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Japanese have been fervid long-distance runners for many centuries. 'Marathon Japan' is a comprehensive English-language chronicle of the history of this important part of Japanese sports culture. It traces the development of distance racing beginning with the Stockholm Olympics of 1912, when the Japanese government used athletics as a means of winning the respect of Western countries and achieving parity with the world powers.

Evidence-Based Health Care Management introduces the principles and methods for drawing sound causal inferences in research on health services management. The emphasis is on the application of structural equation modeling techniques and other analytical methods to develop causal models in health care management. Topics include causality, theoretical model building, and model verification. Multivariate modeling approaches and their applications in health care management are illustrated. The primary goals of the book are to present advanced principles of health services management research and to familiarize students with the multivariate analytic methods and procedures now in use in scientific research on health care management. The hope is to help health care managers become better equipped to use causal modeling techniques for problem solving and decision making. Evidence-based knowledge is derived from scientific replication and verification of facts. Used consistently and appropriately, it enables a health care manager to improve organizational performance. Causal inference in health care management is a highly feasible approach to establishing evidence-based knowledge that can help navigate an organization to high performance. This book introduces the principles and methods for drawing causal inferences in research on health services management

Preliminary Material -- "Thanks and Service" at a Price -- The Lure of Land -- The Fast Track -- The Retailing Revolution -- From Land to Leisure: The Seibu Railway Group, 1964-1974 -- Merchants to New Markets: The Seibu Retailing Group in the 1970s -- Princes and Lions -- From Abundance to Affluence -- Information for Sale -- Japan at Play: The Seibu Railway Group in the 1980S -- Leisure as Amenities: The Seibu Saison Group in the 1980s -- Architects of Affluence -- Notes -- Sources Cited -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.

Agrarian thought and Japanese modernization -- Early modern farm ideology and the growth of Japanese agriculture, 1870-1895 -- Bureaucratic Agrarianism in the 1890s -- Small farms and state policy, 1900-1914 -- Popular agrarianism in the early twentieth century -- Farm thought and state policy, 1918-1937 -- Gondo Seikyo : the inconspicuous life of a popular nationalist -- Gondo Seikyo's ideal self-ruling society -- Gondo Seikyo and the depression crisis -- Tacibana Kozaburo's farm communalism -- Tacibana Kozaburo's patriotic reform -- Kato Kanji and agricultural expansionism -- Agrarianism and modern Japan