Springer Japan: 783 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
This book introduces pathophysiology and practical heart failure (HF) management at the acute, in-hospital stages during hospitalization and also in the end-stages of HF. Given its increasing incidence and prevalence, we live in a world that is essentially facing an HF pandemic. A country with an...
Advances in Happiness Research
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
This edited volume makes a contribution to the literature on happiness research by compiling studies based on cross-national research and from diverse academic disciplines. The book is distinctive in that it contains both theoretical and empirical analyses, investigating relationship between causes...
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Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
This edited volume is an outcome of the first major collaborative project between Japanese economists and political scientists, funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. The authors of the individual chapters show that Asian states play games of conflict and cooperation strategically...
Enterprise as an Instrument of Civilization
An Anthropological Approach to Business Administration
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
In this book, the functions and dynamics of enterprises are explained with the use of anthropological methods. The chapters are based on anthropological research that has continued mainly as an inter-university research project, which is named Keiei Jinruigaku, of the National Museum of Ethnology...
Human-Harmonized Information Technology, Volume 2
Horizontal Expansion
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Going from the philosophy and concepts to the implementation and user study, this book presents an excellent overview of Japan's contemporary technical challenges in the field of human–computer interaction. The next information era will be one in which information is used to cultivate human and...
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Release Date: September 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Devastating damage in the Tohoku region of Japan occurred during and after the earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku earthquake on March 11, 2011. The AIJ (Architectural Institute of Japan) dispatched reconnaissance teams into the field to obtain basic facts on the damage to buildings due to...
Childbearing and Careers of Japanese Women Born in the 1960s
A Life Course That Brought Unintended Low Fertility
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
This book provides the keys to understanding the trajectory that Japanese society has followed toward its lowest-low fertility since the 1980s. The characteristics of the life course of women born in the 1960s, who were the first cohort to enter that trajectory, are explored by using both qualitative...
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Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book is a collection of papers presented at the International Workshop on Geotechnical Natural Hazards held July 12–15, 2014, in Kitakyushu, Japan. The workshop was the sixth in the series of Japan–Taiwan Joint Workshops on Geotechnical Hazards from Large Earthquakes and Heavy Rainfalls,...
by Fumikazu Yoshida
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
On the threshold of the twenty-first century, the ordinary Japanese citizen has become acutely aware that various environmental hazards pose a serious threat to daily life; such hazards include the problems of waste disposal, dioxin and other substances that disturb humans' endocrine balance. Who,...
Japanese Commons in the Coastal Seas
How the Satoumi Concept Harmonizes Human Activity in Coastal Seas with High Productivity and Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
The author proposed the satoumi concept, analogous to the satoyama concept on land, as “coastal sea with high biodiversity and productivity in harmony with human interaction” in 1998. The concept for environmental conservation in the coastal seas has been widely accepted and was included in the...
Fertility Decline and Background Independence
Applying a Reaction-Diffusion System as a Stochastic Process
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
In this book the author maintains that fertility declines independently of its “background”. Normally, fertility decline is thought to occur as a result of alteration in the socioeconomic background such as the decline of the infant mortality rate, urbanization, the level of literacy, and so on....
Advances in Organic Crystal Chemistry
Comprehensive Reviews 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
For the last decade, the topics of organic crystal chemistry have become diversified, and each topic has been substantially advanced in concert with the rapid development of various analytical and measurement techniques for solid-state organic materials. The aim of this book is to systematically summarize...
Progress in Social Psychiatry in Japan
An Approach to Psychiatric Epidemiology
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Social psychiatry is a multidisciplinary field analyzing mechanisms of mental health issues comprehensively to contribute to society using the findings. Those findings include biological, psychological, and social aspects and they are based on psychiatry and connected with a wide variety of academic...
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Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Brain resuscitation is the therapeutic intervention for critically ill patients with severe brain damage, particularly the types caused by ischemia and hypoxia. The The objective of the International Symposium on Brain Resuscitation held in Ube, Yamaguchi Japan October 31 to November 2 1988, and sponsored...