Aplikasi Pembelajaran Dasar Bahasa Jepang Berbasis Android

Utilization of smartphone technology can help people in learning a language with Android-based applications. Japan is one country in Asia that has a unique and interesting culture including language culture. One of the fundamental problems in Japanese is a need to study Japanese script, which has many types of characters are used: Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. Besides Japanese characters also have ordinances order written on each character. Japanese language learning mobile applicatiois very easy for someone to learn Japanese. In this research, the Japanese language learning applications designed using the Android 4.0.1 (Ice Cream Sandwith). The method used in the search vocabulary of the Japanese language support using brute force algorithm. The results of this research is Japanese learning application that provides an introduction material katakana, hiragana, using voice and vocabulary quiz question

Lost Decade in Translation: Did the US Learn from Japan's Post-Bubble Mistakes?

In 1991, the Japanese economy ended a historic expansion and entered a period of stagnation that has yet to abate. Nine years later, the US economy ended a similarly historic expansion. There were many similarities in the two countries' expansions: asset price bubbles, a real investment boom, easy monetary policy, and improvements in government finances. In the wake of bursting bubbles, the Japanese banking system was insolvent and monetary policy was too tight, problems not evident in the US post-bubble period. But the US has worse fiscal and current account imbalances than Japan had at the same stage in the post-bubble era.

"Toward a Theory of Jurisdictional Competition: The Case of the Japanese FTC"

The Japanese antitrust agency (the J-FTC) holds a jurisdictional monopoly over most issues. Because overlapping jurisdictions would enable politicians to gauge relative bureaucratic performance, this monopoly prevents politicians from monitoring the agency on most issues. In response, J-FTC bureaucrats have chosen not to enforce those statutory provisions like criminal penalties that firms might contest. Consequently, firms face virtually no criminal sanctions for violating the antitrust statute. Most Japanese markets are still competitive -- but primarily because they are large, fluid, and easy to enter. The J-FTC enforces the law only in areas where politicians can monitor its performance, and politicians have the information they need to monitor only on issues about which they care deeply. All else equal, monopolist agencies will regulate less actively than competitive agencies. Yet politicians do not win elections by creating agencies they cannot control, and even monopolist agencies will regulate actively when politicians can gauge their performance. In equilibrium, therefore, politicians will grant agencies a jurisdictional monopoly over electorally important issues only when they have access through other sources to information by which to monitor their bureaucrats.

A Comparative Study of Japanese and English Polite Expressions : With Special Reference to Request

1. Introduction When and how one uses a polite expression is not an easy matter. In what follows, I deal with expressions for request in Japanese and English. As usual with linguistic expressions in general that are actually used, ..

Japanese irogane alloys and patination – a study of production and application

Japanese metalworkers use a wide range of irogane alloys (shakudo, shibuichi), which are colored with a single patination solution (niiro). This approach allows different alloys to be combined in one piece and patinated, producing a multi-colored piece of metalwork. At present the production of irogane alloys and their patination is an unreliable process. This study aims to develop reliable alloy production and a safe, easy-to use and repeatable patination process using standard ingredients available from chemical suppliers. The study has examined the production of shakudo and shibuichi alloys, characterizing the alloys produced by casting into cloth molds in hot water, into steel molds, and produced using continuous casting. The influence of traditional polishing methods was assessed using surface texture (Sa) measurements. Traditional rokusho, an ingredient of the niiro solution, was analyzed by XRF and XRD. Niiro patinated surfaces on a range of alloys were examined using XRD and L*a*b* color measurements.</p