Dissertations / Theses: 'Japanese Islands'

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Taylor, Fred H. "Sino-Japanese relations cooperation, competition, or status quo? /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2008. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion-image.exe/08Mar%5FTaylor.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2008.
Thesis Advisor(s): Olsen, Edward A. ; Miller, Alice L. "March 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on May 15, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p.63-65). Also available in print.

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McAuliffe, Kathleen. "The East China Sea Dispute in Japanese Politics." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19346.

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The East China Sea (ECS) dispute between Japan, the People’s Republic of China, and the Republic of China began in the early 1970s and has continued to escalate. Although the Japanese government claims to handle conflicts in the disputed area as domestic matters, scholarship has focused on the dispute as an international relations or legal issue between states. This project explores the dispute as an issue in domestic Japanese politics by examining the narratives and power dynamics of the major political parties, nationalist and ultraconservative groups, and Okinawan activists vis-à-vis the national government and international actors.

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Roth, Antoine. "Conflict Dynamics in Sino-Japanese Relations| The Case of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands Dispute." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1540566.

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This thesis analyzes the evolution of the Sino-Japanese conflict over ownership of the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands since the end of the Cold War. It argues that the 2012-2013 confrontation following the nationalization of the islands by Japan is the result of a process of conflict escalation that played out during repeated cycles of tensions over the previous two decades. Tensions reached a first peak in 1996 after Japanese activists built a lighthouse on one of the Senkaku/Diaoyu. Another confrontation would have erupted in 2004 after Chinese activists landed on one of the islands were it not for the intervention of Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro. After both events, nothing was done to prevent future confrontations, which allowed the conflict to fester and enter a downward spiral. This process resulted in worsening mutual perceptions and more assertive domestic audiences on both sides, which pushed Chinese and Japanese leaders towards increasingly confrontational attitudes, eventually resulting in two serious incidents in 2010 and 2012 that brought bilateral tensions to a new post-WWII high.

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Fujihara, Satoru. "Thermal state beneath the Japanese Islands and its implication to tectonics of subduction zone." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/149561.

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Daly, Craig S. "Russo-Japanese relations and the Kuril Islands dispute : the historical setting and the international environment /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09ard153.pdf.

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Kitagawa, Hiromichi. "Taxonomic revision of the Pleistocene fossil Elephantidae (Mammalia, Proboscidea) from the Japanese and Taiwanese islands." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/142390.

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Suganuma, Unryu. "Historical justification of sovereign right over territorial space of the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands irredentism and Sino-Japanese relations /." access full-text online access from Digital dissertation consortium, 1996. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?9725245.

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Odo, David. "The edge of the field of vision : defining Japaneseness and the image archive of the Ogasawara Islands." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f76fb540-7b9a-4e96-989c-2492576d7d6f.

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This thesis examines the image archive of photographs of the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands of Japan within the framework of historically informed visual anthropology. It is argued that investigating the photography of Ogasawara, which has an ethnically diverse population of descendants of the pre-Japanese, nineteenth-century settlement, exposes the processes that have configured modern 'Japaneseness'. Towards this end, the major areas explored are early Japanese photographic practice, visual aspects of Japanese colonialism, Japanese domestic tourism and the use of photography in the creation and maintenance of ideas about Japanese culture. Extremely rare imperial, government and commercial images, including albumen prints, cartes de visite and postcards, from museums, archives and private collections are examined in this study. The trajectories of these images through the 'visual economy' are traced as they are produced, circulated and gather meanings in a variety of contexts, from early colonial encounters to contemporary tourist engagements. These processes are exposed through an investigation of early Japanese photographic practice, colonial expeditions to Ogasawara, the shifting location of Islanders as 'slippery' internal others within configurations of Japaneseness, Japanese domestic tourism and the tourist discourse in contemporary Ogasawara. This has enabled the development of an alternative history of early Japanese photographic practice and a new understanding of Japanese domestic tourism. These new ways of conceptualising photography and tourism in Japan, together with insights gained from ethnographic investigations of the Ogasawaran image archive, demonstrate that photography played a major role in the construction of modern Japaneseness, rather than merely being a by-product of modernisation. Through an examination of images from the archive of photographs of the Ogasawara Islands, one gains an understanding of modern Japan as a society more diverse than the mostly homogeneous nation it is generally represented as, and more fluid in its definitions of Japaneseness than previously thought.

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Graf, Virginia B. "The Russians debate the Kuril Islands territorial dispute: an aspect of Russo-Japanese relations in the post-Cold War world." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/24225.

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Both Japan and the Russian Federation still claim rightful ownership of a small group of islands between Japan's Hokkaido Island and the Russian Federation's Northern Kuril Islands. Russia seized the islands in the course of World War n. The disposition of the islands has prevented the two countries from signing a peace treaty. The objectives of this thesis will be to analyze Russia's political, economic, strategic, and social perspectives of the Kuril Islands debate, during 1992, as an indication of the post-Cold War international relations between Moscow and Tokyo. It is the hypothesis of this thesis that although the breakup of the Soviet Union has eased tensions between the "West" and "East," international relations between Moscow and Tokyo continue to reflect Soviet philosophies and policies. This not only hurts the Russian Federation's future development in the Pacific Rim but acts as an obstacle for cooperative, interdependent ties between all the countries of the world.

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Waite, Briana Jacqueline. "The Effect of the Senkaku Islands Dispute on Sino-Japanese Ties and the Possible Role of the United Nations' Permanent Court of Arbitration." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/322082.

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Spence, Johnny Hampton. "South Pacific Destroyers: The United States Navy and the Challenges of Night Surface Combat in the Solomons Islands during World War II." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2009. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1865.

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During the South Pacific campaigns of World War II, the United States Navy faced a formidable challenge in waging nighttime surface battles against the Japanese Navy. In a war that emphasized the carrier and battleship, the little destroyer became a key player in these actions. By studying this campaign from the perspective of the destroyers, three key factors emerge that allowed the Americans to achieve victory: innovation in tactics, adaption of technology, and efficient use of resources. The research for the thesis was based upon action reports, oral histories, and other documents obtained from the National Archives, Naval War College, Naval History and Heritage Command Center, and East Carolina University. The Japanese perspective was attained from numerous secondary sources. Innovation in tactics, technology, and resources allowed the Americans to persevere through severe defeats to achieve success against a very skilled Japanese Navy in the seas of the South Pacific.

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Fox, Senan James. "Uncharted waters in a new era : an actor-centered constructivist liberal approach to the East China Sea disputes, 2003 - 2008." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2080.

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This thesis examines the deep bilateral tensions surrounding the East China Sea (ECS) disagreements between Japan and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the period from August 19th 2003 to June 18th 2008 from an actor-centred constructivist liberal viewpoint. The East China Sea disputes could be described as a conflicting difference of opinion over a) the demarcation of maritime territory and Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) in which potentially significant energy deposits exist and b) the ownership of the strategically important and historically sensitive Pinnacle (Senkaku/Diaoyu) Islands. This research addresses the question of why, given the fact that China and Japan have a strong interest in co-operation and stable relations with each other, small incidents in the ECS blow up into larger problems, cause approaches to the East China Sea to wax and wane, and move the relationship in a direction that goes against preferred national objectives? In attempting to unravel this puzzle, this work argues that domestic politics and popular negative sentiment have been the major issues that have greatly amplified and politicised the ECS problems and have significantly affected positive progress in negotiations aimed at managing and stabilising these disputes. By examining these, the thesis addresses the question of why China and Japan have been so constrained in their attempts to find a workable bilateral agreement over disputed energy resources and demarcation in the East China Sea. It also indirectly deals with the question of why the conflicting legal complexities surrounding these disagreements contributed to both states so fervently maintaining and defending their claims.

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Svanberg, Johan. "Linguistic Mysteries in a Swedish village and on a Japanese island : A corpus-based translation study on Japanese translationese by Swedish to Japanese translation." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Japanska, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-24052.

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This paper aims to study translationese in the Japanese language, and to study if there are any differences between Swedish to Japanese translations compared with English to Japanese translations– which are studied more. Claimed features and characteristics of Japanese translationese include the increase use of personal pronouns, loanwords and paragraph length. However in this study the usage of formal language and gender language in translationese will also be included to in order to distinguish differences between translationese and non-translationese. The method used to analyze the material is corpus-based translations studies which is a rather newly developed method to study translation and especially translationese. This method will be used in this thesis to compare translated and non-translated texts. As material two novels are used – one originally written in Japanese, and one originally written in Swedish but translated into Japanese. Due to the lack of translation corpora in Japanese, the novels had to be digitalized in order for the author to browse in the novels. By comparing two novels of the same genre it will be clear what the translated novel lack compared to the non-translated novel as translationese is considered broken or bad translation. The analysis and the comparison will be done with the theories about the features of Japanese translationese. The study found that some of the features of translationese were adoptable on Swedish to Japanese translated texts, but there were few significant differences regarding formal language and gender language.

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Hoshino, Yasuharu. "Dendrochronology of Japanese beech (Fagus crenata Bl.) on the eastern Honshu Island, Japan." Kyoto University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/136427.

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Kyoto University (京都大学)
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新制・課程博士
博士(人間・環境学)
甲第13154号
人博第361号
新制||人||89(附属図書館)
18||D||162(吉田南総合図書館)
UT51-2007-H427
京都大学大学院人間・環境学研究科共生文明学
(主査)教授光谷拓実, 教授肥塚隆保, 助教授窪寺茂
学位規則第4条第1項該当

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Kawamitsu, Izumi. "Multiple Code Switching in an Okinawan Speech Community: An Ethnographic Perspective." PDXScholar, 1992. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4091.

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The ethnography of communication is a mode of inquiry which investigates relationships between language and culture in a particular speech community. Based on the ethnographic perspective, this study examines a certain way of speaking at a specific historical moment in a specific community. The major focus is two disc jockeys who are characterized as "trilingual" speakers (Japanese-English-Okinawa dialect) and their code switching activities in an Okinawan local radio program. The three-month field study took place on the island of Okinawa. Data were collected from observations at the two radio stations, transcriptions of the program, and interviews with the DJs, the program director, program listeners, and older Okinawan residents. The situational and metaphorical code switching patterns found in the DJs' verbal interactions include: obligational code choice, topic related code choice, interjections, quotations, translations, a lack of language proficiency, reiterations, and addressee specification. Using language which reflects "we" versus "they" orientation was a major determinant of the DJs' code choices. While the DJs use dialect to maintain Okinawan group identification, the use of English appeared directed toward loosening the social separation between Okinawans and Americans who belong to mutually exclusive speech communities. In addition to these functions of code switching related to the general social context in Okinawa, the study finds that the DJs and program listeners share the particular sociolinguistic values and therefore create a specific speech community. The DJs' use of three codes discloses two cultural phenomena in this young Okinawan speech community. One is the enhancement of Okinawan identity as a resistance to Japanization and the other is the acceptance of the American influence as part of local culture. Although the DJs are known to be "trilingual" among the younger people, the older generation defines the DJs' dialect as Okinawan-Japanese, which is a Creole produced language contact between the Okinawa dialect and Japanese. In a strict grammatical analysis, most of the DJs' dialect is not spoken in pure form of the Okinawa dialect. However, using dialect in a certain way, the DJs maintain and share Okinawan group identity with the young program fans. Simultaneously, the mixed-background English speaking radio hosts are also accepted by listeners as a symbol of new Okinawa where the American influence has become an indispensable factor in creating its unique characteristics. The success of the "trilingual" entertainers reveals the current situation in the young Okinawan speech community where a cultural interrelation between mainland Japan, America, and Okinawa can be discovered.

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Matsubara, Miki. "Variation of Mating Costs in Wild Japanese Macaques(Macaca fuscata yakui)on Yakushima Island." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/150384.

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Ginoza, Ayano. "Articulations of Okinawan indigeneities, activism, and militourism a study of interdependencies of U.S. and Japanese empires /." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2010. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2010/a_ginoza_050310.pdf.

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Kameda, Yuichi. "Diversity and speciation mechanism of the land snail genus Satsuma (Camaenidae) endemic to the Japanese island arc." Kyoto University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/123922.

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Kyoto University (京都大学)
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新制・課程博士
博士(人間・環境学)
甲第14707号
人博第443号
新制||人||109(附属図書館)
20||人博||443(吉田南総合図書館)
UT51-2009-D419
京都大学大学院人間・環境学研究科相関環境学専攻
(主査)教授加藤眞, 教授松井正文, 准教授市岡孝朗, 教授曽田貞滋
学位規則第4条第1項該当

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Brooks, Tyler. "Island hopping, a comparative international security study of Anglo-Japanese (1854-1922) and Australian-Indonesian (1945-1995) relations." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0007/MQ44835.pdf.

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Kawazoe, Tatsurou. "Social relationships within and outside a troop in wild male Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) in Kinkazan Island, Japan." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/215341.

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Stavale, Giuseppe A. "The evolution of Japan's constitution and implications for U.S. forces on Okinawa." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2004. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/04Dec%5FStavale.pdf.

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Giles, Nathaniel W. "The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: The Failure of Japan's "Monroe Doctrine" for Asia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/295.

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By 1942, the Japanese occupied nearly all of East and Southeast Asia and their influence even spread as far as British controlled India. This occupation, known as The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, was an ideological unity of Asia under the facade of mutual benefit and welfare of Japan and the other nations within the Sphere. However, The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere failed because of the inability of the Japanese to form this mutual benefit between the nations within the Sphere. This work evaluates the events that led to The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, life within the Sphere, and the reasons for its failure.

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Pappas, Caroline History Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "Law and politics : Australia's war crimes trials in the Pacific, 1943-1961." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. School of History, 1998. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38701.

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This dissertation examines the trial of Japanese war crimes conducted by Australia between 1945 and 1951; although the study commences in 1943, when the Government first focussed on the issue, and ends in 1961, when the issue was closed. Beyond providing an overview of the trials the thesis addresses the major criticism of the trials by looking at whether the trails were fair and if they fulfilled Australian aims. This is addressed within the context of the two elements of international law, the political, and the legal, and examined in each of the three sections. The Policy section establishes the political context of the trials by examining the influence of the international community and the Australian Government. Both influenced structure and progress rather than the final application of the law. When Australian attitudes were incongruous with international views, a perception that Australia was harsh and repressive developed even though justice was an important part of the Government???s agenda. A study of legal aspects of the trials commences in the Procedures section. Australia???s legislation and regulations are explained with particular emphasis on the more controversial aspects, and a comparison is made with the war crimes instruments of other Allies trying the Japanese showing many similarities between the regulations used by other nations and Australia???s. Procedures also discusses the framework for the Australian trials, the procedures used to bring a case to trial, the process used in court, the review process and the carrying out of sentences. Such a thorough study of the procedural basis is necessary to evaluate the individual trials. Practical examples of some of the procedural problems are also discussed in the following section ??? Practice. This section reviews a number of trials and the various types of crimes and the claims made in defence to show how Australia applied and interpreted the law. The study finds many similarities between Australia???s application of the law and the practice of other nations, indicating that Australian courts were applying what was considered to be customary expectations of behaviour. Throughout the trials there was little evidence of vindictiveness or revenge, either by Government or in the courts. Both were faced with significant problems, which were not always dealt with well but overall the trials were fair and those involved were concerned that justice should not only be seen to be done, but actually be done.

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Higuchi, Wakako. "A U.S. territory in Japan's South Sea Islands : the Japanese navy administration of Guam." Phd thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/10858.

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This thesis examines the Japanese Imperial Navy's administrative policy for Guam, implemented from December 1941 until July 1944, when U.S. forces retook the island. Guam was invaded by Japan simultaneously with the attack on Pearl Harbour. This southernmost island of the Mariana Islands chain in Micronesia had been under U.S. Naval administration since 1898, when it was taken from Spain at the conclusion of the Spanish-American War. This thesis examines Guam under Japanese naval rule in relation to the navy's policies for Japan's South Sea Islands (Nan'yô Guntô). The South Sea Islands were the Micronesian islands occupied by Japan in 1914, and mandated-to Japan by the League of Nations in 1919. With its own notion of the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere ideology, the Navy occupied Guam and other southern areas, and attempted to establish political and economic relationships with territories and peoples under its rule. On Guam, the navy's civil administration organization, the Minseibu, was responsible for this task. The navy's goal was "organic integration" between Japan and Guam. However, the navy did not explain the measures that would provide direction and substance to "organic," although it was the navy's favourite term. To understand the terminology and actual policies, this thesis examines two major issues: the navy's pre-war policies for the South Sea Islands and its governing plans for the South Seas; and the Guam Minseibu's policy for political, economic, and cultural affairs for ruling the Chamorro people. I argue that the navy's concept of "organic" was prepared as a guiding idea for peaceful economic expansion to the south. However, it evolved according to Japan's urgent need for natural resources and became a plan for the military defence of the Pacific. With Japan's move toward aggression and shortage of defence resources, the navy's ideal of "organic" was transformed. The "organic" policy that aimed at mutual cooperation was turned into ethnic rule. This was expressed in the Guam Minseibu's rule over the Chamorros. As a result, Guam and its people were thrown into a centripetal movement toward Japan's military, society, state, and Emperor system. The navy's unique ideal was finally exposed for what it was, concentric circles of the Japanese government's Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere ideology. This is the first study to reconstruct Japanese naval administration on Guam based on government and naval documents, private records, and oral testimony, while 'taking into consideration the relationship between two different colonial entities, Guam, a U.S. territory, and the South Sea Islands, Japan's strategic area.

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Chou, Yu-Tien, and 周雨田. "A study of Sino-Japanese strategic competition over the sovereignty of Diaoyutai Islands." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48535814144023883719.

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淡江大學
國際事務與戰略研究所碩士在職專班
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Kenneth Waltz’s proposition of structural realism has been used as the theoretical basis. The author explores China-Japan’s strategic competition over the sovereignty of Diaoyutai Islands during 2010-2014. This paper will analyze the China-Japanese Diaoyutai issue by the balance-of-power theory. The purpose of this thesis is discussed Sino-Japanese strategies over the Diayutai disputes: (1)What are the main points of China government and Japan government in the Diaoyutai issue? (2)What are the strategies toward Diaoyutai dispute between China and Japan? (3) What reasons result in the Chinese and Japanese strategies? (4) What impact on China and Japan under the strategies of the both countries? This paper focus on Sino-Japanese strategic competition toward Diaoyutai Islands on politics and economics. The author will analyze, compare and explore the effects of the above strategies. The results will be provided for the government of the Republic of China for the reference. The conclusion is that political democracy, economic interdependence and military balance are three poles in the 21st century. In addition, the mentioned three themes ensure democracy, peace and prosperity in the East China. The better ways to solve Diaoyutai diputes are (1) To use the peaceful way to solve the Diaoyutai disputes; (2) To all parties concerned to resolve the disputes peacefully, joint exploration and development with Japan;(3)To try to avoid forming the antagonistic triangle among China, United States and Japan.

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Hudson, Mark. "Ruins of identity : ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands, 400 B.C. to A.D. 1400." Phd thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/116147.

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This thesis discusses the processes of ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands from approximately 400 BC to AD 1400. Previous research on this problem, particularly in Japan, has been based on the assumption that ethnic groups are bounded, a priori entities that, while they may change in outward appearance, retain the ‘essence’ of their identity from their initial formation. It is argued here that this Romantic, primordialist view of ethnicity has deep roots in Japanese nationalist philosophy (Part I). In criticizing this approach, I propose that ethnicity needs to be seen as a hierarchy of three levels: (1) basic genetic and linguistic elements which may form what I term a ‘core population’; (2) the etic ethnos - a culture or society perceived by outsiders as a distinct ethnic group; and (3) the emic ethnos - an imagined selfidentity. The phenomenon of ethnicity involves all these levels simultaneously, but it is extremely rare for them to overlap. Part II of the thesis argues that a Japanese core population was established in the Islands in the Yayoi period with the immigration of a Peninsular population that was biologically closely related to the modem Japanese people and spoke Proto- Japanese. The evidence of biological anthropology, historical linguistics and archaeology are all compared in order to test this theory of immigration and colonization during the Jömon-Yayoi transition. From the basis of this core population, Part in moves on to analyze the following formation of etic ethnoi in the Islands in the late Yayoi to early medieval eras. A world-systems approach is adopted whereby ethnic change results not from the isolation of core and periphery but from their economic, political and ideological interaction within the wider East Asian world-system. The thesis ends with some speculative comments regarding the relationship between the three levels of Japanese ethnicity. I conclude that what I have termed the Japanese core population probably did not see itself as an emic ethnos until the twentieth century.

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Asayama, Yumiko. "Pacific Island responses to Australian and Japanese government assistance in dealing with problems of adaptation to climate change." Master's thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150369.

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It is widely acknowledged that the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and that they have limited resources and capacity to deal with the problems of adaptation without assistance from the international community. While PICs might logically take a regional approach in requesting international assistance to implement adaptation measures, climate change affects a wide range of activities. This study examined Pacific Island responses to donors' assistance, with particular focus on Australian and Japanese assistance and explored cross-sectoral issues associated with planning and implementation of adaptation measures by PICs. Australia asserts that a scientific knowledge base and capacity to use timely locally tailored scientific data is a fundamental requirement for guide policy makers and planners to provide cost-effective resource management and the implementation of locally appropriate adaptation measures. Australia has provided assistance on that basis through its overseas aid program from the early 1990s. However, given the diversity of local concerns, the different stakeholders have different perceptions of the threat and risks of climate change and preferred response measures. Under these conditions, robust scientific knowledge alone does not necessarily translate into sensible decision-making processes, in the absence of further assistance to assist PIC in enhancing their institutional capacity and to implement climate change projects. Japanese assistance, which specifically targets climate change in PICs, was found to be limited to the promotion of climate change research and human resource development. More broadly, Japanese ODA has prioritized PICs' environmental problems and the improvement of their livelihood over time, because the primary objective of Japanese assistance is to support PICs' taking ownership of their own development through capacity development with its grant aid and technical cooperation. Interviewees' opinions, particularly those of government officials, regarding Japan's assistance indicated that PICs adaptation needs were generally consistent with their needs for livelihood improvement and economic growth. Responses also revealed that it was of fundamental importance to PICs that donors' recognize and understand the diverse condition in each country and develop individually tailored responses through comprehensive program-based assistance. The delivery of Japanese ODA on a bilateral basis was thus welcomed by many PICs. It is clear that PICs are unable to implement the necessary adaptation responses without significant financial and technical assistance from donors. Interviewees responses tended to highlight their personal or agencies' preferred process for obtaining and delivering aid. Both Australian and Japanese assistance to date have provided little impetus for institutional change to promote a long-term commitment to the implementation of adaptation measures by PICs. In addition, the different funding mechanisms have caused institutional fragmentation between agencies in PICs, resulting in limited information sharing and lack of policy coordination across agencies. Donor expectations and PICs' adaptation needs are unlikely to be met until PICs' institutional challenges, including the ability to effectively utilize existing funds, are addressed.

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Wu, Wei-Tai, and 吳偉臺. "A Study on Internationalization Strategy of Tingyi (Cayman Islands) Holding (“Master Kong”) in Japanese Market." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/959q79.

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國立臺灣大學
臺大-復旦EMBA境外專班
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This thesis focused on Tingyi (Cayman Islands) Holding Corporation (“Master Kong”), a company of Ting Hsin International Group which started business in Taiwan and now having operations across Greater China. “Master Kong” is one of the most well-known Taiwanese enterprises and food stuff brands in Mainland China. While Master Kong will continue expanding in Greater China, it will also consider various strategies to internationalize itself, including strategies for the Japanese market for new business and acquisition opportunities of Japanese enterprises or brands. A variety of research and analysis tools have been used throughout this thesis, e.g. PESTEL model, Michael Porter’s diamond model and value chain analysis, and the strategic groups model. Through the PESTEL and diamond models, Master Kong’s international competitiveness were defined. In addition, VRIO and value chain analyses helped to reaffirm Master Kong’s sustainable competitiveness. The strategic groups model and SWOT analysis were utilized to identify Master Kong’s respective competitive areas in each strategic group. This analysis concluded that “SO strategy” should be adopted to optimize internal and external resources for Master Kong to enter into Japan. In addition, it is suggested that Master Kong should take the “transnational” strategy and set two milestones: i.e. it should participate minority investments in Japanese companies and be more “international” in short term, and for longer term, it should consider mergers & acquisitions of Japanese enterprises to maximize its group synergy. The author also provided 8 recommendations for Master Kong’s to enter into Japan, i.e. integrating and localize itself into Japanese business and management culture, adopting Japanese quality control system to further improve food safety, participating market competition and upgrading its R&D capabilities, taking advantages of improved Sino-Japan relationship, helping Japanese enterprises to go to China, maximizing its group resources to create overall synergies, considering staff secondment with more efforts in international human resource management, and fulfilling corporate social responsibilities to be a responsible global citizen. This thesis presented the salient points of Master Kong’s development and implementation process of internationalization strategy. For a company which has solid foundation in Greater China but with limited reputation and/or international competitiveness, this thesis should provide some guidance. Given the macro environment could significantly differ from one to the other, this thesis would only be relevant to Japanese market. This thesis should, however, serve some purposes in the way of summarizing relevant theories and applications in internationalization strategy.

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Britton-Simmons, Kevin. "Establishment, spread, and impact of the introduced Japanese seaweed, Sargassum muticum, in the San Juan Islands, Washington /." 2003. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3108062.

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Lu, Hsing-Shuo, and 盧星碩. "The Sino-Japanese Dispute over the Diaoyu Islands and Taiwan’s Strategy: A Case Study of the Minjin 5179 Incident." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76808368105469660944.

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碩士
國立中山大學
高階公共政策碩士班
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Dispute over the sovereignty of Diaoyu Islands (Senkaku Islands) implicates peace in East Asia. These islands were under Chinese control for five hundred years in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and were used as sailing coordinates for imperial Chinese missions to the ancient Ryūkyū Kingdom and as part of national defense. Under the control of the Qing Dynasty, the Diaoyu Islands were affiliated with Taiwan. In 1894, the Qing was defeated by Japanese in the Sino-Japanese War and was forced to secede Taiwan and its surrounding islands to Japan in 1985. After World War II, the Diaoyu islands were under the United States’ occupation. In 1972, the United States reverted administrative control over these islands to Japan. The Diaoyu Islands have so far been separated from the Chinese rule for over a century. Due to the intervention of the United States, the Diaoyu Islands were not returned to China or Taiwan after the defeat of Japan in 1945. In the 21st Century, as the resources on earth are gradually depleted, the sovereignty of the Diaoyu Islands has become a ferocious competition among China, Japan, and Taiwan due to its rich ocean resources. At present, the islands are under de facto control by Japan; resolution of the problem has troubled Taiwan, China, and Japan. On September 7, 2010, “Minjin Fishing Boat No. 5179” collided with Japanese Coast Guard patrol boats. This thesis uses this incident as a case to study the Sino-Japanese conflict on the Diaoyu Islands.

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林梓晴. "An analysis of Sino-Japanese interaction in East China Sea and Diaoyutai Islands from the perspective of Power Asymmetry (2010-2018)." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/52qtx5.

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KuanChang, Chou, and 周冠章. "The Study on Dispute of Tiaoyuti Islands From the Collision between Taiwan Sport Fishing Boat Lienhe and Japanese Coast Guard Patrol Vessel." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/18638305198556816360.

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國立中正大學
戰略暨國際事務研究所
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Because of concerning the collision of the Taiwanese sport fishing boat lienhe and Japanese coast guard patrol boat, the dispute of Diaoyutai Islands has become more and more serious. The islands were claimed by Japan in 1895 and were registered in the land of Japan in 1896. The dispute appears from the 1968 announcement by United Nation Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East（ECAFE）of scientists that there may be large reservoirs of oil under the continental shelf below the islands. The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea gives a 200 nautical mile "exclusive economic zone" and sovereignty over the seabed resources, meaning that whoever owned the Diaoyutai Islands would gain economic control over important seabed resources. The issue of Diaoyutai Islands involved complex historical and territorial problem has been for long time in Taiwan, China and Japan. However, behind this dispute, it is also connected with the US policy of the Far East regions, adjusted in accordance with its state interests. This thesis will criticize the claims of Japan regarding occupation and prescription principles in the international law. According to the international law and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea（UNCLOS）, the thesis will provide solutions in reference to several international case of islands to Diaoyutai Islands issue. The issue of Diaoyutai Islands was related with sovereignty in the issue whether Taiwan is a sovereign state. At last, the thesis provide the case of China fish agreements between Japan and Korea. Taiwan will continue to urge and seek the consultations with Japan on fishing rights. In the friendship between Taiwan and Japan, we should continue to fish negotiations with Japan to prevent and solve related disputes

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Barber, Bill Bryan. "Trust, mutual benefit, and a long-term perspective examining a possible solution to normalizing Russo-Japanese relations and an agreement on the Kurile Islands dispute /." 2007. http://digital.library.okstate.edu/etd/umi-okstate-2577.pdf.

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Smallshaw, Brian. "The dispossession of Japanese Canadians on Saltspring Island." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/8067.

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During World War Two, 77 Japanese Canadians were uprooted from Saltspring Island, and eleven properties were taken from them and later liquidated. The largest belonged to Torazo Iwasaki, and was purchased by the agent for the Custodian of Enemy Property, Gavin Mouat. In contradiction to the widely held view that Japanese Canadians were stoic and accepting of the injustice they faced, a number of Japanese Canadian Saltspringers fiercely resisted what was being done to them. The Iwasaki family launched a court case against the government in 1967 that went all the way to the Supreme Court, and in the face of continued racism the Murakami family returned to Saltspring to rebuild their lives. This thesis investigates the position of the Japanese Canadians in the settler society on Saltspring and how racisms were manifested within it, the government’s decision to liquidate Japanese Canadian properties, and the resistance and resilience of some of the island’s Japanese Canadians. Racist politicians, including the MLA representing the island, were calling for the removal of Japanese Canadians from the west coast. They led the drive to ethnically cleanse British Columbia, but their success depended on the cooperation and acquiescence of many others. This microhistory explains how this process took place on Saltspring Island, while examining the larger story of the decision to liquidate and challenging the legality of the government’s actions. Seventy-five years after the uprooting, a frank acknowledgment of past injustices will be necessary for the full reconciliation of Japanese Canadian survivors and the Saltspring community.
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Young, Nanise J. "The island closest to heaven : Japanese encounters with Fiji." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11459.

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Maehara, Kinuko. "To Okinawa and back again : Okinawan Kibei Nisei identity in Hawaii." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11952.

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Shu, Min-Chin, and 徐旻勤. "The Cold-blooded Island ─The Prevention and Propaganda of Viper in Taiwan During the Japanese Colonial Period." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/cgi-bin/gs32/gsweb.cgi/login?o=dnclcdr&s=id=%22107NCHU5493006%22.&searchmode=basic.

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國立中興大學
歷史學系所
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Taiwan has many snakes due to the geographical environment and the climate, to grasp how influences the snakes bring to Taiwan. At first, analyze the data during 1897-1939 of snakes hurting-people which Office of the Governor-General recorded it to know and explore how harmful the snakes. 　　Second, snakes are difficult to prevent by humanity effectiveness like set monitoring station, epidemic prevention clinic, vaccination, environmental cleaning to reach the goal. That’s why almost the way to decline snakes harming is always prevention and propaganda but no other activity. To know how to prevent snakes and the cognition of snakes they had at that period, analyze the newspapers, magazines, textbooks and another historical data is the way to know how they did at that time. The historical data show us the way they take is what habits of the snakes are, basic on this to know how to reduce some activities or be more pay attention to it. The groups they publicize are normal people and students. 　　Third, the development of snake venom. At this chapter talk before the snakes venom serums of Taiwan were developed how was modern medical deal with this and how was the measure and the attitude the Office of the Governor-General were when they face the Chinese medicine of Taiwan and how was the effect it is. The final of this chapter is talking about the research and development of how to use it at that time. 　　The final chapter is the conclusion of this paper and in this topic what the way can it be in the future.

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Ho, Han-Jun, and 何涵君. "Research on the developmentof Taiwan’s track and field during the Japanese Occupation -To the center island of the tournament." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/65326843125333947152.

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國立臺北教育大學
體育學系碩士班
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In this paper, it studies the development of Taiwanese athletics from 1903 to 1939. The text is divided into three sections. The beginning of Taiwanese athletics during the Japanese Occupation, the promotion of Taiwanese athletics by Taiwan Sports Association and the general situation of island wide competition. First, to discuss the background of athletics spread to Japan first and talk about the rise of modern western sports. From the expansion of European and American countries’ national strength, the spread of technical civilization in Asia. And learn sports from European and American to improve National physique during Japanese Meiji Restoration. Taiwan had been incorporated as a colony of Japan in this time. So, the rise of Taiwanese athletics was followed by European and American──Japanese──Taiwanese development tendency. Second, to discuss the major organization that promoted athletics during the Japanese occupation and how major people operated in this side. Last, to discuss the performance of Taiwanese athletes in Island track and field competition. It could be broadly understood the standard of Taiwanese athletics. We could discovery that the developments of athletics during the Japanese occupation were under official leadership and people’s cooperation. Taiwan’s sports association was one branch of Japan’s sports association. Taiwan’s island wide competition became the Preliminary of Japanese nationwide competition. Taiwan’s excellent athletic players and teams could leave for Japan to attend Meiji Jingu ConferenceOn behalf of Taiwan.

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Hung, Li-Yu, and 洪麗玉. "Studies on the age and growth of Japanese butterfish, Psenopsis anomala in the waters off Guei-Shan Island, northeastern Taiwan." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03000956316982631601.

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國立臺灣海洋大學
環境生物與漁業科學學系
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Age and growth of Japanese butterfish, Psenopsis anomala in the waters off Guei-Shan Island, northeastern Taiwan were examined based on samples collected from Mar. 2007 to Jul. 2008. In total, 734 samples including 340 females,363 males, and 31 undifferentiated were collected. Size (in terms of length and weight) of sample ranged from 11.70 to 25.60 cm, and 30.25 to 254.31 g for female,and 10.70 to 23.20 cm, and 24.80 to 185.89 g for males. There was a difference found in body weight－total length relationships between sexes. The equations are BW= 0.0248 * TL2.838 for females, and BW= 0.0424 * TL2.647 for males. The relationships between total length (TL) and radius of otolith (R) were estimated to be TL=10.684R – 2.135 for female, and TL=8.862R + 0.884 for males, respectively. The annulus was formed once per year, and was between July and August based on the analysis obtained from marginal increment ratio. The oldest age group for female and male fishes was 4. The population was dominated by age 2 for males, and was 3 for females. The von Bertalanffy growth equations derived from non-liner method were Lt = 23.651( 1-e-0.425(t+1.049) ) for females, and Lt = 20.953( 1-e-0.695(t+0.540) ) for males. The results obtained here were also compared with studies conducted in Japan for understanding the influences of geographical variation.

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