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Finance Case Study: Maru Batting Center Professor: Jeannette Monaco Student: Lydia Lin Organized Chart Segments / Features Little Leaguers Summer Sluggers Elite Ballplayers Entertainment Seeker Description Boys and girls age 6-15 Adults, price sensitive Men women age 16-35, elite players No particular interest, price sensitive Motivation Learn how to play Practice for the baseball season Practice skills Night out, leisure activities Time period in the year Preseason months of Feb and March Summer

Roppongi Hills in Tokyo is often mentioned as one of the largest and most successful city renewal projects that have ever been made after World WarⅡin Japan. The project started in 1984 and took about 17 years to complete. The plan involved the city government, the land developer Mori Building Co., and the residents living in the construction area. Just to reach agreements with 500 right holders, the company had spent over 15 years (“Roppongi Hills.”). The concept of the renewal plan seems totally

were two intriguing cases that occurred in Japan that caught my eye: the murder of Junko Furuta, and Sada Abe's murder of her lover. To sum it up in the simplest terms, Junko Furuta was a seventeen-year-old girl tortured to death in the Adachi ward of Tokyo, Japan in 1988. Furuta was beaten, burned, starved,

Fireworks started as people throwing bamboo into a fire to make a loud noise. To this day, fireworks have changed so dramatically! In the beginning when gunpowder was discovered the Chinese would stuff bamboo with gunpowder and then light the bamboo to make a firework. Over time, scientist have mixed different materials together to try and make a louder and brighter explosion. Instead of fireworks having a single casing there is multiple casings. This helps fireworks to not explode all at once.

powder was able to enhance battles in wars with cannons and guns. Fireworks also became very popular in entertainment. Also fireworks are used for celebration on birthdays, deaths, New years, and, in America, Independence day, and any other special event. Through special events fireworks were and are so impressive that even Queen Elizabeth I created the position fire master and King James II selected his own fire master. Another significance in history was that fireworks helped grow trade between China

Aya Kamikawa- Reformation in the land of conformity Scholars have suggested that in the modern Japanese society, transgendered individuals (transgendered individuals and transsexuals are interchangeable and are referred to in the context of the Japanese society) are only valuable to the entertainment industry (Mackie 412, McLelland 167-168). In a country where mainstream conformity is promoted and preferred, any career outside of the entertainment and sex industries would seem impossible to

the killing program to benefit research. Two institutes for research took a great part in benefiting from the killings. "The clinic for Psychiatry and Neurology of Heidelberg University, directed by Professor Carl Schneider, and the observation ward and research station at the state hospital in Brandenburg-Gorden, headed by Hans Heinze" (Friedlander 127).      The experiments done on the camp prisoners can be divided into two categories. The first was created to

Katsushika Hokusai Is a well renown painter in our time. He is most known for his famous painting “The Great Wave off Kanagawa”. Though he had other lesser known paintings such as “Fine Wind, Clear Morning” and “Oceans of Wisdom.” He was born in 1760, although his actual birthdate is uncertain, and passed away at 88 on May 10th, 1849. This is his biography and how his work was inspired and where it came from. Hokusai was born into an artisan family in the Katsushika district of Edo, Japan. The childhood

Q1.Identify the strategy changes that have taken place at Hard Rock Café since its founding in 1971. The first Hard Rock Cafe opened its doors to the public on June 14, 1971, in London, England. Founded by Isaac Tigrett and Peter Morton, two enterprising and music-loving Americans, beginning with a guitar, it is only a joke among the friends at first, later on founder of the band - Cream and Derek & the Dominoes sent a guitar of his here, and has booked a desk for a long time. From then on, the

In 2000, the United Nations reported that an average of 609,000 immigrants per year from 1995 through 2050 is needed for Japan in order to maintain its workforce at the 1995 level (U. N. Population Division 53). The news surprised many people in Japan, and they were forced to face the immigration issue sincerely. This controversial issue has been discussed for last 150 years. Facing today’s low birth-rate and ageing population, Japan should now accept more immigrants and become a multi-ethnic country