The polymorphisms in the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region are powerful tool for studying human evolutionary processes. We investigated genetic structure of Japanese by using five-locus HLA genotypes (HLA-A, -B, -C, -DRB1, and -DPB1) of 2,005 individuals from 10 regions of Japan. We found a significant level of population substructure in Japanese; particularly the differentiation between Oki...

Any machine translation system requires a transfer dictionary between the source and target languages. Typically, since the construction of such a dictionary is done by hand, a lot of time is taken and the cost is enormous. Considering this, we attempted the construction of a bilingual dictionary through the re-generation of already-existing language resources. Aiming at the generation of a Kor...

Korean has a three-way laryngeal contrast in oral stops. This paper reports perception patterns of plosives of Japanese, French, English and Chinese by Korean speakers. In Korean loanwords, laryngeal contrasts of Japanese, French, and English plosives show distinct patterns. To test whether perception explains the loanword patterns, we selected languages with different acoustic properties and c...

The purpose of the present study is to examine whether native speakers of Kyungsang Korean are sensitive to pitch variation in vowels after Japanese voiced and voiceless plosives, given the tonogenesis account that the tone difference -H and L in vowels after aspirated and fortis consonants and after lenis ones, respectivelyis lexically specified word-initially in Korean [6]. In order to invest...

Collocations in Japanese and Korean have been studied extensively based on statistical tools. The criteria for collocations in these languages, however, have not been fully established in the literature, and it is not obvious whether all statistically significant combinations of words could be regarded as collocations. In this article, we point out empirical problems in extracting collocations ...

This paper presents the results of comparative research between the Japanese and Korean automobile industries on the result of quality management and the improvement. Japanese vehicles have been seen as reliable, low maintenance, and good quality cars. Japanese manufacturers developed several important quality management purposes and unique vernacular standards. Meanwhile, though the Korean aut...

l. Introduction In 1984 Fujitsu marketed the automatic machine translation systems, ATLAS-I and ATLAS II. ATLAS-I was the world's first commercial Eng1ish-Japanese translation system. Fujitsu is also conducting a joint project on research and development of a Japanese-Korean machine translation system in cooperation with Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. ATLAS II aims at achi...