Democratic leaders around the world are finding it increasingly difficult to exercise strong leadership and maintain public support. However, there is nowhere that this has proven to be as challenging of a task as Japan, which has seen its top leaders change more often over the past 25 years than any other major country in the world. The current prime minister has strived to put an end to this pattern, but can he buck this historical trend? More fundamentally, why do Japan's prime ministers find it so difficult to project strong leadership, or even stay in office? And what are the ramifications for Japan's partners and for the world? This volume, authored by contributors who straddle the scholarly and policymaking worlds in Japan, explores the obstacles facing Japan as it looks for greater leadership and explains why this matters for the rest of the world.
This is a bundle of the best Harlequin comics! The vol. 118 is featuring the theme Auction Love vol.4vol.4. It contains This bundle offers "HERS FOR A NIGHT","The Tycoon's Lady", and "Paying the Playboy's Price".
Natsuaki-kun is an aloof and handsome boy, but he’s also a bit of an airhead! He has a thing for his classmate, Nashida-san, but she’s even more of an airhead than him and also as dense as a brick! The two of them ended up serving together on the school festival committee. Will Natsuaki-kun’s (admittedly very confusing) attempts to convey his feelings to Nashida-san finally succeed!?
Natsuaki-kun wants to confess his feelings to his classmate Nashida-san, who is rather dense. Despite his best efforts, he still misses the mark somehow, so he just can't get his feelings across! However, after many trials and tribulations, he finally succeeds with his confession! Nashida-san also reciprocates his feelings. Even after this successful confession, his love for her just keeps growing, and he just can't help but want to confess to her all over again!? Morikawa-san, the girl who's been rooting for Natsuaki-kun all this time, also gets her chance to confess her love.?
Natsuaki-kun wants to confess his feelings to his classmate Nashida-san, who is rather dense. Despite his best efforts, he still misses the mark somehow, so he just can't get his feelings across! Natsuaki-kun is chosen to be a participant in the men's beauty contest during the school festival. Nashida-san also comes to watch the event, but is hit on by some visitors! Noticing that she is in trouble, Natsuaki-kun jumps down from the stage and comes to her rescue like a dashing prince!? Surely, even the dense Nashida-san will finally realize how he feels about her…or will she?!
When East Asia opened itself to the world in the nineteenth century, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean intellectuals had shared notions of literature because of the centuries-long cultural exchanges in the region. As modernization profoundly destabilized cultural norms, they ventured to create new literature for the new era. Satoru Hashimoto offers a novel way of understanding the origins of modern literature in a transregional context, drawing on Chinese-, Japanese-, and Korean-language texts in both classical and vernacular forms. He argues that modern literature came into being in East Asia through writerly attempts at reconstructing the present’s historical relationship to the past across the cultural transformations caused by modernization. Hashimoto examines writers’ anachronistic engagement with past cultures deemed obsolete or antithetical to new systems of values, showing that this transnational process was integral to the emergence of modern literature. A groundbreaking cross-cultural excavation of the origins of modern literature in East Asia featuring remarkable linguistic scope, Afterlives of Letters bridges Asian studies and comparative literature and delivers a remapping of world literature.
In Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, Satoru Saito sheds light on the deep structural and conceptual similarities between detective fiction and the novel in prewar Japan. Arguing that the interactions between the two genres were not marginal occurrences but instead critical moments of literary engagement, Saito demonstrates how detective fiction provided Japanese authors with the necessary frameworks through which to examine and critique the nature and implications of Japan’s literary formations and its modernizing society. Through a series of close readings of literary texts by canonical writers of Japanese literature and detective fiction, including Tsubouchi Shoyo, Natsume Soseki, Shimazaki Toson, Sato Haruo, Kuroiwa Ruiko, and Edogawa Ranpo, Saito explores how the detective story functioned to mediate the tenuous relationships between literature and society as well as between subject and authority that made literary texts significant as political acts. By foregrounding the often implicit and contradictory strategies of literary texts—choice of narrative forms, symbolic mappings, and intertextual evocations among others—this study examines in detail the intricate interactions between detective fiction and the novel that shaped the development of modern Japanese literature.
This is a bundle of the best Harlequin comics! The vol. 118 is featuring the theme Auction Love vol.4vol.4. It contains This bundle offers "HERS FOR A NIGHT","The Tycoon's Lady", and "Paying the Playboy's Price".
Democratic leaders around the world are finding it increasingly difficult to exercise strong leadership and maintain public support. However, there is nowhere that this has proven to be as challenging of a task as Japan, which has seen its top leaders change more often over the past 25 years than any other major country in the world. The current prime minister has strived to put an end to this pattern, but can he buck this historical trend? More fundamentally, why do Japan's prime ministers find it so difficult to project strong leadership, or even stay in office? And what are the ramifications for Japan's partners and for the world? This volume, authored by contributors who straddle the scholarly and policymaking worlds in Japan, explores the obstacles facing Japan as it looks for greater leadership and explains why this matters for the rest of the world.
Proceedings of the 7th Annual International Workshop on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (IBSB 2007), Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Japan, 31 July-2 August 2007
Proceedings of the 7th Annual International Workshop on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (IBSB 2007), Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Japan, 31 July-2 August 2007
This volume contains 31 peer-reviewed papers based on the presentations at the 7th International Annual Workshop on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (IBSB 2007) held at the Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo from July 31 to August 2, 2007. This workshop started in 2001 as an event for doctoral students and young researchers to present and discuss their research results and approaches in bioinformatics and systems biology.
This book aims to clarify the global aspects of poor quality pharmaceuticals, generic products in particular, becoming complicated through the process of IMPACT (International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce) organized by the initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2006. The findings from this book provide a long-term perspective to policymakers. This book discusses from the following points: industrial standardization, healthcare market accessibility, motivation on supply side, WHO medicines policy and intellectual property rights. Standardization regulates the quality and enabled the generic medicines spreading to developing/emerging countries through technology transfer. However, quality is a part of cost and reflected to price. When a healthcare service market is divided according to wealth gap, compliance to standardization for quality on supply side is divided accordingly. Thus, poor quality pharmaceuticals are prevalent worldwide. Generic pharmaceuticals are essential resources in public health. The WHO has been involved in the dispute around the intellectual property rights under its intention to promote the new drug development for neglected diseases. Global pandemic of AIDs is a critical factor to accelerate the confusion. This created feelings of distrust among developing/emerging countries against developed countries if the WHO was in favour of developed countries. In addition to that, an easy and optimistic start of IMPACT stirred up conflicts of interests in the international community. The problem of poor quality pharmaceuticals became more complicated through the conflicts on intellectual property rights; patented drugs to generic drugs. A key for quality generic products is the formation of a single healthcare service market where good motivation on supply side together with fair competitiveness with patented pharmaceuticals and equitable access to services (both for the rich and the poor) are ensured. Political commitment to investment and regulatory infrastructure for the market is crucial.
Natsuaki-kun wants to confess his feelings to his classmate Nashida-san, who is rather dense. Despite his best efforts, he still misses the mark somehow, so he just can't get his feelings across! Natsuaki-kun is chosen to be a participant in the men's beauty contest during the school festival. Nashida-san also comes to watch the event, but is hit on by some visitors! Noticing that she is in trouble, Natsuaki-kun jumps down from the stage and comes to her rescue like a dashing prince!? Surely, even the dense Nashida-san will finally realize how he feels about her…or will she?!
Natsuaki-kun is an aloof and handsome boy, but he’s also a bit of an airhead! He has a thing for his classmate, Nashida-san, but she’s even more of an airhead than him and also as dense as a brick! The two of them ended up serving together on the school festival committee. Will Natsuaki-kun’s (admittedly very confusing) attempts to convey his feelings to Nashida-san finally succeed!?
Natsuaki-kun wants to confess his feelings to his classmate Nashida-san, who is rather dense. Despite his best efforts, he still misses the mark somehow, so he just can't get his feelings across! However, after many trials and tribulations, he finally succeeds with his confession! Nashida-san also reciprocates his feelings. Even after this successful confession, his love for her just keeps growing, and he just can't help but want to confess to her all over again!? Morikawa-san, the girl who's been rooting for Natsuaki-kun all this time, also gets her chance to confess her love.?
Satoru Iwata was the global president and CEO of Nintendo and a gifted programmer who played a key role in the creation of many of the world’s best-known games. He led the production of innovative platforms such as the Nintendo DS and the Wii, and laid the groundwork for the development of the wildly successful Pokémon Go game and the Nintendo Switch. Known for his analytical and imaginative mind, but even more for his humility and people-first approach to leadership, Satoru Iwata was beloved by game fans and developers worldwide. In this motivational collection, Satoru Iwata addresses diverse subjects such as locating bottlenecks, how success breeds resistance to change, and why programmers should never say no. Drawn from the “Iwata Asks” series of interviews with key contributors to Nintendo games and hardware, and featuring conversations with renowned Mario franchise creator Shigeru Miyamoto and creator of EarthBound Shigesato Itoi, Ask Iwata offers game fans and business leaders an insight into the leadership, development, and design philosophies of one of the most beloved figures in gaming history. -- VIZ Media
A lucid account of the fundamental physics of all types of microclusters, outlining the dynamics and static properties of this new phase of matter between a solid and a molecule. Since the book's first publication, the field of microclusters has experienced surprising developments, which are reviewed in this new edition: The determination of atomic structure, spontaneous alloying, super-shell, fission, fragmentation, evaporation, magnetism, fullerenes, nanotubes, atomic structure of large silicon clusters, superfluidity of a He cluster, water clusters in liquid, electron correlation and optimizsation of the geometry, and scattering.
The Sorcerer Hunters think Carrot is shaken by the fact that he is the reincarnation of the God of Destruction. While this might be an existentialist crisis for most of us, Carrot is only worried about what it might do for his chances of getting babes. Meanwhile, Jingo Row used to be a kind Magic Carpenter who would care for the Parsoners, but now he's building a giant Labyrinth for an evil Sorcerer. Now it's up to the Sorcerer Hunters to investigate why Jingo has started working for their sworn enemy. Along the way, Carrot meets Crepe, Jingo's charming granddaughter. The strange thing about their meeting is that Crepe had supposedly died many years ago.
On a world with no women, the surviving men have reinvented females in the form of androids called Marionettes. Normal Marionettes are built to serve men and are limited in their actions and emotions until a poor boy named Otaru Mamiya finds a special Saber Marionette named Lime. With war close at hand and two more Saber Marionettes at his side, his life takes a turn for the better as he unlocks the emotions that may hold the key to the salvation of mankind.
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