Municipal government--Japan--Case studies; Administrative agencies--Reorganization; Globalization--Political aspects; Globalization--Government policy; Globalization--Japan; Tokyo (Japan); Osaka (Japan)
This study examines the effects of globalization on state restructuring and the status of cities and local governments. I conduct a comparative case study of two Japanese world cities, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan. Existing globalization theories offer...
Visual learning; Animated films--Japan; Motion pictures in education; Audio-visual education
Our contemporary culture is laden with a glut of visual stimuli: advertising, packaging, television, film, the internet, digital-camera-wireless-web-access-mobile-phones. In a world filled with visually rhetorical media, it is imperative that the...
Fantasy fiction, American; Fantasy fiction, Japanese
This creative thesis follows the opening story arc to a larger fiction project in the genre of high fantasy fiction. Structurally and stylistically, by incorporating contemporary contributions to the genre from Japanese popular culture, this story...
Asian Americans--Cultural assimilation; Acculturation--United States; Sports spectators--United States; Consumer behavior--Social aspects--United States
According to the U.S. Census Bureau (2011), ethnic minority populations in the
U.S. constituted over one-third (approximately 126 million) of the total U.S. population
in 2010 (approximately 300.8 million) (U.S. Census Bureau, 2011). With such...
In studying the culture of any people we learn that no group has been absolutely independent of influences from other people. No man indeed can say that he has attained anything of value absolutely by himself; an individual must give credit to the...
Varnish and its use has been known since ancient times. Altho the knowledge of varnish has been attributed to the Japanese as early as 500-600 B.C., Tschirsch and A.D. Stevens say that the Japs did not possess this art originally, but that they...
Full-length character portrait of performer and producer Lotta Crabtree in Japanese costume. She stands next to a Japanese screen with dark silk brocade fabric tossed over it, wearing a kimono, chopsticks in her hair, and holding a fan. A wooden...
Wide street decorated with multi-colored small flags hanging above. A group of people stands in the shadows between rows of buildings. A smaller figure in traditional dress stands near the front. Title: A Row of Japanese Theaters, Osaka. Text on...
Looking into a temple with a group of people inside. A woman kneels at the outside wall. Flowers are along the wall of the temple. Title: Japanese Worshipers, Kiyomizu Temple, Kyoto. Text on left: Published By The Atlas View Company. 147 Fifth...
Group of children holding a large mask or other object above their heads. The children are in brightly colored clothing. Title: Ancient Japanese Festival Rites. Text on left: Published By The Atlas View Company. 147 Fifth Avenue, Chicago. Text on...
Man stands at a street booth with baskets laid out in front of him. Title: Japanese Shell Fish Dealer. Text on left: Published By The Atlas View Company 147 Fifth Avenue, Chicago. Text on right: The Atlas Stereographs.
Jensen and Friedrich have outlined new methods for the preparation of acridine compounds. They have shown that the treatment of o-aminobensaldehyde with the halogen derivatives of nitrobenzene and with the corresponding derivatives of toluene would...
Four bearded men, three kerchiefed women, and two young girls, all wearing patterned kimonos, stand outdoors on dirt ground in front of a white wall with windows and buttresses. From the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, the Ainu's thick hair...
Full-length portrait of performer and producer Lotta Crabtree striding next to a Japanese screen, wearing a hat with ostrich plume, coat, and dress. Charlotte "Lotta" Crabtree, also known as Little Lotta, was born November 7, 1847 in New...
Character portrait of performer and producer Lotta Crabtree in Japanese costume, wearing a kimono and chopsticks in her hair. Charlotte "Lotta" Crabtree, also known as Little Lotta, was born November 7, 1847 in New York City, and died...
Full-length character portrait of performer and producer Lotta Crabtree standing beside a Japanese screen, wearing a veil and long dress. Charlotte "Lotta" Crabtree, also known as Little Lotta, was born November 7, 1847 in New York City,...
Full-length character portrait of performer Frances Golden kneeling, costumed in Japanese attire of kimono and fan. Inscription on print/mount, lower right: To Mr. Macauley with very best wishes from Frances Golden 1903. Location of photo studio:...
Woodblock prints of, from left to right starting at top left (all images signed "Hartwell" unless otherwise noted): "Abyssinia" [now Ethiopia/Eritrea], with three people, stringed instrument, and spear and shield; procession...
World War II billboard. The billboard reads Buy War Bonds and Slappy Jappy and has a picture of a caricature of a male Japanese face being punched by a white fist with a sleeve of stripes and stars. The base of the billboard reads "Oertel...
