In this article, autobiographies of three English mother tongue learners of Japanese living in Japan are presented, then analysed and discussed from the point of view of affective and social factors involved in their independent learning of Japanese. Feelings and actual phenomena of disempowerment and marginalization are particularly focused on, together with accompanying avoidance and resistan...

This paper analyzes FDI and exchange rate nexus in the context of Japanese direct investment in China. Using the data of Japanese direct investment in China’s nine manufacturing sectors from 1981 to 2001, the paper found that, there exists a significantly positive correlation between the bilateral real exchange rate of yen to yuan and Japanese direct investment in China. Specifically, the appre...

The direction of gaze automatically and exogenously guides visual spatial attention, a phenomenon termed as the gaze-cueing effect. Although this effect arises when the duration of stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) between a non-predictive gaze cue and the target is relatively long, no empirical research has examined the factors underlying this extended cueing effect. Two experiments compared the...

The study examined the relationships between out-group perception, perceived intergroup conflict, emotions, and concern for out-group victims in the context of the Japanese earthquake of 2011. Six hundred and eighty-six participants in China completed a questionnaire immediately after the earthquake. Results showed that the image of Japan and historical conflicts between the two nations signifi...

Despite the urgent need to develop professional ethics regarding information behaviour, several obstacles exist in Japan. The greatest is the lack of individuals’ ethics of responsibility. To overcome this difficulty, we must examine and reflect on the historical circumstances that led to the formation of Japanese core ethics and on the sociocultural context that compensates for the lack of ind...

This article analyses changes in the provision of Japanese occupational pensions since the early 2000s. It shows how Japanese companies have followed strategies of cost and risk reduction by creating multi-layered benefit systems that offer a combination of defined benefit and defined contribution plans whose benefits are becoming increasingly performance-oriented. Analyzing the reasons behind ...

This dissertation develops a grammar of phonetic implementation of phonologically significant F0 (pitch) events, which is applicable across languages. Through production studies of various languages, we show that phonetic universals exist which govern phonetic realization of the phonological representations of tones. In the previous literature, there have been two conflicting views concerning t...

This paper proposes an improved context-aware language supported system for learning Japanese mimetic words and onomatopoeia (MIO) using wireless sensor network “MOTE”. In our previous work, a learner wears sensors so that the system provides the appropriate MIO expressions at his/her place. In this current system called JAMIOLAS (Supporting Japanese Mimetic words and Onomatopoeia Learning with...

mosquito borne infectious diseases are among important group of diseases worldwide. vaccination is available for some tropical mosquito-borne diseases, especially for japa-nese encephalitis virus infection and yellow fever. there are also several attempts to develop new vaccines for the other mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue infection and west nile virus infection. in this articl...

Japanese encephalitis (JE) is a serious arboviral disease caused by a virus of the genus Flavivirus. Japanese encephalitis is the most common vaccine-preventable virus causing encephalitis in Asia, affecting more than 50,000 persons and leading to 15,000 fatalities per year in endemic countries. For most travelers to Asia, the risk of Japanese encephalitis infection is extremely low and depends...