Factor decomposition of income inequality change : Japan's regional income disparity from 1955 to 1998

We propose a method for the decomposition of inequality changes based on panel data regression. The method is an efficient way to quantify the contributions of variables to changes of the Theil T index while satisfying the property of uniform addition. We illustrate the method using prefectural data from Japan for the period 1955 to 1998. Japan experienced a diminishing of regional income disparity during the years of high economic growth from 1955 to 1973. After estimating production functions using panel data for prefectures in Japan, we apply the new decomposition approach to identify each production factor’s contributions to the changes of per capita income inequality among prefectures. The decomposition results show that total factor productivity (residual) growth, population change (migration), and public capital stock growth contributed to the diminishing of per capita income disparity.

The impact of foreign firms on industrial productivity : evidence from Japan

With a newly constructed dataset on foreign firms in Japan for the period 1995-2008 from firm-level surveys, this paper estimates the impact of foreign firms on industrial productivity at the regional level. A Bayesian-model averaging approach is taken to account for model uncertainty resulting from various linkages between foreign firms and domestic industries. The results show that the foreign firms may contribute to industrial efficiency directly through their above-average productivity and indirectly through positive spillovers in intra-industry and local backward linkages. Forward linkages with foreign firms may have a negative impact on industrial productivity. However, these impacts depend on the nationality and entry mode of foreign investors. Aggregating foreign firms may mask their distinctive impacts on productivity.

Sustainable development goals and Japan -- sustainability overshadows poverty reduction

The Development Cooperation Charter of Japan, which took over the ODA (Official Development Assistance) Charter in February 2015, drives Japan's cooperation towards non-poor countries and non-poverty issues. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) put Japan forward in these directions. As a result, in Japan the focus on global poverty reduction is overshadowed by its national interests and sustainability under the concept of universality, which was a core principle of the SDGs as differentiated from the Millennium Development Goals.

The next step after Japan? (Virtual reality, training and crisis management). Transatlantic Security Paper No. 2, June 2012

The recent crisis in Japan, which combined tsunami and technological events, shows that any crisis, especially those in developed and developing countries, is from here out a hybrid crisis, mixing natural factors and human/technological (NATECH). Faced with such dramatic events, which exceed any means available for emergency rescue service, it is necessary a) to remain prudent and b) to prepare. One of the means for preparing is unquestionably training. However, here, undoubtedly there are important constraints: How to train, for example, while reproducing vividly and realistically, an event? How to exceed the admittedly useful, although very limited, level of the table-top exercise? How also to avoid the unnecessary mobilization of dozens, even hundreds, of field and operation staffers to take part in an exercise which could lead to a disappointing outcome? A major crisis, a major exercise, in effect. The solution of virtual reality has emerged, in Europe and in the United States. It is also sometimes called “serious game”.

Measurements of π±, K±, K0s, Λ and proton production in proton–carbon interactions at 31 GeV/c with the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS

Measurements of hadron production in p+C interactions at 31 GeV/c are performed using the NA61/SHINE spectrometer at the CERN SPS. The analysis is based on the full set of data collected in 2009 using a graphite target with a thickness of 4% of a nuclear interaction length. Inelastic and production cross sections as well as spectra of π±, K±, p, K0s and Λ are measured with high precision. These measurements are essential for improved calculations of the initial neutrino fluxes in the T2K long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan. A comparison of the NA61/SHINE measurements with predictions of several hadroproduction models is presented.

Analysis of radioactive manganiferous nodules from Tanokami, Japan

Characteristic black nodules have been retrieved in 1922 from the bed of the Kichijo River, that runs along the Tanakamiyama mountain in the Oni Province and ends into Lake Biwa in Japan. Their radiocativity has been studied along with that of crusts of similar nature found covering rock formations in the vicinity overlooking the stream. The high content in radium observed may be due to the high uranium content of the granite host rock typical of the Tanakamiyama formation.

The Japan Baptist annual ...

Mode of access: Internet.

The Japan Christian year book ...

Includes section "Directories and statistics".

Das Christentum in der alterdeutschen Heldendichtung.

i. Die Nibelungen -- ii. Die Klage -- iii. Kudrun -- iv. Alpharts Tod.

The works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Ezekiel Hopkins...now first collected.

I. Account of former editions of Bishop Hopkins's works. Account of the present edition. Life of Bishop Hopkins. Critical remarks on the author's writings. The Vanity of the world. A practical exposition on the Lord's prayer. A catechistical exposition on the Lord's prayer. Exposition on the Ten commandments.--II. Discourses on the law. Discourses concerning sin. The doctrine of the two covenants. The doctrine of the two sacraments. The nature and necessity of regeneration.--III. The all-sufficiency of Christ to save sinners. The excellency of heavenly treasures. Practical Christianity, in working out our own salvation. The assurance of heaven and salvation, a powerful motive to serve God with fear. On glorifying God in His attributes. The almost-Christian discovered. On the nature, corruption, and renewing of the conscience. The great duty of mortification.--IV. Death disarmed of its sting; from several considerations. Miscellaneous sermons. Index of texts illustrated.

The conservative principle in our literature : an address before the literary societies of the Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution, Madison County, N.Y. /

Mode of access: Internet.

The evidences of Christianity.

v.1. A preliminary discourse on the evidences of Christianity, by Archibald Alexander. An apology for Christianity, in a series of letters, addressed to Edward Gibbon, by R. Watson. An apology for the Bible, in a series of letters, addressed to Thomas Paine, by R. Watson. A reivew of the internal evidence of the Christian religion, by Soame Jenyns. A short and easy method with the Deists, by Charles Leslie.--v.2. A review of the evidences of Christianity, by William Paley.

The early years of Christianity.

"Of the series of Early years of Christianity the topics of the four volumes are as follows: I. Apostolic era ... II. Martyrs and apologists ... III. Doctrines and heresies; and IV. The church worship and Christian life."--Note by the American publishers.

Sermons by the Rev. Thomas Bacon, of Maryland, first published in 1763, on the duties of servants.

"Reprinted for the 'Society for the Advancement of Christianity in South-Carolina'."

Radical Language, Radical Identity: Korean Writers in Japanese Spaces and the Burden to "Represent"

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-06