Springer Japan: 783 books
Aging Mechanisms
Longevity, Metabolism, and Brain Aging
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
This book brings together the most up-to-date information on recent research results of leading laboratories on aging science in East Asia, particularly in Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong. Starting with a comprehensive overview of various hypotheses on biological mechanisms of aging by Dr. Sataro Goto,...
Japanese Firms During the Lost Two Decades
The Recovery of Zombie Firms and Entrenchment of Reputable Firms
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Why has Japan's lost decade become the lost two decades? This book attempts to provide a novel perspective on causes of stagnant productivity growth of the Japanese corporate sector during the lost two decades. Exploiting the corporate financial dataset compiled by the Development Bank of Japan, it...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
This book is the first volume of a monograph series published by the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan. The purpose of the series is to make works by Japanese scholars accessible to a wider readership and to increase the knowledge of scholars in this field, particularly in relation to Asia. This...
Satoyama
The Traditional Rural Landscape of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Japan’s traditional and fragile satoyama landscape system was developed over centuries of human life on mountainous island terrain in a monsoon climate. The carefully managed coppice woodlands on the hillsides, the villages strung along the base of the hills, and the carefully tended paddy fields...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
This book summarizes the status quo of the knowledge about the biodiversity in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine animals that live in Japan. Consisting of some 6,800 islands that are arrayed for approximately 3,500 km from north to south, the Japanese archipelago has a complex history in a paleogeographic...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
The Tohoku earthquake on March 11, 2011, officially designated the “Off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku, Japan Earthquake” by the Japan Meteorological Agency caused an unprecedentedly severe disaster in the northeastern part (Tohoku) of the Japanese island of Honshu. This first volume of the series...
Structure and Function of Mountain Ecosystems in Japan
Biodiversity and Vulnerability to Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The purpose of this book is to summarize new insights on the structure and function of mountain ecosystems and to present evidence and perspectives on the impact of climate change on biodiversity. This volume describes overall features of high-mountain ecosystems in Japan, which are characterized...
Who Will Provide the Next Financial Model?
Asia's Financial Muscle and Europe's Financial Maturity
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
During the past 4 years, faith in the present financial model has been shaken in terms of policy, regulation, the financial sector itself, and exchange-rate regimes. Past and present policies of the world’s most respected central banks have come under fire. Regulations that defined the system have...
by Toru Suzuki
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
This book provides a unique comparative view of the extremely low fertility and drastic population aging in Eastern Asian countries. After discussing demographic and political developments of Japan in detail as a reference case, accelerated changes in Korea, Taiwan and China are interpreted with a...
by Yasuo Kadono
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
This book assesses the achievements of the software engineering discipline as represented by IT vendors in Japan in order to deepen understanding of the mechanisms of how software engineering capabilities relate to IT vendors’ business performance and business environment from the perspective of...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This volume contains the papers presented at the International Symposium on Spine and Spinal Disorders in Growth and Aging held in Niigata on November 22-23, 1992. The symposium commemorates the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Niigata University School of...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Since the 1st Yamaguchi Symposium on Liver Diseases in 1989, this series of symposia has provided opportunities for exchanges of information on the topic between leading Japanese hepatologists and internationally renowned scientists. Somewhat unusually for meetings held in Japan, the official language...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
More than 2 million people in Japan have chronic hepatitis C and many of them will lose their lives to liver cirrhosis or complications of hepatocellular carcinoma. Hepatitis C virus-related diseases are a serious concern both in developing countries and in Japan and the United States, where the number...
Total Knee Replacement
Proceeding of the International Symposium on Total Knee Replacement, May 19–20, 1987, Nagoya, Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Back in September of 1974, I acquired much valuable information while attending the International Conference on Total Knee Replacement in London, which was organized by The Medical Engineering Working Party and the Tribology Group of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and the British Orthopaedic...