Author: Luwei Gao(Tim)
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Tutor: Mark

The impact of globalization in Japan
"Globalization implies the opening of local and nationalistic perspectives to a broader outlook of an interconnected and interdependent world with the free transfer of capital, goods, and services across national frontiers"(Businessdictionary.com:1931). As the development of technology, connect between each different countries become easier, more and more countries can be easy communication or trade with other countries in many different fields, for instance economic, cultural education and other fields, that can make these countries develop fast. The globalization becomes more and more important to each country, no matter development country or developing country.
As we know, after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Japan become a highly globalized country on many fields, like economy, science and technology, education and many other fields. This essay will introduce about the impact of globalization on economic, culture and education of Japan, analyze the impact of globalization on these fields.

"The economy of Japan is the third largest national economy in the world after the United States and the People’s Republic of China and is the world's second largest developed economy" (Oecd-ilibrary:2012). As we know, Japan is not a country has a vast land and rich resources, especially whole country economy almost destroyed by World War II. The globalization is the most important reason can help developing economy of Japan so fast, there are some performances about Japan has a lot of famous multinationals, especially on car manufacturers and electric products, for example Honda, Toyota, Mazda on car manufactures and Sony, Canon and Panasonic on electric products. These companies focus their work on overseas markets. Because of the limitation of the mainland market, these companies need to open up overseas markets to meet the company's sales demand. This lead you can see Americans drive Toyota's car, even this country has the best car manufactures skills in the world, you can see Korean use Sony's laptop, even this country has Samsung. These brands are change people live around the world. And these companies build a lot of factories all around the world, hire local people as workers. This is one important performance of globalization in Japan's economy. Another performance is Japan does not have rich resources, the country depends on input many materials from the entire world for a country developing, like oil, steel and timber for industry, rice, meat vegetable and fruit for people daily life.

The impact of globalization in Japan has three main part. The first is manga, second is language and last is food. "Manga-influenced comics, among original works, exist in other parts of the world, particularly in Taiwan ('manhua'), South Korea ('manhwa'), and China, notably Hong Kong ('manhua'). In France, 'la nouvelle manga'has developed as a form of bande dessinée comics drawn in styles influenced by manga"(Japantimes: 2006). Japanese manga is not having their Japanese own race spirit but also have many different culture from different countries. That is the main reason why Japanese manga can be popular in the world.

There are two main impacts on Japanese, first is writing, another is speaking. Japanese writing uses Chinese words, Japanese words and Arabic numbers. It is different to other country's people writing in their own language. Japanese speaking seems like writing, their two part of speaking, one is Japanese own pronunciation, another is transliteration by English words. Because in the ancient times, there were many trade and politic communication between Japan and China, many Chinese came to Japan, brought many Chinese words to Japan and according to MIURA, A, Since the end of Japan's self-imposed isolation in 1853, a large number of words borrowed from English(1998).

Japan has a lot of famous traditional food, like Sushi, Sashimi, Wasabi and many other kinds, Japanese always eat these. Previously, most Japanese cook traditional food at home, since Japan receives the impact of globalization, many foreign food brand into Japanese market, like KFC, McDonald and Starbucks. Many Japanese become enjoy these different kinds of food, and some Japanese go to restaurant order Chinese food or beef, there are enjoy these too.

"In Japan, education is compulsory at the elementary and lower secondary levels. Most students attend public schools through the lower secondary level, but private education is popular at the upper secondary and university levels"(Reserved: 2010) In the ancient, Japanese education likes China, children could chose went to school or not, but after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, education in Japan became more Western, they send students and officials went abroad to study modern ideas, and these people who went abroad in 19 centuries, they improved education in Japan, made it better than ancient. Nowadays, students in Japan become outgoing and good communication that can make education effectively, and these students can make contribution for Japanese globalization. But there are some people think highly globalization on education is not a good thing, because students may forget their traditional minds and their own race spirit.

To sum up, nowadays, Japan is a country has highly globalization, it shows on many different fields like on economy, culture and education. That means impact of globalization in Japan becomes obvious. It has the advantage and disadvantage, the advantage is Japan can communicate with the world easily no matter on economy or culture; disadvantage is may be the young people in Japan will forget some of their traditional things.

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Oecd-ilibrary.org (2012) Country statistical profile: Japan - Country statistical profiles: Key tables from OECD - OECD iLibrary. [online] Available at: http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/economics/country-statistical-profile-japan_20752288-table-jpn [Accessed: 8 Jan 2013].

Geekout.blogs.cnn.com (2012) Manga grows in the heart of Europe. [online] Available at: http://geekout.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/26/manga-in-the-heart-of-Europe/ [Accessed: 8 Jan 2013].

MIURA, A. (1998). English in Japanese: a selection of useful loanwords. New York, Weatherhill.

Reserved., C. (2011) FPCJ - 19: Education. [online] Available at: http://fpcj.jp/modules/news22/index.php?page=article&storyid=18&topicid=1 [Accessed: 9 Jan 2013].