Japanese Online Research Articles

Learning Japanese Using Marugoto Japanese Online Course Site (Minato)

A public university has shifted the Japanese language teaching method from using full textbooks to the application of combining textbook and online platforms. This shift is in lieu of the transition in teaching and learning patterns initiated by the rapid development of IT and the effects of pandemic. What motivates the researchers to embark on this study is that with the change of learning face-to-face to online learning, foreign language instructors need to prepare more interesting online materials to ease online teaching and learning. Generally, this study is aimed to introduce yet another online teaching materials for the teaching and learning of Japanese. Specifically, this study is to explore how the students learned Japanese online with the assistance of Minato, employing quantitative methods. A forty-seven-item questionnaire, with questions related to behaviour (13 items), situational (20 items) and cognitive (14 items) factors was administered, and 37 students participated in the survey. Based on the findings, it had been illustrated that out of 47 item questions; eleven (11) items recorded the highest score of 4.6 mean points. Eight (8) of the highest means are items from Situational Factors and three items from Cognitive Factors. The sub-factors for Situational Factors consist of learning about culture and learning about lifestyle. Out of eight (8) items with the highest means; three (3) items from culture and five items from lifestyle. The sub-factors for Cognitive Factors are learning vocabulary, learning pronunciation and learning grammar. Out of three (3) items with the highest means consists of two (2) items from learning vocabulary and one item from learning pronunciation. The lowest mean of 3.5 points is from Cognitive Factors and the item is learning grammar. Therefore, this study has proven that teaching and learning using videos and photos are the most effective methods for learning Japanese culture and lifestyle through an online platform, whilst learning grammar still need teachers-students’ face-to-face interactions in class.

Internet survey on factors associated with care-seeking behaviours of people with chronic musculoskeletal pain in Japan

Purpose: Many people with chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) seek healthcare from conventional and complementary and alternative medicine. However, treatment/therapy is not always adequate, patients often change healthcare providers, and some patients are left untreated. This study clarified care-seeking behaviours and explored factors behind the behaviours in people with CMP. Methods: Using a Japanese cross-sectional online survey, participants aged ≥ 20 years with non-cancer/fracture CMP lasting for ≥ 6 months and presenting ≤1 month, interfering with daily living activities and/or work were enrolled. We summarized and analysed the characteristics and factors associated with choice of healthcare providers; information on socio-demographics, including employment; ability to use healthcare, including income; and need for healthcare, including pain intensity, using a logistic regression model. Results: Among the 9105 respondents, 24.5% consulted physicians, 18.3% complementary and alternative medicine practitioners, and 57.2% were untreated. More respondents who had moderate–severe pain visited physician, more regularly employed and with high income visited complementary and alternative medicine, and less respondents who had moderate–severe pain were untreated. These were found to be associated with the respective healthcare use versus untreated. Conclusions: People with severe conditions, higher income and regular employment, and less severe conditions have visited physicians, complementary and alternative medicine practitioners and none, respectively. By applying this result at each type of healthcare provider, it may be possible to treat patients more appropriately.

A Study on the Regulation of Unfair Trade Practices on Online Platforms -Focus on European Union and Japanese Online Platform Act-

Under the fourth industrial revolution, online platforms that provide various services to third parties by utilizing information and communication technology or data continue to develop innovative businesses or markets. It plays an important role in the economy and society, such as increasing accessibility to the market for businesses, including small and medium-sized enterprises, and providing benefits for consumers. Services provided by online platform operators are growing through economic characteristics such as data-driven indirect network effects, low marginal costs and economies of scale and scope. A competitive, fair and transparent online ecosystem in which companies act responsibly is also essential for consumer benefits. However, on online platforms, monopolization and oligopoly occur through the platform s data concentration, and the problem of unfair trade between small and medium-sized businesses and online platforms, which are highly dependent on the platform, continues to arise. In particular, online platform operators penalize consumers by acquiring or using personal information by unfair means, and adversely affect fair and free competition. Problems include the abuse of monopoly power of digital platform companies and the self-preferencing such as exposing their products and services to the top of the search rather than other companies brokerage products and services. As a result, countries around the world are organizing or strengthening regulations on online platforms, and the government is also trying to establish a fair and transparent market for online platforms and develop them. In this paper, we examine the types of unfair trade practices on online platforms, and we review relatively the key points of legislation of EU ｢on promoting fairness and transparency for business users of online intermediation services｣, 「Digital Market Act)」,and japanese ｢ Act on the Promotion of Transparency and Fairness of Specific Digital Platforms」.

The attitude of Japanese newspapers in narrating disaster events: Appraisal in critical discourse study

During the event of disasters, news media are considered as the most visible of all parties involved in the response and rehabilitation. News media frame disaster events in certain attitudes, which then significantly resonates with the magnitude of the disaster. This research aims at investigating the attitude of the Japanese newspaper in narrating disaster events. Using the descriptive qualitative method, this study adopts the appraisal theory (Martin White, 2005) to embed and reveal appraisal in attitude features. The data were taken from three Japanese online newspapers reporting disaster events from 2019 to early 2020 with a total number of 100 articles. The findings show that of all attitudinal features, judgement is found as the most frequent source, followed by appreciation, and affect. It reveals newspapers’ tendency to emphasize the attitude and to construe the evaluation toward the events or phenomena rather than revealing the feelings or emotions experienced by the emoter(s). Interestingly, the distribution of the attitudinal implies the attitude of Japanese newspapers on reporting disaster which is highly emphasized on admiring, criticizing, praise, and condemning disaster events. It is also found that the negative features are slightly higher than the positive ones, but to refer to the phenomena rather than the victims. This lexical strategy proves that Japanese newspapers play the role in mainstreaming disaster management policy which focuses on the reconstruction and rehabilitation after disaster events.

PENGGUNAAN POLA KALIMAT KAGIRI DAN KAGIRI DA DALAM BAHASA JEPANG (ANALISIS STRUKTUR DAN MAKNA)

The purpose of this research is to find the way of using kagiri and kagiri da as sentence patterns in Japanese. The type of this research is qualitative research with descriptive method. The data was taken from Japanese online news website, Asahi Shinbun which published on early December 2020 that contain sentences that using kagiri and kagiri da sentence pattern. There are 21 data gathered from Asahi Shinbun, and based on the part of speech that formed with kagiri and kagiri da sentence pattern, there are ten data were classified as noun, nine data were classified as verb, and 2 data classified as adjective. The kagiri sentence pattern used as conjunction when formed with noun and verd with semantic meaning as “while” with certain condition or terms, and used as suffix when formed with noun which containing number or time with semantic meaning of limitation of something. While the kagiri da sentence pattern only formed with adjectives and always in the end of the sentence with semantic meaning of describing a certain level of the speaker feelings. The kagiri sentence pattern have a lot of variations such as formed with joshi in ni kagiri pattern, ni kagitte pattern, and ni kagiru pattern. The further research through another data source such as corpus may needed to find another purpose of this sentence pattern. Keywords: syntax, semantic, verb, kagiri, kagiri da

Penggunaan Kosanoge Melalui Media WhatsApp dalam Pembelajaran Bahasa Jepang Di SMK Kesehatan Sadewa Yogyakarta

This research is a quantitative descriptive study that will describe: (1) the conditions of learning Japanese online through WhatsApp Group (WAG) at SMK Kesehatan Sadewa Yogyakarta, and (2) the students' perceptions about the use of kosanoge. The Japanese language course was introduced at this school in 2020. As the Covid-19 pandemic since March 2020 has disrupted the educational activities at schools, the teaching and learning at SMK Kesehatan Sadewa, including Japanese, must be carried out online. WhatsApp Group (WAG) was chosen as a medium for interactive and useful online learning. In practice, students are introduced to the kosanoge vocabulary game which aims to increase the student’s enthusiasm for learning. The data were taken from the results of observations of class activities and online surveys. The random sample shows that the students were happy with the implementation of the kosanoge, but some students had difficulties because they had not memorized hiragana. A further research needs to be conducted to determine the effect of teacher classroom actions taken to increase student interaction in a class by using kosanoge games.

Pembelajaran Bahasa Jepang Perhotelan III Berbasis Daring di Masa Pandemi Covid-19

This study aims to determine the learning process of Japanese Language Hospitality during the Pandemic Covid-19 period. This study was researching effectiveness of the online distance learning process and evaluate the weakness and problem occurred during learning process. This research was conducted on 43 students of the Faculty of Tourism at Triatma Mulya University Diploma IV Hospitality Program in Third Semester, Academic Year 2020/2021. The respondent was choosen from students who have learned Japanese Language Hospitality 3 on one semester from June to December 2020. The data collection method in this study used documentation techniques and questionnaires via google form. The online-based learning process carried out in this study is to create virtual classroom learning situations through online-based e-learning methods. Students not only listeners in class, but students are strongly directed to presentation about hotel hospitality using Japanese Language. The problem during learning process of Japanese Hospitality online are, the lack of supporting facilities in online class, less concentration and other distractions.

The Political Orientation of Japanese Online Right-wingers

Since the early 2000s, Japan has witnessed the growing salience of so-called netto uyoku (online right-wingers). This group is characterized by strong anti-China and anti-Korea sentiments, nationalistic political views, and online political engagement. While online radical right movements in Europe are often regarded as support bases for radical right candidates or parties, few studies have investigated whether this assumption applies to Japanese online right-wingers. The present study sought to shed light on this issue by conducting a large-scale web survey with 77,084 respondents living in the greater Tokyo metropolitan area. Respondents were registered monitors for a research company. The large sample size enabled multivariate analyses to clarify the characteristics of online right-wingers in comparison to other respondents. The results indicated that 1.5 percent of the respondents (1,167) could be classified as online right-wingers and, in contrast with the political discontent hypothesis, most online right-wingers had a high degree of external political efficacy and lower levels of populist attitudes relative to other respondents. This suggests that online right-wingers trusted and remained satisfied with the current political conditions. Furthermore, they were more likely to vote, especially for established conservative parties, suggesting an affinity among online right-wingers for traditional conservative parties and candidates. These findings indicate that, unlike in Europe, Japanese online right-wingers are not a support base for radical right candidates and parties. In Japan, which is under a right-leaning government, online right-wingers have not become a driving force for emergent radical right parties.

Speaking ability progress of language learners in online and face‐to‐face courses

AbstractThis study's goal was to determine if appropriately designed, completely virtual formats of language courses are able to engender in students speaking ability progress comparable to that fostered within traditional face‐to‐face (F2F) classrooms. The study further sought to clarify language learners' perceptions of online Japanese courses. The speaking ability of all participants was assessed at the beginning and end of their Japanese language course. A mixed‐design analysis of variance was conducted to analyze the effect of course type on speaking ability. Results showed that participant speaking ability improved significantly over time regardless of course type (online or F2F). This study also revealed that the majority of participants were able to use online tools with ease and found the online format to be an effective method of learning Japanese. Two principal reasons for studying Japanese online are reported. Implications and suggestions are discussed.

Social contagion of cyberbullying via online perpetrator and victim networks

Cyberbullying is a social problem in the digital age. Online social networks have been reported to be linked with cyberbullying, but the links remain unclear. Our research question is “Do social norms that allow cyberbullying spread via online social networks?” The objectives of our study are to answer this research question and clarify the effects of online social networks on cyberbullying from the perspective of a complex contagion model. Participants were 129,164 users in Pigg Party, which is a Japanese online chat platform with avatar. Their status of cyberbullying perpetrators and victims was estimated using a combination of questionnaire and machine learning methods. Results showed that both cyberbullying perpetrator and victim rates among their peers and among the peers of their peers increased participants' risk of becoming cyberbullying perpetrators. Similarly, these rates increased their risk of becoming cyberbullying victims. As their intimacy with cyberbullying perpetrators increased, their risks of perpetrating cyberbullying increased. However, as their intimacy with the perpetrators increased, their risks of becoming cyberbullying victims decreased. The social contagion of cyberbullying via online peer networks and the perpetrator's rational choice of cyberbullying victims are discussed.

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF JAPANESE LANGUAGE VLOG MEDIA AGAINTS THE ABILITY OF SENTENCE PATTERNS SAKUBUN WRITING (ESSAY)

This research is entitled "The Effectiveness of Japanese Language Vlog Media Against the Ability of Sentence Patterns in Sakubun Writing (Essays)". (Quantitative Approach in 3rd Semester Students of the Japanese Language Education Study Program FKIP UHAMKA Jakarta Academic Year 2019-2020). In this millennial era, everyone has the right to express his ideas through in various media. One of these media is a Japanese-language Vlog which contains learning in the field of Japanese Language Education, such as Jerome Polin with his channel named Nihon go Mantappu. There is also another channel called Belajar Bahasa Jepang, and WaGoMu. They all carry the theme of learning Japanese online. This research aims to determine whether or not there is an influence of the use of Japanese Language Vlog Media on the Ability of Sentence Patterns in Sakubun Writing (Essays) for 3rd Semester students in the Japanese Language Education Study Program FKIP UHAMKA. This research uses quasi-experimental methods. The sample and data source of this research were 20 students in 3rd Semester of Japanese Language Education Study Program FKIP UHAMKA, while the data source was the result of student essays. Based on calculations using the SPSS program, from the results of pre-test are obtained a range or distance between the smallest value and the largest value of 38, a minimum value of 50, a maximum value of 88, an average value of 75, and from the Post-test results obtained a range or distance value between the smallest value and the largest value of 30, a minimum value of 65, a maximum value of 95, an average value of 80.4. Based on the SPSS calculation results obtained a sig value of 0.058> 0.005, this means reject H0 or accept H1 which means there is a difference between learning before using vlog media with learning after using vlog media. It can be said that Japanese Language Vlog Media is effective in improving sentence pattern abilities in Sakubun learning. The results of the Questionnaire stated that Japanese Language Vlog Media is very interesting, enthusiastic and can improve the ability of Japanese Sentence Patterns in Sakubun Writing (Essays).

Nerdy girls talking gross

This article examines how people view language use in manga (Japanese comic books and graphic novels) through an analysis of posts on a Japanese online bulletin board system. The analysis uncovers three central assumptions regarding texts understood as manga: they lack linguistic sophistication; their linguistic authenticity is problematic; and they negatively impact real-world speech. In the posts, language in manga is often assigned a vaguely negative influence on communication skills, and engagement with manga is foregrounded as a problematic social issue. Beliefs about language in manga parallel commonly held beliefs about language used by otaku ‘nerds/fans’, suggesting that metapragmatic stereotypes have expanded from media users to the media itself. Such criticism often targets women: although otaku are normatively viewed as male, women seen as encroaching masculine forms of engagement with manga may also receive criticism. The article thus contributes to an understanding of how perceptions of language and gender in media are formed.

Towards Student Learning Ability Estimation and Truth Discovery in Japanese Online Course

This paper focuses on an important task in online courses, which is to estimate student learning ability from students’ answering records. The challenge of this task is to automatically estimate the learning ability for students and infer the true answer for each question without any supervision. Most of the existing methods solve these challenges by designing an optimization objective function. However, these approaches ignore the characteristics of students from different groups. Intuitively, outstanding students always provide correct answers and should be assigned higher weights compared with ordinary students. Based on this intuition, this paper proposes a new optimization framework by dividing students into two groups: an authoritative group and an ordinary group. The losses of the objective are from both authoritative students and ordinary students. Through optimizing both losses simultaneously, the proposed model can automatically estimate learning ability for authoritative students and ordinary students and infer the right answer for each question. Two experiments conducted on two datasets show that the proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art baselines.

Makna Adverbia Zenbu Dan Minna Dalam Bahasa Jepang

This article aims to describe the structure and meaning of zenbu, subete, and minna adverbials. It also describes the similarities and differences between the three adverbials. Data were obtained from sentences contained in the Kagero Daze Anthology comic and Japanese online articles. Data are classified according to structure and meaning. The structure includes adverbial composition following verbs, nouns and adjectives. To find the similarities and differences of the three adverbial substitution techniques are used. The analysis shows that zenbu, subete, and minna adverbial can follow verbs, nouns, and adjectives. Zenbu has a meaning that states all concrete objects and conditions, subete means all things, everything, for concrete and abstract objects, and states a state, states an idea or thought. Minna has all the meanings for concrete things, things or circumstances, and states people or living things.

Validation of the Japanese Version of the Multidimensional Measure of Family Supportive Supervisor Behaviors (FSSB-J).

ObjectiveThe aim of the current study was to validate the Japanese version of the family supportive supervisor behaviors (FSSB-J) measure. FSSB is conceptualized as a multidimensional, superordinate construct constituted of four dimensions: emotional support, instrumental support, role modeling behaviors, and creative work–family management.MethodsThe Japanese translated and back-translated FSSB-J questionnaire was administered to 1,670 men and women aged 20–59 years who were registered with a Japanese online survey company in November 2017. Confirmatory factor analyses were performed to evaluate the factorial validity of the FSSB-J. Cross-time measurement invariance was tested using multi-group confirmatory factor analyses. Construct validity was assessed with the potential consequences of FSSB (e.g., work–family spillover, work engagement, intention to leave, job satisfaction, and psychological distress) and convergent validity was assessed using similar concepts (e.g., organizational justice and social support). Internal consistency and test–retest reliability were examined to evaluate the reliability of the four dimensions of the FSSB.ResultsA series of confirmatory factor analyses using the multiple-group method revealed that the four-factor model fitted the data best. The latent factor structure demonstrated configural, metric, and scalar invariance across time. Construct and convergent validity were generally in line with expectations. Cronbach’s α coefficient and test–retest reliability were sufficient for each of the four dimensions of the FSSB.ConclusionThis study suggests that FSSB-J is an adequate measure of FSSB in the Japanese context.

The immediate and delayed suggestibility examined by the online version of the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale 2

This study examined immediate and delayed suggestibility using the Japanese online version of the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale 2. The results demonstrated that as many as 20% of the 218 participants incorporated misleading information into their memories of events (indicating delayed suggestibility) two days after listening to a story. Those with delayed suggestibility were more likely to have high scores for Yield 1, Yield 2, Shift, and Total suggestibility (i.e., immediate suggestibility), indicating an association between immediate and delayed suggestibility. These participants were also deemed to have the same levels of self-esteem and compliance as those without delayed suggestibility. However, they were more likely to exhibit source monitoring errors than their counterparts, suggesting that such errors (rather than psychosocial factors) may cause delayed suggestibility.

Sentiment Analysis of Japanese Tourism Online Reviews

Abstract Purpose Online reviews on tourism attractions provide important references for potential tourists to choose tourism spots. The main goal of this study is conducting sentiment analysis to facilitate users comprehending the large scale of the reviews, based on the comments about Chinese attractions from Japanese tourism website 4Travel. Design/methodology/approach Different statistics- and rule-based methods are used to analyze the sentiment of the reviews. Three groups of novel statistics-based methods combining feature selection functions and the traditional term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) method are proposed. We also make seven groups of different rules-based methods. The macro-average and micro-average values for the best classification results of the methods are calculated respectively and the performance of the methods are shown. Findings We compare the statistics-based and rule-based methods separately and compare the overall performance of the two method. According to the results, it is concluded that the combination of feature selection functions and weightings can strongly improve the overall performance. The emotional vocabulary in the field of tourism (EVT), kaomojis, negative and transitional words can notably improve the performance in all of three categories. The rule-based methods outperform the statistics-based ones with a narrow advantage. Research limitation Two limitations can be addressed: 1) the empirical studies to verify the validity of the proposed methods are only conducted on Japanese languages; and 2) the deep learning technology is not been incorporated in the methods. Practical implications The results help to elucidate the intrinsic characteristics of the Japanese language and the influence on sentiment analysis. These findings also provide practical usage guidelines within the field of sentiment analysis of Japanese online tourism reviews. Originality/value Our research is of practicability. Currently, there are no studies that focus on the sentiment analysis of Japanese reviews about Chinese attractions.

Comparison between Japanese online and standard administrations of the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale 2 and effects of post‐warning

PurposeThis study aimed to develop the Japanese online version of the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale 2 (GSS2). The effects of post‐warning and free recall on suggestibility were also examined.MethodsA total of 442 people aged between 20 and 59 years took the Japanese online version of the GSS2, and their scores were compared with those obtained via administration of the Japanese standard version in a previous study and those of the British normative sample. The influence of post‐warning (a technique in which the participant is given an apology for the incorrect negative feedback provided on the first day) and free recall instruction on suggestibility was examined in 10 out of the 20 GSS test questions 2 days after the administration of the online GSS2.ResultsThere were no differences in Yield2, Shift, and Total suggestibility scored between the Japanese online and standard versions of the GSS2. The difference in Yield1 scores between the two versions was also small. However, there were significant differences between the Japanese online and British versions in all GSS scores other than Total suggestibility. Further, post‐warning and free recall effectively avoided an increased number of misled responses to leading questions.ConclusionsThe results obtained demonstrate the validity of the Japanese online version of the GSS2. It was also found that certain instructions could be used to prevent further response suggestibility when any misleading questions were provided.

The application and teaching evaluation of Japanese films and TV series corpus in JFL classroom

Purpose The aim of this paper is to solve the problem of lack of real context in JFL (Japanese as Foreign Language) classroom with video corpus-based teaching. It also offers reference for the development of video corpus. Design/methodology/approach The authors designed an intelligent Japanese online video corpus, namely the JV Finder, which is a corpus of Japanese films and TV series. The authors applied the JV Finder to JFL teaching to solve the problem of lack of real context and designed several teaching experiments to validate its benefits. Findings The results of teaching experiments show that the video corpus-based teaching significantly improves the learning effect. The JV Finder can help students memorize vocabularies and understand the meaning of new vocabularies in a better way. Research limitations/implications There are still some differences in language context between real life and films, which cannot fully reflect the state of native speaker in real life. Meanwhile, the number of students participating in this experiment is relatively small, so the universality of the result need further study. Practical implications This study combined linguistics with software engineering to solve the problem of lack of real context. Video corpus-based teaching not only can be used in Japanese teaching field but also provide value for other foreign language teaching. Social implications The JV Finder has obtained Chinese national patent license (patent no. 20131118). The video corpus (the JV Finder) has a far-reaching impact on JFL teaching. Originality/value This paper provides an intelligent Japanese online video corpus. It is applied to JFL teaching to solve the problem of lack of real context. The findings show that the video corpus can significantly improve the effectiveness of Japanese learning.

Integrated consumer shopping decision model: A Japanese online supermarket context

Online shopping is not a new marketing channel but has been growing tremendously throughout Japan. The rapid growth of Internet technology has enabled the Japanese to break away from their conservative culture and embark on different shopping experiences by shopping online. With the growing importance of online reviews to promote one’s business, Japanese online supermarkets are looking for ways to increase consumer-generated content. The purpose of this study is to investigate Japanese repeat online consumers and the antecedents that encourage them to review their shopping experiences, including the supermarket website they used and product availability in the online supermarket. It was found that online supermarkets must focus on establishing confidence with their repeat online consumers if they desire to increase the electronic word of mouth (e-WOM) of their online supermarket. Implications are discussed in relation to online supermarkets and repeat consumers’ intentions to review their online shopping experiences.