"This paper examines the impact of trade with Japan, North America, and the European Union on technology diffusion and … from trade with the European Union, Korea from trade with Japan, and Mexico from trade with North America. In other words …

"This paper focuses on Tohoku University in Sendai in the nonmetropolitan area of Japan. Both a long historical and …

"The health systems of Japan and the Asian Tigers--Hong Kong (China), the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan … (China)--and the recent reforms to them provide many potentially valuable lessons to East Asia's developing countries. All …. On the delivery side, too, Japan and the Tigers offer some interesting lessons. Singapore's experience with corporatizing …

innovativeness at many levels. The authors discuss six main developments that are changing the industrial landscape in Japan and in …

, the national system of innovation, and the historical genesis of Tokyo in Japan's political economy. They find that the …

The Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE) was the first disaster ever recorded that included an earthquake, a tsunami, a … earthquake of magnitude 9.0 occurred in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan's Tohoku region. The quake shook the ground as … far away as western Japan and lasted for several minutes. A half hour later, a tsunami of unprecedented force broke over …

economies of many nations. Japan's comprehensive multi-hazard approach covering weather, climate, ocean-related, and terrestrial … services has been applied and developed through numerous experiences of disastrous events, such as the 2011 Great East Japan … the Japan Meteorological Business Support Center (JMBSC) on meteorological services; and (ii) a background paper by the …