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Accelerator-Driven System at Kyoto University Critical Assembly
(2021)
This open access book is a unique compilation of experimental benchmark analyses of the accelerator-driven system (ADS) at the Kyoto University Critical Assembly (KUCA) on the most recent advances in the development of ...
Trends in Cerebrovascular Surgery and Interventions
(2021)
This is an open access proceeding book of 9th European-Japanese Cerebrovascular Congress at Milan 2018. Since many experts from Europe and Japan had very important and fruitful discussion on the management of Cerebrovascular ...
Mental Health and Social Withdrawal in Contemporary Japan
(2021)
This book examines the phenomenon of social withdrawal in Japan, which ranges from school non-attendance to extreme forms of isolation and confinement, known as hikikomori. Based on extensive original research including ...
Sustainable Development in India
(2020)
This book explores and interrogates the food–water–energy nexus, arguably the most crucial factor in sustaining India’s economic development. The book sheds light on different experiences faced in states across India, ...
Neutral Europe and the Creation of the Nonproliferation Regime
(2024)
Lottaz, Iwama, and their contributors investigate the role of neutral and nonaligned European states during the negotiations for the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Focusing on the years from the ...
Chapter 11 Three Markets and Three Types of Competitiveness
(2017)
Paper is a universal and familiar product for any industrial society. Although digitization eroded its dominance as an information carrier, one can hardly live without paper’s use in printing, packaging and wrapping material, ...
Chapter 31 Political risks and nationalism
(2017)
This chapter analyses risks arising from political phenomena including nationalism. Such “non-market risks” include political as well as natural disasters. Taking an historical perspective, the authors interrogate several ...
Chapter 10 Policy transfer and its limits
(2018)
Cartels, trusts and agreements to reduce competition between firms have existed for centuries, but became particularly prevalent toward the end of the 19th century. In the mid-20th century governments began to use so called ...
Chapter 15 Human Resource Management in Japan and South Korea
(2018)
This chapter examines HRM in Japan and Korea. The two neighboring nations situated in Northeast Asia have a mixed feeling towards each other for historical reasons, despite traditionally sharing much in their HRM systems. ...
Chapter 1 Swiss and (Anglo)-Dutch multinationals and organizational change in the era of Total War
(2019)
This chapter aims to explore organisational change as a result of political and security risks faced by four major European multinationals, Roche (pharmaceuticals), Nestlé (food), Unilever (non-mineral oil, fats, food and ...
Chapter 3 The Psychology of Culture in Japan
(2018)
Today’s world is more interconnected and interdependent than ever before. Within the context of globalisation and the associated increased contact between diverse groups of people, the psychology of culture is more relevant ...
Chapter 7 Organizational Stress in Contemporary Japan
(2021)
Stress is defined as a feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize. It can occur due to environmental issues, such as a looming work ...
Race and Migration in the Transpacific
(2023)
Looking at a range of cases from around the Transpacific, the contributors to this book explore the complex formulations of race and racism emerging from transoceanic migrations and encounters in the region. Asia has a ...
The Dynamics of Conflict and Peace in Contemporary South Asia
(2020)
This book engages with the concept, true value, and function of democracy in South Asia against the background of real social conditions for the promotion of peaceful development in the region. In the book, the issue of ...
Neutral Europe and the Creation of the Nonproliferation Regime
(2024)
Lottaz, Iwama, and their contributors investigate the role of neutral and nonaligned European states during the negotiations for the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Focusing on the years from the ...
Model Tests and Numerical Simulations of Liquefaction and Lateral Spreading II
(2024)
This open access book presents work collected through the Liquefaction Experiments and Analysis Projects (LEAP) in 2019 (LEAP-ASIA-2019) following the LEAP-UCD-2017 whose results have been published as a first volume. In ...
The Future of Service Post-COVID-19 Pandemic, Volume 1
(2021)
This open access book is geared towards providing insights and stimulating new thinking about the changing nature of services, service work and workers, and service experiences during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in ...
Chapter Conclusion
(2025)
This is a business history of soy that reveals how Japanese imperial and military institutions and financial-mercantile-industrial interests created a role for soy as a versatile raw material and global commodity beginning ...
Chapter 3 Expanding soy’s versatility in multiple markets (the interwar period)
(2025)
This is a business history of soy that reveals how Japanese imperial and military institutions and financial-mercantile-industrial interests created a role for soy as a versatile raw material and global commodity beginning ...
Chapter 2 Importing Manchurian soy meal as fertilizer (19th century to WWI)
(2025)
This is a business history of soy that reveals how Japanese imperial and military institutions and financial-mercantile-industrial interests created a role for soy as a versatile raw material and global commodity beginning ...
Team Teaching and Team Learning in the Language Classroom
(2015)
This book reignites discussion on the importance of collaboration and innovation in language education. The pivotal difference highlighted in this volume is the concept of team learning through collaborative relationships ...
Deeper Learning, Dialogic Learning, and Critical Thinking
(2019)
Deeper learning, dialogic learning, and critical thinking are essential capabilities in the 21st-century environments we now operate. Apart from being important in themselves, they are also crucial in enabling the acquisition ...
Geographical Indication and Global Agri-Food
(2019)
This book addresses the relevance of geographical indication (GI) as a tool for local and socio-economic development and democratization of agri-food, with case studies from Asia, Europe and the Americas. A geographical ...
Modernity and Spirit Worship in India
(2019)
This book investigates the entangled relations between people’s daily worship practices and their umwelt in South India. Focusing on the practices of spirit (būta) worship in the coastal area of Karnataka, it examines the ...