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Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

The intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) is the rising branch of the global Hadley circulation and often considered as the climatic axis of symmetry. A full-physics atmospheric general circulation model is coupled with an intermediate ocean model to investigate the effect of ITCZ’s meridional configuration on the space-time structure of climate variability. In the control experiment where the ...

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

We investigated the effects of large-scale orography on the tropical coupled atmosphere-ocean system over the Indian and Pacific Oceans in northern summer, using the Meteorological Research Institute coupled atmosphere-ocean General Circulation Model (GCM). Six different experiments were conducted with mountain heights of 100%, 80%, 60%, 40%, 20%, and 0% of the standard mountain height. The res...

Brief history of the Japan Pancreas Society.

In 1963, research on pancreatic disease gradually started to increase in Japan. Investigators in the field of pancreatic disease wanted a place to exchange their opinions, and, one night at a meeting of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterology, they formed their own group called the “Pancreas Research Study Group of Young Investigators.” In 1969, Dr. Kaneo Ishi proposed the establishment of a P...

Science, technology and society in postwar Japan

SHIGERU NAKAYAMA, Science, technology and society in postwar Japan, Japanese Studies Series, London and New York, Kegan Paul International, 1991, pp. xv, 259, £45.00 (0-7103-0428-5). Shigeru Nakayama's new book is a welcome addition to the literature available in English on Japanese science and technology. As the title suggests, the writer, a distinguished historian of science, has set himself ...

Civil Society and Japan ’ S Dysfunctional Democracy