Made in Occupied Japan

Medical 6 MeV linear accelerator made in Japan.

A 6 MeV medical linear accelerator manufactured by the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., has been installed in the Aichi Cancer Center Hospital. This is the first unit of this type made in Japan. This paper giv'es a brief description of the unit, reports the results of a series 'of tests for radiation and mechanical accuracy, and summarizes the one year history of calibration and stability. On...

"Kissing is a symbol of democracy!" Dating, democracy, and romance in occupied Japan, 1945-1952.

What has made the population of Japan healthy?

People in Japan have the longest life expectancy at birth in the world. Here, we compile the best available evidence about population health in Japan to investigate what has made the Japanese people healthy in the past 50 years. The Japanese population achieved longevity in a fairly short time through a rapid reduction in mortality rates for communicable diseases from the 1950s to the early 196...

Have US-Japan Trade Agreements Made a Difference?

The few existing empirical studies of U.S.-Japan trade agreements have relied primarily on descriptive statistics or univariate time series methods. We conduct a more powerful test by evaluating agreements in the context of well-specified econometric models. Consistent with trade theory, import demand is modeled as a cointegrating relationship with income and relative price variables, where a t...

Partly occupied Wannier functions.

We introduce a scheme for constructing partly occupied, maximally localized Wannier functions (WFs) for both molecular and periodic systems. Compared to the traditional occupied WFs the partly occupied WFs possess improved symmetry and localization properties achieved through a bonding-antibonding closing procedure. We demonstrate the equivalence between bonding-antibonding closure and the mini...