Suchergebnisse

Mit diesem Beitrag wird das Ziel verfolgt, einen ersten Überblick über die Lage der qualitativen Forschung in den Sozialwissenschaften in Japan zu geben. Dabei werden u.a. folgende Themenbereiche fokussiert: Qualitativ-psychologische Forschung (auch unter einer historischen Perspektive), das japanische Verständnis von Sozialwissenschaften, verwendete qualitative Verfahren, sowie die aktuelle Situation der qualitativen Forschung in der Psychologie und in anderen Sozial- und Humanwissenschaften in Japan.

In the span of the first few years after Japan's defeat in World War II, five of Japan's leading earth scientists came forward to warn the nation that major earthquakes would soon occur. They (almost) never did. This article focuses on those predictions to highlight the debates that shaped early postwar efforts in Japan to make scientists, and earth scientists in particular, guardians of the public's safety. It draws on multiple archival collections, participant accounts and popular media coverage to explore the tensions between individual scientists and newly formed, officially sanctioned bodies charged with coordinating earthquake prediction research. These tensions, I argue, reflect both a long-standing ambivalence within the field toward prediction's legitimacy, and the emergence of a new set of research and policy imperatives for Japan's earth scientists that privileged it. The legacies of the Occupation-era encounters with prediction include the 1962 publication of Earthquake Prediction: Current Status and a Plan for Development, the formation of the Coordinating Committee for Earthquake Prediction in 1969 and the passage of the Large-Scale Earthquake Countermeasures Act in 1978.

Cover -- CONTENTS -- THE IMPACT OF CONSUMPTION TAX INCREASES AND THEIR POLICY IMPLICATIONS FOR JAPAN -- A. Introduction -- B. Impact of VAT Rate Increases on the Japanese Economy -- C. Japan: Policy Changes and Uncertainty -- D. Cross-country Evidence on VAT Rate Increases -- E. Conclusion and Policy Implications -- References -- FINANCING THE COSTS OF JAPAN'S DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION -- A. Introduction -- B. Framework of Analysis -- C. Financing Options -- D. Complementary Reform Options -- E. Conclusions -- References: -- INEQUALITY IN JAPAN: GENERATIONAL, GENDER, AND REGIONAL CONSIDERATIONS -- A. Introduction -- B. Inequality and Generations -- C. Inequality and Gender -- D. Regional Inequality -- E. Findings and Policy Discussion -- References -- JAPAN-MACROECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF AUTOMATION -- A. Introduction -- B. Overview of Automation and its Prospects in Japan -- C. Industrial Robots and Their Impacts on Productivity and Labor Market -- D. Automation in the Services Sector of Japan -- E. Macroeconomic Implications of Automation with a Declining Labor Force -- F. Policy Implications -- References -- UNDERSTANDING WAGE GROWTH IN JAPAN -- A. Cyclical and Structural Drivers of Wage Growth in Japan -- B. Estimating Wage Phillips Curves Augmented with Structural Drivers -- C. Conclusion -- References -- WHAT DRIVES RAPID YEN APPRECIATIONS? -- A. Main Drivers of Short-run Yen Dynamics -- B. Three Distinct Episodes of Large and Rapid Yen Appreciations -- C. Disentangling Exchange Rate Drivers Using a VAR Model -- D. Results -- E. Conclusions -- References -- JAPAN-OPTIONS FOR HEALTHCARE REFORM -- A. Introduction -- B. Japan's Healthcare System in Perspective -- C. Fiscal Dimensions of an Aging Population and Healthcare Spending -- D. Potential Reform Options and Future Health Spending -- E. Conclusions -- References.