Article: Inari
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions;      62 words ...Inari (Jap., probably from a place-name). The most popular agricultural deity of Japan, especially associated with rice. In the Heian period, Inari was increasingly associated with the official mythology of Shinto . Inari shrines especially feature the fox whose life-size statues...

Article: IAAF Japan Grand Prix Results
AP Worldstream;  May 10, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Results Saturday from the IAAF Japan Grand Prix at Osaka's Nagai Stadium (all...China, 10.54 seconds. 2, Shingo Suetsugu, Japan, 10.55. 3, Patrick Johnson, Australia, 10.55. 4, Masahide Ueno, Japan, 10.55. 5, Otis Gowa, Australia, 10.68. 6...

Article: Frog in the pot: Germany's path to the Japan syndrome.
The National Interest;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ...JAPAN'S DECADE of decline is the worst fate suffered by an advanced economy since the Great Depression. Contraction in Japan, however, is not only Japan's problem-it is also a drag on the global economy. Japan's withdrawal of capital from Asia and a weakening...

Article: China fears spur Japan trade deal push.(FRONTLINE)
Business Asia;  December 1, 2003 ;     578 words ...Japan is desperate to enter into trade deals with the rest of Asia. Imagine that, free market ideals are blooming in Asia and all because of Japan. The cause of this frenetic competition on Japan's part has to be fear of China's success as an exporter. Japan, the original export or die nation...

Article: Sun rises again in Japan.
Business Asia;  August 2, 1999 ;     700+ words ...In retreat from Japan? Ignore the bad press and plough back in...in the first of a two-part feature on Japan. Remember when you were growing up and...Never a truer word was spoken about how Japan is currently being reported in the Australian...

Article: JAPAN: COMPETITIVE CHALLENGES REQUIRE FASTER JAPANESE REFORM.
IPR Strategic Business Information Database;  June 18, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Japan's recovery from its lost decade of economic growth has come...of China and India in the global economy will require that Japan's next government seize the opportunity to increase the pace with which they internationalize Japan, its industries and workforce. Japan has changed enormously...

Article: Joy of Japan: 'Lost in Translation' spurs Tokyo travel boom.(Media & Technology)
Los Angeles Business Journal;  June 28, 2004 ;     700+ words ...KYOTO, Japan -- Seven thousand miles away, in New York, Chris Alcazar heard Japan's siren song. The 36-year-old hastily booked a flight...here in Kyoto and Tokyo. After seeing the movie, Japan didn't seem too Foreign anymore, explained Alcazar...

Article: Land of the Rising Toxins.(environmental struggles in Japan)(Brief Article)
E;  November 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Japan Struggles On the Environment Japan has long been criticized for lagging behind other nations in its...It's garnered a lot of attention, and on the surface, it appears Japan is taking great strides. Yet critics say that enormous problems...

Article: Internationalization: Japan's educational challenge.
Contemporary Review;  October 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ...BY and large Japan and its kaigai (overseas partners), have...educationalists see great future rewards for Japan out of the internationalisation of the...Japanese character. A minimum bonus being Japan's hegemony in the influence of the Pacific...

Article: JAPAN'S SUNNY UPLANDS.
Contemporary Review;  December 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...FROM the windows of Japan's mainstream hotels a result of the country...social strengths can clearly be seen. Japan's taxis have long had a role to play in...friability. The old ways of stimulating Japan Inc. have failed. Once the well-tried...

Article: Creating the new Japan.(Japan's Quiet Transformation: Social Change and Civil Society in the Twenty-First Century)(Book Review)
Contemporary Review;  May 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Japan's Quiet Transformation: Social Change and Civil Society in...0-415-27483-4. Amongst many contemporary commentators on Japan's modern international affairs, the 1990s have been dubbed the 'lost decade'; a definition highlighted in the Japan Times of 1 January 2001. After years of stupendous growth...

Article: Turning the Tables: A Machiavellian Strategy for Dealing with Japan.
The National Interest;  September 22, 1993 ;     700+ words ...JAPAN IS without a doubt the most thoroughly, most widely, and...as consumers. Americans have long been told that in 1945 Japan was remade in the American image. Since the late 1950s they have read serious articles about a changing Japan, one beginning to resemble the United States even more closely...

Article: Three myths about Japan. (Japan's economic warfare)
National Review;  September 6, 1985 ;     525 words ...Three Myths about Japan THEODORE WHITE in The Danger from Japan' (The New York Times Magazine, July 28) writes of a resurgent Japan waging vicious economic warfare on the rest of the world. In ominous tones, White portrays the Japanese as conducting...

Article: Fushimi Inari
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions;      30 words ...Fushimi Inari (Jap., Fushimi , a place-name, + inari , ‘the rice deity’). The most famous of the shrines to the Japanese rice god, Inari , located in the SE suburbs of Kyōto .