Local history’s Post-war boom in Japan has produced a tremendous volume of publications, hundreds of volumes that provide materials for Japanese historians of all stripes, local sophisticated amateurs and professional university historians alike. As Gary Allinson noted years ago, these materials also provide a rich trove of materials for scholars outside of Japan: the best include not only surv...

Three species of crabs new to Penghu County, Taiwan are reported. Nanhaipotamon formosanum (Parisi, 1916) was found on the bank of a river in Husi Village and is the first report of a true freshwater crab from Penghu. In the same locality, Eriocheir japonica De Haan, 1835 lives in a river which implies Penghu may have played a role as a "stepping stone" for this species during the dispersal bet...

The rural citizens’ political participation case of Xiaohe Village in Dezhou City of Shangdong Province indicates that in the underdeveloped rural regions of Chinese eastern provinces, rural citizens’ political participation has the characters such as the participation enthusiasm and organization degree are lower, the political participation degree and level are lower, and the probability of th...

and Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Medical Research, and Department of Surgery, E-Da Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Received: June 24, 2015 Accepted: March 16, 2016 Address reprint request and correspondence to: Ying-Hsien Kao, Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Medical Research, and Po-Huang Lee, Department of Surgery, E-Da Hospital, No. 1, ...

Message from John F. Powers John F. Powers, president of th« Civil Service Employees Association, has Issued the following statement: "As we enter the isolemn yet happy sea£K>n of Yuletide, I extend greetings and best wishes to all employees of New York State, and of every county, city, town, village and district. To the Governor, to all his elected and appointed aides; to th« public officials ...

The present work has been carried out because nobody has done the hydrological properties assessment of the water of this Sawangi Nullah Dam, and to create the knowledge about the quality and potability of the water in the village people. This dam is situated near Hingna M.I.D.C. about 34 Kms from Nagpur city. The water samples were collected for a period of 12 months from June 2009 to May 2010...

Improved communications and the Internet make it possible for many people to work just as effectively from a cottage in a village as in a city office, for example, while cheaper transport and increased leisure time make it easier for farms to expand into non-farming activities. As a result, governments have moved away from a defensive attitude to rural policy, essentially focussed on trying to ...

This study reveals the characteristics of urbanisation in China, which has started as a comprehensive socio-economic plan since 2014. It examines the ongoing urbanisation process from the perspectives of history, the size of city, village urbanisation and costs and benefits of the settlement of rural migrants in cities. The study argues that urbanisation in China is characterised by not only ‘s...

Received: December 6, 2012 Accepted for publication: January 4, 2012 From the Department of Emergency Medicine, Tainan Municipal Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan Department of Surgery, Intensive Care Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center, Liouying, Tainan, Taiwan Department of Nursing, Min-Hwei College of Health Care Management, Tainan, Taiwan Address reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Chien-Ming Chao...