Beyond Tokyo: Disney’s Expansion in Asia DISNEY IN ASIA Early in 1999‚ Michael Eisner‚ CEO of The Walt Disney Company‚ voiced his opinions concerning potential markets for his firm’s entertainment products and services. A major thrust for the new millenium would be development in Asia. • We could be getting close to the time for a major Disney attraction in the world’s most populous nation.” The Walt Disney Company‚ Annual Report‚ 1998. • “I am completely confident that Chinese
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Bassam Theodory Political Science 116 05/13/2013 The Fog of War Any military commander was honest with himself will admit that he had made mistakes in the application of the military power. He had killed many people unnecessarily. But he hasn’t destroyed nations. As McNamara said “In this world‚ there will be no learning period with nuclear weapons‚ you make one mistake and you are going to destroy nations.” According to that‚ McNamara was trying to tell us that using nuclear
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presumptuous underlying assumption when they began forming their strategy: “We are Disney. If we build it‚ they will come.” Their ethnocentric approach in marketing their product to a highly diverse European culture seems an almost idiotic blunder. In Tokyo‚ Disney succeeded immediately due to their iconic brand and Japanese sentimental attachment to Disney characters. Approaching a European theme park the same way‚ located amidst a French population that is hostile to the very “Disney idea”‚ was a grave
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WHY WE CHOOSE THIS COMPANY Excessive nutritional intake is not limited to economically advanced countries. It is also becoming a serious social problem in emerging countries that have been rapidly developing in recent years. Unfortunately‚ the usage of sugar‚ salt‚ and fats to enhance food flavor‚ food texture and eating satisfaction is generally regarded as more appealing than using ingredients designed to reduce those items for the purpose of curbing excessive nutritional intake. It is a known
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THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC AND EAST ASIA: JAPAN ON THE OFFENSIVE: 1941-42 When the nations of Western Europe became embroiled in World War II‚ Japan began to expand into the Southeast Asian colonies of the European powers. After the United States retaliated with economic sanctions‚ Japan planned a concerted attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbour‚ Hawaii‚ and other Pacific and Asian targets. For a time Japan was master
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Historic earthquakes Here is a brief history of earthquake in Japan. Many parts of this country have experienced devastating earthquakes and tidal waves in the past. The Great Kanto Earthquake‚ the worst in Japanese history‚ hit the Kanto plain around Tokyo in 1923 and resulted in the deaths of over 100‚000 people. In January 1995 a strong earthquake hit the city of Kobe and surroundings. Known as the Southern Hyogo Earthquake or Great Hanshin Earthquake‚ it killed 6‚000 and injured 415‚000 people. 100
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a wrestler who had qualified for but did not attend the 1960 Summer Olympics started the restaurant with $10‚000 earned from driving an ice cream truck in Harlem. The first restaurant‚ Benihana of Tokyo‚ was named for the red Safflower that was the name for the coffee shop owned by his parents in Tokyo. Aoki’s concept was for the meals to be theatrically prepared by a knife-wielding‚ joke-telling chef at a teppanyaki table surrounded by a wooden eating surface in front of the guests (Teppan meaning
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Prada – The Devil is in the Details … Prada estimates its sales per year at $22 million (as of ~2001). The luxury retailer recently spent millions on IT for its futuristic “epicenter” store—but the flashy technology turned into a high-priced hassle. The company needed to generate annual sales of $75 million by 2007 to turn a profit on its new high-tech investment. When Prada opened its $40 million Manhattan flagship‚ hotshot architect (“star-chitect”) Rem Koolhaas promised a radically new
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“The Night of a Thousand Suicides” by Teruhiko Asada is a fiction that shows the pressure and expectations of the Japanese society placed on its soldiers forcing them to commit acts of suicide then to come home as coward. Because of the peoples dedication to the Emperor and their belief in him as a living God they fallowed him blindly. The Japanese Emperor expected his military to bring him total victory through the war and failure was only meet with death. In 1940 the Japanese War Department
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on Japanese cities by the U.S during World War II. Comparing the population of these Japanese cities to cities in America of equivalent size‚ McNamara says that the proportionality of the war on Japan was immoral. For instance‚ 51% of Tokyo was destroyed‚ with Tokyo being approximately the size of New York. In Toyama‚ 99% of the equivalent of Chattanooga was destroyed. According to McNamara‚ the killing of 50-90% of the people in 67 Japanese cities‚ and then dropping two nuclear bombs‚ was not proportional
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