INTRODUCTION Since the collapse of the bubble economy in the early 1990’s, Japan’s industrial society experienced a drastic increase in individual employment disputes. At the same time, union management disputes have been clearly on the decline since the 1980’s. To cope with such a structural change of labor disputes, it was necessary to restructure the labor dispute resolution system, which wa...

The British colonization of New Zealand after 1840 was marked by an unusual concern compared to other settler colonies for incorporating the indigenous population Māori population into the new society. But despite a continuing political rhetoric of protection and sovereignty Māori have historically had lower living standards and, since the 1920s, higher rates of incarceration than European-desc...

The harmful effects of sexual abuse are long lasting. Sexual abuse when associated with violence is likely to impact negatively on the life of the victim. Anecdotal reports indicate that there was an increase in the number of cases of sexual violence following the 2007 post election conflict and violence in Kenya. Although such increases in sexual abuse are common during war or conflict periods...

Hungary’s national and ethnic minorities is that, having lived within the framework of the Hungarian state for centuries, they profess a dual identity: their consciousness of being Hungarian is as strong as their nationality ties. Most left their original homeland and communities before the formation of a structured literary language, and as a consequence the languages and dialects they use to ...

Through its Food Security Project, the Directorate of Agricultural Economics of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries maintains two publication series for results of research on food security issues. Publications under the Flash series are short (3-4 pages), carefully focused reports designed to provide timely research results on issues of great interest. Publications under the Research Pap...

SUMMARY Two Fortran computer programs are described, one for the analysis of longitudinal responses of aircraft, and one for the analysis of lateral responses in the presence of small longitudinal motion. The aerodynamic derivatives which affect the responses are determined by a Newton-Raphson technique to obtain iteratively the best least-squares fit to the observed data. A description is give...

Consul Sugihara Chiune and the Polish Jews in Kaunas, Lithuania 1939–1940The main subject of this article is life career Chiune, viewed context fate European during their stay Lithuanian capital, while they were escaping from Nazi-occupied Europe 1939 1940. The author investigates how Japanese consul helped them obtain visas thus saved lives. She also deals with his private professional life, i...