The Strategic Study of National Quality Award through Business Excellence Model - The IBM, Panasonic and E.SUN Bank Cases in Taiwan by Jang-Ruey Tzeng, Shu-Chiung Lin, Shih-Chih Chen, Kuo-Shean Liu, Shih-Chi Liu, Shih-Lung Fu

“…To recover economical prosperity immediately right from the II world war, Japan founded Demin Quality Award to encourage the improvement of quality and promote the whole scale of competence core for enterprises in 1951. …”
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eastwest by Elena Grigoryeva

“…One hundred years ago it was very unlikely that, at the edge of the millennium, Japan, Korea and China would become the most dynamic cultures. …”
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Review of E. Taylor Atkins. 2001. Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press by Ian Condry

“…These words of an American booking agent in the 1960s capture some of the paradoxes of jazz in Japan. On one hand, it is a jazz paradise-where else can one find jazz coffee shops (jazu kissa) that prohibit talking, but offer patrons the opportunity to listen to extensive record collections over state-of-the-art speakers? …”
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Kharkiv International Competition by Svitlana Smolenska

“…The competition attracted a record number of foreign contestants not only from many European countries, but also from other continents (from the USA and Japan). …”
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Minimal stratigraphic evidence for coseismic coastal subsidence during 2000 yr of megathrust earthquakes at the central Cascadia subduction zone by Nelson, Alan R., Hawkes, Andrea D., Sawai, Yuki, Horton, Benjamin Peter, Witter, Rob C., Bradley, Lee-Ann, Cahill, Niamh

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Rapid assessment of the civil registration and vital statistics performance of health facilities in the five districts of Zambia: A cross-sectional study by Yuta Yokobori, Jun Matsuura, Hiromi Obara, Yasuo Sugiura, Tomomi Kitamura, Crispin Moyo, Chomba Mwango, Motoyuki Yuasa

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Roles of relative humidity and particle size on chemical aging of tropical peatland burning particles: potential influence of phase state and implications for hygroscopic property by Chen, Jing, Budisulistiorini, Sri Hapsari, Itoh, Masayuki, Kuwata, Mikinori

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Dual quantum spin Hall insulator by density-tuned correlations in TaIrTe4 by Tang, Jian, Ding, Thomas Siyuan, Chen,, Hongyu, Gao, Anyuan, Qian, Tiema, Huang, Zumeng, Sun, Zhe, Han, Xin, Strasser, Alex, Li, Jiangxu, Geiwitz, Michael, Mohamed Shehabeldin, Belosevich, Vsevolod, Wang, Zihan, Wang, Yiping, Watanabe, Kenji, Taniguchi, Takashi, Bell, David C., Wang, Ziqiang, Fu, Liang, Zhang, Yang, Qian, Xiaofeng, Burch, Kenneth S., Shi, Youguo, Ni, Ni, Chang, Guoqing, Xu, Su-Yang, Ma, Qiong

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Untangling charge-order dependent bulk states from surface effects in a topological kagome metal ScV6Sn6 by Cheng, Zi-Jia, Shao, Sen, Kim, Byunghoon, Cochran, Tyler A., Yang, Xian P., Yi, Changjiang, Jiang, Yu-Xiao, Zhang, Junyi, Md Shafayat Hossain, Roychowdhury, Subhajit, Yilmaz, Turgut, Vescovo, Elio, Fedorov, Alexei, Shekhar, Chandra, Felser, Claudia, Chang, Guoqing, M. Zahid Hasan

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The effectiveness of Japanese public funding to generate emerging topics in life science and medicine. by Ryosuke L Ohniwa, Kunio Takeyasu, Aiko Hibino

“…In the present study, we aim to clarify the effectiveness of grants to generate emerging topics in life sciences and medicine since 1991 with regard to Japanese researcher productivity and grants from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. To clarify how large grant amounts and which categories are more effective in generating emerging topics from both the PI and investment perspectives, we analyzed awarded PI publications containing emerging keywords (EKs; the elements of emerging topics) before and after funding. …”
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Achievement of accounting and taxation in the historical retrospective (devoted to the 120th anniversary of the foundation of the National University of Life and Environmental Sci... by E. Kalyga, N. Kuzyk

“…Malyshev, who carried out a fundamental scientific research with an impact on the theory of Accounting by substantiating the method of double recording. The content of the basic researches of scientists, their contribution to the professional formation of competitive modern accountants in the conditions of the educational process is revealed. …”
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On the Memory and History of Three Generations of Families in East Asia: Research on Akira Higashiyama s Dissimilation of Hardboiled Detective Novels by Saori SAKAMOTO

“…To answer this question, Akira Higashiyama's Flow, the winner of Naoki Prize, a literary award Award in 2015, is the best demonstration. Setting a second-generation Mainland youth as the protagonist of this work, Higashiyama portrays “the memory of three generations of families" respectively in Mainland China, Taiwan and Japan with an overwhelming sense of speed, to ignite sharp criticism and a fundamental reexamination of “history” and “memory” in East Asia. …”
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Dying for an iPhone: The Labour Struggle of China’s New Working Class by Jenny Chan

“…The published audio is a recording of a talk in the University of Westminster's CAMRI Research Seminar on October 1, 2014, see also http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/ and http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars An article related to this talk has been published open access in the Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus: http://www.japanfocus.org/-Pun-Ngai/3981 Biography: Jenny Chan was Chief Coordinator of SACOM (Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior) between 2006 and 2009. …”
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Publish, Don’t Perish: Research and Publication for Otolaryngologists by José Florencio F. Lapeña

“…Jeong-Wook Seo (Korea), Vice President for Internal Affairs is Prof. Kiichiro Tsutani (Japan), Vice President for External Affairs Prof. …”
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