The spokesman's aim was to show how ancient craftsmanship, with deep roots in Japan's culture, is also integral to Toyota's.
Second, the rejection of the LDP is the culmination of deep changes in Japan's political culture.
Rich graphic capabilities and easy-to-use interface that give full consideration to the book culture of Japan.
The area, with its abundance of streams, rivers and waterfalls, is still part of the living culture of Japan and is much visited for ritual purposes and hiking, with up to 15 million visitors annually.
According to professor Mike Molasky, author of the book Post War Jazz Culture in Japan, these cafes thrived between the 1950s and 1970s, when the Japanese discovered the genre through the scores of French New Wave films and a series of influential live performances by the band Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in 1961.
And East Asia correspondent Terry McCarthy describes how Japan is exporting its distinctive youth culture to the rest of Asia.
Judge's first tasks in Japan are helping TEPCO change its safety culture and restore public confidence.
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Yet to somehow prove to the world that Japan is serious about integrating into a global culture, its leaders have come up with an admirable-sounding but absurd recommendation.
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"Japan's military technology is like Japanese culture, " Kim says.
Its rivals are all merging, and Japan's clannish, inward-looking corporate culture makes that very hazardous.
They claim that levels of productivity, education, and culture during the 17th and 18th centuries in Japan were comparable to those in Europe.
"People say there is no culture of growing a business from scratch in Japan but actually social games and our company Gree became successful within seven years, " he says.
UNESCO, as lead agency for the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, organized the event together with the Government of Sweden and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.
Just as Sakamoto helped bring about a social revolution that set Japan on the road to modernization, Son, Sawada and Nambu are calling for another revolution - one that will replace what they believe is an inefficient, outdated business culture with a new paradigm that will prepare Japan for the next century.
It will soon face a new rival, in the form of Naver, which has decided to enter the Japanese market on the basis that Japan, like South Korea, has a unique and distinctive culture and language.
Japan has long been known as a market defined by an insider business culture with a low presence of independent directors and minimal accountability to shareholders.
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The structure, nature and composition of this sector in Japan act as a serious deterrent to the emergence of a vibrant start-up culture.
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Studio Ghibli's "Spirited Away, " which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film in 2003, remains the top-grossing Japanese film in history, and Miyazaki, who co-founded the studio in 1985, has been called "Japan's Walt Disney" for his impact on the country's animation culture.
It experienced waves of migration over the past century from countries such as Italy, Portugal, Japan, Germany, Korea and the Middle East, all of whom brought their cuisine and culture with them.
Former capital Kyoto, in particular, is known worldwide as one of the most beautiful places in Japan, and it's the place to absorb the maximum amount of architectural beauty, culture and history in the shortest amount of time.
But in the past 15 years, despite (or perhaps because of) the emperor and the government's best efforts, bass fishing has become the new Elvis in Japan, especially among the country's youth, where the sport has tapped into all of the outlaw, counter-culture character (and growth) that skateboarding has in the U.S. Japan-based tackle manufacturers, like Yozuri, Shimano and Daiwa , now supply bass anglers all over the world.
It shows once again Japan's engagement and commitment to the relevance of UNESCO, to the importance of education, culture and science for building a more humanistic and sustainable world.
It's the latest rage among Japan's teens, a new fashion that combines cruise wear, Aloha casual, hippie counter-culture and, with an emphasis on pastels, the cute quotient girls crave.
In Japan, during the celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention in Hiraizumi, I saw how culture and heritage help to heal the wounds of people affected by disaster.
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