The Japanese Experience with Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor in Cutaneous Wound Management and Scar Prevention: A Systematic Review of Clinical and Biological Aspects by Mohamed Abdelhakim, Xunxun Lin, Rei Ogawa

“…Methods We review the Japanese literature that demonstrates the anti-scarring effects of bFGF and exhaustively assess how these effects are exerted. …”
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A Research on Yoichi Funado's Manshukoku Engi: How Japan as a Colonial Empire Has Been Rediscovered in Hardboiled Detective Novels by Saori SAKAMOTO

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Mushanokōji Saneatsu in the Eyes of Contemporaries by Zaberezhnaya O. A.

“…The personality of Mushanokōji Saneatsu (1885–1976), a writer, thinker, poet, playwright, and artist, the ideological inspirer of neo-humanism in Japan in the early 20th century, cannot be ignored in the history of Japanese literature and culture as a whole. In this paper, we aim to explain the fact of such a wide popularity of Mushanokōji and such a strong influence of his personality on his contemporaries. …”
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Envisioning the Shôjo Aesthetic in Illustrations of Miyazawa Kenji’s Literature. by Helen Claire Kilpatrick

“… + + + This essay won the 2013 Inoue Yasushi Award for the best article or book chapter on Japanese literature published in Australia or New Zealand.…”
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Epidemiology of non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease and non‐alcoholic steatohepatitis in Japan: A focused literature review by Yuichiro Eguchi, Gabriel Wong, Emma (I‐Heng) Lee, Omar Akhtar, Ricardo Lopes, Yoshio Sumida

“…An English and Japanese literature search was conducted in PubMed, Embase, and ICHUSHI Web, identifying 6553 studies, 67 of which were included. …”
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Discussion on Hakujitu No Sho in Manchuria Romance by Tao LIN

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Dazai Osamu’s “New Hamlet”: A “confessional” adaptation of the classical story by Shorokhova E.S.

“…Dazai Osamu is recognized as the classic of modern Japanese literature and one of the most outstanding authors of I-novel (watakushi sho:setsu) genre. …”
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Coexistence of gastric cancer and gastric GIST with intra-tumor bleeding: successful embolization with subsequent total gastrectomy by Raisuke Nishiyama, Toshihito Ogasawara, Nana Mamuro, Yutarou Kamei, Misuzu Yamada, Daisuke Furukawa, Toshiyuki Suzuki, Takayuki Nishi, Hideo Shimada

“…We report herein a case of coexistence of gastric cancer and gastric GIST with progressing intra-tumor bleeding managed successfully by TAE and review the clinicopathological characteristics of this rare condition reported previously in the Japanese literature. Case presentation A 75-year-old woman with dyspnea and systemic edema was diagnosed as simultaneous occurrence of gastric cancer (histopathologically detected tubular adenocarcinoma pT2N1M0 fStageIIA) and gastric GIST (65 × 92 mm in diameter at the anterior wall of the fornix) with intra-tumor hemorrhage. …”
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Of friendship and hospitality: Victorian women’s travel writing on Meiji Japan by Kumojima, T

“…I explore the afterlife of Bird in Japanese literature.</p> <p>Chapter III investigates friendships in Fraser’s <em>A Diplomatist’s Wife in Japan </em> (1898). …”

Solar rotational cycle in lightning activity in Japan during the 18–19th centuries by H. Miyahara, R. Kataoka, R. Kataoka, T. Mikami, M. Zaiki, J. Hirano, M. Yoshimura, Y. Aono, K. Iwahashi

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Legalization of Arak Bali in Online News Headlines: Critical Discourse Analysis by Nadya Inda Syartanti

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Land of the falling "poison pill" understanding defensive measures in Japan on their own terms by Koh, Alan K., Nakahigashi, Masafumi, Puchniak, Dan W.

“…Based on hand collected empirical data, we provide the first in-depth analysis of why Japan’s “poison pill” (defensive measures) is heading towards extinction—a watershed reversal that is unexplained in the Japanese literature and has almost entirely escaped the English language literature. …”
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Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Caribbean Patients With Adult T-Cell Lymphoma/Leukemia at Two Affiliated New York City Hospitals by Edwin Chiu, Bachar Samra, Eric Tam, Babak Baseri, Bo Lin, Carol Luhrs, Jason Gonsky, Ahmed Sawas, Evelyn Taiwo, Gurinder Sidhu

“…Incidence of atypical immunophenotype (32%) was higher than previously reported in the Japanese literature and was associated with worse survival (P = .04). …”
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Smoking cessation interventions and implementations across multiple settings in Japan: a scoping review and supplemental survey by Tomomi Nagasawa, Junko Saito, Miyuki Odawara, Yuki Kaji, Keiichi Yuwaki, Haruhiko Imamura, Kazuya Nogi, Masakazu Nakamura, Taichi Shimazu

“…Conclusions Most EBIs reported in the Japanese literature included smoking cessation treatments in clinical settings. …”
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Case report: Saccadic ping-pong gaze in progressive supranuclear palsy with predominant postural instability by Hikari Nunomura, Taketoshi Kasahara, Taku Hatano, Hitoshi Shimada, Hitoshi Shimada, Yuhei Takado, Hironobu Endo, Ayako Inoshita, Atsuko Inomata, Toshihisa Murofushi, Shihoko Misawa, Yutaka Machida, Hisamasa Imai

“…On the other hand, abnormal eye movement, which looks the same as SPPG in coma, has been described in conscious patients with PSP or spinocerebellar degeneration (SCD) in Japanese literature since 1975. However, it has been called “transient alternating saccades (TAS).” …”
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日本高等教育導入「交叉契約制」深化產學合作之研究：以大阪大學為例 Cultivating University–Industrial Collaboration Through a Cross-Appointment System in Japanese Higher Education: A Case Study of Osaka University... by 譚君怡 Chun-Yi Tan, 羅仕昌 Shih-Chang Lo, 于乃明 Nai-Ming Yu

“…In addition, the relevant Japanese literature indicate that to cultivate innovation, the Japanese government encourages universities to switch their university-industrial collaboration model from the traditional “silent understanding” (a long-term cooperation which relies on interpersonal relationship) model to the organization-to-organization model. …”
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comparative study of Saadi's Gulistan and Yoshida's Essays in Idleness by Gholamreza Kafi, Mohammad Barfar

“…On the other hand, Essays in Idleness is one of the classics in Japanese Literature, and is much read as a text book in Japanese schools. …”
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Pteridophytes as active components in gardening, agricultural and horticultural ecosystems in Japan by Tomonori Kawano

“…However, details or examples of practical uses of ferns in traditional gardening in Japan have only rarely been introduced in non-Japanese literatures to date, despite the importance of ferns in Japanese gardening traditions. …”
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Management and Accounting Practices in the U.S. and Japan: Comparative Survey Findings and Research Implications by Chow, Chee, Shields, Michael, Nakagawa, Yu, Kato, Yutaka

“…Exhaustive search of published surveys in the U.S. and Japanese literatures (much of which is in Japanese) provided the basis for U.S. - Japan comparisons on six aspects of management accounting practices. …”
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