Today a small tsunami hit Japan. Japan is no stranger to Tsunamis and earthquakes. The over 6,000 islands that make up Japan were basically all formed from volcanic activity. The country has to go to great lengths to make sure that the buildings there are up to code when it comes to withstanding an earthquake.
Basically, [...]

Not many people know much about Japan. For people our age we have possibly only heard of their involvement in past world wars as well as the US dropping the big bomb on them. There’s so much more to learn though.
Japan is actually an archipelago of 6,852 islands. Basically this means that these islands were [...]

So what in the world does the Japanese stock market have to do with the markets in other countries like the US or Australia? Everything at times. I am no financial guru, yet I can tell by reading the headlines, like on this article, that when there are troubles in an economy like ours that [...]

Well, taking a trip to Japan would be quite an ordeal. First of all for me, I’m not one for traveling. Heading a half an hour into town would be enough for me at times. Now going out of the sate, now that is really pushing it.
Now taking a trip to Japan would totally be [...]

As the world seems to now be connected more and more by the technological advances of today, there are still very many differences between the western and eastern cultures.
Here in North America it seems that we have affected the eastern cultures more than they have affected ours. A lot of the companies that have originated [...]