JAPAN AND GLOBALIZATION

Japan was the first Asian country to join the capitalist market by industrialization
Japan is one of the three largest economies of the world. They have factories for different products, mainly electronic products factories.
Japan have high imports, gor this reason it has the highest per capita income.
It hasn't problems of unemployment, because it gives a lot of jobs; In adition, the workers in high positions have a rhythm of hard work, as a result they have many health problems.
However, after World War II Japan has evolved and it is one of the major potencies.

In this moment   Third World countries have sought Japanese history in a magic bullet or a role model to escape from underdevelopment.

on other hand Japan has focused on humanitarian support. For example Japan has participated in Iraq's humanitarian mission, support of African countries.

      

Meeting new people

• The reverence (お辞儀)

When the Japanese know new people are given the hand and takes a reverence at the same time. The reverence can be made before, during or after the handshake.

• They called the new people by their last name preceded by Mr or Mrs.

• Business Cards (meishi): 

These are a key element when know new people and should be delivered using two hands and should not be making any annotation on them.

• In the talks should be avoided talk of oneself.

• Corporate gifts are also a very important aspect to the Japanese these are usually done in the first meetings.

WHITE

White has been an auspicious color on Japan for most of its history. Represents purity and cleanliness in the traditional Japanese society and is seen as a blessed color. Because of the sacred nature of color, white is the color of weddings and other events of the gay life and appears on the Japanese flag.

BLACK

The black is a powerful and foreboding color in Japanese culture. Traditionally, the black represented death, destruction, death, fear and sadness. Especially when used alone, the black represents mourning and misery and often worn at funerals. The black has traditionally been a color of formality and further has come to represent elegance, with the growing popularity of Western conceptions of black tie events.

RED

The red is a strog color in the japanese culture that represent strong and emotions in order of the ideas . Like the color of the sun in the japenese culture and in the japenese flag the red color is energy, vitality, the energy and the hot temperarute .Also reprents the love and privacy and the energy in the people . 

GREEN

For example the green color means fertility and growth in traditional Japanese culture. the Japanese word for green color is "midori", also "Midori means vegetation.
In other hand the green color represents  youth, vitality, energy and "eternity" as type of trees that never lose their leaves and always grow.
In adition, the interpretation in Japan is different from the Western world. for example the blue color also means  green; For this reason  the traffic lights give way to blue.
 
                  

BLUE

Is also a color that represents purity and cleanliness in traditional Japanese culture, largely due to the vast expanses of blue water surrounding the Japanese islands. As such, the blue also represents peace and stability. In addition, blue is a feminine color, and therefore, in combination with the association with purity and cleanliness, color usually worn by young women to show your purity.