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Chap. 1: Hirano, K.: Introduction: Manifesto of African economies

With the evolution of digital and material technologies, Japanese designers and architects are seeking ways to reverse the wholesale destruction of traditional public space in Japan brought about by industrialisation, automobiles, and Western-style concrete and steel interventions. Japanese public spaces (hiroba, or wide open areas), human-scale spaces traditionally fashioned of warm and renewable materials, are making a comeback thanks to technological breakthroughs in glass and non-flammable woods that allow the expression of highly refined and delicate qualities. Includes an essay by Kengo Kuma and numerous exemplary projects

Shinyo, T.: Strengthening and expanding the UN Conventional Arms Register. - S.17-23. Regehr, E.: The UN Register and evolving measures for military export transparency in Canada. - S.24-35. Mahon, T.: A Gordian knot. - S.36-43. Slavkin, V. A.: Current situation and problems of Russian defense industries measures to stimulate defense conversion. - S.44-46. Taylor, T.: Arms export controls: the suppliers' perspective. - S.47-59. Singh, J.: Evolving approaches to control the spread of small, light and other similar weapons. - S.60-70. Anthony, I.: Evolving approaches to control the spread of small, light and other similar weapons. - S.71-85

Originally published in 2004, this is the second and final volume of manuscripts by or relating to Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) that are now held at Kanto Gakuen University in Japan. Volume I, published in 1997, contains 75 items of correspondence. Volume II, now published, contains transcriptions of further original manuscripts, including: four of Malthus' sermons; his diary of a tour of the Lake District; an extensive set of calculations in the bullion trade, suggesting that he was giving serious thought to becoming a bullion trader on his own account; lecture notes on European history from the fifth to the tenth century; his wife's diary of their holiday in Scotland in 1826 and an essay on foreign trade. These previously unknown and unpublished manuscripts promise insights into his intellectual development and the events and circumstances of his life, as well as glimpses of the lifestyle of his wider family and contemporaries

"[Re] TOKYO explores a wide, understanding vision of the transformative processes of one of the most influential and unknown metropolitan areas in the world, from large scale efforts such as Tokyo's land engineering transformations, to smaller examples such as its capital vending machine system. Four hundred pages, compiling 400 years of history, are covered in this uniquely Japanese complexity of social conurbation, including more than 1400 illustrations, diagrams, photographs, and maps in order to visually support selected themes. [Re] TOKYO develops the idea of [re]definition processes to explain what, who, when, where, and why all these changes took place--a tool to understand its history and speculate about its future as an exciting metropolis and cultural center of the world."--Provided by publisher

It is obvious that most of the agricultural production in the world is under the control of farm households (or family farms). This book aims to translate the characteristics of the farm household as an economic entity, into an economic theory. The book was originally written in Japanese, but various modifications have been made and new information added to the English version. The author defines the farm household as an economic entity which is a complex of the farm firm, the labourer's household and the consumer's household, and whose behavioural principle is utility maximization. The main purpose of the book is to construct a theoretical model of the decision-making behaviour of the farm household. For this purpose the method of subjective equilibrium analysis, which was used by J.R. Hicks for the consumer's household and the firm in Value and Capital, has been applied to the farm household. The major motif of the book may therefore be called ``Hicksian motif''. In analyzing the subjective equilibrium of the farm household, this book extends the Marshallian concepts of consumer's surplus and producer's surplus, by developing the three new concepts of labourer's surplus, self-employed producer's surplus and consumer's surplus. The analyses using the five concepts of economic surplus are the minor motif of the present book, which the author calls ``Marshallian motif''. Another important characteristic of this book lies in the presentation of newly developed theories of land rent. The author has tried to integrate the theory of leasehold tenancy (i.e. fixed rent tenancy) and that of share tenancy with subjective equilibrium theory of the farm household. In his foreword, John W. Longworth of the International Association of Agricultural Economists says ``From time-to-time an academic treatise appears which is truly different. This is one such book. It presents a self-contained normative theory of the farm household which is much more than just an elegant development of Hicksian and Marshallian ideas. Professor Nakajima introduces new concepts and develops a simple model of the farm household. He then extends this model in various ways to examine the subjective equilibrium of farm households under a wide range of economic circumstances. The exposition is clear and logic with each step in the argument explained in detail using both rigorous mathematical notation and easy to follow diagrams ... With this book Nakajima is making his Life's Work available to non ...

Includes bibliographical references and index

Intro -- Preface -- To the Reader -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Symbols -- Grammatical Terms -- Special Topics in Advanced Japanese Grammar -- 1. Adjective in Japanese -- 2. Interpretation of "N1 no N2" -- 3. Politeness and Formality in Spoken and Written Language -- 4. Rhetorical Questions -- 5. Metaphors in Japanese -- 6. Number Marking -- A -- B -- C -- D -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- M -- N -- O -- S -- T -- W -- Y -- Z -- English Index -- Japanese Index -- References.

Vol. 2: 2005: National land planning and sectoral development strategies. - 2006. - X,300 : Ill., graph. Darst., Kt., Tab. - (NIRA Research Report ; 0602). - ISBN 4-7955-54-X

The database offers information about the Gordon W. Prange Collection (プランゲ文庫). This collection is among the holdings of the University of Maryland in the US. A copy of the collection is available at the National Diet Library in Tokyo. The Prange Collection contains materials that were subjected to censorship by the SCAP authorities (Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers) in the early years of the occupation 1945-1949. The database offers bibliographical information about journal articles (1.964.900 items) and newspaper articles (1.261.280 items) from the Prange Collection.