Foreign policy legacy of Prime Minister of Japan Abe Shinzō by A. N. Panov

“…For this purpose, he strengthened Japanese-American military-political cooperation, took steps to support American strategy in the Asia-Pacific region. …”
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Plant-based dietary patterns defined by a priori indices and colorectal cancer risk by sex and race/ethnicity: the Multiethnic Cohort Study by Jihye Kim, Carol J. Boushey, Lynne R. Wilkens, Christopher A. Haiman, Loïc Le Marchand, Song-Yi Park

“…In men, the inverse association for PDI was stronger in Japanese American, Native Hawaiian, and White groups than African American or Latino group (P for heterogeneity = 0.01) and for left colon and rectal tumors than right tumors (P for heterogeneity = 0.005), whereas the decreased risk with hPDI was found consistently across racial and ethnic groups and subsites. …”
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Dietary intake and visceral adiposity in older adults: The Multiethnic Cohort Adiposity Phenotype study by Melissa A. Merritt, Unhee Lim, Johanna W. Lampe, Tanyaporn Kaenkumchorn, Carol J. Boushey, Lynne R. Wilkens, John A. Shepherd, Thomas Ernst, Loïc Le Marchand

“…Methods The cross‐sectional Multiethnic Cohort Adiposity Phenotype Study included n = 395 White, n = 274 Black, n = 269 Native Hawaiian, n = 425 Japanese American and n = 358 Latino participants (mean age = 69 years ± 3 SD). …”
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Circulating 27-hydroxycholesterol, lipids, and steroid hormones in breast cancer risk: a nested case–control study of the Multiethnic Cohort Study by Mindy C. DeRouen, Juan Yang, Yuqing Li, Adrian A. Franke, Anne N. Tome, Kami K. White, Brenda Y. Hernandez, Yurii Shvetsov, Veronica Setiawan, Anna H. Wu, Lynne R. Wilkens, Loïc Le Marchand, Lenora W. M. Loo, Iona Cheng

“…Methods In a nested case–control study of 1470 breast cancer cases and 1470 matched controls within the Multiethnic Cohort Study, we examined associations of pre-diagnostic circulating 27HC with breast cancer risk among African American, Japanese American, Native Hawaiian, Latino, and non-Latino White postmenopausal females. …”
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Reflectance adaptive optics findings in a patient with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease by Aarin Thuan Pham, Neil Onghanseng, Muhammad Sohail Halim, Maria Soledad Ormaechea, Muhammad Hassan, Amir Akhavanrezayat, Gunay Uludag, Anh NT. Tran, Moataz M. Razeen, Nripun Sredar, Alfredo Dubra, Quan Dong Nguyen

“…Observation: A 32-year-old Japanese American female presented with a 2-week history of blurred vision in both eyes (OU) and worsening headache previously diagnosed as a case of VKH and treated with high dose oral prednisone. …”
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The Magic Realist Unconscious: Twain, Yamashita and Jackson by Takayuki Tatsumi

“…Rereading these works, we are easily invited to notice the political unconscious hidden deep within each plot: Twain’s selection of the Italian Siamese twins based upon Chang and Eng Bunker, antebellum stars of the Barnum Museum, cannot help but recall the ideal of the post-Civil War world uniting the North and the South; Yamashita’s figure of the conjoined twins Heco and Okada derives from Hikozo Hamada, an antebellum Japanese who made every effort to empower the bond between Japan and the United States, and John Okada, the Japanese American writer well known for his masterpiece <i>No No Boy</i> (1957); and Jackson’s characterization of the female conjoined twins Nora and Blanche Olney represents a new civil rights movement in the post-Cold War age in the near future, establishing a close friendship between the humans and the post-humans. …”
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Molecular detection of bornavirus in parrots imported to China in 2022 by Li-Na Zhang, Yu-Han Huang, Hao Liu, Li-Xia Li, Xue Bai, Guang-Da Yang

“…The phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that the GD2207 strain clustered with various strains found in Japanese, American, and German parrots, indicating a close genetic relationship with PaBV-4, but it revealed a distant relationship with PaBV-5 Cockg5 from America. …”
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Leveraging genomic diversity for discovery in an electronic health record linked biobank: the UCLA ATLAS Community Health Initiative by Ruth Johnson, Yi Ding, Vidhya Venkateswaran, Arjun Bhattacharya, Kristin Boulier, Alec Chiu, Sergey Knyazev, Tommer Schwarz, Malika Freund, Lingyu Zhan, Kathryn S. Burch, Christa Caggiano, Brian Hill, Nadav Rakocz, Brunilda Balliu, Christopher T. Denny, Jae Hoon Sul, Noah Zaitlen, Valerie A. Arboleda, Eran Halperin, Sriram Sankararaman, Manish J. Butte, UCLA Precision Health Data Discovery Repository Working Group, UCLA Precision Health ATLAS Working Group, Clara Lajonchere, Daniel H. Geschwind, Bogdan Pasaniuc

“…Results We identify 5 continental-scale GIA clusters including European American (EA), African American (AA), Hispanic Latino American (HL), South Asian American (SAA) and East Asian American (EAA) individuals and 7 subcontinental GIA clusters within the EAA GIA corresponding to Chinese American, Vietnamese American, and Japanese American individuals. Although we broadly find that self-identified race/ethnicity (SIRE) is highly correlated with GIA, we still observe marked differences between the two, emphasizing that the populations defined by these two criteria are not analogous. …”
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Dépaysement : Le cas de from UNINCORPORATED TERRITORY [Lukao] par Craig Santos Perez by Jennifer K Dick

“…In this work, Perez attempts to decode a place for the territory of Guam—this almost forgotten island, quasi-erased from maps, whose existence has been troubled a series of colonizations (Spainish, Japanese, American). The cultural disorientation (for the author, a brutal uprooting by the erasure of his ancestral culture and language as well as the destruction of the natural environment on his island) is born out of the radical mutation of this « home » beginning with the name of the place itself : Guam, Guma, Guåhan... …”
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Prognostic utility of self‐reported sarcopenia (SARC‐F) in the Multiethnic Cohort by Anna H. Wu, V. Wendy Setiawan, Unhee Lim, Chiu‐Cheng Tseng, Kami K. White, John Shepherd, Heinz Josef Lenz, Iona Cheng, Daniel O. Stram, Christopher Haiman, Lynne R. Wilkens, Loïc Le Marchand

“…SARC‐F score ≥ 4 was highest among Latinos (30.8% in women and 16.1% in men) and lowest in Native Hawaiian women (15.6%) and Japanese American men (8.9%). During an average of 6.8 years of follow‐up, compared with men with SARC‐F score of 0–1 (indicator of no sarcopenia), men with SARC‐F 2–3 (indicator of pre‐sarcopenia) and SARC‐F ≥ 4 had significantly increased risk of all‐cause mortality [hazard ratio (HR) = 1.00, 1.77, 3.73, P < 0.001], cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality (HR = 1.00, 1.85, 3.98, P < 0.001), and cancer mortality (HR = 1.00, 1.46, 1.96, P < 0.001) after covariate adjustment. …”
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