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Megaquake

How Japan and the World Should Respond

by TETSUO TAKASHIMA ...

Translated by ROBERT D. ELDRIDGE ...

In March 2011 a magnitude 9 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of northern Japan, triggering a massive tsunami and damaging a nearby nuclear reactor. Nearly twenty thousand people were killed or went missing, and many areas have yet to rebuild. Megaquake: How Japan and the World Should Respond, by the prolific and award-winning writer Tetsuo Takashima five years before this disaster, appears ... Read more

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In March 2011 a magnitude 9 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of northern Japan, triggering a massive tsunami and damaging a nearby nuclear reactor. Nearly twenty thousand people were killed or went missing, and many areas have yet to rebuild. Megaquake: How Japan and the World Should Respond, by the prolific and award-winning writer Tetsuo Takashima five years before this disaster, appears
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Birth of the Shinkansen

The Origin Story of the World-First Bullet Train

by Tetsuo Shimomae ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book discusses the Shinkansen, the world's first high-speed railway, which was born in Japan in 1964 and how it has developed up to the present day. In the 1950s, some European railways were trying to increase the commercial operating speed up to 160 km/h, and it was considered difficult to raise it to 200 km/h. Japanese engineers with excellent engineering ability post World War ll moved ... Read more

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This book discusses the Shinkansen, the world's first high-speed railway, which was born in Japan in 1964 and how it has developed up to the present day. In the 1950s, some European railways were trying to increase the commercial operating speed up to 160 km/h, and it was considered difficult to raise it to 200 km/h. Japanese engineers with excellent engineering ability post World War ll moved
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Japan

The Intellectual Foundations of Modern Japanese Politics

by Tetsuo Najita ...

Historians have long been aware of the richness and complexity of the intellectual history of modern Japanese politics. Najita's study, however, is the first in a Western language to present a consistent and broad synthesis of this subject. Najita elucidates the political dynamics of the past two hundred years of Japanese history by focusing on the interplay of restorationism and bureaucratism ... Read more

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Historians have long been aware of the richness and complexity of the intellectual history of modern Japanese politics. Najita's study, however, is the first in a Western language to present a consistent and broad synthesis of this subject. Najita elucidates the political dynamics of the past two hundred years of Japanese history by focusing on the interplay of restorationism and bureaucratism
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Human Welfare and Public Policy

by Tetsuo Ogawa ...

Social trends and public policies are deeply interconnected with individuals' quality of life, as public policies play a crucial role in expanding people’s opportunities and capabilities to pursue and realise their personal goals. It is essential to broaden the understanding of public policy both as a general concept and as a practical tool to analyse how contemporary societies and policies ... Read more

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Social trends and public policies are deeply interconnected with individuals' quality of life, as public policies play a crucial role in expanding people’s opportunities and capabilities to pursue and realise their personal goals. It is essential to broaden the understanding of public policy both as a general concept and as a practical tool to analyse how contemporary societies and policies
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Japan in the World

by Tetsuo Najita, Perry Anderson ...

Since the end of World War II, Japan has determinately remained outside the current of world events and uninvolved in the processes determining global history and politics. In Japan and the World, distinguished scholars, novelists, and intellectuals articulate how Japan—despite unprecedented economic prowess in securing dominance in the world's market—is caught in a complex dependency with the ... Read more

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Since the end of World War II, Japan has determinately remained outside the current of world events and uninvolved in the processes determining global history and politics. In Japan and the World, distinguished scholars, novelists, and intellectuals articulate how Japan—despite unprecedented economic prowess in securing dominance in the world's market—is caught in a complex dependency with the
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Public Policy

- in the Era of SDGs -

by Tetsuo Ogawa ...

This book provides an overview of public policy, but rather than describing a country's policies, it deals with explanations for each area. By doing so, basic concepts, issues related to policy effectiveness, and approaches reveal researchers' methods in describing its characteristics. In this way, the book explores how public policies and policy systems are performing sector by sector among ... Read more

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This book provides an overview of public policy, but rather than describing a country's policies, it deals with explanations for each area. By doing so, basic concepts, issues related to policy effectiveness, and approaches reveal researchers' methods in describing its characteristics. In this way, the book explores how public policies and policy systems are performing sector by sector among
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Escape to America

by Tetsuo Fukuyama ...

Thirty years ago, Tetsuo Fukuyama was working as a college music instructor and teaching piano to private students. But his depression was becoming so severe he could hardly even play a short piece on the piano, and began entertaining suicidal thoughts. After seeing medical specialists and trying massage, acupuncture, injections, and even psychic consultations, he decided to leave his homeland and ... Read more

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Thirty years ago, Tetsuo Fukuyama was working as a college music instructor and teaching piano to private students. But his depression was becoming so severe he could hardly even play a short piece on the piano, and began entertaining suicidal thoughts. After seeing medical specialists and trying massage, acupuncture, injections, and even psychic consultations, he decided to leave his homeland and
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Japanese Commons in the Coastal Seas

How the Satoumi Concept Harmonizes Human Activity in Coastal Seas with High Productivity and Diversity

by Tetsuo Yanagi ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
The author proposed the satoumi concept, analogous to the satoyama concept on land, as “coastal sea with high biodiversity and productivity in harmony with human interaction” in 1998. The concept for environmental conservation in the coastal seas has been widely accepted and was included in the Japanese national policy of “Strategy for Establishment of an Environmental Nation” in 2007. This book ... Read more

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The author proposed the satoumi concept, analogous to the satoyama concept on land, as “coastal sea with high biodiversity and productivity in harmony with human interaction” in 1998. The concept for environmental conservation in the coastal seas has been widely accepted and was included in the Japanese national policy of “Strategy for Establishment of an Environmental Nation” in 2007. This book
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Physics and Technology of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

by Tetsuo Tsutsui, Takeshi Yasuda ...

Series series Wiley Series in Display Technology
UNDERSTAND OLED DEVICE PHYSICS FROM CARRIER INJECTION TO LIGHT EMISSIONPhysics and Technology of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes presents the first textbook focused solely on OLEDs built from amorphous organic semiconductors. Two veteran researchers with decades of combined expertise detail device operation mechanisms, from carrier injection through light emission, emphasizing the structure and ... Read more

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UNDERSTAND OLED DEVICE PHYSICS FROM CARRIER INJECTION TO LIGHT EMISSIONPhysics and Technology of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes presents the first textbook focused solely on OLEDs built from amorphous organic semiconductors. Two veteran researchers with decades of combined expertise detail device operation mechanisms, from carrier injection through light emission, emphasizing the structure and
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Radiation: An Energy Carrier

by Tetsuo Tanabe ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
This book aims to explain radiation from a somewhat different aspect than its traditional image as something that is scary, dangerous, hazardous, and so on, to produce the correct understanding that radiation is carrying energy, and to convince readers that radiation is not "scary" but controllable and useful. As for radiation itself, many introductions or textbooks have been published, as in ... Read more

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This book aims to explain radiation from a somewhat different aspect than its traditional image as something that is scary, dangerous, hazardous, and so on, to produce the correct understanding that radiation is carrying energy, and to convince readers that radiation is not "scary" but controllable and useful. As for radiation itself, many introductions or textbooks have been published, as in
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Detoxification and Weight Loss

by Akin Tetsuo ...

Detoxification is something that is very important to the body, but it is something that isn't understood well.Centuries ago, health masters in the East understood the importance of balancing and detoxifying the body. It's something that Western medicine is only beginning to understand.Because detoxification is becoming so popular, it's easy to understand why there is a lot of misinformation out ... Read more

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Detoxification is something that is very important to the body, but it is something that isn't understood well.Centuries ago, health masters in the East understood the importance of balancing and detoxifying the body. It's something that Western medicine is only beginning to understand.Because detoxification is becoming so popular, it's easy to understand why there is a lot of misinformation out
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Plasma-Material Interactions in a Controlled Fusion Reactor

by Tetsuo Tanabe ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
This book is a primer on the interplay between plasma and materials in a fusion reactor, so-called plasma–materials interactions (PMIs), highlighting materials and their influence on plasma through PMI. It aims to demonstrate that a plasma-facing surface (PFS) responds actively to fusion plasma and that the clarifying nature of PFS is indispensable to understanding the influence of PFS on plasma. ... Read more

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This book is a primer on the interplay between plasma and materials in a fusion reactor, so-called plasma–materials interactions (PMIs), highlighting materials and their influence on plasma through PMI. It aims to demonstrate that a plasma-facing surface (PFS) responds actively to fusion plasma and that the clarifying nature of PFS is indispensable to understanding the influence of PFS on plasma.
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