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Kohti uutta Japania : Meiji-restauraatiota ympäröivän aikakauden 1853-1878 historiakuva Rurouni Kenshin-mangassa
2011
Tässä tutkimuksessa käsittelen japanilaisen Rurouni Kenshin –mangan tapaa käsitellä historiallisia tapahtumia ja henkilöitä, jotka liittyvät vuonna 1868 tapahtuneeseen Meiji-restauraatioon. Restauraation yhteydessä poliittinen valta palautettiin shogunilta keisarille vuosisatojen shogunaatin hallinnon jälkeen. Ajallisesti tutkimukseni käsittelee vuosia 1853–1878, aloittaen Japanin avautumisesta pitkän eristyskautensa jälkeen lopettaen vuoteen 1878. Vaikka sarjakuva ei ole perinteinen historian tutkimuslähde, sen kautta on mahdollista tutkia vallitsevia käsityksiä populaarikulttuurin välittämästä historiakuvasta. Tutkin myös, miten ja kuinka monipuolisesti Watsuki käsittelee aikakauden erila…
From Business System to Supply Chain and Production in Japan. Lean production and its roots in Japanese business culture
2009
The Japanese business environment has been studied for many years by researchers and business operators from all over the world. The Japanese culture created a business climate that is different from other industrialized economies. Gerlach defined the Japanese economy as “alliance capitalism” , an expression, which better than others, represents the relational nature of the Japanese society and business system. It is not by chance that the manufacturing and management techniques, later defined as “lean” by MIT authors, were born and raised in Japan. In this dissertation I will attempt to explain why and how these approaches are linked with the Japanese culture and the Japanese business envi…
Rasch Analysis of the Japanese Version of Teacher Efficacy for Inclusive Practices Scale: Scale Unidimensionality
2020
This study aimed to examine the construct validity of the Japanese version of the Teacher Efficacy for Inclusive Practices (TEIP) scale. The sample consisted of 250 teachers in Japan. Rasch analysis was used to examine the psychometric properties of the scale. Results did not support the 18-item Japanese version of the TEIP scale as a unidimensional scale for measuring TEIP. However, they do support the final 14-item Japanese version of the TEIP scale as a unidimensional scale for measuring TEIP. Four items were removed from the original 18-item scale (items 12, 8, 5, and 3) for violation of the local independency assumption. No item with differential item functioning (DIF) was detected. On…
Japanese in-service teachers’ attitudes toward inclusive education and self-efficacy for inclusive practices
2017
Using a sample of 359 in-service teachers, this study examines Japanese teachers' attitudes toward inclusive education and their self-efficacy for inclusive practices. The results indicate that although teachers’ sentiments toward disabilities were generally positive, the teachers had some concerns about implementing inclusive education in their classroom. The overall level of self-efficacy was relatively low in the Japanese sample compared to that of other countries, particularly in relation to managing problematic student behavior. Self-efficacy regarding managing behavior and collaboration was related to overall attitudes toward inclusive education. The findings can enable useful insight…
STAZIONI DELL’ALTA VELOCITÁ IN GIAPPONE. TIPOLOGIA ARCHITETTONICA E URBANA DI UN MODELLO PRAGMATICO
2014
High-Speed railway stations in Japan. The architectural and urban typology of a pragmatic model. By Corinne Tiry-Ono The Japanese high-speed railway service was launched in 1964, during a time of rapid economic and demographic growth. It gave birth to a new, standardized generation of railway stations, and embodied the Tokaido Megalopolis. Originally centred on the capital city, its network now stretches across the entire country, seeking a better balance in terms of regional economic development and the revitalization of peripheral areas. Topographical constraints, natural risks and technical choices (elevated tracks, frequent tunnels, and speci! c rail gauge) led to a physically and techn…
Free trade or fair trade? Possible scenarios in the light of the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement
2021
The present work focuses on the EU-Japan Partnership Agreement, whose consolidated text was finalized on December 2017, having regard to the protection of social rights: in this regard a specific attention will be paid to the EPA chapter on trade and sustainable development and to the negotiations of the Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clause, taking into account the current EU approach as formalized in other recent trade agreements.
Yumiko Kimura, Jun Sato. Universi geometrici
2016
The catalogue is dedicated to the artistic research of Yumiko Kimura (Tokyo, 1961) and Jun Sato (Tokyo, 1947). The catalogue was made on the occasion of the exhibition "Geometric Universes", which presented a selection of works by the Japanese artist in the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento and then at the FAM gallery with the patronage of the Museum of Geometric and MADI Art in Dallas and the inclusion in the official celebrations of the 150th anniversary of relations between Japan and Italy.
Screen media and non-screen media habits among preschool children in Singapore, South Korea, Japan, and Finland: Insights from an unsupervised cluste…
2021
The main purpose of the research was to describe the daily screen media habits and non-screen media habits like indoor and outdoor play, and sleep of preschool children aged 2 to 6 years from Singapore, South Korea, Japan, and Finland using a content-validated online questionnaire (SMALLQ®) and unsupervised cluster analysis. Unsupervised cluster analysis on 5809 parent-reported weekday and weekend screen and non-screen media habits of preschool children from the four countries resulted in seven emergent clusters. Cluster 2 ( n = 1288) or the Early-screen media, screen media-lite and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity-lite family made up 22.2% and Cluster 1 ( n = 261) or the High-all-ro…
Cross-cultural analysis of teacher confirmation, student motivation, classroom emotion and emotional interest in China, Korea and Japan
2016
This study investigates the relationship between teacher confirmation and student motivation across three cultures: China, Korea, and Japan and studies how classroom emotion and emotional interest influence this relationship in three different countries. Students in China (n=718), Korea (n=362), and Japan (n=350) completed questionnaires assessing their perceived teacher confirmation, student motivation, classroom emotion and emotional interest. Results of these samples indicate that teacher confirmation is positively correlated with student motivation in Korea and Japan. There is also a significant difference in these three groups on teacher confirmation, emotional support and emotional wo…
Thinness, low-calorie diets and health: a cross-cultural study
2012
La mayoría de los estudios transculturales relacionados con cuestiones alimentarias e ima-gen corporal, establecen comparaciones entre nativos occidentales y extranjeros de otras etnias, residentes en el mismo país. A diferencia de los mismos, nos propusimos realizar una comparación parcial entre mujeres argentinas y japonesas que viven en Argentina y Japón, respectivamente, ya que partimos del supuesto de que las pautas culturales están menos contaminadas en el lugar de origen. Dado que la relación peso/altura es un buen indicador del estado nutricional y de salud de una población, y el japonés promedio tiene peso nor-mal, mientras que el argentino tiene sobrepeso, nos resultó de interés a…