Although still dominated by firms from developed countries, foreign direct investment (FDI) flows from developing nations have increased significantly. As academic literature reveals, FDI from developed versus developing countries follow different rationales. The strategies of these investors thereby differ, such that they also could have unique in...
We show that during the period 1971–2007, Japanese sectoral exports to China and the United States have depended on real exchange rate fluctuations and external demand (gross domestic product of the country of destination). This result holds for six sectors: foods, textile, metal products, chemicals, non-metal products, and machinery and equipment,...
The purpose of this study is to account for the increase in non-regular workers, namely, part-time and dispatched workers, in the Japanese economy from the early 2000s. Our contribution is that we use a firm-level panel dataset extracted from an administrative survey and distinguish between the short-run and long-run determinants of non-regular lab...
Comment expliquer, dans le contexte de fermeture du Japon prémoderne, en l’absence d’une transmission directe des savoir-faire, les similitudes dans les techniques à l’œuvre et les résultats formels, entre les productions verrières japonaises et occidentales ? Cet article revient sur le rôle des traducteurs dans l’essor de la verrerie au tout début...
Comment expliquer, dans le contexte de fermeture du Japon prémoderne, en l’absence d’une transmission directe des savoir-faire, les similitudes dans les techniques à l’œuvre et les résultats formels, entre les productions verrières japonaises et occidentales ? Cet article revient sur le rôle des traducteurs dans l’essor de la verrerie au tout début...
Comment expliquer, dans le contexte de fermeture du Japon prémoderne, en l’absence d’une transmission directe des savoir-faire, les similitudes dans les techniques à l’œuvre et les résultats formels, entre les productions verrières japonaises et occidentales ? Cet article revient sur le rôle des traducteurs dans l’essor de la verrerie au tout début...
In the field of radiation monitoring, the 1986 Chernobyl and 2011 Fukushima nuclear disasters triggered an upsurge of bottom-up citizen-led responses. As the advent of new technology and media helped the bottom-up movement to overcome spatial boundaries and gradually lowered the threshold for citizens to participate, they have boomed over the past ...
This presentation gives an overview of the aims, preliminary findings, and impacts of a two-year (2017-2019) social science research project, funded by the Research Fund - Flanders (FWO) and the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). The project seeks to answer three research questions: a) What forms does citizen science take after t...
This presentation gives an overview of the aims, preliminary findings, and impacts of a two-year (2017-2019) social science research project, funded by the Research Fund - Flanders (FWO) and the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). The project seeks to answer three research questions: a) What forms does citizen science take after t...
Published in Disability and rehabilitation
An early and intensive rehabilitation program in a Japanese hospital affects functional outcomes of acute stroke patients. Implications for Rehabilitation Early and intensive rehabilitation for the stroke patients is an effective means of improving FIM score. Early and intensive rehabilitation affects the improvement of FIM efficiency without incre...
