Essays about: "Japanese politics"
Showing result 6 - 9 of 9 essays containing the words Japanese politics.
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6. Home of the Japanese Heart : Socio-historical Contextualization of Gender Politics, Commodity Animism and Super State-Nationalism of Japanese Modernity through the Indigenous Faith
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologiAbstract : This thesis aims to contextualize gender politics, nationalism, and animism as interconnected cultural patterns reflecting 19th century acculturation and post-WWII national reconstruction of Japan. In particular, state-nationalism, hegemonic femininity, commodity animism, uniform fetishsm, and power structure are analyzed through the symbolisms and discourse of the Japanese indigenous faith: Shinto, female practitioners, and followers. READ MORE
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7. Do the Speeches of Japanese Female Politicians Feature Japanese Women's Language? -Political Language from a Gender Perspective
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : This thesis focuses on so called Japanese women’s language by analysing Japanese female politicians’ language use in written speeches. Compared to the rest of the world there is a severe lack of female politicians in the Japanese Diet, and the reasons for this are complex. READ MORE
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8. Politics first? Do changes in bilateral political relations affect imports from South Korea to Japan?
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Have Japan’s imports of South Korean products changed in response to changes in the levels of political tension between the two countries, and have this affected the success of attempts made by South Korean firms to enter the Japanese market? The absence of transnational South Korean firms such as Hyundai, Kia and LG on the Japanese market, a geographically and psychically proximate market to the South Korean market, suggests that factors other than those put forth by established international trade models such as the Gravity model and market entry models such as the Uppsala model have affected South Korean imports to Japan. Pollins (1989) argues that firms take bilateral political tension between countries into account when managing risk, and that governments and consumers are likely to react negatively to heightened political tension, including boycotts and decreased demand for goods from the other country. READ MORE
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9. ESTABLISHING A TWO-PARTY SYSTEM IN JAPAN ICHIRO OZAWA AND HIS DREAM OF ‘NORMAL NATION’
University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudierAbstract : In the 1990s, since the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has dominated Japanese politics for nearly forty years, making Japanese politics more democratic became a hot issue. Many politicians and political organizations in Japan had joined the debate. READ MORE
