philosophy‚_ _and history of the samurai._ For seven centuries‚ the samurai ruled Japan as the powerful warrior class. As a class of warriors and knights‚ they led society in feudal Japan. The loyalty to his lord was much more important than his allegiance to his friends‚ family and even the emperor. Their philosophy was one liberated him from fear‚ and for these reasons‚ the samurai came to be the dominate force throughout medieval Japan. War played
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Paper #2 The word Samurai means a fearless warrior sworn to protect without question. During their long history in Japan‚ Samurai lived lives in tradition‚ with a structured code of honor‚ discipline‚ and morality. By following their religious beliefs of Buddhism and Structural discipline Samurais are known to be one of the best warriors/solders in histories time. To be able to fight as brothers and protectors was their sworn life. The clothing of the Samurai had a very unique look along
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Suzuki Case 1. What were the business challenges facing Maruti Suzuki management prior to adopting the oracle suite? The challenges facing Maruti Suzuki management prior to adopting the oracle suite is India at the time was one of the largest car markets in the world and Maruti Suzuki was the leader of that market. Maruti Suzuki then began diversifying their market by adding financing‚ leasing‚ insurance and pre-own car business to it. Due to the size and complexity of their organization‚ Maruti
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of the samurai class‚ especially with the high-rank samurai. The Twilight Samurai and Musui’s Story both depict the deficiency of samurai class during the Tokugawa period with the struggles of the low-rank samurai trying to find ways to support themselves all while trying to keep up their status as a samurai. Both the film and autobiography also show that bushido was far from a normative philosophy through the acts of
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History Speech (1st slide) What were the Samurai? (2nd slide) These are my sources. The excerpt from Yamaga Sokō is a primary source written as an original document in his work ‘Way of the Samurai’. Yamaga Sokō wrote this work in the mid-seventeenth century as a Japanese Philosopher during Medieval Japan times. He was an expert in military techniques and was highly respected. This source is very reliable as it is from the time and although it is an opinion‚ it is not biased or unwitting as well
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The Seven Virtues of Bushido The Way of the Samurai Bushido was developed between the tenth to fourteenth centuries in Japan and spread through the warrior class. It was a code of conduct that during the time was unwritten passed down from generation to the next. The Bushido code has seven main virtues whose roots come from “Confucius” and “Zen Buddhism.” These seven virtues are known as Gi‚ Yu‚ Jin‚ Rei‚ Makoto‚ Meiyo‚ and Chugi. In Inazo Nitobe’s book “Bushido: The Soul of Japan he describes
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of the samurai warrior. The warrior class would rule society and politics in Japan until the Tokugawa Shogunate in the nineteenth century. A samurai was a member of the Japanese elite and his lifestyle was dictated by a series of strict moral codes and ideals. True loyalty to his lord was expected‚ if not always followed through in its ideal form. In 1703 a vendetta carried out by forty-six former vassals avenging their lord ’s death would come to be viewed as the embodiment of samurai ideals
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