Prior studies show that both mass and social media have played an influential role after the Great East Japan …

In Japan, many local mixed enterprises owned and operated jointly by local governments and private sectors had been … established from the late 1980's to the early 1990's in order to provide public services more efficiently. At present, in Japan …

the west side of Japan, and is near the Korean peninsula. There are two government-designated major cities in Fukuoka …

By using a prospective, nation-wide, population-based out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) database (All-Japan Utstein … Registry, January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2012), we examined the disparity in emergency medical services across Japan and found … significant disparities among prefectures. By dividing Japan into seven parts, Hasegawa et al. (2013) analysed regional …

. After the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, government investment in the disaster stricken areas was provided for … consists of 47 prefectures and 20 industrial sectors in Japan. Also, this study assumes two scenarios. First, in order to … measure economic damages in Japan, this study assumes a supply constraint by collapsed private capital stocks in the disaster …