Japanese and South Korean national territorial development. An evaluation of high-technology complexes
Comparative study ; Decentralization ; High-tech park ; Japan ; Regional development ; Research and development ; Science park ; South Korea ; Technology
The Japanese and South Korean models of high-technology complexes are compared. This will provide a better understanding of their roles in technology development. The Japanese government has oriented its policies toward innovation linked to regional
by President Park. At the beginning of 1980s, the Technopolis Plan was proposed as a new concept of regional development policy in Japan. Ten years later, South Korea also entered the course of technopole-development. - (MT)
Creating the Japanese electric vehicle industry : the challenges of uncertainty and cooperation
Car industry ; Economic cooperation ; Electric vehicle ; Enterprise ; Firm strategy ; Industry ; Japan ; Japaneses ; Manufactured products ; Production system ; Technology ; Uncertainty
Analyses of the natural environment and preferred sites of the Dezukuri and their abandoning process in Shiramine, Japan, by geographic information systems and remote sensing
Accessibility ; Altitude ; Geographical information system ; Honshu ; Japan ; Mountain ; Natural hazards ; Remote sensing ; Rural settlement ; Slope gradient ; Spatial distribution ; Traditional agriculture ; Years 1950-59 ; Years 1960-69
A Dezukuri in Japanese literally means farming away from the village. It was the main subsistent farming type in the Mt. Hakusan area, Ishikawa Prefecture, and had disappeared quickly during the 1950s and 1960s, due to the rapid economic growth
in Japan. The AA. examined the natural environment and the preferred sites of the Dezukuri in Shiramine Village of the Mt. Hakusan area with GIS and remote sensing. Processes of abandonment show that natural disasters were a main cause before 1965, whereas
Firms, governments and innovation in the Chukyo Region of Japan
Diversification ; Enterprise ; Government intervention ; Honshu ; Industrial region ; Industry ; Innovation ; Investment ; Japan ; Research and development
Weathering rates of Tertiary sandstone and mudstone in Japan
Cenozoic ; Erosion rate ; Honshu ; Japan ; Marine terrace ; Sandstone ; Sedimentary rock ; Tokyo ; Weathering
, Japan. The bedrock of terraces consists mainly of Tertiary sandstone and mudstone. The mode of deceleration in the weathering rates with time differs between mudstone and sandstone. Initially mudstone weathers faster than sandstone, but the mudstone
The role of soil creep and slope failure in the landscape evolution of a head water basin : field measurements in a zero order basin of northern Japan
Creep ; Geotechnics ; Hokkaido ; Japan ; Mass movement ; Precipitation ; Soil moisture ; Soil temperature ; Watershed
Field measurements of soil creep and slope stability were conducted on a nose, side-slope and hollow in a zero order basin near Sapporo, Hokkaido, northern Japan, and the preferential location of soil creep and slope failure was determined. Soil
A new method for defining the extent of a mountain, mountain ordering, is proposed, and is used to examine the morphological characteristics of a set of ordered mountains in northern Japan. As an example of geomorphometry based on the method
Chicago ; Enquiry ; Illinois ; Japaneses ; Location ; Multinational firm ; Subsidiary company ; United States of America ; Urban area
This paper aims to explain spatial changes and characteristics of Japanese-affiliated companies in the Chicago metropolitan area based on field and questionnaire research. - (KA)
Maps and metaphors of the small eastern sea in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868)
Cartographical display ; Cartography ; Eighteenth Century ; History of geography ; Japan ; Nineteenth Century ; Ocean ; Pacific Ocean ; Perception ; Seventeenth Century ; Spatial representation
Development policies and spatial integration in Japan from 1868 to 1941
Development ; Facilities ; Government intervention ; Historical geography ; Infrastructure ; Investment ; Japan ; Legislation ; Modernization ; Nineteenth Century ; Public works ; Twentieth Century
Nature and social relations : the form of property of a Japanese mura
Community ; Environment ; Japan ; Land ; Man-environment relations ; Property right ; Resource management ; Societal relations ; Sustainable development ; Traditional society ; User Behaviour ; Woman