Browsing by Subject "Japan"
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A nationwide survey of intravenous antimicrobial use in intensive care units in Japan.
(International journal of antimicrobial agents, 2018-04)Although most patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) receive antibiotics, little is known about patterns of antibiotic use in ICUs in Japan. The objective of this study was to evaluate the pattern of antibiotic use in ... -
Automated graves: The precarity and prosthetics of caring for the dead in Japan
(International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2021-07-01)Once dependent on family to bury and memorialize the dead, caring for the deceased has become increasingly precarious in the wake of a decreasing and aging population, a trend towards single households, and downsizing of ... -
Ballistic Missile Defense in Japan: Process-Tracing a Historical Trajectory
(2014-12-17)Why did Japan deploy ballistic missile defense when and how it did? The prevailing view characterizes Japan’s BMD decision as a response to North Korea’s 1998 Taepodong missile launch. But “Ballistic Missile Defense in Japan: ... -
Beyond the Convent Walls: The Local and Japan-wide Activities of Daihongan’s Nuns in the Early Modern Period (c. 1550–1868)
(2016)This dissertation examines the social and financial activities of Buddhist nuns to demonstrate how and why they deployed Buddhist doctrines, rituals, legends, and material culture to interact with society outside the convent. ... -
Cartoon and Massacre: Japanese Empire in China, Korea, and Taiwan
(2008-04-27)This paper examines the controversial legacy of the Japanese empire in East Asia using cartoons from Tokyo Puck and articles from The Japan Times and Mail to trace and analyze the development of Japanese imperialism in ... -
Cross-cultural variability of component processes in autobiographical remembering: Japan, Turkey, and the USA.
(Memory, 2007-07)Although the underlying mechanics of autobiographical memory may be identical across cultures, the processing of information differs. Undergraduates from Japan, Turkey, and the USA rated 30 autobiographical memories on 15 ... -
Cross-national comparison of sex differences in health and mortality in Denmark, Japan and the US.
(Eur J Epidemiol, 2010-07)The present study aims to compare the direction and magnitude of sex differences in mortality and major health dimensions across Denmark, Japan and the US. The Human Mortality Database was used to examine sex differences ... -
Denying Difference: Japanese Identity and the Myth of Monoethnic Japan
(2015-07-09)In this thesis, I tackle the notion of identity within the very specific sociocultural space of Japan. I critique the conception of Japanese identity as it has emerged in concert with the West through the 19th and 20th centuries. ... -
Endless Question: Youth Becomings and the Anti-Crisis of Kids in Global Japan
(2014)Young people in Japan contend with shifting understandings of family and friends, insecure jobs, and changing frames around global and national identities. The category of youth itself is unsettled amid a long period of ... -
Fierce Practice, Courageous Spirit, and Spiritual Cultivation: The Rise of Lay Rinzai Zen in Modern Japan
(2020)In this dissertation, I examine the development of lay Rinzai Zen in modern Japan, a transformation that entailed a large-scale opening of Zen practices to non-clerics and eventually contributed to Zen’s worldwide spread. ... -
Filling the Emptiness of a Stunned Inner Silence: Survivors' Memoirs of Japanese Internment Camps in Indonesia during World War II
(2010-05-21)War stories are so often reported with the number of victims. Statistics break down the logistics into birthplace, military versus nonmilitary, or even men versus women. With constant exposure, readers are numb ... -
Hospital mortality of patients aged 80 and older after surgical repair for type A acute aortic dissection in Japan.
(Medicine, 2016-08)To evaluate whether patients aged 80 and older have higher risk of hospital mortality after repair of type A acute aortic dissection (TAAAD).Emergency surgery for TAAAD in patients aged 80 and older remains a controversial ... -
Imperial Splenda: Globalization, Culture, and Type 2 Diabetes in the U.S. and Japan
(2011)Globalization scholars have disagreed about the effects of globalization on the production and reproduction of difference: Do fundamental differences endure, do cultures converge, or is there hybridization? This dissertation ... -
Melancholy Sites: The Affective Politics of Marginality in Post-Anpo Japan (1960-1970)
(2011)This dissertation examines the intersection of experimental art, literature, performance, photography, and architecture, as Japanese artists and intellectuals grappled with political disillusionment after the end of the ... -
Population-based biobank participants' preferences for receiving genetic test results.
(Journal of human genetics, 2017-12)There are ongoing debates on issues relating to returning individual research results (IRRs) and incidental findings (IFs) generated by genetic research in population-based biobanks. To understand how to appropriately return ... -
The Politics of Imagination: Virtual Regulation and the Ethics of Affect in Japan
(2017)In the past decade, responding to the scourge of child pornography, countries around the world have passed legislation that erases the distinction between actual and virtual forms. One result is that comics, cartoons and ... -
Utopia/Dystopia: Japan's Image of the Manchurian Ideal
(2012)This project focuses on the visual culture that emerged from Japan's relationship with Manchuria during the Manchukuo period (1932-1945). It was during this time that Japanese official and popular interest in the region ... -
Validity of low-intensity continuous renal replacement therapy*.
(Critical care medicine, 2013-11)OBJECTIVE: To study the hospital mortality of patients with severe acute kidney injury treated with low-intensity continuous renal replacement therapy. DESIGN: Multicenter retrospective observational study (Japanese Society ... -
Zainichi: How Violence and Naming Determine A Consciousness
(2015-05-05)The purpose of this research paper is to identify how the post-colonial Koreans (also known as zainichi) who remained in Japan after World War II form their identity. The challenge within this question lies in the fact that ...
