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2. Paper City: A Conversation with Director Adrian Francis.
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Lynch, Michael
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SHORT-term memory ,DOCUMENTARY films ,CHINA-United States relations - Abstract
Paper City (2021), directed by Adrian Francis, is a documentary film that highlights the 70th anniversary of the firebombing of Tokyo on March 10, 1945. The film presents three elderly survivors' oral accounts of the firebombing and observes their work as memory activists in a long campaign to compel the Japanese government to publicly memorialize the event in a way commensurate with its enormous devastation. Reflecting on issues of memory and forgetting, Francis intends the film as a way of passing survivors' experiences to audiences, who can help to transfer memory to others and to generations beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
3. Japan Defence White Paper 2022 - Key Highlights.
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GOVERNMENT publications ,GROUP of Seven countries ,RUSSIAN invasion of Ukraine, 2022- ,NATIONAL security - Published
- 2022
4. Minimally invasive technique for non-vital tooth bleaching using traditional Japanese paper.
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Jurado, Carlos A., Akimasa Tsujimoto, Villalobos-Tinoco, Jose, Hidehiko Watanabe, Toshiki Takamizawa, Masashi Miyazaki, Tsujimoto, Akimasa, Watanabe, Hidehiko, Takamizawa, Toshiki, and Miyazaki, Masashi
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BICUSPIDS ,DENTAL pulp diseases ,HYDROGEN peroxide ,TOOTH whitening ,DENTAL discoloration - Abstract
The purpose of this case report is to describe a minimally invasive technique for non-vital tooth bleaching using traditional Japanese paper, known as washi. Non-vital tooth bleaching with a mixture of sodium perborate and 30% hydrogen peroxide rolled in Japanese paper for a traumatically injured tooth, and in-office vital-tooth bleaching for the upper front six teeth and first premolars, were performed. Five-year follow-up showed satisfactory stability in the bleaching effects and did not show any problems in the traumatically injured tooth. The use of Japanese paper for non-vital tooth bleaching may minimize damage to discolored non-vital teeth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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5. Japan Defence White Paper 2021 - Key Highlights.
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GOVERNMENT publications ,COASTAL surveillance - Published
- 2021
6. Condemning J. Mark Ramseyer's Paper "On the Invention of Identity Politics: The Buraku Outcastes in Japan" / Mark Ramseyerの論文 "On the Invention of Identity Politics: The Buraku Outcastes in Japan"に対する...
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Fujioka, Mieko, Hankins, Joseph, Kumamoto, Risa, and Yengde, Suraj
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IDENTITY politics ,SINGLE-parent families - Published
- 2021
7. Slow glass: a case for photomedia literacy.
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McLeod, Gary
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VISUAL literacy ,LITERACY ,DIGITAL literacy ,DIGITAL cameras ,INFORMATION literacy - Abstract
Like many fields, visual literacy is enamoured with digital cameras. They are convenient for classrooms, can accelerate learning, and can facilitate research where verbal language cannot. However, exclusive use puts at risk the possibility of experiencing affordances of other photomedia. This paper argues for diversifying photomedia used in research. While it recognises that digital cameras have a role to play in developing visual skills, particularly when resources are limited, it posits that sole use of digital cameras obfuscate other possibilities for expression. Adopting autoethnographic description, affordances were considered of three photomedia as used during a rephotography project along Japan's north-eastern coast between 2019 and 2022. Setting out photomedia literacy as a competence that complements rather than competes with a range of other literacies (e.g. media literacy, digital literacy, information literacy), the paper concludes with challenges for any scholars thinking that digital cameras are convenient one-stop solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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8. A Non-Paper Treasure from a Paper Journey.
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Koretsky, Donna
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JAPANESE paper ,PAPERMAKING ,PAPER ,CALLIGRAPHY - Published
- 2019
9. JAPAN'S NEW, NEW THING: YOUNG DESIGNERS INVIGORATING AGING INDUSTRIES.
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POLLOCK, NAOMI
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CLOTHING & dress ,KIMONOS ,PAPER products ,WOOD products ,JAPANESE art - Published
- 2018
10. Japan Tries to Shred Its Paper Habit.
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HABIT - Published
- 2020
11. Immigration and labor shortages: Learning from Japan and the United Kingdom.
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Liu-Farrer, Gracia, Green, Anne E., Ozgen, Ceren, and Cole, Matthew A.
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EMIGRATION & immigration ,SCARCITY ,DEVELOPED countries ,IMMIGRATION policy ,EMPLOYMENT policy ,EMPLOYMENT practices - Abstract
Industrialized countries have increasingly used skill-based selective migration policies to reduce labor and skill shortages. But are these policies effective? This paper uses Japan and the United Kingdom to illustrate how immigration policy and employment, training and labor practices influence labor and skill supply. Until recently, these two countries had different migration policies and labor practices. Yet data shows similar patterns of labor and skill shortage profiles in both countries. This paper draws on empirical research to argue that such outcomes suggest that immigration policies will not alleviate labor and skill shortages unless accompanied by the transformation of employment and training practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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12. No Longer a Safe Haven Currency? A Fresh Evidence of Japanese Yen under Uncertainty.
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Zheng-Zheng Lee, Chi Wei Su, and Ran Tao
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JAPANESE yen ,ECONOMIC uncertainty ,ECONOMIC policy ,HARD currencies ,INTEREST rates ,FOREIGN exchange rates - Abstract
This paper aims to study the safe haven attribute of the Japanese yen under domestic and U.S. economic and policy uncertainty (EPU). Because of the existence of structural changes, a bootstrap rolling window subsample causality test is used to enhance the credibility of the results. The empirical results confirm that the exchange rate returns (RER) and Japanese EPU are correlated in specific periods when major economic or political events occur. In most crisis periods, the Japanese EPU has positive effects on RER, and the yen appreciates when the EPU is increasing. In addition, the RER of the yen and U.S. EPU are both negatively and positively connected. This finding confirms the hedging function of the yen in certain periods. The reason for this relationship is that Japan's low interest rates make the yen the primary funding currency in speculative carrying trade strategies, and thus, it tends to appreciate during crisis periods regardless of the origins of the EPU shocks. Therefore, the yen can be held as a safe haven currency unless the government intervenes artificially. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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13. Distant lending for regional small businesses using public credit guarantee schemes: Evidence from Japan.
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Tsuruta, Daisuke
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LOANS ,COMMUNITY banks ,SMALL business loans ,SMALL business ,SMALL business finance ,BANK loans ,SURETYSHIP & guaranty - Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the extent to which banks use public credit guaranteed loans for distant small business borrowers. Existing studies argue that when banks offer loans for these borrowers, the information asymmetry between them is often severe. These studies then empirically demonstrate how banks can mitigate this problem. We focus instead on the role of Japan's public credit guarantee scheme in mitigating these same information problems, an approach unaddressed in the literature. If banks offer credit guaranteed loans, they suffer few losses from borrower default because the public credit guarantee corporations (not the small business borrowers) make payments to the banks. Therefore, banks can offer loans to informationally opaque and distant borrowers. To conduct the econometric analysis, we use semiannual bank-region-level data from Japan, which allows us to control for several unobserved fixed effects. The results reveal that credit guarantee loan size is larger and the default rate higher when banks offer credit guaranteed loans to distant borrowers. These findings suggest that banks successfully mitigate the losses of distant lending using the public credit guarantee scheme, thereby providing a valuable contribution to the small business finance literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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14. Inexspensive all-season passive thin metal film for energy savings in cities.
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Sasaki, Takashi and Takefuji, Yoshiyasu
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METALLIC films ,THIN films ,CITIES & towns ,THERMAL equilibrium ,ELECTROCHROMIC windows - Abstract
Active thin film electrochromic or thermochromic coatings have been used in smart windows. However, the current cost of active thin film windows is approximately 10 times that of passive film windows. This paper proposes an inexpensive passive thin metal film for all-season energy savings. The proposed passive thin metal film allows heat to flow preferentially in one direction. Thin metal films attached to glass indoor can absorb solar heat and the solar can radiate the heat to a room and to the glass respectively until thermal equilibrium. Because of the heated metal film against the room, as long as the temperature of the film is higher than that of the room, there is no heat flux from the room to the thin metal film which is called perfect thermal insulation. The 960m
2 film was installed in an actual hotel in Japan over 10 years and contributed to reducing the energy cost of air conditioning from 54 million yen to 43 million yen, demonstrating an annual energy savings of 11 million yen (US$0.1 million). This paper briefly describes how the proposed economical passive thin metal film will provide all-season energy savings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2023
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15. VANITAS, WABI SABI AND The Fragility of Life.
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Parks, John A.
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ART education ,ART colleges ,CONTEMPLATION ,GRAPHITE - Abstract
Hiroshi Hayakawa, a Japanese-born artist, has developed a unique artistic voice through his drawings that are both realistic and rich with symbolic meaning. Despite not having a formal art education in Japan, Hayakawa pursued his passion for art after meeting contemporary Japanese artists and realizing that being a professional artist was a possibility. His drawings, influenced by the Japanese aesthetics of wabi sabi and 17th-century Dutch paintings known as "Vanitas," explore themes of beauty, fragility, and the impermanence of life. Hayakawa's meticulous process involves photography, sketching, and creating composite images before rendering his drawings in graphite with thousands of tiny strokes. His drawings often feature female figures as symbols of earthly pleasure and beauty, accompanied by traditional symbols of mortality. The resulting artworks are visually stunning and invite contemplation of symbolic relationships. Hayakawa has exhibited his work widely and currently teaches at Columbus College of Art and Design. In addition to his drawings, he has also published books on making paper animals. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2024
16. Precarious digital mothering: creativity, entrepreneurship and hidden labor within digital foodscapes.
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Barnes, Christine
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MOTHERS ,UNPAID labor ,SOCIAL reproduction ,JAPANESE cooking ,HOUSEKEEPING - Abstract
Digital foodscapes not only transform our everyday relationships with food but offer creative and entrepreneurial opportunities. This paper works to expand the Anglo-American focus of digital foodscapes scholarship in analysis of Japanese Instagram food influencers and their relationship to gendered social reproduction. Japan's most prominent influencers are mothers documenting the bentos (boxed lunches) they prepare for their children, a meal suffused with socio-cultural meaning about good food and good mothering. I develop the concept of precarious digital mothering to examine the hidden, gendered labor created and magnified through Instagram bento accounts. I argue that the creative and entrepreneurial opportunities offered to women though Instagram are inseparable from the cultural meaning of bento as a judgment on good mothering and create a bind where digital success cannot occur without taking on additional domestic food work. Precarity is created both for the mothers who take on unpaid and unrecognized labor in the pursuit of Instagram success, and those who consume their content and the problematic narratives of food and motherhood it normalizes in its idealized and mediated performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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17. Grey wolf optimizer-based machine learning algorithm to predict electric vehicle charging duration time.
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Ullah, Irfan, Liu, Kai, Yamamoto, Toshiyuki, Shafiullah, Md, and Jamal, Arshad
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MACHINE learning ,ELECTRIC vehicle charging stations ,GENETIC algorithms ,ELECTRIC vehicles ,PREDICTION models ,METAHEURISTIC algorithms - Abstract
Precise charging time prediction can effectively mitigate the inconvenience to drivers induced by inevitable charging behavior throughout trips. Although the effectiveness of the machine learning (ML) algorithm in predicting future outcomes has been established in a variety of applications (transportation sector), the investigation into electric vehicle (EV) charging time prediction is almost new. This calls for the investigation of the ML algorithm to predict EV charging time. The study developed an EV charging time prediction model based on two years of charging event data collected from 500 EVs in Japan. To predict EV charging time, this paper employed three ML algorithms: extreme learning machine (ELM), feed-forward neural network (FFNN), and support vector regression (SVR). Furthermore, ML algorithms parameters are optimized by a metaheuristic techniques: the gray wolf optimizer (GWO), particle swarm optimizer (PSO), and genetic algorithm (GA) to achieve higher accuracy and robustness. The prediction results reveal that GWO-based ML models yielded better results compared to other models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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18. Museum "Diaspora" Collections for Archaeological Research: Edo-Period Shogun Family's Funerary Lanterns Outside Japan.
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Nishimura, Yoko
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL museums & collections ,DIASPORA ,TOMBS ,MUSEUMS ,TOKUGAWA Period, Japan, 1600-1868 ,PLANT identification ,EIGHTEENTH century - Abstract
This paper advocates using museum collections for archaeological research by offering a new approach to generate questions on the sociocultural lives of ancient people. I define "diaspora" collections as historical and archaeological artifacts excavated in a homeland site but currently stored in museums that are outside the homeland country. Of particular importance in this approach is the identification of artifacts' diagnostic traits, including material composition, morphology, and symbolic decoration, that are to be linked to the "original" data in their homeland. Diaspora collections-based research necessitates provenience studies, as well as direct observation of both the diaspora collection and its original data. It also takes advantage of the recent development of various digital and remote technologies. A case study to show this methodology comes from dedicatory lanterns currently stored outside Japan that were part of the shogun (Tokugawa) family's graveyards in modern Tokyo during the 18th and 19th centuries a.d. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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19. Did the Japanese government's travel subsidy increase the number of hotel guests and infection during the COVID-19 pandemic?
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Funashima, Yoshito and Hiraga, Kazuki
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COVID-19 pandemic ,HOTEL guests ,COVID-19 ,COST benefit analysis ,VIRAL transmission ,HOTELS - Abstract
In July 2020, the Japanese government launched the "Go To Travel" campaign, providing subsidies for domestic travel, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. While the campaign aimed to revitalize the declining tourism industry, concerns were raised about its potential to spread infection. Although the literature indicates that the campaign increased hotel reservations, its causal effects on infection are not well-known. Using a difference-in-differences framework, this paper examines whether the campaign increased the number of domestic hotel guests and caused the virus to spread. The results show that the campaign increased the number of domestic hotel guests, as travel was not a Giffen good even at the risk of contracting COVID-19. However, the campaign did not increase infection spread in Japan, as it did not increase the transient population in the downtown areas. Moreover, this study provides a comprehensive cost–benefit analysis of the campaign. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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20. Presenting an Egalitarian Multicultural Empire through Transparent Media: Photographic Reporting in Print Mass Media in Late Interwar Japan.
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Shiho Maeshima
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MASS media ,WOMEN'S magazines ,INTERWAR Period (1918-1939) ,PHOTOJOURNALISM ,RACISM ,CENSORSHIP ,PHOTOCOPYING - Abstract
Facilitated by technological advances in cameras, printing methods and equipment, photojournalism blossomed throughout the world during the interwar period. It offered readers insights into the contemporary world, providing access to diverse peoples and remote locations through a combination of photographs and text. Japan was no exception. However, unlike Europe or North America, where the primary medium for disseminating knowledge through images was photo magazines or newspapers, in interwar Japan it was mass-market women's magazines that popularised the practice of using images to convey information within society. This paper specifically examines representations seen in a particular photo-article genre known as the "life pictorial", published in the best-selling women's magazine Shufu no tomo ("Housewife's Friend"). The analysis of these articles demonstrates how they contributed to the circulation of an imagined geography in 1930s Japanese society by presenting an image of a utopian multicultural Japanese empire that covertly intimated a distinct social, ethnic and racial hierarchy. Furthermore, this analysis explores how the magazine guided and shaped its readers' visual literacy by training them in how to "read" these photo articles, in a time before state censorship became fully entrenched. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
21. Integration of international marriage migrants: Russian-speaking female marriage migrants in Japan and South Korea.
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Kim, Viktoriya and Yem, Natalya
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INTERNATIONAL marriage ,MARRIAGE ,FAMILY support ,MARRIED women ,LANGUAGE acquisition ,GENDER role ,IMMIGRANTS - Abstract
This paper analyzes the integration processes of international marriage migrants in Japan and South Korea and identifies the steps and conditions required for integration. It contributes to the wider discussion of obstacles that migrants face during the integration process. Despite Japan and South Korea's reluctance toward the influx of large numbers of international migrants, their stance is more positive toward (female) marriage migrants. The qualitative data used for the analysis were collected by authors during the period between 2007 and 2022 on women from former Soviet Union countries, married to South Korean (54) or Japanese (50) men. The analysis of women's experiences identifies four major steps leading to receiving society integration: Pre-migration, arrival, early years and long-term settlement. The findings show that early language acquisition and receiving family support resulted in relatively smooth integration. However, human capital appears to be both a driver and an obstacle to integration. Furthermore, mismatched gender role expectations, limited social networks and employment opportunities increased difficulties in the integration process. Additionally, stronger ties with the receiving family and weaker ties with the home countries influenced women's decision to settle in the country. The largest differences between Japan and South Korea were the higher employment opportunities for marriage migrants in South Korea, especially for those with professional skills and Korean language knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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22. 海域和陆域地震动输入能量与强度指标相关性.
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胡进军, 田浩, 谭景阳, 刘巴黎, and 靳超越
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EARTHQUAKE hazard analysis ,GROUND motion ,EXTREME value theory ,ENGINEERING mathematics ,EARTHQUAKES ,STATISTICAL correlation - Abstract
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- 2023
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23. Die Gerechtigkeitsbewegung für die „Trostfrauen“ in intersektionaler postkolonialer Sicht.
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Lenz, Ilse
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COLONIES ,FEMINISM ,SEX workers ,SEXUAL assault ,WAR ,COMFORT women ,COLLECTIVE memory - Abstract
During the Asia Pacifi c War (1937-1945), the Japanese Imperial Army forced women in Japanese East Asian colonies to work as so-called “comfort women” (sex workers). The justice movement for these women is an international intersectional alliance of feminists from Japanese ex-colonies in East Asia, the former colonial power Japan, and other societies, such as Australia, Germany, and the USA. This long-term feminist justice movement has campaigned for an apology and compensation from the Japanese government, as well as for recognition of “comfort women‘s” suff ering and of sexual violence in war in cultural memory. Through researching this justice movement from a processual intersectionality perspective, this paper shows that it gained power and legitimacy from refl ecting and working on its internal intersectional inequalities. This included refl ecting on the class hierarchies between many former “comfort women”, who had power of defi nition, and intellectual feminist activists, as well as on the postcolonial divide between former Japanese colonies and the former colonial power Japan, leading it to develop horizontal cooperation and practices. Following an overview, the paper outlines the movements in South Korea, Japan, and Germany, and highlights the different postcolonial constellation between East Asia and Germany, the main actors, and their aims. While the Japanese government rejected the justice movement‘s demands and the right wing mobilised against it, has been able to infl uence cultural memory to widely recognize sexual violence in war and the dignity of the “comfort women”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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24. My Response to Ramseyer's Effort to Deny the History of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery.
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Pyong Gap Min
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HUMAN trafficking ,HUMAN rights organizations ,SEX workers ,LABOR contracts - Abstract
The main objective of this paper is to critically evaluate as many of Ramseyer's arguments as possible included in his 2022 paper. It consists of three sections in addition to the introduction and concluding remarks. The first section summarizes the expanded literature that interpreted the "comfort women" system as sexual slavery, judgments, and recommendations to the Japanese government given by scholars, international human rights organizations and the legislative branches of four Western countries. Since Ramseyer published his article denying the "comfort women" system as sexual slavery without introducing this literature, we cannot consider his article as an academic work. The second section critically evaluates Ramseyer's unacceptable and untenable arguments that Japanese and Korean "comfort women" were commercial sex workers with labor contracts rather than sexual slaves. The third section critically evaluates Ramseyer's severe criticisms of the Korean council and its redress activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
25. COVID-19 Signs in Tokyo and Kanagawa: Linguistic Landscaping for Whom?
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Janice Nakamura
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LINGUISTIC landscapes ,COVID-19 ,JAPANESE language ,SOCIAL distancing ,ENGLISH language ,JAPANESE people - Abstract
COVID-19 has dramatically transformed Japan's linguistic landscape. This paper determines the types of COVID-19 store signs in Tokyo and Kanagawa and the extent to which they cater to the growing number of non-Japanese residents living in this highly populated urban region. Analysis of 293 COVID-19 signs shows that many are text-andimage monolingual Japanese signs that display multiple messages related to customer and staff policies. Although the stores predominantly prepare these signs, they are influenced by government policy, particularly those related to social distancing. Only a quarter of these signs is multilingual, and many contain Japanese and English only. Consequently, the majority of the foreign population from non-English-speaking countries who cannot read either language well may need to rely on the images contained in COVID-19 signs and the signs' positioning to decipher the meaning. However, this paper demonstrates that neither images nor the positioning of Japanese monolingual signs is an adequate substitute for the greater use of multilingual signs. The prevalence of monolingual Japanese COVID-19 signs suggests that non-Japanese residents in Japan potentially face a linguistic disadvantage in navigating a linguistic landscape altered by COVID-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
26. Necessity of providing dental care to medically compromised patients in Japan's super-aged society and the way forward.
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Katakura, Akira
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DENTAL care ,DRUGS ,OLDER people ,PRACTICE of dentistry ,PUBLIC safety - Abstract
Devising an appropriate dental treatment plan for patients with pre-existing medical conditions is a demanding task. Dentists must consider the sometimes life threatening, interactions between ongoing medical conditions and dental treatment. Stakes are particularly high for the elderly on prescription drugs and other therapies for medical conditions while they seek dental care for advanced oral diseases. Given that Japan is an ageing society, it is crucial to create avenues for medical and dental practitioners to share patient information and collaborate.to,improve care This paper examined trends from demographic data to suggest that there is an impending further rise in the number of medically compromised elderly seeking dental treatment. For patient safety and improved public health, it is important that dental practitioners evaluate the nature and ongoing treatment of pre-existing medical conditions amongst new patients and account for their impact on dedicated and dental status. This paper supports the relevance of comprehensive clinical practice guidelines and the need to train dental practitioners to adopt a multidisciplinary approach to dental care. In order to meet the future needs of an ageing population, the Japanese Society of Dentistry for Medically Compromised Patients needs to take initiative and suggest mechanisms to exchange patient information freely and encourage multidisciplinary dental practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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27. COVID-19 Signs in Tokyo and Kanagawa: Linguistic Landscaping for Whom?
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Nakamura, Janice
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LINGUISTIC landscapes ,COVID-19 ,JAPANESE language ,SOCIAL distancing ,ENGLISH language ,JAPANESE people - Abstract
COVID-19 has dramatically transformed Japan's linguistic landscape. This paper determines the types of COVID-19 store signs in Tokyo and Kanagawa and the extent to which they cater to the growing number of non-Japanese residents living in this highly populated urban region. Analysis of 293 COVID-19 signs shows that many are text-andimage monolingual Japanese signs that display multiple messages related to customer and staff policies. Although the stores predominantly prepare these signs, they are influenced by government policy, particularly those related to social distancing. Only a quarter of these signs is multilingual, and many contain Japanese and English only. Consequently, the majority of the foreign population from non-English-speaking countries who cannot read either language well may need to rely on the images contained in COVID-19 signs and the signs' positioning to decipher the meaning. However, this paper demonstrates that neither images nor the positioning of Japanese monolingual signs is an adequate substitute for the greater use of multilingual signs. The prevalence of monolingual Japanese COVID-19 signs suggests that non-Japanese residents in Japan potentially face a linguistic disadvantage in navigating a linguistic landscape altered by COVID-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
28. CHILDRENS PERSPECTIVES ON JAPANESE LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE: Reflections on my own and other families' experiences in Australia.
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Miyako Matsui
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LANGUAGE maintenance ,JAPANESE language ,CHILDREN'S language ,INTERMARRIAGE ,FAMILIES ,CULTURAL identity - Abstract
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- 2023
29. THE JAPANESE COLLECTION OF RŮŽENA TRNOŽKOVÁ.
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Tůmová, Adéla
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COLLECTIONS ,JAPANESE art ,TWENTIETH century ,DECORATIVE arts - Abstract
This paper deals with the Japanese collection of Růžena Trnožková who lived in Japan in 1918 and collected the Japanese and Chinese objects. In 1936, she donated her collection, which consisted of almost 250 items, to the Náprstek Museum. The collection includes objects mainly made during the 19th and in the beginning of the 20th century and represents goods typically collected by the Europeans. The article also provides a little biographic information about her and her husband Vojtěch. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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30. The Japanese preoccupation with Osamu Dazai in the twenty-first century.
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Uchimaru, Kohei
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EARLY modern English literature - Abstract
Copyright of Cahiers Elisabethains: A Biannual Journal of English Renaissance Studies is the property of Sage Publications Inc. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2023
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31. Estimating the macroeconomic effects of Japan's expansionary monetary policy under Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing during 2013–2020.
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Kawamoto, Takuji, Nakazawa, Takashi, Kishaba, Yui, Matsumura, Kohei, and Nakajima, Jouchi
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MONETARY policy ,ECONOMIC models ,LATENT variables ,MACROECONOMIC models ,INTEREST rates - Abstract
This paper estimates the macroeconomic effects of the Bank of Japan's expansionary monetary policies since the introduction of Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing (QQE) using the Bank of Japan's large-scale macroeconomic model, the Quarterly Japanese Economic Model. We consider counterfactual paths of major financial variables, such as real interest rates, constructing hypothetical scenarios where the QQE and subsequent easing measures had not been introduced. We then conduct counterfactual simulations to examine how Japan's macroeconomic variables, such as real GDP and CPI, would have evolved under those hypothetical scenarios. In these settings, we estimate the policy effects on the macroeconomic variables as the difference between actual values and the counterfactual values. The estimation results demonstrate that, on average, during the period from the introduction of QQE to the July–September quarter of 2020, the policy effect on the level of real GDP is between around 0.9 and 1.3 percent, and on the year-on-year rate of change in the CPI (all items less fresh food and energy) is between around 0.6 and 0.7 percentage points. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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32. A method for estimating the number of short-lived births of businesses based on a stochastic model.
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Takahashi, Masao
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STOCHASTIC models ,COMMERCIAL statistics ,ECONOMIC databases ,ECONOMIC indicators ,ECONOMIC surveys - Abstract
For policymakers who intend to make decisions on the policy to stimulate economic growth and enhance job opportunities, business demography statistics serve as important data sources for promoting entrepreneurship, which is a key for the policy. Business demography, which usually consists of annual demographic information such as the number of births, deaths, and survivals of businesses, can be produced from a business register in many countries. In Japan, however, it is difficult to produce business demography directly from the Japanese business resister called Establishment Frame Database because the major data source for the database is the Economic Census, conducted twice every five years. Alternatively, business demography can be estimated using the data of the Economic Census. However, it has been pointed out that short-lived births of businesses are hardly grasped by the estimation using the data of statistical surveys such as the Economic Census at intervals of more than one year. This paper introduces a stochastic model to cope with the above issue and proposes a calculation formula to estimate the number of short-lived births of businesses as well as other demographic indicators of business demography. Then the paper is followed by a numerical example, which proves to overcome the shortcomings of previous methodologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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33. Japan works toward controlling flushables.
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Yosuke Matsumiya, Youji Hisamoto, and Isamu Sato
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PAPER products industry ,TOILET paper ,HOUSE drainage ,COMBINED sewer overflows ,HIGH-efficiency toilets ,WATER conservation - Abstract
The article discusses the initiative taken by the toilet paper industry in Japan to control flushables products to prevent house drain clogging and reduce combined-sewer overflow pollution. Topics discussed include low-flush toilet bowls sold in Japan in 1970 for water conservation, warning of the Japanese Consumer Affairs Agency to the flushable products industry against false labeling and a table depicting toilet paper disintegration test procedure.
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- 2016
34. A Study on Risk Assessment Approach for the Elderly Based on Sarcopenia Criteria.
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Takahashi, Masakazu and Kinoshita, Yoshihiko
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SARCOPENIA ,ATRIAL fibrillation ,RISK assessment ,HEART failure patients ,CEREBRAL infarction ,OLDER people - Abstract
Japan is one of the world's leading super-aging societies, with the highest average life expectancy in the world. 30.3% of the population will be 65 years old or older by 2025, and 13.0% will be 75 years old or older. In addition, the number of heart failure patients is increasing yearly. The number of heart failure patients is increasing by about 10,000 each year and is estimated to reach 1.2 million by 2020 and 1.3 million by 2030. The reason for the rapid increase in the number of heart failure patients in Japan is the aging of the population. Therefore, machine learning to predict atrial fibrillation is employed in this paper. We conducted a trial using risk assessment of cerebral infarction and other factors. As a result of the analysis, we extracted highly influential evaluation indices for each characteristic of atrial fibrillation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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35. Creative teaching using hybrid e-learning and virtual reality.
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Barry, Dana M., Kanematsu, Hideyuki, and Tanaka, Toshihiro
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VIRTUAL reality ,CREATIVE teaching ,ACTIVE learning ,DIGITAL learning ,TEACHING methods - Abstract
This paper describes three creative teaching activities that motivate and engage students into active learning. The teaching methods used include hybrid e-learning and virtual reality. The hybrid e-learning style is a combination of e-learning and a hands-on activity in a laboratory setting. For one hybrid e-learning project, students are asked to design, build, and test seawalls to help protect Japan from future tsunamis. In the other hybrid e-learning project, student teams are challenged to invent the best tasting nutritious fruit juice by using various fruits, blenders, water, plasticware, and other items. For the third project, participants use virtual reality (VR) headsets to learn about rollercoasters and to experience the thrill of riding on one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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36. Impacts of oil shocks on stock markets in Norway and Japan: Does monetary policy's effectiveness matter?
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Roudari, Soheil, Mensi, Walid, Kharusi, Sami Al, and Ahmadian-Yazdi, Farzaneh
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STOCK exchanges ,BEAR markets ,VECTOR autoregression model ,PETROLEUM ,BULL markets ,ECONOMIC trends ,MONETARY policy ,MONEY supply ,ECONOMIC expansion - Abstract
This paper examines the simultaneous effects of oil shocks on stock markets under different regimes in Norway (as an oil-exporting economy) and Japan (as an oil-importing economy). We use a Structural Threshold VAR model and rely on the monetary policy's effectiveness. Our results show that oil shocks, mainly oil demand shocks, are significantly associated with the oil structure of the country (oil-exporting or oil-importing), channels of the effectiveness of the monetary policy, and the stock market regimes. Furthermore, the channel through which the money supply growth affects Norway's economic growth depends on the stock market regimes. Moreover, the results persist for the money growth-inflation nexus. Similarly, the impact of oil demand shocks depends on the Japanese stock market's regime and the monetary policy's effectiveness. Finally, we find that positive output shocks positively affect the stock markets of both countries in the long run regardless of the stock market conditions. In the short run, a positive inflation shock has a negative (positive) impact on Norway (Japan) during bullish and bearish market conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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37. The logics of staying for highly skilled Asian migrants in Japan.
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Liu-Farrer, Gracia
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IMMIGRANTS ,INTERNET surveys ,LOGIC - Abstract
Japan welcomes highly educated migrants, but do these migrants stay on in Japan? Drawing on a web survey of 600 immigrant employees working in Japan, this paper evaluates different factors influencing migrants' stay and leave intentions. The results indicate that economic and employment-related reasons have limited impact on migrants' stay intentions. Nationalities also predict migrants' varied willingness to stay in Japan, indicating the blurring boundary between economic and cultural logics of migration. Among all factors, marrying locals provides the strongest incentive to stay, demonstrating again that affective and social ties exercise the most power in anchoring the migrants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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38. English Education in Japan and Its Transformation in the Era of COVID-19.
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Agustina, Eka Christine
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ENGLISH language education ,COVID-19 pandemic - Abstract
English has a unique perception in Japan. While it is considered as one of the important tools to gain knowledge and success, Japanese society also has its own sentiment and seen it as a language of the elites. This perception heavily influenced the curriculum, teaching methods, and students' motivation in mastering the language. English proficiency in Japan itself, however, is still considered very low. Many argued that the curriculum and the outdated teaching style are the ones to blame. Japanese government have been trying several initiatives to improve its English education quality. In the past few years, nonformal English educations institution and native English teachers has also been increasing in demand, mainly thanks to Tokyo Olympic 2020. The spread of COVID-19, however, brought a lot of new challenges and left the future of English education in jeopardy. This paper is intended to give an overview of how English is perceived by Japanese society, how it is learnt in each educational level, and later how COVID-19 affected the system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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39. Japanese Economic Engagement With the EU: Geopolitics Meets Business.
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Richard Nakamura, H., Ström, Patrik, and Alvstam, Claes G.
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GEOPOLITICS ,BUSINESS meetings ,ECONOMIC geography ,INTERNATIONAL competition ,POLITICAL development - Abstract
During the recent years the world has experienced a shift towards complex relations being formed in the growing interlacing between geoeconomics and geopolitics. This paper aims at bringing geoeconomics and geopolitics on the macroeconomic level together with the potential implications for Japanese firms operating in Europe and more specifically within the EU Single Market. The paper grounds the analysis within international political economy, international business and economic geography. This broad, eclectic theoretical foundation enables the analysis to contribute to a deeper understanding of how firms respond to and potentially drive the political development of trade and investment relations. Hence, the paper strives to examine how geopolitics alter the flows of trade and investments, but also to map a new configuration taking place in parallel on the firm level of industrial dynamics and economic geographical footprint. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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40. Campus-neighbourhood interaction in the knowledge economy city: Japan as a case study.
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Mohammed, Ahmed M.S. and Ukai, Tetsuya
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INFORMATION economy ,MULTIVARIATE analysis ,REGRESSION analysis ,CLUSTER analysis (Statistics) ,PRINCIPAL components analysis - Abstract
University campuses are known to be a driving force of knowledge. Moreover, due to campuses' impact on their surroundings, they are also considered as a driving force of physical, social, cultural, and economic change. Therefore, this paper conducts a statistical multi-variate analysis to uncover campus-neighbourhood interaction and the following socio-economic outcomes. Thirteen different variables related to 43 university campuses in Japan and their neighbourhoods' attributes have been collected and measured. Principal component analysis and multi-linear regression analysis have been applied to uncover associations between selected variables. Additionally, k-means cluster analysis has been applied to discover hidden spatial trends between selected cases studies. Findings have shown that campuses located in highly urbanised accessible neighbourhoods create numerous benefits for students such as maximising students' residential preferences and modes of transportation. The main outcome of this paper lies in providing the grounds for a holistic framework towards a better decision making for campus development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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41. Frontier issues in international ocean governance: Japan's discharge of nuclear contaminated water into the sea.
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Chang, Yen-Chiang, Zhao, Xiaonan, Jian, Anqi, and Tan, Ying
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WATER pollution ,SEAWATER ,ENVIRONMENTAL impact analysis ,NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations ,INTERNATIONAL obligations ,OCEAN zoning ,OCEAN - Abstract
This paper aimed at explore international ocean governance issues through the perspective of Japan's nuclear contaminated water discharge to the sea. This paper analyzes the core issue of Japan's plan to discharge nuclear contaminated water into the ocean from the perspectives of Japan's international legal obligation, law enforcement issues, and judicial issues after integrated analyzing academic research paper and cases. Japan has obligations such as timely notification, information disclosure, environmental impact assessment, and avoidance of transboundary harm. Intergovernmental and non-governmental international organizations, such as IAEA, IMO and WHO should play a role in setting up an international group of experts to carry out monitoring and assessment, and whose positions and attitudes are important references for judging Japan's behavior. Cases heard before ICJ, ITLOS, and advisory opinion proceeding could provide reference from the judicial perspective on the issue of transboundary harm and proof of damages. Furthermore, this paper discusses the response strategies that the international community especially the opponents may adopt, including promoting the adoption of relevant treaties, take a combination of requesting advisory opinion and file arbitration, establish effective international monitoring mechanism, and engage in close communication with stakeholders. • This paper explored international ocean governance issues through the discharge of Japan's nuclear contaminated water. • This paper majored in Japan's international legal obligation, law enforcement issues, and judicial issues. • This paper discussed the response strategies that the international community especially the opponents may adopt. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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42. 日朝貿易に関する日本政府の政策決定―1960 年代前半における直接輸送...
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谷 京
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COLD War, 1945-1991 ,INTERNATIONAL economic relations ,INTERNATIONAL trade ,LOGIC ,PENINSULAS - Abstract
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- 2021
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43. 都市計画導入期における「都市」 概念の普及過程 一都市計画当局の実...
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中川 雄大
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URBAN planning ,CONCEPT learning ,URBAN studies ,COOPERATION ,EXHIBITIONS ,CITY dwellers ,SMART cities - Abstract
Copyright of Japanese Sociological Review / Shakaigaku Hyoron is the property of Japan Sociological Society and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2021
44. Gender Structure Which Causes Immigration: Postwar Immigrant Japanese Women and Gender Discrimination in Japan.
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Yuko Nakanishi
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SEX discrimination ,WOMEN immigrants ,JAPANESE women ,GENDER ,EMIGRATION & immigration - Abstract
Introducing gender perspective into international migration studies has been considered very important since the end of the 20th century. However, there is not much discussion on how the gender structure of home country causes immigrants' international migration. Classical studies on international migration have revealed that economic and political disparity between home country and host country causes international migration. In this paper, the author clarifies that the disparity of gender structure between two countries may motivate women's international migration. This study focuses on women who moved to the United States from postwar Japan. The proportion of women in the Japanese people who immigrate to the United States far exceeds the national average. The characteristic of Japanese female immigrants is that there are few women who migrated to the US with their families. Many have migrated alone. In this paper, the author will analyze the interview data for the Japanese female immigrants who live in single metropolitan areas in the West Coast of the United States. The author analyzes the data of 15 women who have migrated to the United States alone, collected by the interview research held from 2011 to 2014. Many Japanese informants in the study reported resistance to gender structure in Japanese society. In any case, it is clear that "gender structure" difference between the home country and the host country becomes an important factor which cause women's international migration. As classical studies on immigration shows that economic and political gap between the home country and the host country causes international migration, this paper disclosed that the disparity of gender structure between two countries may motivate women's international migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
45. Multidimensional Aspects in Occupational Segregation: Cross-cultural Comparisons among Japan, the U.S., and two European Countries.
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Keiko Nakao, Takuya Hayashi, and Yuya Saito
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OCCUPATIONAL segregation ,JAPANESE people ,WESTERN countries ,OCCUPATIONAL prestige ,EDUCATIONAL attainment ,COUNTRIES ,DATA analysis - Abstract
In most societies it is taken for granted that there is a benefit for individuals in achieving a higher level of education. Japan is no exception. After a thorough analysis of the Japanese data, however, we found a declining trend in the correlation between the measures of educational attainment and occupational status (Nakao et al. 2016). We tried to investigate why. We looked to see whether other countries experience a similar trend. So, we analyzed the Census data from various countries. In this paper, we examine the data from mostly modernized societies from Europe and Western countries such as the United States. Conducting correspondence analysis, we discuss our findings in this paper in detail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
46. Impacts of Companies' Work-Life Balance and Personnel Policies on Gender Wage Gap in Japan.
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INCOME inequality ,WORK-life balance ,WAGE decreases ,WORK environment ,WAGE increases ,SEX discrimination in employment ,EMPLOYEE rights - Abstract
This paper examines whether certain firm policies regarding work-life balance and flexible work places increase women's wages, thereby decreasing the gender wage gap in Japan. In particular, this paper focuses on the influence of (1) firms' personnel policies that "encourage employees to fulfill their potential regardless of gender," which hereinafter is referred to as the GEO (Gender Equality of Opportunity) policy, (2) whether firms have systematic work-life balance (WLB) promotion policies in place, and (3) whether firms have work-location-restricted regular employment systems. The linked survey data between Japanese firms and their employees taken from the 2009 International Comparative Survey on Work-Life Balance conducted by the Research Institute of Economy Trade and Industry are used in the analysis. A selection bias occurs because companies' policies and measures are not randomly assigned. In this paper, the selection bias caused by firm and employee characteristics is eliminated through the use of propensity-score weighting. Furthermore, the analysis takes into account unobserved heterogeneity in company characteristics and interprets the causal relationship of the analytical results accordingly. The analytical results are as follows. (1) Compared with situations in which the GEO policy is not in place, women's wages increase and the gender wage gap decreases in cases in which it is in place. (2) The effects of the presence of both the WLB promotion policy and work-locationrestricted regular employment systems depend on the presence of the GEO policy. When the GEO policy is in place, the effects of both increase women's wages and decrease the gender wage gap over and beyond the effects of the GEO policy. (3) When the GEO policy is not in place, the presence of work-location-restricted regular employment systems has no significant effect on the gender wage gap, whereas the presence of the WLB promotion policy actually increases the gender wage gap. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
47. CAN GIRLS BECOME WHAT THEY WANT? OCCUPATIONAL GENDER SEGREGATION, VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, AND SCHOOL MEDIATED JOB-SEARCH SYSTEMS.
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Yukiko Furuya
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OCCUPATIONAL segregation ,VOCATIONAL education ,WOMEN'S education ,EVENT history analysis ,COHORT analysis ,LOGISTIC regression analysis ,VOCATIONAL high schools ,CLASS differences - Abstract
Despite a great amount of research on the topics of school-to-work transition, school mediated job-search systems, and high school vocational education and training (VET) in Japan, gender differences in job outcomes are a largely missing topic in the literature. Thus, this paper examines the interlocking effects of school mediated jobsearch systems and de facto gender segregation in VET on occupational attainments among Japanese women. Descriptive statistics find that women in female-dominant occupations are more likely to be employed in permanent positions and have higher occupational prestige scores. Logistic regression analysis finds that school mediated jobsearch systems, which include either or both of school referrals or the various supports provided by in-school job placement offices increase women's likelihood to enter femaledominant occupations. Yet, women's education levels and attendance at VET programs did not have a clear effect on the odds of being employed in female-dominant occupations. Discrete-time event history analysis finds that women who used school mediated job-search systems are more likely to experience first-entry job-turnover compared to those who did not, while this difference did not occur for men. The analysis finds no generational differences among women while in the case of men, younger cohorts are more likely to experience job-turnover compared to older cohorts. Overall, the findings of this paper suggest that there is persistent gender segregation in the Japanese labor market, which negates the effects of generational, class, and education differences on women's job outcomes. Moreover, under the institutionally coordinated Japanese labor market, school mediated job-search systems, which are associated with school-employer linkages, reinforce these gendered hiring practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
48. "Good Women" or "Bad Women"?: Japanese Women Consorting with Foreign Men during the U.S. Occupation.
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Endo, Masako
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JAPANESE people ,JAPANESE women ,INTERRACIAL couples ,SEX workers ,MILITARY occupation ,GENDER role ,NATIONAL character ,DEVIANT behavior - Abstract
This paper examines the impact of interracial intimacy on the building of postwar Japanese womanhood during and after the U.S. occupation of Japan, 1945-1952. As the occupation was coming to an end, many began to envision a new image of Japan: an independent, democratic, and cultured nation reentering the international arena. In reality, however, the actual image of the nation was overtly sexualized by the presence of a large number of women consorting with U.S. servicemen. Since this image was highly inappropriate for the reborn country, there was a growing tendency to eliminate any sexualized elements from Japan. The most sexualized group was the panpan, postwar unlicensed female sex workers serving occupation soldiers. The panpan were highly visible as they showed off flashy fashion to the public and walked down the street snuggling up to foreign servicemen. Focusing on their deviant appearance and behavior, many studies of the occupation tend to treat them either as social problems or cultural emblems that uniquely symbolized the occupation. This paper, however, emphasize that that the panpan were not an isolated entity because the boundaries between panpan and "ordinary women" were often unclear during the occupation. I focus on how Japanese women, professional or nonprofessional, who consorted with foreign men were collectively stigmatized as "un-Japanese" due to their association with the foreign. Simultaneously, I argue that their stigmatized status was fluid. I highlight how some women who had relationships with foreign men were celebrated as "Japanese ambassadors to the world" as they contributed to Japan by letting the world know their "Japanese femininity." In examining the conflicting images of Japanese women consorting foreign men as "good women" and "bad women," I argue that these collectively sexualized women challenged traditional Japanese gender roles and sexual mores and negotiated womanhood which was central to national identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
49. Alternatives to sustainable seafood certifications: Transitions of small-scale fisheries governance in northeastern Japan.
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Ynacay-Nye, Alayna, Hisano, Shuji, and Suryawan, Anom Sigit
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SMALL-scale fisheries ,LOCAL knowledge ,TRADITIONAL ecological knowledge ,SEAFOOD ,FISHING villages ,FISH communities ,CERTIFICATION - Abstract
Landscape pressures in fisheries governance systems ranging from the impacts of climate change to the detrimental impacts of overfishing are beginning to pressure regime actors to act. One way regime actors have responded to fisheries issues is through the promotion of sustainable seafood certification. In this paper, we utilize the Pathway for Transitions (Geels and Schot, 2007) as a theoretical lens to examine how the sustainable seafood certification innovation represents a transformation pathway through regime actors' power. In addition, we bring light to alternative niche groups which base their governance strategies on local ecological knowledge and work to be inclusive of small-scale fishers. In many traditional fishing communities in Japan, local knowledge structures regarding social-ecological systems are crucial for sustainable governance. While some studies have been done on sustainable seafood certification, how they impact local knowledge structures has yet to be fully examined. We found, despite local knowledge structures theoretically acknowledged, powerful political-economic actors do not draw from them, but instead push for sustainable seafood certification as a way to cope with external shocks. Our research illuminates three groups which highlight important aspects of sustainable governance at the niche level, demonstrating the need to incorporate power dynamics as a factor in sustainability transitions. They include; 1) a NGO actively governing through local knowledge, 2) inclusive governance activities, and, 3) a platform for small-scale fishers' agency. If regime-level innovations, such as sustainable seafood certification, continue to determine how sustainability should be practiced, local knowledge structures will be lost to standardization. We contend that by acknowledging and utilizing local knowledge from local actors, it could contribute to a more just form of governance through equitable participation of small-scale fishers and their local ecological knowledge validated. • Popular works reflect a unilateral image fisheries, overlooking local knowledge. • In Japan, the governance structure reinforces power over sustainability discourse. • Certifications are regime-led transitions via western ecological knowledge. • Alternatives include; diversity, advocacy, and features local knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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50. Technologijų integravimas į socialinio darbo praktiką ir studijas: poreikis, iššūkiai ir galimybės.
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Petružytė, Donata, Gevorgianienė, Violeta, Charenkova, Jūratė, Seniutis, Miroslavas, Šumskienė, Eglė, Žalimienė, Laimutė, and Yamaguchi, Mai
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SOCIAL services ,SOCIAL workers ,SOCIAL integration ,GROUP identity ,VALUES (Ethics) ,RESEARCH ethics ,IMPLICIT attitudes ,PROFESSIONAL identity - Abstract
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- 2023
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