She had something to sell, her experience as a geisha and of Japanese culture, and she worked hard to market it.
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Western music swept the country and fed into both Japanese folk and high culture styles.
Dower is equally good at evoking the sense of the time, and examining how Japanese popular culture reflected the hurt and the overwhelming sense of having been grossly misled by their rulers in a surprisingly rich outpouring of contemporary memoirs, books, cartoons, films and other media.
Japanese culture and society in many ways reached its zenith in the Edo period and there is much that present day Japanese and foreign can gain from observing and studying the period and its people.
And manifestations of Japanese popular culture-from Manga comics to karaoke-are now all the rage among young Chinese.
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With the company under the spotlight, Japanese business culture and governance practices are being called into question.
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After axing Mr. Woodford, senior Olympus executives explained that the Briton did not understand the Japanese business culture and the value of respect and consensus-building.
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Third, the increasing acceptance of Sony's recently unveiled restructuring plan could signify a fundamental change in Japanese corporate culture and this has further fuelled foreign buying of equities (although it is still early to conclude that Sony-style restructuring could form a critical mass).
It is curious, that to many Americans, Japanese culture is still a foreign concept, and that somehow, though this crises that is closely linked to us, it seems far away.
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It has been aggressive in expanding abroad, while maintaining and building on the strengths of its particularly Japanese-style management culture.
Much wiser is it for Japanese to strive for deep understanding and mastery of their own language and culture.
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Performed with individual variations throughout the region, Oku-noto no Aenokoto reflects the everyday culture of the Japanese, who have cultivated rice since ancient times, and serves as a marker of identity for the area s farmers.
Wayne Kong Yuk-shan, a branch officer at an Aeon office in the Central business district, says some 100 people, a number of them male, queued every day to apply for the pastel-pink card - and choose their free gift from a selection of Hello Kitty appliances. (These days, the giveaways are Kitty cup noodles and a cushion.) "Hong Kong people are very influenced by Japanese culture, so they like Kitty, " says Kong.
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.
The Japanese car business boomed in the 1970s on the strength of observation and dedication to understanding the American culture.
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Seniority promotion, the lifetime employment system and the dead hand of Japanese corporate bureaucracy are all anathema to the free-wheeling stock-option culture that attracts Chinese businessmen these days.
Rich in history yet obsessed with the modern and the new, it's key to absorb equal amounts of both to fully experience Japanese culture.
In many ways, geisha are living embodiments of Japanese traditional culture: each one is well versed in traditional dancing, singing, musical instruments and occasionally other arts such as tea ceremony and ikebana (flower arrangement).
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.
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