Akihiko Yoshikawa's Books

The Japanese Family System

Change, Continuity, and Regionality in the Long Twentieth Century

By: Akihiko Kato

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The Japanese Family System

Change, Continuity, and Regionality in the Long Twentieth Century

By: Akihiko Kato

This book offers a new perspective and empirical evidence that are relevant for understanding changes in family structures, intergenerational relationships, and female labor force participation in the “strong family” societies and that also shed light on those in the “weak family” societies. Focusing on the stem family and the gender division of labor, presenting detailed quantitative evidence, and testing the theories on family change and gender revolution, the book provides a comprehensive examination of change, continuity, and regionality in the Japanese family system over the twentieth century. By analyzing data from a nationally representative life course survey with event history techniques, it investigates factors affecting post-marital intergenerational co-residence and proximate residence along with those influencing continuous and/or discontinuous employment of married women across the life course. In this way, it reveals the mechanisms underlying the stem family formation and those behind married women’s M-shaped employment pattern. It further explores regionality in the Japanese family system, applying a demographic mapping method to data from a nationally representative community survey and official statistics. The mapping analyses demonstrate persistent geographical contrasts between two types of living arrangements (single-household versus multi-household) in the stem family accompanied by two types of maternal employment (full-time versus part-time). They also reveal a historical correlation between traditional communal parenting systems and modern childcare services, linking past to present from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century.

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122

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Springer Nature

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9811621136

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9789811621130

Ryokan

Japan's Finest Spas and Inns

By: Akihiko Seki,Elizabeth Heilman Brooke

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Ryokan

Japan's Finest Spas and Inns

By: Akihiko Seki,Elizabeth Heilman Brooke

With over 180 color photographs and extensive commentary, this book showcases the beauty of Japanese inn, or ryokan. Featured are both old and new-from inns with a history dating back a thousand years to modern inns with the latest facilities that nonetheless capture the spirit of old Japan. Each of the properties has been handpicked by the authors for their strong design aesthetic, commitment to service and purity of their spring waters. The photographs showcase the resorts at their best and accurately express the unique architectural design of each ryokan. Each chapter begins by introducing the area surrounding the inns and their spas, or onsen, and provides a background of its local history, culture and traditions, as well as the natural environment. The text provides information on the design and development of each ryokan, and descriptions of the owners and their clientele. For those planning a visit to an onsen, this book provides contact details and information on the number of rooms, type of facilities and food, as well as vital information on travel and booking procedures and whether English is spoken. For those fascinated by Japanese culture and design, this book is an absolute delight.

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216

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Tuttle Publishing

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1462908330

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9781462908332

Japan on the Jesuit Stage

Transmissions, Receptions, and Regional Contexts

By: Haruka Oba,Akihiko Watanabe,Florian Schaffenrath

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Japan on the Jesuit Stage

Transmissions, Receptions, and Regional Contexts

By: Haruka Oba,Akihiko Watanabe,Florian Schaffenrath

Japan on the Jesuit Stage offers a comprehensive overview of the representations of Japan in early modern European Neo-Latin school theater. The chapters in the volume catalog and analyze representative plays which were produced in the hundreds all over Europe, from the Iberian Peninsula to present-day Croatia and Poland. Taking full account of existing scholarship, but also introducing a large amount of previously unknown primary material, the contributions by European and Japanese researchers significantly expand the horizon of investigation on early modern European theatrical reception of East Asian elements and will be of particular interest to students of global history, Neo-Latin, and theater studies.

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350

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BRILL

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900444890X

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9789004448902

Accelerating Japan's Economic Growth

Resolving Japan's Growth Controversy

By: F. Gerard Adams,Lawrence R. Klein,Kumasaka Yuzo,Shinozaki Akihiko

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Accelerating Japan's Economic Growth

Resolving Japan's Growth Controversy

By: F. Gerard Adams,Lawrence R. Klein,Kumasaka Yuzo,Shinozaki Akihiko

This volume presents an up-to-date study of the current state and future of Japanese economic growth, arguing that an information and communications technology revolution could revive Japanese economic growth.

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203

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Routledge

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1134081170

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9781134081172

Grid Computing in Life Sciences

LSGRID2005, the Second International Life Science Grid Workshop, Biopolis, Singapore, 5-6 May 2005

By: Tin Wee Tan,Peter Arzberger,Akihiko Konagaya

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Grid Computing in Life Sciences

LSGRID2005, the Second International Life Science Grid Workshop, Biopolis, Singapore, 5-6 May 2005

By: Tin Wee Tan,Peter Arzberger,Akihiko Konagaya

This is the second volume in the series of proceedings from the International Workshop on Life Science Grid. It represents the few, if not the only, dedicated proceedings volumes that gathers together the presentations of leaders in the emerging sub-discipline of grid computing for the life sciences. The volume covers the latest developments, trends and trajectories in life science grid computing from top names in bioinformatics and computational biology: A Konagaya; J C Wooley of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and DoE thought leader in supercomputing and life science computing, and one of the key people in the NSF CIBIO initiative; P Arzberger of PRAGMA fame; and R Sinnott of UK e-Science. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: The Grid as a ba for Biomedical Knowledge Creation (155 KB). Contents: The Grid as a OC BaOCO for Biomedical Knowledge Creation (A Konagaya); Cyberinfrastructure for the Biological Sciences (CIBIO) (J C Wooley); Controlling the Chaos: Developing Post-Genomic Grid Infrastructures (R Sinnott & M Bayer); A Framework for Biological Analysis on the Grid (T Okumura et al.); An Architectural Design of Open Genome Services (R Umetsu et al.); Proteome Analysis Using iGAP in Gfarm (W W Li et al.); Large-Scale Simulation and Prediction of HLA-Epitope Complex Structures (A E H Png et al.); Process Integration for Bio-Manufacturing Grid (Z Q Shen et al.); and other papers. Readership: Practitioners of grid computing as applied to the life sciences, life scientists and biologists working on large computational solutions that require grid computing.

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246

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World Scientific

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9812772502

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9789812772503

Economy and Disability

A Game Theoretic Approach

By: Akihiko Matsui

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Economy and Disability

A Game Theoretic Approach

By: Akihiko Matsui

Society has developed so that it accommodates the needs of intertwined people, but a question arises as to which people have been accommodated. Has everyone been taken care of in an equal manner? If not, who has fallen into the gap between the institutions that are supposed to accommodate them? This book is a study of these issues of economy and disability using game theory, which has provided a means of analyzing various social phenomena. Part I provides actual cases related to economy and disability, with the stories based on interviews by the author. Part II is geared toward a game theoretic analysis. This book explains disability-related issues by game theory and innovates that theory by deeply contemplating the issues. It is not common that first-rate theorists manage to make their research relevant and applicable to the most pressing problems our society faces these days. This is the remarkable achievement of this book. Akihiko Matsui, an internationally recognized leader in economic theory, succeeds in bringing profound game theoretical insights to the questions of disability, the social norms relating to it, and the ethical and economic problems they raise. The book is a tour de force, brilliantly combining economic and sociology, mathematics and philosophy, to provide us a fresh look at the way we run modern societies. Itzahk Gilboa, Professor, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel-Aviv University and Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences, HEC, Paris The present world faces a broad range of societal problems such as discrimination against minorities and conflicts between groups. The market mechanism may solve some of these dilemmas, but many others remain. This book targets various societal problems and provides game theoretical approaches to them, stressing the importance of social institutions including the market system and individual interactive attitudes to society. Aki Matsui’s splendid Economy and Disability is indispensable for students and scholars interested in social science, particularly in economic theory, and gives a better understanding of these phenomena and their potential cures. Mamoru Kaneko, Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University In this book, Aki Matsui is revealed to be a fully-fledged humanist in the guise of a game theoretician. He beautifully presents game-theoretical ideas while at the same time suggesting how society should relate to the disabled. This unique combination makes Economy and Disability—apart from anything else—a truly moving book. Ariel Rubinstein, Professor of Economics, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel-Aviv University and Professor of Economics, New York University

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233

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Springer Nature

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9811376239

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9789811376238

Wide Bandgap Semiconductors

Fundamental Properties and Modern Photonic and Electronic Devices

By: Kiyoshi Takahashi,Akihiko Yoshikawa,Adarsh Sandhu

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Wide Bandgap Semiconductors

Fundamental Properties and Modern Photonic and Electronic Devices

By: Kiyoshi Takahashi,Akihiko Yoshikawa,Adarsh Sandhu

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the development, current state, and future prospects of wide bandgap semiconductor materials and related optoelectronics devices. With 901 references, 333 figures and 21 tables, this book will serve as a one-stop source of knowledge on wide bandgap semiconductors and related optoelectronics devices.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540472355

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9783540472353

Book's by Akihiko Yoshikawa

The Japanese Family System

The Japanese Family System

Ryokan

Ryokan

Japan on the Jesuit Stage

Japan on the Jesuit Stage

Accelerating Japan's Economic Growth

Accelerating Japan's Economic Growth

Grid Computing in Life Sciences

Grid Computing in Life Sciences

Economy and Disability

Economy and Disability

Wide Bandgap Semiconductors

Wide Bandgap Semiconductors

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