Advantages And Disadvantages Of Japanese Working Culture

One of the major causes of underachievement is the lack of economic capital, proposed by Pierre Bourdieu (1984), that a working class family possess. As item A states, ‘sociologists claim that factors outside the school, such as parental attitudes and parental income, are the main causes of working class underachievement.’ Children who belong to a working class background may not be able to afford the necessary equipment or meet the

Japan has a very rich and unique culture, unlike any other culture in the world. The Japanese are close and united, and willing to help each other, to the point that they would even risk their lives for one another. Their culture has certain aspects of it that every nation should have. In his book, John Hersey explores the effects that culture and environment have on an individual’s views and belief through analyzing a stereotypical Japanese man, an Americanized Japanese priest, and a widowed Japanese woman and how they react similarly to the bombing of Hiroshima. The influence of Japanese culture has an astounding impact on the reactions of Hersey’s characters.

The industrial revolution is the biggest milestone of human history. Factories and machines greatly improved productivity of manufacturing. Japan and England are countries with similar geography, both being islands around the same size of the coast of large countries (doc 1). England was technologically ahead of Japan, due to Japan’s foreign policy which limited contact with other countries in order to preserve culture. The Industrial Revolution started around 1760 in England, and 1868 in Japan (background). There were now a plethora of job opportunities, with many people going to work at factories. These jobs gave little money and lasted long hours. One of the biggest industries was the textile industry; people in England and Japan both worked in this industry with many parallels. Female English and Japanese mill workers had similar experiences with their work hours, similar work conditions, and gender equality within the job.

Bowles and Gintis argue that education is the reason that this does not happen, as it legitimising class inequality by producing ideologies that justify why this inequality is fair and inevitable. Bowles and Gintis describe education ‘as a giant myth-making machine’ like the myth of meritocracy, which means that it is untrue that everyone has an equal opportunity to achieve, that rewards are based on effort and so on. A reason for achieving high income is argued to be determined more from your family and class background rather than ability or educational achievement. This serves the higher classes as it makes it appear that they gained their roles in the workforce by an equal opportunity but in reality, that is not the case, they use this to trick working class pupils to accept inequality. This means that the education system exists not only to allocate and train young people for their future work roles but also to accept the roles they are given and for the bourgeoisie to keep their power.

There are significant cultural differences between Japan and the United Kingdom that need to be taken into account when doing international business. There are also a number of methods and systems by which these differences have been described. These include the Geert Hofstede cultural dimensions, Trompenaars seven dimensions of culture and the Globe Project's cultural dimensions. This paper will discuss these differences and similarities, and shed light as to the best approach to international business in these countries.

Studies have also shown those working class children’s parents attitudes tend to encourage immediate gratification. This suggests they encourage their children to enter the workplace sooner rather than later. To start earning over, staying in education. Generally this tends to mean that the working class individuals remain as such due to being unqualified for the higher status, higher salaried jobs. On the reverse, middle class parents encourage deferred gratification. They encourage hard work at school and reap the rewards in later life, with a high level of qualification, a higher status career and in turn a higher salary and thus the class divide remains.

Sacrifices are made in many families hoping their children move up the social ladder of society. It is like a vicious cycle in a way as families need more money to pay for the best schools for their children. The separation of family can cause a lot of tension within a family as Xiao Shi finds out her own daughter’s thoughts through her diary where her daughter asks “‘Why did I have to be born into this kind of family’”(Loyalka 163)? In search for upward mobility in society families are separated.

Women are expected to conform to Japanese society by working full time as a mother for their children and husband. Creighton explains that "edutaining" is a combination of education and entertainment that has been stuck together. Creighton explains that “in present day Japan, the perception of children as treasures often implies indulging them with unprecedented consumer offering” (Creighton 35). Women are force to put their children in top priorities and abandoning their employment as there is no time to work. The Japanese market towards babies. For example, in Japanese mall, they host

Alison’s article is about Japanese mothers who are into educating their children. Main point of this article is that how Japanese people care so much about education success and how much it affect to children. Alison’s main argument is Japanese school system only cares about children’s ability to perform what a school wants instead of what children can actually do. Alison’s analysis about Japanese society is basically programming children into productive machine rather than human with intelligence mind. It seems Alison’s point definitely on right track. Based on how Japan managed to improve their economic situation, Japan won’t change their way of educating children.

Urban life was exhilarating for Japan as cities began to develop in the 1890s. The major alterations were technological advancements that lead to additional job opportunities and made lives easier; however, the greater part of Japan, during the Meiji period, were not satisfied. These people were not benefiting from the changes that were occurring around them. In Mikiso Hane’s book, Peasants, Rebels, Women, And Outcastes: The Underside of Modern Japan, the first chapter depicts the morbid ways in which Japanese peasants reacted to starvation and military conscription. The next section illustrates the difficult duties of a farmer, and the third division describes the peasants’ morals. In the fourth section, Hane displays the demanding tasks

The japanese feudal system and the European feudal systems were very similar but also very different. In japan Women had more rights than they did in europe, in europe women had very few rights. Both had social systems but those social systems worked very differently. In both Japanese and European feudal systems the samurai and knights were allowed to kill commoners. In japan they believed in shintoism and zen buddhism, while in europe they believed in Christianity.

It is not uncommon for a film to become so popular in one country that it gets remade in another. After the remake of the 1998 film Ringu was made into the now well known film The Ring, it sparked a new movement in remaking Japanese horror films and molding them in a more American style. Not to long after this movement started, the movie The Grudge was made in 2004, which was another remake of the movie Ju-On: The Grudge made in 2003. Although both these movies have undoubtedly similar storylines, they both differ in how they appeal to each culture.

In the year 1868 Japan had its very own industrial revolution. As a result of the revolution, many businesses, such as the silk business, began to prosper. Women were placed in these silk factories to labor there for most of their day. They went through terrible experiences while working in the factories, but still they continued to work there for most of their adult life. While the female workers in early Japanese silk factories had to go through a lot of harsh experiences in the factories, it can be debated that the costs of working in the factories truly outweighed the benefits, simply by looking at the insignificant wages they were paid, the long, grueling hours they had to endure, and the binding contracts they were forced to sign.

Culture is defined in different ways throughout the region of the world, with different characteristics that define culture. In this paper I will define the meaning of Japan’s culture and describe Japan’s common culture characteristics throughout their nation’s physical geography, military conflict history, and weather analysis. Culture is by the beliefs, customs, arts, a particular society, group, place or time such as music, theater, painting, their habits, and traditions. Like ways of life for their way of thinking, behaving, or working.

This distribution of the working class into lower prestige jobs can be accounted for by a number of factors that shall be discussed later. The inequality that exists here regarding school leavers is one that results in an economic inefficiency since the talent of many working-class pupils could have been transferred into higher skilled jobs yet due to certain other factors the talent in a crude sense is ‘wasted’. Why this is the case could be attributed to the fact that a large number of families may rely on their children to bring in a second or third income. With the deterioration of the nuclear family in society there is an increasing trend towards single parenthood and this may result in children having to leave school to get a job and support the family. Furthermore parental influence plays a large role in shaping their children’s attitudes to school. For example Furlong 1987 argues that parents from working class backgrounds who left school at an early age may not press upon their children from their early days in their school life and before five years old the importance of a good education but rather the importance of work and making money. So the culture passed onto children from their parents will have a serious effect on their educational achievement and if this is borne in at an early stage in the life cycle especially pre five, it will be