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Ratnasingam, Malini, and Lee Ellis. "Sex Differences in Mass Media Preferences Across Four Asian Countries." Journal of Media Psychology 23, no. 4 (January 2011): 186–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000054.
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Background. Nearly all of the research on sex differences in mass media utilization has been based on samples from the United States and a few other Western countries. Aim. The present study examines sex differences in mass media utilization in four Asian countries (Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, and Singapore). Methods. College students self-reported the frequency with which they accessed the following five mass media outlets: television dramas, televised news and documentaries, music, newspapers and magazines, and the Internet. Results. Two significant sex differences were found when participants from the four countries were considered as a whole: Women watched television dramas more than did men; and in Japan, female students listened to music more than did their male counterparts. Limitations. A wider array of mass media outlets could have been explored. Conclusions. Findings were largely consistent with results from studies conducted elsewhere in the world, particularly regarding sex differences in television drama viewing. A neurohormonal evolutionary explanation is offered for the basic findings.
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Schneider, Florian. "China’s ‘info-web’: How Beijing governs online political communication about Japan." New Media & Society 18, no. 11 (July 9, 2016): 2664–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444815600379.
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In digital China, networked actors ranging from state agencies to private Internet users engage in highly active online discourse. Yet as diverse as this discourse may be, political content on China’s web remains highly regulated, particularly on issues affecting the legitimacy of the ruling party. A prominent issue in this regard has been the conflict-laden relationship with Japan. This article asks how Chinese websites shape online discourse on two Japan issues (the Nanjing Massacre and the East China Sea conflict), and what these sites can tell us about the leadership’s strategy for managing digital communication. Combining content analysis and digital tools, the article shows how the authorities apply a Leninist mass-communication logic to the web, treating websites not as spaces for networked social interaction but as authoritative information sources that broadcast approved content to a mass audience, which effectively brings digital media into the fold of China’s ‘traditional’ mass-media system.
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EVERETT, S. M., and A. T. R. AXON. "Early gastric cancer in Europe." Gut 41, no. 2 (August 1, 1997): 142–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gut.41.2.142.
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Despite mass population screening and an incidence of EGC in Japan that is at least double that of the West, there seem to be no genuine differences in the clinicopathological features of the disease between the two regions. The macroscopic appearance, size, depth of invasion, frequency of lymph node invasion, and histology of EGC are all remarkably similar in Japan, Europe and America, as are sex and age distributions.Patients with EGC are a number of years younger than those with advanced cancer. This is not surprising: Tsukuma et alfollowed 56 cases of EGC that were not surgically treated and estimated that the median “duration of EGC” before becoming advanced was 37 months.87 This suggests that EGC undergoes a period of slow growth before becoming advanced. Further differences between early and advanced cancers include a higher frequency of synchronous cancers and a longer symptom duration in EGC.Unfavourable prognostic factors in EGC include lymph node invasion, and invasion through the muscularis mucosae, though it is not clear whether these are independent. Repeated attempts have been made to identify other prognostic factors, but no clear pattern has emerged, with the possible exceptions of patient age, tumour size, and the presence of ulceration.The postsurgical outcome of EGC in the West is marginally less favourable than in Japan. In view of the similar clinical and pathological features in the two regions it seems likely, therefore, that this is because of the more aggressive surgical techniques traditionally used in Japan. Conversely, however, EMR has recently emerged as an important technique in Japan. Despite the advantages of low operative mortality and normal function of the postoperative stomach, there are also a number of potential disadvantages. It would seem sensible, therefore, to await the results of long term follow up studies before widespread adoption of EMR in Europe. Nevertheless, this technique should be considered for frail patients unfit for more radical surgery.
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Ando, Taiki, Etsuko Yamazaki, Haruka Teshigawara, Fujii Eriko, Yoshimi Ishii, Wataru Yamamoto, Kenji Motohashi, et al. "Body Mass Index Is a Prognostic Factor in Adults with Newly Diagnosed Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Retrospective Multi-Institutional Study in Japan." Blood 126, no. 23 (December 3, 2015): 1316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood.v126.23.1316.1316.
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Abstract Background: The prevalence of obesity has more than doubled between 1980 and 2014, worldwide. In Japan, 25% of adults aged ≥20 years (29 % of males and 20% of females) were overweight in 2013. Body mass index (BMI) assesses the proportion of weight versus height, and is commonly used to stratify underweight, normal, overweight, and obesity in adults. However, the prognostic impact of BMI in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is debatable. In this retrospective study, we aimed to assess whether BMI was associated with clinical outcomes in AML patients in Japan. Patients and Methods: We identified 374 patients with newly diagnosed AML who had been administered either daunorubicin or idarubicin in combination with cytarabine as induction chemotherapy at any of the seven Japanese hospitals that collaborate to form the Yokohama City University Hematology Group from January 2000 to March 2015. Patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia were excluded from this study. BMI is defined as a person's weight in kilograms divided by the square of his height in meters (kg/m2). All patients were categorized in one of two groups according to their BMI: underweight (BMI <18.5) and normal weight (BMI, 18.5-24.9) designed as NW, and overweight (BMI, 25.0-29.9) and obese (BMI ≥30.0) designed as OW. We analyzed complete remission (CR) rate, primary induction failure (PIF) which was defined as not achieving CR in two cycles of chemotherapy, and overall survival (OS) in each group. Results: This study included 227 males and 147 females, with median age at diagnosis of 49 years (range, 15-77 years). In BMI classification, 273 were NW (47, underweight; 226, normal weight), 101 were OW (83, overweight; 18, obese). Median BMI was 22.4 (range, 15.9-39). There were not significant differences in age, sex, Performance status (PS), cytogenetic risk, and comorbidities such as diabetes, hypertension, and ischemic heart disease requiring treatment on diagnosis of AML in the two BMI groups. In this cohort, 283 patients (75.7%) achieved CR and 81 (21.7%) experienced PIF, and 10 subjects (2.8%) had an early death (ED) as death occurring within 30 days of chemotherapy initiation. Only one patient received reduced intensity of chemotherapy ( ≥20%) because of obesity. Relapse during the first CR occurred in 173 subjects (46.3%), and death occurred in 139 patients (37.2%). There was no significant difference in CR rate between the NW and OW groups (73.3% and 82%, respectively, P = 0.079). All 10 patients who experienced ED were in NW (3.7%, P = 0.0068). Causes of ED were as follows: infection in 5 subjects; 3 from cerebral bleeding; and 2 deaths from alveolar bleeding. With a median follow-up of 42 months (1-176 months), OS was 52.4% and 64% at 3 years for the NW and OW groups, respectively (P = 0.022; Figure 1). There was no significant difference in PIF and adverse event between theNW and OW groups. Multivariate analysis showed that a better OS was associated with OW (HR 0.65, 95% CI 0.43-0.97, P = 0.033) and the other prognostic factors of age, sex, PS, and cytogenetic risk. Conclusions: The results of this study show that AML patients with BMI ≥25 had better survival. There was no difference in the toxicity of chemotherapy between the different BMI groups. Out study suggests that Increased BMI should not be a criterion for reducing the dose of chemotherapy administered to patients of newly diagnosed AML. Figure 1. Overall survival of patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia according to BMI. Figure 1. Overall survival of patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia according to BMI. Disclosures Fujita: Chugai Pharmaceutical CO.,LTD.: Honoraria.
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Yamamoto, Ryohei, Maki Shinzawa, Yoshitaka Isaka, Etsuko Yamakoshi, Enyu Imai, Yasuo Ohashi, and Akira Hishida. "Sleep Quality and Sleep Duration with CKD are Associated with Progression to ESKD." Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 13, no. 12 (November 15, 2018): 1825–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.2215/cjn.01340118.
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Background and objectivesShorter or longer sleep duration and poor sleep quality are risk factors for numerous cardio-metabolic diseases, cardiovascular disease, and mortality in subjects with normal kidney function. The association of sleep duration and sleep quality with health outcomes in patients with CKD remains uncertain.Design, setting, participants, & measurementsA 4-year prospective cohort study in 17 nephrology centers in Japan, the CKD Japan Cohort (CKD-JAC) Study, assessed an association of self-reported sleep duration and sleep quality, on the basis of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) questionnaire, with incidence of ESKD in 1601 patients with eGFR 10–59 ml/min per 1.73 m2 using multivariable-adjusted Cox proportional hazards models.ResultsBaseline sleep duration and PSQI global score for the 1601 patients were mean±SD 7.0±1.3 hours and median 4 (interquartile range, 3–7), respectively. Poor sleep quality (PSQI global score ≥6) was common (n=588 [37%]). During a median of 4.0 (2.6–4.3) years of the follow-up period, 282 (18%) patients progressed to ESKD. After adjusting for age, sex, eGFR, urinary albumin excretion, smoking status, body mass index, history of diabetes and cardiovascular disease, systolic BP, blockade of the renin-angiotensin system, use of hypnotics, and Beck depression inventory score, both shorter (≤5 hour) and longer (>8 hour) sleep duration were associated with ESKD (adjusted hazard ratios [95% confidence intervals] for ≤5.0, 5.1–6.0, 6.1–7.0, 7.1–8.0, and ≥8.0 hours were 2.05 [1.31 to3.21], 0.98 [0.67 to 1.44], 1.00 [reference], 1.22 [0.89 to 1.66], and 1.48 [1.01 to 2.16]), suggesting a U-shaped relationship between sleep duration and ESKD. PSQI global score ≥6 was also associated with incidence of ESKD (adjusted hazard ratios [95% confidence intervals] for PSQI global score ≤5 and ≥6 were 1.00 [reference] and 1.33 [1.03 to 1.71]).ConclusionsShorter (≤5 hour) and longer (>8 hour) sleep duration and poor sleep quality (PSQI global score ≥6) were associated with ESKD in patients with CKD.
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Tanikawa, Yukihiro, Miho Kimachi, Minoru Ishikawa, Tomoichiro Hisada, Shunichi Fukuhara, and Yosuke Yamamoto. "Association between work schedules and motivation for lifestyle change in workers with overweight or obesity: a cross-sectional study in Japan." BMJ Open 10, no. 4 (April 2020): e033000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033000.
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ObjectiveTo investigate the association between work schedules and motivation for behavioural change of lifestyle, based on the transtheoretical model (TTM) in workers with overweight or obesity.DesignA cross-sectional observational study.SettingA healthcare examination centre in Japan.ParticipantsBetween April 2014 and March 2016, we recruited 9243 participants who underwent healthcare examination and met the inclusion criteria, namely, age 20–65 years, body mass index (BMI) ≥25 kg/m2and full-time workers.ExposureNight and shift (night/shift) workers were compared with daytime workers in terms of motivation for behavioural change.Primary and secondary outcome measuresThe primary outcome was action and maintenance stages of change (SOC) for lifestyle in TTM. In a subgroup analysis, we investigated interactions between characteristics, including age, sex, BMI, current smoking, alcohol habits, hours of sleep and working hours.ResultsOverall, 1390 participants (15.0%) were night/shift workers; night/shift workers were younger (median age (IQR): 46 (40–54) vs 43 (37–52) years) and the proportion of men was lesser (75.4 vs 60.9%) compared with daytime workers. The numbers of daytime and night/shift workers in the action and maintenance SOC were 2113 (26.9%) and 309 (22.2%), respectively. Compared with daytime workers, night/shift workers were less likely to demonstrate action and maintenance SOC (adjusted OR (AOR): 0.85, 95% CI: 0.74 to 0.98). In a subgroup analysis that included only those with long working hours (≥10 hours/day), results revealed a strong inverse association between night/shift work and action and maintenance SOC (AOR: 0.65, 95% CI: 0.48 to 0.86). A significant interaction was observed between long working hours and night/shift work (P for interaction=0.04).ConclusionsIn workers with overweight or obesity, a night/shift work schedule was associated with a lower motivation for behavioural change in lifestyle, and the association was strengthened in those with long working hours.
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Ishizuka, Shinya, Hideki Hiraiwa, Satoshi Yamashita, Hiroki Oba, Yusuke Kawamura, Takefumi Sakaguchi, Masaru Idota, Yukiharu Hasegawa, and Shiro Imagama. "Long-Term Survivorship of Closed-Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy for Severe Knee Osteoarthritis: Outcomes After 10 to 37 Years." Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine 9, no. 10 (October 1, 2021): 232596712110469. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23259671211046964.
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Background: High tibial osteotomy (HTO) was developed as a joint-preserving procedure to treat relatively young patients with isolated medial compartmental knee osteoarthritis (OA). Long-term survivorship after HTO is important to determine whether patients will need additional surgery. Purpose: To determine the long-term (>35-year) survivorship and prognostic factors for closed-wedge HTO (CWHTO) for severe medial OA. Study Design: Case series; Level of evidence, 4. Methods: We retrospectively evaluated patients who underwent CWHTO for severe medial knee OA between 1983 and 2009 at our institution, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine (Nagoya, Japan). Patient demographics, follow-up period, and pre- and postoperative femoral-tibial angle (FTA) were reviewed. The patients or the relatives of the patients were interviewed by telephone to record postoperative status, including conversion to total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Results: Of the 74 CWHTO procedures performed, we evaluated 56 procedures in 45 patients (mean age at time of surgery, 56.8 years). The mean follow-up period was 17.1 years. Nine knees (16.1%) underwent conversion to TKA. The mean time to TKA conversion was 15.6 years. Kaplan-Meier analysis revealed a 10-year survival rate of 90.1%, a 15-year rate of 83.8%, a 20-year rate of 75.9%, and a 35-year rate of 75.9%. Log-rank test showed that age ≥55 years ( P = .044), body mass index (BMI) ≥25 kg/m2 ( P = .0016), and preoperative FTA <185° ( P = .0034) were risk factors associated with TKA conversion. Multivariate analyses adjusted for age and sex identified BMI ≥25 kg/m2 (hazard ratio [HR], 13.4; 95% CI, 1.7-106.9; P = .014) and preoperative FTA <185° (HR, 4.2; 95% CI, 1.1-16.6; P = .04) as risk factors associated with TKA conversion. Conclusion: The survival rate of CWHTO for severe medial knee OA was 90.1% at 10 years, 83.8% at 15 years, and 75.9% at 20 years and 35 years. Furthermore, a BMI ≥25 kg/m2 and FTA <185° were the independent risk factors associated with TKA conversion after CWHTO.
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Matsuo, Yukinori, Yasushi Nagata, Masashi Wakabayashi, Satoshi Ishikura, Hiroshi Onishi, Masaki Kokubo, Katsuyuki Karasawa, Yoshiyuki Shioyama, Rikiya Onimaru, and Masahiro Hiraoka. "Impact of pre-treatment C-reactive protein level and skeletal muscle mass on outcomes after stereotactic body radiotherapy for T1N0M0 non-small cell lung cancer: a supplementary analysis of the Japan Clinical Oncology Group study JCOG0403." Journal of Radiation Research 62, no. 5 (August 5, 2021): 901–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jrr/rrab065.
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Abstract This study aimed to evaluate the impact of pretreatment C-reactive protein (CRP) and skeletal muscle mass (SMM) on outcomes after stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for T1N0M0 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) as a supplementary analysis of JCOG0403. Patients were divided into high and low CRP groups with a threshold value of 0.3 mg/dL. The paraspinous musculature area at the level of the 12th thoracic vertebra was measured on simulation computed tomography (CT). When the area was lower than the sex-specific median, the patient was classified into the low SMM group. Toxicities, overall survival (OS) and cumulative incidence of cause-specific death were compared between the groups. Sixty operable and 92 inoperable patients were included. In the operable cohort, OS significantly differed between the CRP groups (log-rank test p = 0.009; 58.8% and 83.6% at three years for high and low CRP, respectively). This difference in OS was mainly attributed to the difference in lung cancer deaths (Gray’s test p = 0.070; 29.4% and 7.1% at three years, respectively). No impact of SMM on OS was observed. The incidence of Grade 3–4 toxicities tended to be higher in the low SMM group (16.7% vs 0%, Fisher’s exact test p = 0.052). In the inoperable cohort, no significant impact on OS was observed for either CRP or SMM. The toxicity incidence was also not different between the CRP and SMM groups. The present study suggests that pretreatment CRP level may provide prognostic information in operable patients receiving SBRT for early-stage NSCLC.
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Teixeira Da Silva, Jaime A. "Novel Factors Affecting Shoot Culture of Chrysanthemum (Dendranthema × Grandiflora)." Botanica Lithuanica 20, no. 1 (June 1, 2014): 27–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/botlit-2014-0004.
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Abstract Teixeira da Silva J.A., 2014: Novel factors affecting shoot culture of chrysanthemum (Dendranthema × grandiflora) [Alternatyvių standiklių, skystų terpės priedų, CO2 sodrinimo ir kitų faktorių įtaka chrizantemų (Dendranthema × grandiflora (Ramat.) Kitamura) ūglių kultūrų auginimui]. - Bot. Lith., 20(1): 27-40. Chrysanthemum (Dendranthema × grandiflora (Ramat.) Kitamura) continues to be one of the most important ornamental plants in the world. Although the tissue culture of chrysanthemum has been widely explored, several unexplored topics remain, and, in developing countries, there is always the constant search for reducing the cost of raising tissue cultured plants. In this study, by focusing on a leading market cultivar in Japan, ‘Shuhouno- chikara’, alternatives to agar (as the gelling agent) and sucrose (as the carbon source) for chrysanthemum tissue culture were sought. Both Gellan gum and agar resulted in greater shoot and root production than all other gelling agents tested, including Bacto agar, phytagel, oatmeal agar, potato dextrose agar, barley starch and corn starch. All of the alternative liquid-based medium additives tested (low and full fat milk, Coca-cola ®, coffee, Japanese green, Oolong and Darjeeling teas) negatively impacted plant growth, stunted roots and decreased chlorophyll content (SPAD value) of leaves. There was no difference between plants grown on medium with refined sucrose or table sugar, although poor growth was observed when stevia (Stevia rebaudiana) extract was used. Photoautotrophic micropropagation increased significantly the shoot mass relative to control plants, even when the density of plants was doubled. Aeration improved plantlet growth. The tetrazolium test was a simple, but effective essay to see the intensity and strength of root growth in different basal media. MDH activity decreased in the root+shoot extract of plants grown on most alternative media, but remained high on TCSGM (Teixeira’s chrysanthemum shoot growth medium), Gellan gum, aerated and CO2-enriched cultures. A similar trend was observed for deaminating GDH, while an opposite trend was observed for aminating GDH activity. These experiments indicate that tissue culture research for chrysanthemum still provides a rich field for exploration with interesting and valuable results
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Polkhova, E. V., and A. A. Sergunin. "The Arctic Lobby in Japan: Structures, Mechanisms of Infl uence and the Role in Developing Cooperation with the Russian Federation." Moscow University Bulletin of World Politics 12, no. 4 (December 20, 2020): 99–130. http://dx.doi.org/10.48015/2076-7404-2020-12-4-99-130.
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Japan’s Arctic strategy, particularly its geopolitical and economic aspects, has been thoroughly reviewed by both Russian and foreign experts. However, the structures and mechanisms behind this strategy remain somewhat obscure. This paper is intended to partially fill this gap by resorting to the study of the Japanese Arctic lobby. The authors identify the key interest groups which stand for an active Arctic policy and for cooperation with the Russian Federation in that regard. These include, in particular, the energy sector representatives that sought to take part in the construction of liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants. The decision of the Japanese government to join the Western anti-Russian sanctions disrupted these plans. However, the adoption of S. Abe’s 8-points plan in 2016 opened up new opportunities for the Russia-Japan Arctic cooperation. Yet another two groups of interest are equally interested in strengthening bilateral relations — shipping and ship-building industries. They also suffered from anti-Russian sanctions but now they are actively engaged in the construction of the LNG jetties near Murmansk and in Kamchatka. There is also a growing interest towards the Arctic region within the fishery industry — a very important sector of Japan’s economy. Cooperation with Russia increases Tokyo’s capacity to participate in the creation of international legal regime of fisheries in the Central Arctic ocean. Finally, the authors identify another important element of the Japanese Arctic lobby — regional elites. In that regard, they examine activities of the Hokkaido prefecture to engage in development of the Northern Sea Route. The paper examines the key mechanisms used by the Arctic lobby to influence the authorities, including sectoral, regional and national business associations, research and educational centers and mass media, as well as ‘built-in lobby’ in relevant ministries and agencies responsible for making and implementing Tokyo’s Arctic policies. The authors conclude that, although the Arctic lobby is unable to persuade the Government to remove anti-Russian sanctions altogether, elaboration of a selective strategy of cooperation with the Japanese business community could strengthen bilateral relations and provide new opportunities for exploiting natural resources of the Far North and developing the Russian Arctic.
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Pattanayak, Sibaprashad, Debabrata Saha, Bipin Kishore Bara, and Sanjit Kumar Nayak. "Palliative surgery in management of advanced carcinoma stomach and its outcome." International Surgery Journal 4, no. 1 (December 13, 2016): 300. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2349-2902.isj20164459.
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Background:Gastric cancer is the second leading cause of death from malignant disease World-wide and most frequently discovered in advanced stages. The incidence of gastric cancer in India is low compared to developed countries. But in India southern and northeast area more number of cases was diagnosed. More cases of cancer stomach are diagnosed in the early stages in Japan due to effective screening programme. Lack of such screening programme, ignorance about the disease and lack of awareness of warning signs of cancer lead to the detection of many cases in the advanced stage of gastric cancer. Where palliation is the mainstay of treatment. We discussed the different methods of palliative surgery and its outcome in this paper. Methods: This is a prospective study over 5 years February 2011 - 2016 January including 6 months follow up. 104 advanced carcinoma stomach patients were included in this study. To evaluate role of palliative surgery in advanced gastric cancer we analyse the data in the basis of presentation of disease, sex distribution, type of palliative surgery, relive of symptoms, preventions of complications, post-operative mortality morbidity, and overall survival.Results:In our study mean age of presentation is 58 years. Most common affected are male. Stage III disease are more common. Immediate post-operative mortality is 4 patients 7.14% comparable to the non-resection group 1 patients (2.63%). Symptoms relived 46 patients in resection group (82.14%), in non-resection group it is 16 (42.1%). Overall survival is (6 moths - 1 years) 19 (33.9%) patients, and in non-resection group it is only 2 (5.26%) patients. Median survival rate is 10 months.Conclusions:Palliative resection should be carried out for betterment of quality of life where it is possible. Relief from symptoms and complications can be achieved by resection of tumour mass in advanced carcinoma stomach.
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Mathrubootham, N. "Impact of Sex Education through Mass Media." Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine 22, no. 1 (January 1999): 9–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0975156419990103.
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Horne, John. "Sport and the Mass Media in Japan." Sociology of Sport Journal 22, no. 4 (December 2005): 415–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.22.4.415.
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The tendency in discussions of media consumption in the past decade has been to move away from political economy or the “production of consumption” perspective; it has been accompanied by a growing interest in the active audience, symbolic culture, and textual analysis. Though sport and the mass media are a popular research topic in English-language publications, the major focus has been on a narrow range of advanced capitalist economies. This article on the relationship between the mass media and sport in Japan takes issue with both these emphases and contributes to on-going debates about sport, the media, and the commodification of popular culture. First, it provides a sketch of episodes in the development of the mass media in Japan—especially the newspaper press, radio, and television—in conjunction with that of sport. The focal point is the involvement of business corporations in the development of relations between professional sport and the mass media and the underlying commercial logic that steers that development. Second, by focusing on Japanese examples, the article provides additional empirical data so that similarities and contrasts can be drawn among existing accounts of the development of mediasport in advanced capitalist countries. In particular, it is argued that much of the writing about sport and the mass media has been derived from examination of “Anglo-American” experiences. Attention to media and sport in Japan, both as an economic commodity and as a vehicle for the creation of meaningful discourse about national identity, raises questions about debates concerning sport, media, and globalization.
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Handayani, Diah. "Political Identity, Popular Culture, and Ideological Coercion: The Discourses of Feminist Movement in the Report of Ummi Magazine." Jurnal Pemberdayaan Masyarakat: Media Pemikiran dan Dakwah Pembangunan 5, no. 1 (June 18, 2021): 185–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/jpm.2021.051-08.
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This research examines the rise of Islamic populism in Indonesia and understands it as an instrument to clear a new pathway for populism movement into popular culture. Ummi magazine is one of the religious media used to be political vehicles of stablishing constituencies, especially for the Tarbiyah movement in the Soeharto era to the current tendency to popularize the Tarbiyah identity as a new lifestyle. Historically, The Tarbiyah movement in Indonesia is a social and political movement among Indonesian Muslimah students, especially activists in the Suharto period. Muslim middle class entrepreneurs launched a campaign of ‘economic jihad. This research uses a qualitative approach by interpreting and studying the data contained in Ummi Magazine. Media studies were carried out in the January 2017 to 2018 editions. The data obtained were described and associated with the magazine's transformation as an ideological medium and Muslim women's lifestyle today. 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Yoshida, T., M. Hashimoto, K. Murakami, K. Murata, K. Nishitani, R. Watanabe, T. Koyama, et al. "POS1482-HPR PAIN CATASTROPHIZING IS ASSOCIATED WITH RESIDUAL PAIN AFTER REACHING IMPROVED CONDITIONS OF SWOLLEN/TENDER JOINTS AND SERUM C-REACTIVE PROTEIN LEVEL." Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 80, Suppl 1 (May 19, 2021): 1025.2–1026. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2021-eular.1723.
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Background:It has long been recognized that immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), are prone to coexist with depression due to the effects of cytokines, and that these two illnesses lead to an elevation in patients’ pain. However, we often encounter patients with RA who suffer from residual pain despite an improvement in disease activity and inflammation. The specific psychological factors associated with residual pain have not yet been clarified. In addition to the traditional psychological factors, such as depression and anxiety, we focused on pain catastrophizing due to the distortion of pain perception and explored its association with residual pain.Objectives:To examine whether psychological factors, such as pain catastrophizing, depression, and anxiety, are associated with self-reported pain visual analogue scale (pain-VAS) scores in RA patients with 1 or less on 28joints- swollen/tender counts (SJC/TJC) and CRP.Methods:This was a cross-sectional study of 290 RA outpatients (85% of whom were women) with scores of less than 1 on SJC, TJC, and CRP, with a median (IQR) age of 66 (57–73) years. The participants completed questionnaires, including pain VAS (0–100 mm), Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS, 0–52 scale), and Hospital Depression and Anxiety Scale (HADS, 0–42 scale). Using linear regression analyses, we analysed whether PC (PCS ≥30), depression (HADS-D ≥11), and anxiety (HADS-A ≥11) (independent variables) were associated with pain VAS scores (dependent variable). After univariate regression analysis, multivariate analysis adjusted for confounding factors was performed.Results:Patients reported a wide range of pain severity with a median (range) pain VAS score of 9 (0–96mm). The prevalence of anxiety and depression were 5.5% and 5.9%, respectively. Meanwhile, 24.1% of the patients experienced pain catastrophizing. Pain catastrophizing was associated with pain VAS scores in univariate and multivariate analyses (Table 1). The presence of anxiety and depression was not associated with pain VAS scores in any model. Multivariate analysis of other covariates showed that age, disease duration, and presence of SJC/TJC of joints other than the 28 joints were positively correlated with pain VAS scores.Table 1.Univariate and multivariate regression analysis for independent variables associated with pain-VAS scoresUnivariateMultivariate independent variablesModel 1*Model 2**Pain catastrophizingEstimate3.74.13.695%CI 0.7 to 6.61.1 to 7.00.5 to 6.6p-value0.0150.0060.021AnxietyEstimate3.74.40.595%CI -1.9 to 9.2 -1.0 to 9.9 -3.5 to 7.9p value0.1980.1080.453DepressionEstimate3.54.23.995%CI -1.9 to 8.9 -1.1 to 9.5 -1.9 to 8.7p-value0.2040.1190.210The covariates in multivariate analysis are as follows: age, sex, body mass index, disease duration, Steinbrocker’s Stage, prednisolone dosage, biologic agents use, and presence of swollen joint counts/tender joint counts of joints other than the 28 joints.*Model 1: each psychological independent variable and the above covariates.**Model 2: all psychological independent variables and the above covariates.Conclusion:Pain catastrophizing was associated with pain VAS scores in RA patients with 1 or less on 28joints-SJC/TJC and CRP, emphasising that residual pain in the patients should be treated in a biopsychosocial framework focussing on pain catastrophizing.Disclosure of Interests:Tamami Yoshida: None declared, Motomu Hashimoto Speakers bureau: Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Eisai Co., Ltd.; and Eli Lilly and Company., Grant/research support from: Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Eisai Co., Ltd.; and Eli Lilly and Company., Kosaku Murakami Speakers bureau: Eisai Co., Ltd.; Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.; Pfizer Inc.; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Co; UCB Japan Co., Ltd.; Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.; and Astellas Pharma Inc., Consultant of: Eisai Co., Ltd.; Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.; Pfizer Inc.; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Co; UCB Japan Co., Ltd.; Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.; and Astellas Pharma Inc., Koichi Murata Speakers bureau: Eisai Co., Ltd. and Astellas Pharma Inc., Consultant of: Eisai Co., Ltd. and Astellas Pharma Inc., Kohei Nishitani Grant/research support from: Asahi-Kasei Pharma., Ryu Watanabe Speakers bureau: Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Co; Pfizer Inc.; Sanofi S.A.; AbbVie GK; Asahi Kasei Pharma; Eisai Co., Ltd.; Eli Lilly and Company; Bristol-Myers Squibb; and Janssen Pharmaceutical K.K., Teruhide Koyama: None declared, Ritei Uehara: None declared, Masao Tanaka Speakers bureau: AbbVie GK, Asahi Kasei Pharma., Astellas Pharma Inc., Ayumi Pharmaceutical Co., Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Eisai Co., Ltd., Eli Lilly Japan K.K., Janssen Pharmaceutical K.K., Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Co., Novartis Pharma K.K., Pfizer Inc., Taisyo Pharma., Ltd., UCB Japan Co., Ltd., Grant/research support from: AbbVie GK, Asahi Kasei Pharma., Astellas Pharma Inc., Ayumi Pharmaceutical Co., Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Eisai Co., Ltd., Eli Lilly Japan K.K., Janssen Pharmaceutical K.K., Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Co., Novartis Pharma K.K., Pfizer Inc., Taisyo Pharma., Ltd., UCB Japan Co., Ltd., Hiromu Ito Grant/research support from: Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eisai Co, Taisyo Pharma., and Mochida., Shuichi Matsuda: None declared
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Yoshimura, H., T. Koike, K. Mamoto, Y. Sugioka, T. Okano, M. Tada, K. Inui, and H. Nakamura. "POS0532 AveRAGE PREDNISOLONE DOSE OF ONLY 1 MG PER DAY WAS RISK FACTOR FOR CLINICAL FRACTURES IN PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS - NINE-YEAR FINDINGS OF THE TOMORROW STUDY." Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 80, Suppl 1 (May 19, 2021): 500.1–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2021-eular.1868.
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Background:Previous cohort studies showed that the use of prednisolone (PSL) was a risk factor for clinical fractures in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, there are few reports on relationship between PSL dose and clinical fractures.Objectives:The present study aimed to determine the effect of PSL dose on the incidence of clinical fractures in the RA patients treated with PSL.Methods:We evaluated anthropoetric parameters, bone mineral density (BMD), disease activity score 28-erythrocyte sedimentation rate (DAS28-ESR), RA medication (methotrexate (MTX) dose, use of biologic disease modified anti-rheumatic-drugs (bDMARDs), and PSL dose) and the incidence of clinical fractures during nine years in RA patients who participant the TOMORROW study (UMIN000003876), which is a 10-years prospective cohort study. Data on clinical fracture was self-reported on the questionnaires. In this analysis, the data of RA patients treated with PSL at least once during nine-year period were evaluated. We analyzed the average dose of PSL until the incidence of the clinical fractures. The risk factor for clinical fractures were analyzed by using Cox proportional hazard model with adjustment for age, sex, body mass index (BMI), and smoking history.Results:We analyzed the data of 67 RA patients treated with PSL. Among them, median age was 61.8 year, 56 patients (83.6%) were female, 47 patients (70.1%) were never smoker and median disease duration was 12.1 year. The number of patients treated with PSL at baseline was 48 (69.1%). During 9 years, 23 clinical fractures were observed in 67 patients, and the incidence of clinical fracture was 0.046/person-year. In 19 patients, who were not treated with PSL at baseline but treated with PSL at least once during 9 years, 5 clinical fractures were observed. In 67 RA patients, Cox proportional hazard analysis revealed that baseline disease activities, BMD at thoracic vertebrae and medication were not significant risk factors for clinical fractures. However, average PSL dose of more than only 1 mg/day was a significant risk factor for the incidence of clinical fracture (hazard ratio (HR): 2.80; p=0.03) (Table 1).Table 1.Adjusted hazard ratio for clinical fractures in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with PSL.* Adjusted Hazard ratio95% Confidence intervalP valueCRP (mg/dL)1.290.88-1.910.19RF (IU/mL)0.990.99-1.000.07ACPA (U/mL)0.990.98-1.000.18DAS28-ESR0.990.71-1.390.97BMD at thoracic vertebrae (mg/cm2)0.020.00-1.000.05bDMARDs use0.550.23-1.320.18Bisphosphonate use2.330.95-5.710.07average dose of MTX (mg/week)1.020.92-1.120.74average score of DAS28-ESR1.150.76-1.750.52average dose of PSL more than 1mg/day2.81.09-7.240.03*Hazard ratio was adjusted for age, sex, body mass index (BMI), and smoking history. RF, Rheumatoid factor; ACPA, Anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody; DAS28-ESR, disease activity score 28-erythrocyte sedimentation rate; BMD, Bone mineral density; bDMARDs, biologic disease modified anti-rheumatic-drugs; MTX, methotrexate; PSL, prednisolone.Conclusion:In RA patients treated with PSL, average PSL dose of only 1mg/day significantly increased the risk for the incidence of clinical fractures. Even for established RA patients, continuous use or initiation of low PSL dose was apparently significant risk factor for clinical fractures.Disclosure of Interests:Hitoshi Yoshimura: None declared, Tatsuya Koike Grant/research support from: Takeda Pharmaceutical, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation, Chugai Pharmaceutical, Eisai, Abbott Japan, Teijin Pharma, Banyu Pharmaceutical and Ono Pharmaceutical, Kenji Mamoto: None declared, Yuko Sugioka: None declared, Tadashi Okano: None declared, Masahiro Tada: None declared, Kentaro Inui Grant/research support from: Janssen Pharmaceutical K.K. and Astellas Pharma Inc, Hiroaki Nakamura: None declared
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Brown, Jane D., and Sarah N. Keller. "Can the Mass Media Be Healthy Sex Educators?" Family Planning Perspectives 32, no. 5 (September 2000): 255. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2648180.
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Ikuo, Kabashima, and Jeffrey Broadbent. "Referent Pluralism: Mass Media and Politics in Japan." Journal of Japanese Studies 12, no. 2 (1986): 329. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/132391.
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Takizawa, Tatsuko. "Music Education and the Mass Media in Japan." International Journal of Music Education os-6, no. 1 (November 1985): 3–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/025576148500600101.
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TANIGUCHI, MASAKI. "Changing Media, Changing Politics in Japan." Japanese Journal of Political Science 8, no. 1 (March 14, 2007): 147–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1468109907002514.
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This paper demonstrates that recent changes in the mass media, especially TV programs, change democratic practice. I argue that this theory is applicable not only to the US, but also to Japan after the 1990s. This paper is organized as follows: the first section confirms that the increase in TV news after the 1980s is driven by an increase in ‘soft’ or ‘infotaining’ political news. The second section describes the changes in political practice – elections, policy processes, and party organization brought about by this change in the mass media, using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
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Satou, Akira, Naoko Asano, Seiichi Kato, Ahmed Ali Elsayed, Naoya Nakamura, Koichi Ohshima, and Shigeo Nakamura. "Prognostic Impact of MUM1/IRF4 Expression in Burkitt Lymphoma (BL): A Reappraisal of 89 BL Patients in Japan." Blood 126, no. 23 (December 3, 2015): 3886. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood.v126.23.3886.3886.
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Abstract Background: Burkitt lymphoma (BL) is a B-cell lymphoma with high proliferating ability, derived from germinal center B-cells (GCB). The MUM-1/IRF4 gene has been identified as a myeloma-associated oncogene which is activated at the transcription level as a result of t(6;14)(p25;q32) chromosomal translocation. In normal lymphohematopoietic tissue, MUM1 protein has an important role in lymphocyte activation and in terminal B cell differentiation, and is expressed in plasma cells and in a small percentage of GCB. It is known that some of BL express MUM1, suggesting late GCB origin, but its characteristics still remain controversial. Patients and methods: A total of 91 patients previously diagnosed as BL were retrospectively analyzed. Two patients were excluded from the study, because translocation or amplificationof BCL-2 was detected by FISH in addition to translocation of MYC. The other 89 cases were confirmed as BL based on morphology, immunophenotype and the result of FISH analysis for translocation of MYC and BCL-2. The expression of MUM-1 was examined by immunohistochemistry. Furthermore, to characterize MUM1-positive (MUM1+) BL, we have compared the clinicopathologic characteristics of MUM1+ BL and MUM1-negative (MUM1-) BL. Results: Forty out of the 89 cases showed positivity for MUM1. The clinical characteristics of 40 MUM1+ BL were as follows. There were 20 men and 20 women, with a median age of 28 years, ranging from 3 to 83 years old. Thirty three cases (83%) showed extranodal involvement at presentation. The most frequent sites of extranodal involvement were bone marrow (n=14), lower gastrointestinal tract (n=14), central nervous system (n=5) and peripheral blood (n=5). Eight (20%) of MUM1+ BL patients had a bulky mass, 27 (69%) were categorized as stage III/IV, and 14 (36%) had B symptoms. With regard to laboratory data at presentation, 35 patients (90%) had elevated level of LDH. According to international prognostic index, 27 cases (69%) were identified into high/high-intermediate. Compared with MUM1- BL, patients with MUM1+ BL showed significantly younger onset (p=0.0053) and a higher ratio of females (p=0.007). The MUM1+ BL was also featured by higher percentage of elevated level of LDH, and tended to have anemia (hemoglobin level <10g/dL) (p=0.049 and p=0.074, respectively). We have also highlighted the difference in the involved sites between the two groups. The MUM1+ group showed significantly lower ratio of stomach involvement (p=0.0060), and tended to more frequently involve peripheral blood, breast and kidney (p=0.088, p=0.090 and p=0.090, respectively). Regarding the therapy and prognosis, majority of the cases received intensive, short-duration chemotherapy, which is the standard therapy for BL. Patients with MUM1+ BL showed significantly worse overall survival curve compared with MUM1- BL (p=0.042). Of note, comparing MUM1+ and MUM1- BL cases of adults (age>20 years old), MUM1+ cases showed more significantly worse prognosis (p=0.0096). (Figure 1) Conclusion: MUM1+ BL showed significantly worse prognosis, particularly in adult cases, compared with MUM1- BL. In addition, the difference of the onset age, sex ratio, and involved sites between the two groups was highlighted. Our results demonstrate that MUM1 expression might predict worse prognosis of BL, and MUM1+ BL should be distinguished from MUM1- BL. Disclosures No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.
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Owen, Diana, and Jack Dennis. "Sex differences in politicization: The influence of mass media." Journal of Women, Politics & Policy 12, no. 4 (1992): 19–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1554477x.1992.9970653.
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Махачашвілі, Р. К., and А. О. Сидоркіна. "NEW MASS MEDIA DISCOURSE IN JAPAN: NATURE, FEATURES AND DEVELOPMENT." Studia Philologica, no. 12 (2019): 38–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2311-2425.2019.12.4.
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The article is devoted to new media discourse in Japan. Considering the fact that new technologies, such as Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, phygital space, big data, etc. have changed the media landscape dramatically, we now are talking about a new type of discourse: digital discourse. The principles of identifying and excluding new media discourse are analyzed in this article. The article reviews the main theoretical and conceptual approaches to studying new media discourse in its dynamic and overlooks its special aspects comparing to TV and print media discourse. A case study is Japanese new media analyzed as a complex open system prone to fluctuations and capable of transformations. This article attempts to provide a better understanding of the new phenomenon of digital space and the way media discourse can develop in its framework. As the modes of communication are changing and media discourse is fluctuating as well, it is opening new perspectives to further media studying that will consider not only new parameters of the phenomenon but also its socio-cultural context.
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Reader, Ian. "Positively Promoting Pilgrimage: Media Representations of Pilgrimage in Japan." Nova Religio 10, no. 3 (February 1, 2007): 13–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2007.10.3.13.
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It is widely argued that the Japanese mass media generally only report on religions and religious organizations negatively. This paper shows, however, via an examination of mass media portrayals of pilgrimage in Japan, that there are contexts in which activities at religious centers are very positively presented in the mass media. Since the 1920s, pilgrimages have been represented in an extremely favorable light by broadcasters, journalists, newspapers and national television broadcasting organizations, with such representations making a significant contribution to the growth of pilgrim numbers in recent times. However, a close examination of how pilgrimages are presented in the mass media, indicates that they are treated primarily as symbols of culture and tradition rather than as manifestations of religion——a differentiation that raises questions about the reasons behind the seeming negative stance of the mass media towards religious organizations and religion in general.
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Fisher, Glenn. "Mass media effects on sex role attitudes of incarcerated men." Sex Roles 20, no. 3-4 (February 1989): 191–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00287991.
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Baffelli, Erica. "Mass Media and Religion in Japan: Mediating the Leader’s Image." Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture 4, no. 1 (February 1, 2007): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.16997/wpcc.75.
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Hunter, Janet. "The state and the mass media in Japan, 1918–1945." International Affairs 65, no. 3 (1989): 587. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2621810.
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Taketoshi, Yamamoto, and Gregory J. Kasza. "The State and the Mass Media in Japan, 1918-1945." Journal of Japanese Studies 16, no. 1 (1990): 187. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/132508.
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Shillony, Ben-Ami, and Gregory J. Kasza. "The State and the Mass Media in Japan, 1918-1945." American Historical Review 95, no. 5 (December 1990): 1605. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2162857.
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Mitchell, Richard H., and Gregory J. Kasza. "The State and the Mass Media in Japan, 1918-1945." Monumenta Nipponica 43, no. 4 (1988): 495. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2384809.
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Aboagye, Richard Gyan, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Collins Adu, John Elvis Hagan, Hubert Amu, and Sanni Yaya. "Mass Media Exposure and Safer Sex Negotiation among Women in Sexual Unions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Analysis of Demographic and Health Survey Data." Behavioral Sciences 11, no. 5 (April 28, 2021): 63. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs11050063.
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(1) Background: Improving sexual autonomy among women in sexual unions comes with various benefits, including the reduction of sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections. We examined the relationship between mass media exposure and safer sex negotiation among women in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). (2) Methods: The study involved a cross-sectional analysis of Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data of 29 sub-Saharan African countries. A total of 224,647 women aged 15–49 were included in our analyses. We examined the association between mass media exposure and safer sex negotiation using binary logistic regression analysis. The results are presented using a crude odds ratio (cOR) and adjusted odds ratio (aOR), with their respective confidence intervals (CIs). Statistical significance was set at p < 0.05. (3) Results: The overall prevalence of safer sex negotiation among women in sexual unions in SSA was 71.6% (71.4–71.8). Women exposed to mass media had higher odds of negotiating for safer sex compared with those who had no exposure (aOR = 1.94; 95% CI = 1.86–2.02), and this persisted after controlling for covariates (maternal age, wealth index, maternal educational level, partner’s age, partner’s educational level, sex of household head, religion, place of residence, and marital status) (aOR = 1.40; 95% CI = 1.35–1.46). The disaggregated results showed higher odds of safer sex negotiation among women exposed to mass media in all the individual countries, except Ghana, Comoros, Rwanda, and Namibia. (4) Conclusions: The findings could inform policies (e.g., transformative mass media educational seminars) and interventions (e.g., face-to-face counselling; small group sensitization sessions) in SSA on the crucial role of mass media in increasing safer sex practice among women in sexual unions. To accelerate progress towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal five’s targets on empowering all women and safeguarding their reproductive rights, the study recommends that countries such as Ghana, Comoros, Rwanda, and Namibia need to intensify their efforts (e.g., regular sensitization campaigns) in increasing safer sex negotiation among women to counter power imbalances in sexual behaviour.
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Gifari, Ichsan, and Kurniawaty Iskandar. "ANALISIS SUBJEKTIFITAS MEDIA DARING JEPANG MENGENAI ISU LARANGAN KELUAR MASUK JEPANG PADA MASA PANDEMI VIRUS COVID-19: SEBUAH PENELITIAN SEMIOTIK." HUMANIKA 27, no. 2 (December 7, 2020): 82–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/humanika.v27i2.33494.
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The polarization between conservative and progressive media created a middle ground for the print media to maintain sufficient readerships which are decreasing due to the declining Japanese birth rate. But why it relates to ‘security’, what is the reason? This research aims to examine news articles from the Yomiuri Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun mass media in English, namely, The Japan News and The Asahi Shimbun, as a reference medium to understand the framing between conservative and progressive Japanese mass media regarding the issue of prohibiting entry and exit of Japan for the international community during the pandemic. Researchers used qualitative methods, content analysis, with a semiotics approach in which researcher used the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) software to filter out low-frequency nouns with a number> 5 which became the key vocabulary to understand the debate on the prohibition of entry and leaving Japan during January- August 2020. No less than 19 news articles were collected from The Japan News and 21 news articles were collected from The Asahi Shimbun by searching for the terms Ban/ Re-entry/ Travel/ Entry. After being filtered, 22 nouns >5 were found which were used by The Japan News and The Asahi Shimbun. In addition, there are 5 nouns found only in one medium with a total of >5. The result shows that The Japan News is a pro-government media that rarely criticizes the government. Criticism will be made if government policies disrupt the economy and are related to the Keidanren (Japan Business Association). On the other hand, The Asahi Shimbun is a counter-government media that criticize the government but has close ties to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. To understand the Japanese mass media information data strategically, both mass media have an important role in the international community.
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Maree, Claire. "Weddings and white dresses: Media and sexual citizenship in Japan." Sexualities 20, no. 1-2 (August 1, 2016): 212–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460716645790.
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Representations of gender and sexuality in mainstream media operate to both shape the contours of, and contest the limits to, sexual citizenship. The ‘citational practices’ of media representations mould contemporary understandings of these limits. In this article, the author examines mainstream and social media reports of two separate same-sex wedding ceremonies in Japan; the first at a queer community event in 2007 and the second at a major theme park in 2013. Through citations and quotations, a multitude of voices are embedded in the media texts. In the 2007 case, increased media visibility is mitigated by citational practices that clearly mark the same-sex wedding as devoid of legal standing. Whereas media reports situate the 2013 ceremony in the context of marriage equality trends internationally, an instance of possible discrimination is emphasised as being a ‘misunderstanding’. Similarly, a microanalysis of a light news documentary of the ceremony uncovers citational practices that highlight the importance of ‘forgiveness’ or ‘tolerance’ for ‘mutual coexistence’ in society. Furthermore, the reporting confines the ceremony to a ‘fairytale’-like ‘foreign’ domain. The process of ‘othering’ issues of sexual citizenship is linked to a cyclical process since the 1950s wherein representations of queerness are posited as ‘new’ forms of being in Japan. Discourse surrounding sexual citizenship is thereby projected into a non-domestic, non-specific future time.
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Aman, Hiroyuki, Norihiro Kasuga, and Hiroshi Moriyasu. "Mass media effects on trading activities: television broadcasting evidence from Japan." Applied Economics 50, no. 42 (April 2, 2018): 4522–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2018.1458192.
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Fekete, S., A. Schmidtke, Y. Takahashi, E. Etzersdorfer, M. Upanne, and P. Osvath. "Mass Media, Cultural Attitudes, and Suicide." Crisis 22, no. 4 (July 2001): 170–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027//0227-5910.22.4.170.
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Summary: Many studies indicate that the suicidal behavior in a society is affected by the suicide stories publicized. Cultural valuations appear in the way media present self-destruction. The reflection of sociocultural attitudes toward suicide can be observed and analyzed in these texts. In this research, reports about suicide (n = 2203) in the years from 1981 and 1991 taken from daily newspapers were gathered—three central and regional papers in each country. A content analysis was performed of the suicide reports in Hungary (n = 244), Japan (n = 684), the United States (n = 265), Germany (former West n = 458, former East n = 60), Austria (n = 405), and Finland (n = 87), on the basis of the following variables: mentioning of the name, personal data, prominence of the suicidal person, qualification of the suicide, methods, motives, positive or negative consequences, alternatives, and the expression(s) used to refer to the act. After a coding process, an analysis was conducted as to whether any significant differences existed in the rate of the several characteristics in the countries from the point of view of the possible imitation-identification and of the cultural differences are the most important findings interpreted.[sentence is unclear]
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Hiroi, Osamu, Shunji Mikami, and Kakuko Miyata. "A Study of Mass Media Reporting in Emergencies." International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters 3, no. 1 (March 1985): 21–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/028072708500300103.
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This paper examines the operations of mass media in disasters, the content of messages in disaster reporting, and the distortion in reporting warnings and disasters, based on empirical studies in several communities in Japan. In the warning stage, we found that the broadcast media are the primary source of information in most cases. However, the warnings often did not reach a complete range of audience, nor could it induce an adaptive response among these recipients. As for the mass media operation during and after the disasters, we found that the difficulties in mobilizing resources, uncertainties in reliable news sources, and malfuntioning communication channels were the main obstacles in reporting damages. The main characteristics of the content of mass media reporting in disasters are described. Six types of information are found in the disaster reporting of the broadcast media: Information on (1) advice or directions, (2) disaster agent, (3) safety message, (4) damage, (5) countermeasures, and (6) restoration. The results of the content analysis of the broadcast of two stations on the day of the Nihonkai-Chuubu Earthquake shows that personal messages and damages information were the most heavily broadcast. This did not always match the information needs of the residents. The media in Japan tend to exaggerate damages in disasters, leading to the distorted perception of hazards. They also tend not to report sufficiently the news people want to get. The reasons for these inaccurate reportings are: (1) journalist's attitude to news editing and reporting, and (2) distorted images or myths among journalists. The content of newspaper reporting of a false warning was analyzed as a case study.
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Nobutaka, Inoue. "Media and New Religious Movements in Japan." Journal of Religion in Japan 1, no. 2 (2012): 121–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/221183412x645308.
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Abstract Many modern new religions in Japan, by using the mass media in their missionary work, managed to increase their influence on society in a very short time. With time, their use of media has also diversified, now covering all available formats: newspapers and journals, radio and TV, CS and video, the Internet and even smart phones. One of the characteristics of modern new religions is that they are associations composed of people bound by a common purpose rather than by shared blood or territory on which the traditional religions of Shrine Shintō and Sectarian Buddhism were established. It is this new principle of association that allowed new religions such as Sōka Gakkai, Risshō Kōseikai, Reiyūkai, Tenrikyō and Shinnyoen to quickly gain more than a million followers. In the mid-1990s, Japan entered the rapid information age, marked especially by the widespread use of the Internet. However, the changes that the Internet has brought to society differ from those provoked by the earlier modernization process. In this paper, I would like to discuss some of the difficulties that modern new religions face in the Internet age, particularly in the management of new forms of information that can now be sent and received.
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SHIRK, SUSAN L. "Changing Media, Changing Foreign Policy in China." Japanese Journal of Political Science 8, no. 1 (March 14, 2007): 43–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1468109907002472.
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China has undergone a media revolution that has transformed the domestic context for making foreign policy as well as domestic policy. The commercialization of the mass media has changed the way leaders and publics interact in the process of making foreign policy. As they compete with one another, the new media naturally try to appeal to the tastes of their potential audiences. Editors make choices about which stories to cover based on their judgments about which ones will resonate best with audiences. In China today, that means a lot of stories about Japan, Taiwan, and the United States, the topics that are the objects of Chinese popular nationalism. The publicity given these topics makes them domestic political issues because they are potential focal points for elite dis-agreement and mass collective action, and thereby constrains the way China' leaders and diplomats deal with them. Even relatively minor events involving China' relations with Japan, Taiwan, or the United States become big news, and therefore relations with these three governments must be carefully handled by the politicians in the Communist Party Politburo Standing Committee. Because of the Internet, it is impossible for Party censors to screen out news from Japan, Taiwan or the United States that might upset the public. Common knowledge of such news forces officials to react to every slight, no matter how small. Foreign policy makers feel especially constrained by nationalist public opinion when it comes to its diplomacy with Japan. Media marketization and the Internet have helped make Japan China' most emotionally charged international relationship.
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Martinson, David L. "Sex, Pornography, and the Mass Media: How Should Social Studies Teachers Respond?" Social Studies 98, no. 2 (March 2007): 43–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.3200/tsss.98.2.43-48.
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MIDORI AOYAGI. "Mass Media Coverage on Climate Change Issues and Public Opinion in Japan." Development and Society 43, no. 2 (December 2014): 207–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.21588/dns.2014.43.2.004.
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Nworgu, K. O. "Mass media and the premarital sexual behaviour of the adolescents in Imo State, Nigeria." Revista Brasileira de Gestão Ambiental e Sustentabilidade 7, no. 17 (2020): 1257–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.21438/rbgas(2020)071716.
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The authors set to investigate the influence of the Mass Media on adolescents' knowledge of and behavior towards sex and sexuality, especially, regarding early sex, the use of contraceptives and condoms. The participants were drawn from five secondary schools in Owerri Municipality, the Capital of Imo State, Nigeria. The simple size included 100 respondents made up of males and females between the ages of 10 and 19 years drawn from simple random sampling. Questionnaire containing semi-structured (close-ended) questions. Interview sessions involving media workers form select radio, television and newspaper houses in Owerri were conducted. Three research questions and one hypothesis were used to straighten the study. Results showed the respondents mean age for first sex is 17.8 years. The findings show that the media did not have very significant influence at 0.05 on adolescents' sexual behavior, especially, as regards, having first sex experience. This result is explained by the fact that most the respondents lived in boarding hostels and may not have access to media, while in school. It was recommended the influence of family members, including parents and peer groups should be given priority attention when adolescent sexual behavior is discussed, especially, in Nigeria where extended family members play a vital role in the socialization of the adolescents.
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Zhang, Liying, Xiaoming Li, and Iqbal H. Shah. "Where do Chinese adolescents obtain knowledge of sex? Implications for sex education in China." Health Education 107, no. 4 (June 26, 2007): 351–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09654280710759269.
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PurposeSex education in China has been promoted for many years, but limited data are available regarding the sources from which adolescents receive sex‐related knowledge. The present study was designed to examine the sources from which Chinese adolescents obtain their information on puberty, sexuality and STI/HIV/AIDS, and whether there are any differences in sources of sex knowledge according to adolescents' demographic characteristics and sexual status.Design/methodology/approachThe data were collected in 2001 in Changchun City, China. Unmarried adolescents 15‐19 years of age (322 males and 360 females) were included in a cross‐sectional survey using self‐administered questionnaires.FindingsSchoolteachers and mass media were identified as the two most important sources of sex knowledge. Sources of sex knowledge among adolescents on various topics (puberty, sexuality, and STI/HIV/AIDS) differed by the level of taboo associated with these topics in Chinese culture. The percentage of adolescents obtaining knowledge for puberty, sexuality, and STI/HIV/AIDS from teachers declined by topic (45.4, 30.7 and 18.4 percent, respectively), while the percentage of adolescents obtaining knowledge from television/movie increased by topic (6.7, 12.2 and 27.5 percent, respectively). Adolescents obtained knowledge on topics with less taboo (e.g. puberty) from teachers and obtained knowledge on topics with more taboo (e.g. sexuality, STI/HIV/AIDS) from mass media. However, this differs by having been sexually experienced or not. Parents were the primary source for sex knowledge on less taboo subjects. Doctors were the primary source for STI/HIV/AIDS knowledge. Sexually active adolescents obtained sex knowledge mainly from peers or mass media, while those adolescents who were not sexually experienced identified teachers and parents as the main sources of sex knowledge.Originality/valueThe current study illustrates that it is necessary to improve and enhance current sex education programs in China by recognizing and strengthening the role of parents, teachers, and health care professionals in adolescent sex education.
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Johnston, Jessica. "Subscribing to Sex Edutainment." Television & New Media 18, no. 1 (August 1, 2016): 76–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1527476416644977.
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Although abstinence-only programs in the United States have historically failed to provide medically accurate information on sexual health, young people in the twenty-first century have turned to YouTube to answer their sex questions. The accessible and engaging format of the YouTube video has helped some sex educators achieve Internet fame among a mass audience of users devoted to watching their web series and interacting with them on social media. Using two sex education channels (Laci Green’s Sex Plus and Lindsey Doe’s Sexplanations) as case studies, this article investigates the ways in which YouTube stardom shapes the production of and engagement with online sex education videos. In doing so, the article uncovers how Internet fame helps to create a brand of sex education salient to audiences across media platforms that rely on the illusion of face-to-face interaction, the development of an authoritative yet approachable identity, and the cultivation of a virtual community.
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Koma, Kyoko. "Introduction: Modern Japan and Korea seen through various media." Acta Orientalia Vilnensia 12, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 7–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/aov.2011.0.1093.
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Vytautas Magnus UniversityThis issue discusses cultural aspects of modern Japan and Korea seen through various media. Media in this issue is not simple mass media like newspapers, journals, and TV, but media in a much broader meaning. According to Helen Katz, media has two roles: to inform and to entertain. Newspapers inform but also entertain readers. Literature could also be considered a medium to entertain readers. Autobiographic literature or non-fiction literature informs a kind of reality. Fashion could be also considered a medium for a human being to transmit information (occupation, taste, identity) and entertain (for example, the fashionable style of singers permits them to entertain TV spectators). In this issue, we approach some cultural aspects of modern Japan and Korea as seen through several types of media from popular culture, film, fashion and newspapers to cultural media as a tool of public diplomacy. Our topics are as follows....
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Gershon, Daphne. "More than a makeover: Discourses of masculinity, hyposexuality, and marriage in Queer Eye: We’re in Japan!" International Journal of Cultural Studies 25, no. 2 (December 7, 2021): 157–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13678779211064634.
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This article examines Anglo-American portrayals of sexual inactivity in Japan, a media narrative that has been critically overlooked, yet offers much insight into how the regulation of sexuality and masculinity is tied to global power relations and nationalist ideologies. Global fascination with the rise of sexual inactivity in Japan has mostly been confined to news media; however, the topic has also begun to appear in popular media texts such as Netflix's makeover show Queer Eye: We’re in Japan!, presenting a valuable opportunity to expand our understanding of this narrative and the questions it raises about sexual normativity. Drawing from a comparative textual analysis, I argue that while both news coverage and Queer Eye consistently frame Japan as a site of dysfunctional sexuality and masculinity, differences in aesthetic, narrative, and industrial conventions lead these texts to create divergent common-sense understandings about sex, masculinity and Japaneseness that formulate their Orientalist narrative.
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Xiao, Zhiwen, Xiaoming Li, Danhua Lin, and Cheuk Chi Tam. "Mass Media and HIV/AIDS Prevention Among Female Sex Workers in Beijing, China." Journal of Health Communication 20, no. 9 (May 7, 2015): 1095–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2015.1018575.
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Bogdanova-Kummer, Eugenia. "Ink Splashes on Camera: Calligraphy, Action Painting, and Mass Media in Postwar Japan." Modernism/modernity 27, no. 2 (2020): 299–321. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mod.2020.0024.
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Greenberg, Bradley S., Hairong Li, Linlin Ku, and Hiroshi Tokinoya. "Affluence and mass media behaviours among youth in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan." Asian Journal of Communication 2, no. 1 (January 1991): 87–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01292989109359542.
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Bullock, Julia C. "Mass Media, Consumerism and National Identity in Postwar Japan by Martyn David Smith." Journal of Japanese Studies 46, no. 1 (2020): 249–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2020.0031.
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Francks, Penelope. "Mass Media, Consumerism and National Identity in Postwar Japan by Martyn David Smith." Technology and Culture 61, no. 3 (2020): 958–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2020.0104.
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