EuroDisney 1. What factors contributed to EuroDisney’s poor performance during its first year of operation? The factors contributing to EuroDisney’s poor performance are: a) Hotel Rooms were high priced. b) Poor Attendance in 1992. c) Gulf War in 1991. d) The World’s Fair in Seville, Spain. e) The 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. f) Too few seats at restaurants for guests at breakfast. g) No alcohol served with meals h) French visitors stayed away from EuroDisney
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In the text there was a question like “What factors influence your language performance?” To answer this, there are many factors. During our discussion in the class, we have discussed about the interlocutor influence as one of the factors. In the class, we discussed about Takahashi’s study which examined Japanese college students as exchange students in the US college. The study found that Japanese exchange students speaking in English to other Japanese have more hesitation, shorter and less communication
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present to turn things around. (99 words) II. Identification of key issues HKD opened with the expectations of 5.6 million visitors the first year and visions of the success of another Tokyo Disney Resort. However, HKD was unable to present its products, practices, and ideologies with the success of Tokyo Disney. This was due to managerial policies as well as many ethical dilemmas among the Chinese culture brought upon by park practices. Among the dilemmas due to managerial policies were
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The family about which the novel The Makioka Sisters is written about is split between two houses; the main branch, which is the family home, is located in Osaka and the stem branch resides in Ashiya, an affluent suburb between Osaka and Kobe. The eldest sister, Tsuruko, her husband, Tatsuo, and their six children live in the main branch. Yukiko and Taeko, the third and fourth eldest sisters respectively, are both unmarried and bounce back and forth between the main and stem branches because of their
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as Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation. In the beginning, Sony didn’t get good feedbacks for their first products but they were not discouraged. They were determined to achieve their goals and now they have given a positive impact to today’s society. The founder of Sony, Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka met each other during World War II (Rebuilding from ashes 2011; sony.com 2011). It claims that with the end of the war of the war, Ibuka set up a new beginning and had founded Tokyo Telecommunications
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Three important cultural interactions from ‘Lost In Translation’: 1. Greeting Scene Bob arrives at the Park Hyatt Tokyo Hotel and is immediately greeted by his Japanese associates. They greet him with gifts and present their business cards instead of the casual handshaking or general conversation making to build rapport. It is evident that this scene demonstrates the honorifics in Japanese communication. This is incredibly crucial in terms of communicating as the Japanese addresses/refers
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Now Japan is facing strong international competition. Because of their inflexible economic system the Japanese companies find it difficult to quickly competitive challenges as their foreign counterparts. The typical Tokyo family spends about a third more of income each year on food than that of a New York family in part because of informal and formal trade barriers that still keep much foreign produce out of Japan. As of 2004 the large majority of economists and policy
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Kaoru Ishikawa was born in Tokyo in 1915: the oldest of eight sons. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1939 with an engineering degree in applied chemistry and held a doctorate in engineering and was Emeritus Professor at Tokyo University (Beckford, 2010). After serving as a naval technical officer (1939-1941) he started work at the Nissan Liquid Fuel Company until 1947 ("Kaoru ishikawa,”). In 1947 he became an associate professor at the University of Tokyo and in 1978 he was named president
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period, Japan's economy continued to boom, with results far outstripping expectations. Japan rapidly caught up with the West in foreign trade, gross national product (GNP), and general quality of life. These achievements were underscored by the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games and the Osaka International Exposition (Expo '70) world's fair in 1970.The high economic growth and political tranquillity of the midto late 1960s were tempered by the quadrupling of oil prices by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting
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A report in the Financial Times by John Thornhill leads with a remarkable quote from French President Nicolas Sarkozy warning the EU that he would block a proposed World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement on agriculture that would reduce European production incentives: In a world where there are 800m poor people who cannot satisfy their hunger and where a kid dies every 30 seconds from hunger, I will never accept a reduction in agricultural production on the altar of global liberalism. President
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