Big Six

(noun)

Common term referring to the Supreme Council for the Direction of the War in Japan. The body consisted of the Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of the Army, Minister of the Navy, Chief of the Army General Staff, and Chief of the Navy General Staff.

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Examples of Big Six in the following topics:

  • The Defeat of Japan

    • While publicly stating their intent to fight on to the bitter end, Japan's leaders at the Supreme Council for the Direction of the War (the "Big Six") were privately making entreaties to the neutral Soviet Union to mediate peace on terms favorable to the Japanese.
    • The combined shock of these events caused Emperor Hirohito to intervene and order the Big Six to accept the terms for ending the war that the Allies had set down in the Potsdam Declaration.

  • Foreign Policy After the Cold War

    • The big change during these years was a transition from a bipolar world to a multipolar world.
    • Foreign policy analysts such as Nina Harchigian suggest that the six emerging big powers share common concerns: free trade, economic growth, prevention of terrorism, and efforts to stymie nuclear proliferation.

  • Other Important Trait Theories

    • The "Big Five" describes five important personality traits, and the Myers-Briggs Test identifies a number of different personality types, but there are other important traits that have been studied by psychologists.
    • Some of these traits include Gordon Allport's dispositions, Hans Eysenck's three fundamental traits, and Michael Aston and Kibeom Lee's six dimensional HEXACO model of personality structure.
    • Comparisons of the results revealed six emergent factors.
    • The six factors are generally named Honesty-Humility (H), Emotionality (E), Extroversion (X), Agreeableness (A), Conscientiousness (C), and Openness to Experience (O).
    • After the adjectives that describe each of these six factors were collected using self-reports, they were distilled to four traits that describe each factor.

  • Chapter Questions

    • Using data from Table 1, how could you earn the highest profit by transportation Big Mac between countries if it were theoretically possible?
    • According to the Big Mac Index, estimate whether the Japanese yen is overvalued or undervalued relative to the U.S. dollar?
    • If the spot exchange rate is S = 0.7 € / $1, estimate the approximate price of a forward contract due in six months.

  • The Treaty of Fort Stanwix

    • The Six Nations council at Buffalo Creek refused to ratify the treaty, denying that their delegates had the power to give away such large tracts of land.
    • The general Native confederacy also disavowed the treaty since most members of the Six Nations did not live in the Ohio territory.
    • 1797 Treaty of Big Tree with the Iroquois for lands in New York State west of the Genesee River

  • The Six-Day War

  • Understanding Concepting + The Creative Team

    • Instagram is big for AD’s, as well as blogs, and pinning.
    • Here, the expression, “big idea” alludes to “big thinking” or “out of the box” thinking or the ability to “think different” (now that was a big idea!).
    • Looking at these you may ask, “Are big ideas always taglines?”
    • Let’s pretend you’ve already come up with five or six ideas for Nice Tea and you’re ready to pitch them.
    • Pitching is a big part of the approval process.

  • Yalta and the Postwar World

    • Also, the "Big Three" agreed that all original governments would be restored to the invaded countries (with the exception of France, Romania, and Bulgaria; the Polish government-in-exile was also excluded by Stalin) and that all civilians would be repatriated.
    • Its purpose was to decide whether Germany was to be divided into six nations.

  • Popular Culture

    • Virtuoso soloists often led their swing big bands (thus swing was also known as "big jazz") and their popularity was enormous, also because swing music developed with corresponding swing dance.
    • Adaptations of classic or best-selling literary works, biographies of famous individuals, or big adventure movies were the most common examples.
    • To outdo the Los Angeles games of 1932, the Nazis built a new 100,000-seat track and field stadium, six gymnasiums, and many other smaller arenas.
    • To outdo the Los Angeles games of 1932, the Nazis built a new 100,000-seat track and field stadium, six gymnasiums, and many other smaller arenas.

  • The Big Five Personality Traits

    • The Big Five personality traits are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
    • The concept of the "Big Five" personality traits is taken from psychology and includes five broad domains that describe personality.
    • Employees are sometimes tested on the Big Five personality traits in collaborative situations to determine what strong personality traits they can add to the group dynamic.
    • The Big Five personality traits are typically examined through surveys and questionnaires.
    • Apply the "Big Five" personality traits identified in psychology to organizational behavior