Total syntheses and structural elucidation of some bioactive natural terpenoids

Thesis--University of Tsukuba, D.Sc.(A), no. 650, 1989. 3. 2

Buddhist Manuscript Cultures in Premodern Japan

Recent discoveries and scholarship on Japanese Buddhist manuscripts have illuminated new areas of research and raised previously unexplored questions in Buddhist studies and East Asian religions. This article introduces some of the recent finds and approaches to these materials. It focuses on three sets of sources: scriptorium documents from an imperial treasure house known as the Shōsōin, canonical manuscripts (issaikyō) based on texts translated or composed in China, and sacred works (shōgyō) produced and collected by Japanese monks for use in temple life. In addition to surveying these sources and the most influential secondary literature on them, this article proposes methodological alternatives to philological studies by focusing on what I call ritual, curricular, social, and material approaches

学習者への意識調査に基づいた情報教育への提案

According to the revised guideline for high school education, which was enforced in 2003, one of the most urgent issues is information science (IS) education. While improvement of computer network systems in educational organization and the construction of curriculum for IS are now rapidly carried forward, many kinds of educational problems, such as the rapid alternation of theme, social oppression, lack of teaching staffs, etc., are coming out. Among those issues the most important one is whether a learner can flexibly adjust himself to the rapidly changing Information-oriented Society, which is now expanding rapidly and diversely. In this study, we discuss how to support the learner for his self-motivated learning of IS by focusing his consciousness, via analyzing questionnaire including self-efficacy test, which is supposed to reveal the learner\u27s view of IS education

Migration Industries and the State: Guestwork Programs in East Asia

Studies of migration industries have demonstrated the critical role that border-spanning businesses play in international mobility. To date, most research has focused on meso-level entrepreneurial initiatives that operate in a legal gray area under a state that provides an environment for their growth or decline. Extending this work, the present article advances a taxonomy of the ways states partner with migration industries based on the nature of their relationship (formal or informal) and the type of actor involved (for-profit or non-profit). The analysis focuses on low-paid temporary migrant work programs — schemes that require substantial state involvement to function — and examines cases from the East Asian democracies with strong economies that have become net importers of migrants: Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. The conclusion, incorporating cases beyond Asia, explicates the properties and limits of each arrangement based on the degree of formality and importance of profit

Tradition of Japanese garden

185 p. ; 29x29 cm