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Designed and written by professionals with extensive ISO 9000
Certification experience, the techniques and forms in this Manual
have been used successfully to achieve certification at over 50
companies. The 90-Day ISO 9000 Manual provides the basic system you
need in place to satisfy an ISO 9000 Audit. First, ISO 9000 is
explained and the registration process described in detail. Next,
you are taken through exactly what you need to do to prepare for an
audit. You are given the working instructions and forms you need to
meet certification requirements. The forms are unique and have been
designed specifically for ISO 9000 standards. Since ISO 9000 is not
designed to be a TQM program the authors have also included a
special section that provides the information, instructions and
forms needed for quality audits such as Q94 or Z1. If you want to
take your program further than just ISO 9000 certification, the
material is available to you. The 90-Day ISO 9000 Manual includes
the latest published draft of Q91 DIS, which is the formal public
review copy. Companies that have recently been audited have noticed
that certain improvements in documentation have been expected by
registrars. These improvements require rewording the old standards.
The new standards have been incorporated in this manual and several
schemes have been modified. The authors of The 90-Day ISO 9000
Manual have extensive experience working on ISO 9000 standards
review, consulting with companies developing programs, registrar
experience and international ISO 9000 activities. This manual will
reflect a practical approach to registration for the next five
years.
Designed and written by professionals with extensive ISO 9000
Certification experience, the techniques and forms in this Manual
have been used successfully to achieve certification at over 50
companies. The 90-Day ISO 9000 Manual provides the basic system you
need in place to satisfy an ISO 9000 Audit. First, ISO 9000 is
explained and the registration process described in detail. Next,
you are taken through exactly what you need to do to prepare for an
audit. You are given the working instructions and forms you need to
meet certification requirements. The forms are unique and have been
designed specifically for ISO 9000 standards. Since ISO 9000 is not
designed to be a TQM program the authors have also included a
special section that provides the information, instructions and
forms needed for quality audits such as Q94 or Z1. If you want to
take your program further than just ISO 9000 certification, the
material is available to you. The 90-Day ISO 9000 Manual includes
the latest published draft of Q91 DIS, which is the formal public
review copy. Companies that have recently been audited have noticed
that certain improvements in documentation have been expected by
registrars. These improvements require rewording the old standards.
The new standards have been incorporated in this manual and several
schemes have been modified. The authors of The 90-Day ISO 9000
Manual have extensive experience working on ISO 9000 standards
review, consulting with companies developing programs, registrar
experience and international ISO 9000 activities. This manual will
reflect a practical approach to registration for the next five
years.
This wide-ranging collection seeks to reassess conventional
understanding of Japan’s Asia-Pacific War by defamiliarizing and
expanding the rhetorical narrative. Its nine chapters, diverse in
theme and method, are united in their goal to recover a measured
historicity about the conflict by either introducing new areas of
knowledge or reinterpreting existing ones. Collectively, they cast
doubt on the war as familiar and recognizable, compelling readers
to view it with fresh eyes. Following an introduction that
problematizes timeworn narratives about a "unified Japan" and its
"illegal war" or "race war," early chapters on the destruction of
Japan’s diplomatic records and government interest in an
egalitarian health care policy before, during, and after the war
oblige us to question selective histories and moral judgments about
wartime Japan. The discussion then turns to artistic/cultural
production and self-determination, specifically to Osaka rakugo
performers who used comedy to contend with state oppression and to
the role of women in creating care packages for soldiers abroad.
Other chapters cast doubt on well-trod stereotypes (Japan’s lack
of pragmatism in its diplomatic relations with neutral nations and
its irrational and fatalistic military leadership) and examine
resistance to the war by a prominent Japanese Christian
intellectual. The volume concludes with two nuanced responses to
race in wartime Japan, one maintaining the importance of racial
categories while recognizing the "performance of Japaneseness," the
other observing that communities often reflected official
government policies through nationality rather than race.
Contrasting findings like these underscore the need to ask new
questions and fill old gaps in our understanding of a historical
event that, after more than seventy years, remains as provocative
and divisive as ever. Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War
will find a ready audience among World War II historians as well as
specialists in war and society, social history, and the growing
fields of material culture and civic history.
As Japan's pre-Pearl Harbor ambassador to the United States,
Admiral Nomura Kichisaburo (1877-1964) played a significant role in
a tense and turbulent period in Japanese-U.S. relations. Scholars
tend to view his actions and missteps as ambassador as representing
the failure of diplomacy to avert the outbreak of hostilities
between the two paramount Pacific powers. This extensively
researched biography casts new light on the life and career of this
important figure. Connecting his experiences as a naval officer to
his service as foreign minister and ambassador, and later as
"father" of Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces and proponent of
the U.S.-Japanese alliance, this study reassesses Nomura's
contributions as a hard-nosed realist whose grasp of the underlying
realities of Japanese-U.S. relations went largely unappreciated by
the Japanese political and military establishment. In highlighting
the complexities and conundrums of Nomura's position, as well as
the role of the Imperial Navy in the formulation of Japan's foreign
policy, Peter Mauch draws upon rarely accessed materials from naval
and diplomatic archives in Japan as well as various collections of
personal papers, including Nomura's, which Mauch discovered in 2005
and which are now housed in the National Diet Library.
The most important bilateral relationship in Asia since the end of
World War II is assuredly between the United States and Japan.
Despite the geographical and cultural differences between these two
nations, as well as the bitterness leftover from the war, an
amicable and prosperous relationship has developed between the two
countries boasting the world's largest economies. As the 21st
century progresses, the continuing goodwill between the U.S. and
Japan is of the utmost importance, as the peace and stability of
the Asia-Pacific depends on their cooperation and efforts to
contain destabilizing factors in the area. The A to Z of United
States-Japan Relations traces this 150 year relationship through a
chronology, an introduction, appendixes, a bibliography, and
cross-referenced dictionary entries on key persons, places, events,
institutions, and organizations. Covering everything from Walt
Whitman's poem, "A Broadway Pageant," commemorating the visit of
the Shogun's Embassy to the U.S. in 1860, to zaibatsu, this ready
reference is an excellent starting point for the study of Japan's
dealings with the U.S.
This wide-ranging collection seeks to reassess conventional
understanding of Japan's Asia-Pacific War by defamiliarizing and
expanding the rhetorical narrative. Its nine chapters, diverse in
theme and method, are united in their goal to recover a measured
historicity about the conflict by either introducing new areas of
knowledge or reinterpreting existing ones. Collectively, they cast
doubt on the war as familiar and recognizable, compelling readers
to view it with fresh eyes. Following an introduction that
problematizes timeworn narratives about a "unified Japan" and its
"illegal war" or "race war," early chapters on the destruction of
Japan's diplomatic records and government interest in an
egalitarian health care policy before, during, and after the war
oblige us to question selective histories and moral judgments about
wartime Japan. The discussion then turns to artistic/cultural
production and self-determination, specifically to Osaka rakugo
performers who used comedy to contend with state oppression and to
the role of women in creating care packages for soldiers abroad.
Other chapters cast doubt on well-trod stereotypes (Japan's lack of
pragmatism in its diplomatic relations with neutral nations and its
irrational and fatalistic military leadership) and examine
resistance to the war by a prominent Japanese Christian
intellectual. The volume concludes with two nuanced responses to
race in wartime Japan, one maintaining the importance of racial
categories while recognizing the "performance of Japaneseness," the
other observing that communities often reflected official
government policies through nationality rather than race.
Contrasting findings like these underscore the need to ask new
questions and fill old gaps in our understanding of a historical
event that, after more than seventy years, remains as provocative
and divisive as ever. Defamiliarizing Japan's Asia-Pacific War will
find a ready audience among World War II historians as well as
specialists in war and society, social history, and the growing
fields of material culture and civic history.
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