Sticks and Carrots
Confucian Philosophy
Growing Pains
Random Facts
What's Popping?
100
Getting others to want what you want through cultural attraction and ideology without resorting to coercive and costly military force.
What is soft power?
100
This is the term for respecting your parents, and ancestors.
What is filial piety?
100
According to this theorist, all countries will inevitably develop in stages.
Who is Rostow?
100
A major contributor to Japan's downfall.
What is decline in population?
100
The most famous cat originating from Japan.
What is Hello Kitty?
200
A program that invited 5,853 youth from over 44 countries to teach in Japanese schools.
What is the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program?
200
Ruler is to ruled as husband is to wife Father is to son, as sempai is to ______.
What is Kohai?
200
This is the stage that few,if any societies, are able to reach.
What is the "Beyond consumption" stage.
200
This Japanese program has dispatched over 22,000 volunteers to 3rd world countries.
What is the Japanese Overseas Volunteer Corporation?
200
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What is a kimono?
300
A company that has been around since the U.S. Occupation.
What is Sony?
300
Confucian's real name.
What is Kong Qiu.
300
This stage of development begins after societies experience some sort of external intrusion. In Japan it occurred after the U.S. forced Japan to open its doors.
What is the "Preconditions to Take off" stage
300
Tokyo, more than any other great power in the country, relied on this to purchase power.
What is Official Developmental Assistance.
300
This Japanese word means 'empty orchestra'.
What is Karaoke?
400
Man credited for coining the term "soft-power".
Who is Joseph Nye, former Dean of the Kennedy School of Government, and ex-U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
400
Confucianism teaches profound respect for education for this group of people.
Who are teachers?
400
This stage began in the United States possibly with Henry Ford's moving assembly line and the creation of cheap mass automobiles.
What is the Age of High Mass Consumption?
400
This Doctrine pledges to foster "heart to heart relations" with Southeast Asia.
What is the Fukuda Doctrine?
400
Japanese word for young people into anime and manga.
What is Otaku
500
This is the belief that a nation must have a strong army to prosper.
What is Fokoku Kyohei.
500
This is the term for the concept of altruism that Confucian teaches about.
What is Ren?
500
Societies in this stage have an economy that demonstrates that it has the technological and entrepreneurial skills to produce not everything, but anything it chooses to produce.
What is the Drive to Maturity Stage?
500
This is population of Japan, currently.
What is 127,450,459? (we will accept answers within a reasonable range)
500
According to the Japanese, this is not a proper sushi ingredient.
What is avocado?
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