Transition of Multicultural Symbiotic Policies in Japan: Case Studies Analysis of Tokyo, Toyohashi and Minamiuonuma City

How to attract foreign human resources and settle in has been one of the main issues of Japan where is facing depopulation and required to lead local regeneration with diversity. This paper introduces the transition of multicultural symbiotic policies in Japan and case studies at city level based on the collected data by in-depth interview in 2015. Data was collected in three advanced case studies, Tokyo, Toyohashi, and Minamiuonuma city. Through the overview of transition of policies and case study analysis, this paper attempts to find the fundamental and potential gaps between policies and actual condition at national and city levels in Japan

Relationships between radiation risk perception and health anxiety, and contribution of mindfulness to alleviating psychological distress after the Fukushima accident: Cross-sectional study using a path model

博士（医学）福島県立医科大

Beyond Lipstick and High Heels: Three Tell-Tale Narratives of Female Leadership in the United States, Italy, and Japan

This paper focuses on the challenges and opportunities of female leadership in a time of sudden shock. The authors look at three examples across three different political, economic, and cultural jurisdictions. The first example is diversity and inclusion in the board of directors of corporations in the United States. Namely, the author looks at the recently created Securities and Exchange Commission rule calling for increased diversity and inclusion in corporations’ boards of directors. The author describes the type of changes in the board that are likely to occur and how those measures should be implemented, especially during acute situations like the COVID-19 health crisis. The second example regards women’s resilience in the face of needless bureaucracy. In this context, the paper tells the story of an Italian ninety-six-year-old woman – Nonna Peppina – who fought to remain in her village after the destruction of her old house. She was condemned and ordered to leave the village, and she sought legal support to stay in the village. She made her case against the Italian Government, which led the Parliament to adopt new legislation for post-disaster situations to support Peppina and those after her. The third example describes how a Japanese woman, a community leader, successfully organized a shelter during the Japan Great Earthquake in 2011 without government support and a shallow female leadership index. The paper concludes by explaining that female leadership is an opportunity that does not come without challenges. The stories the authors tell illustrate that unique circumstances shape the resilience of female leadership, which is strengthened by the character and charisma of our female leaders and a supportive institutional setting

Cerebral misery perfusion due to carotid occlusive disease

Purpose Cerebral misery perfusion (CMP) is a condition where cerebral autoregulatory capacity is exhausted, and cerebral blood supply in insufficient to meet metabolic demand. We present an educational review of this important condition, which has a range of clinical manifestations. Method A non-systematic review of published literature was undertaken on CMP and major cerebral artery occlusive disease, using Pubmed and Sciencedirect. Findings Patients with CMP may present with strokes in watershed territories, collapses and transient ischaemic attacks or episodic movements associated with an orthostatic component. While positron emission tomography is the gold standard investigation for misery perfusion, advanced MRI is being increasingly used as an alternative investigation modality. The presence of CMP increases the risk of strokes. In addition to the devastating effect of stroke, there is accumulating evidence of impaired cognition and quality of life with carotid occlusive disease (COD) and misery perfusion. The evidence for revascularisation in the setting of complete carotid occlusion is weak. Medical management constitutes careful blood pressure management while addressing other vascular risk factors. Discussion The evidence for the management of patients with COD and CMP is discussed, together with recommendations based on our local experience. In this review, we focus on misery perfusion due to COD. Conclusion Patients with CMP and COD may present with a wide-ranging clinical phenotype and therefore to many specialties. Early identification of patients with misery perfusion may allow appropriate management and focus on strategies to maintain or improve cerebral blood flow, while avoiding potentially harmful treatment

Multicultural Discourse and Policies in Japan : An Assessment of Tabunka kyōsei

This article aims to provide a ground for a better understanding of the debate about tabunka kyōsei, a Japanese version of multiculturalism. The term tabunka kyōsei is now widely recognized as a key idea in the discussion of the social integration of foreign residents and immigrants in Japan. Some practitioners have embraced it as a promising vision of society, while others are skeptical or critical of the concept. However, considering tabunka kyōsei on an abstract, ideational level alone is not useful in assessing its role and significance on the practical level. In this article, I make a distinction between the discursive aspect of tabunka kyōsei, on the one hand, and its application to policies and programs related with foreign residents and immigrants, on the other. I pay attention to the emergence and dissemination of tabunka kyōsei because the process is particularly important for the critical examination of the concept. The term tabunka kyōsei has come to be associated mainly with the provision of support for foreign residents, and this has implications for the potential and challenges in employing the term

Evaluation of wide-area distributed services by SDN-FIT system

A wide area distributed application is affected by network failure due to natural disasters because the servers on which the application operates are distributed geographically in a wide area. Failure Injection Testing (FIT) is a method for verifying fault tolerance of widely distributed applications. In this paper, by limiting network failures to the connection line, whole FIT scenarios are generated and exhaustive evaluation of fault tolerance is performed. Authors evaluate the visualization method of performance data obtained from this evaluation and the reduction of the fault tolerance evaluation cost by the proposed method

母血管に対する脳動脈瘤のサイズ比は5mm 以下の頭蓋内小型動脈瘤破裂の予測に有用な指標となる

富山大学・富生命博乙第8号・柏﨑大奈・2015/11/25・★論文非公開★富山大学201

The radical SAM enzyme spore photoproduct lyase employs a tyrosyl radical for DNA repair

The spore photoproduct lyase is a radical SAM enzyme, which repairs 5-(alpha-thyminyl)-5,6-dihydrothymidine. Here we show that the enzyme establishes a complex radical transfer cascade and creates a cysteine and a tyrosyl radical dyade to establish repair. This allows the enzyme to solve topological and energetic problems associated with the radical based repair reaction