Essay on 2011 Youth In Asia Passage

Due to closed immigration policies it is very difficult to become a Japanese citizen, and this will negatively affect any labor

After centuries of living in seclusion to the outside world, the government knew that they needed the technological advancements that the West offered. The Industrial Revolution and growing urbanisation in Japan had intended to and succeeded in mimicking Western growth. Moreover, the Japanese were well-known for their diligence, discipline, perseverance, and hard work – this resulted in substantial economic development including increased shipping of commodities and a significant expansion of trade and handicraft industries. However, the political elite pocketed most of the profits through influence and corruption. Workers and farmers found it unfair that their patriotic and back-breaking labour only received a little wage in comparison, but with a state-controlled media and education system, they couldn’t make their voices heard. So overall, this collective and nationalistic open-mindedness for communal prosperity was beneficial for Japan as a whole, but the common people were disadvantaged with no access to basic human rights and a fair

Less than 3 in 10 teenagers hold jobs during the summer, and this number has been on a sharp decrease since 2000 (Yen 1). This decrease is because teenagers are handed everything now, meaning don’t need to work for it themselves; and because employers aren’t hiring. This is an extremely low amount, because all teenagers should get jobs, in order to learn many life skills, respect, and be able to support themselves.

Estes opens his article by comparing the youth of America to the youth of Japan. A “new census data released Thursday casts a shadow over the long-term impact of the recession on America's youth.” The census data show America that the youth had no jobs and there was a lot of youth that had no job. “ During the last decade, the unemployment rate for young people spiked to the highest levels since World War II”, after World War II people did not

Do you agree with Sen’s argument that “Millennials” do not know how to talk about race?

In 2013 and 2014, applicants for jobs faced greater competition. In Japan, statistics have indicated the average length that an employee stays at their job has changed slightly from 1985 to 2005. Hence this illustrates that individuals on average are not staying with a particular job for as long as they used to. This is due to the increase in competitiveness in the job market. The unemployment rate of Australia was 6.4% in January 2015 with the comparison of Japan’s at 3.7% in December of 2013. These percentages have a significant variance when stating the differences in population sizes, indicating that Japan has more job opportunities than Australia, as a much smaller percentage of their population is unemployed. Unemployment is higher in regional areas of Australia. The youth unemployment rate is 6.4% (Nov. 2014), whereas Australia’s youth unemployment rate is far higher at 13.20% (Sept. 2014) indicating that youth unemployment is fairly high in Australia illustrating the significant difference between Australia and Japan’s youth. The majority of Japan’s workforce is located in the area of business and engineering workers and manufacturing workers, whereas most of the individuals employed in Australia are in the service industries. This shows that the job sector is

73% of individuals in Japan aged between 15 to 64 have a paid job, higher than the OECD average,whereas Mexico only has 60% people aged 15 to 64 with a paid job. In Japan, women have more chances of being employed than in Mexico. Japan has about 82% of men and 64% of women with paid work compare to Mexico which has about 78% of men and only 44% of women with paid

MU 2.9 1.1 Explain why working in partnership with others is important for children and young people

The economies of the U.S. and Japan are very integrated in terms of trade in goods and services. As stated in the article the article, “Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress,” of the Congressional Research Service, the U.S. is the world’s largest economy and Japan is the world’s third-largest economy. This status makes the U.S. and Japan valuable trading partners, considering the U.S. was Japan’s second-largest source of imports and their largest export partner as of 2014 (Chanlett-Avery, Manyin, et.al). One can see through examining past economic crises in Okinawa and the U.S. that such incidences impede healthy global relationships. In the article, “U.S.-Japan Economic Relations: Significance, Prospects, and Policy Options,” William H. Cooper, specialist in international Trade and Finance, explains ways in which two specific Japanese economic crises affected global relations. One financial crisis occurred in 2008, when the economies of the U.S. and Europe were declining, leading to a decline in global demand for Japanese exports. Another occurred in 2011, following the tsunami, earthquake, and a nuclear incident in northeast Japan. These exigencies lead to great deficits, specifically in U.S. and European trade (Cooper, 2014). As previously mentioned, Okinawa has been unable to develop a self-sufficient economy. These past economic crises show that when Japan is economically

In this essay, I will agree with certain scholars that there was indeed a ‘general crisis’ during the 17th Century, where many countries in the world suffered from decline in several aspects such as economy and politics. This ‘general crisis’ affected Japan as well, although Japan generally fared better than other countries in East Asia during the 17th Century.

In 1945, Japan was devastated and lost a quarter of the national wealth after suffering a defect in the second world war. A majority of the commercial buildings and accommodation had been demolished, and massive machinery and equipment formerly used in production for the civil market were out of service to provide metal for military supplies (Miyazaki 1967). Despite the trash and ruins had left over in Japan, Japan was able to rebuilding its infrastructure and reconstruct their economy. It is revealed that the Japanese economy was on its way to recovery, which received a rapid development since the war, and the reconstruction of Japan had spent less than forty years to become the world’s second largest economy in the 1980s. This essay will explore the three factors account for the economic growth of post-war Japan: the financial assistance from the United States, the external environment, and the effective policy of Japanese government.

It is common knowledge that Japan has some of the strictest laws and policies on immigration. What is not commonly known though, is that Japan's population is currently in decline and with that country's workforce is predicted to shrink by a surprising 8 million by 2030 and 40% the population to be 65 years old or older by 2060 as predicted by forecasts (McCurry, 2015). To combat this problem Taro Kono, a chairman of the National Public Safety Commission in Japan, has strongly suggested loosening the policies to make immigration more appealing to foreigners. He believes that it could increase the GDP from 490 trillion to 600 trillion, which would essential save the country from its steady decline (Yoshida,

In fact until the world economic crisis of 2008 Real GDP has been rising almost every year. There is no denying that during the Lost Decades Japan’s economic growth has stagnated (average annual GDP Growth was 2.20 percent from 1991 to 2010), unemployment rose from 2.1% in 1991 to 4.7% in 2000 and that generally the

The Japanese economy, the 2nd largest in the world, accounts for 7.1% Global World GDP, at US$4.6 triliion and a per capita income of approximately US$33,550 (World Bank 2006). As a result of globalisation, literacy levels are at 99% and the general living standards of the

“ They are suspending little Steven for three days, and he isn’t allowed to come back to class until we have a meeting with the principal,” said one of my coworkers in a conversation about the ongoing issues concerning her five-year-old son and his school. Steven is a five-year-old African-American boy in kindergarten who has been disciplined and suspended for disruptive and aggressive behavior. This particular incident, Steven allegedly kicked another student (who is White) in the eye after he said the student bit him on the back. Neither the teacher nor principal investigated his claim of the other student biting him, and that student did not receive any disciplinary actions. The school instead called my coworker and informed her of Steven 's suspension for assaulting another student.