Japanese Way Research Articles

The Japanese way of recycling waste

The Japanese way of recycling waste

Management of open fracture and related complications: the Japanese way.

Open fractures continue to be a challenging clinical problem throughout the world, and Japan is no exception. Surgeons are faced with critical decisions throughout the care of these injuries that can have significant effects in clinical outcome, ranging from the type and timing of antibiotic administration, fixation, soft-tissue management, and interventions for postfracture complications. In October 2022, the Japanese Society for Fracture Repair (JSFR) was invited to represent Japan as the Guest Nation society at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Trauma Society held in Tampa, Florida. The JSFR organized a symposium, entitled "Management of Open Fracture and related complications-the Japanese way," that featured cutting-edge approaches to open fractures in their country, including presentations on the "fix-and-flap" approach, local antibiotics perfusion delivery, and a "chipping" method for the stimulation of bone healing. This article summarizes the content of these 3 presentations from that symposium.

What does it mean to be a Christian nationalist in Meiji Japan?: Religion, nationalism and the state

ABSTRACT The article aims to better understand Christian nationalism by investigating the cases of Uchimura Kanzō and Nitobe Inazō, two well-known Christians of Meiji Japan. In Meiji Japan, Christianity was a recently re-introduced and foreign faith which was not aligned with the Japanese way of life. However, both Uchimura and Nitobe converted to Christianity in their youth and dedicated their life to the development of Japan. The article investigates what made this possible. It pays particular attention to the relationship between politics and religion and the Meiji government’s attempts to adopt the western view of the relationship to the nascent Japanese state. It argues that the invention of state Shintō as a non-religion but an indispensable part of the Japanese polity by the Meiji government created space where Christian faith and Japanese nationalism could co-exist, the space which was increasingly squeezed as Meiji turned to Taishō and then to Shōwa.

Deming-based Lean Six Sigma stewardship

This paper describes the synergistic style of stewardship created by integrating the meta theory of management developed by W. Edwards Deming, the tools and methods of Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma Management, and the administrative systems of the Japanese Way of Total Quality Control to improve the welfare of all shareholders of an organization: investors, employees, customers, vendors, regulatory agencies, buildings and grounds, the environment, etc. It is called Deming-based Lean Six Sigma Management (DBLSS). It also expands Dr. Deming’s meta theory of management by adding a fifth discipline which is the Theory of Communication. Its purpose is to spread DBLSS and any other new idea within and between organizations and people. Further, the paper presents a major change to the purpose of the Japanese Way of Total Quality Control by restating the purpose of JTQC from “improve customer satisfaction” to “improve customer satisfaction and employee satisfaction.” Finally, the paper explains that Lean thinking and Six Sigma Management are sets of tools and methods with no philosophical guidance to ensure they are used to improve the satisfaction of all shareholders. It clarifies that traditional management’s purpose is to optimize stockholder welfare, while DBLSS management’s purpose is to optimize all shareholders’ welfare.

Robotising, but how? Evidence from the automotive sector in South Africa

PurposeThis paper focuses on understanding firm-level determinants of industrial robots' adoption and how these determinants result in heterogenous processes of robotisation across firms within the same sector. The paper presents results from in-depth case studies of final assemblers in the South African automotive sector.Design/methodology/approachThe research has been conducted through multiple case studies with a focus on final assemblers. During the case studies, as well as before and after it, data coming from in-depth semi-structured interviews were triangulated with secondary data available from the international database on industrial robots' adoption and documents provided by firms and institutions.FindingsThis paper identifies three firm-level determinants of robotisation – i.e. modularity of the production process, flexibility in the use of technology and stability in product design. The results also showed that firms' robotisation depend on each of these determinants as well as their interdependence. The authors introduce a framework to study interdependence between these technology–organisational choices, which reveals heterogenous patterns of technology deployment and related managerial implications.Originality/valueThis research introduces a new framework on factors driving industrial robotisation – a key digital production technology – and offers empirical evidence of the heterogenous deployment of this technology. The authors identify two main manufacturing approaches to robotisation in the automotive sector: one in which the firm designs a robotised process around a certain product design – i.e. the German/American way and one in which the firm designs its product based on certain robotised processes – i.e. the Japanese way. These findings are valuable for both industry, operational research and the scientific community as they reveal heterogeneity on the “how” of robotisation and implications for manufacturing technology management.

Faith in Self

Abstract In 1994, I migrated to New York City to pursue my art, freedom, and potential. Over the last 27 years, I learned to understand and respect the differences of people with different values, genders, religions, and races. I continued self-transforming by looking at issues from different angles with flexible thinking. Living far away from Japan, I reaffirmed my roots and rediscovered myself objectively. It’s especially interesting to me that the relationship between Japan and the United States has been strengthened through the atomic bomb. Behind this is the influence of Shinto and Buddhism on the Japanese way of thinking. Their teachings play a major role in peace operations. In addition, the power of faith is sometimes abused, and serious social problems are occurring. “Kusudama” means medicine ball. In my Peace and Harmony Workshop, many individual participants, who all experienced the same pandemic disaster, created medicine balls while sharing our common wishes for health, long life, and peace. Faith is, to me, the power to believe in ourselves. The symbolic work of a sphere, connecting faith and art, opens up a world full of charity, not division. Looking back on what I learned through my life and artwork, I consider and write about what kind of future we hope for, and what role religion and art can play.

Transformation of the Energy Sector and Consequences for the Energy Mix: A Case Study of Japan

Abstract Japan is regarded as an interesting source for drawing useful lessons that could help in drafting the process for transforming the Polish energy mix. The reason is very simple: the two countries have relatively similar starting points. A large proportion of the Japanese energy mix is still based on fossil fuels. We can already observe a slow but evident drift away from fossil fuels (from some 85% in 2013 to less than 75% in 2019). Another reason why Japan is relevant to the Polish conditions is the recent decision of the new government in Japan to return to nuclear energy after the Fukushima disaster. Other interesting solutions in the Japanese way forward include the wide use of hydrogen and ammonia; that could be interesting for Poland, because it is a major producer of hydrogen: the fifth in the world and the third in Europe. Grey hydrogen is currently produced, but that could easily be transformed into green hydrogen produced using distributed solar installations. It also seems that nobody in Poland is seriously working on the use of ammonia in the energy sector. Those reasons alone would be enough to choose Japan as the country for the analysis presented below, therefore the literature review is limited to the Japanese sphere. A short historical view of the energy-mix configuration is followed by an enumeration of the important aspects to consider for Polish conditions: energy security and energy efficiency, followed by an analysis of important sources of energy: nuclear, renewable energy sources (RES), hydrogen, and ammonia as well as thermal power development.

Japanese norms in Japanese workplaces

Japan is known for its exclusionary tendencies and clearly delineated Japanese way of doing things. Seeing as its immigration law was amended in April 2019 to allow more migrant workers into the country, there is some urgency in studying these ethnocentric practices, which often lead to inequalities between Japanese and foreign employees at the workplace. The objective of this opinion piece is to help the reader understand the sociocultural context and rationale behind Japanese norms in blue- and white-collar workplaces, as well as foreign employees’ reactions and points of view. Such understanding will hopefully increase both Japanese and foreign employees’ willingness to accommodate each other, and reduce friction and conflict at the workplace.

(In)Visibilities from the Interval’s Dissymmetry. Reflections Through Távora’s Japan and Sartre

The Japanese way of building and inhabiting has decisively influenced many Western au- thors. Regarding Western context, “Japan’ness” was appropriated through different manners. However, surprisingly, a subliminal (yet essential) Japanese cultural feature seems to have been overlooked – at least, as far as the research on its possible reverberations on Western design is concerned. Disrupting Western’s more typical symmetrical logic, this Nipponese principle that only exists in Japan, is untranslatable. Here named (and interpreted) as ‘interval’, this notion embodies a concept that, although hidden or intuited, seems to be transversal to all Japanese realms. Based on these indications, this paper focuses on this (little-known to the West) original conception, to finally rehearse an interpretation of the potentiating effects it may have had in the case of one of the 20th century most prominent Portuguese architects – Fernando Távora –, by driving attention to his (Occidental) example, and taking on a critical and different review of his theoretical perspectives, his archives, his journeys, and an in-depth (and, we believe, unprecedented from this viewpoint) examination of his personal library – filled with Japanese and existentialist “Sartrian” traces –, to finally focus on one specific example of his architectural practice: the Tennis Pavilion.

Doing Things the Japanese Way in Japanese Work Places

Doing Things the Japanese Way in Japanese Work Places

Yokozuna Hakuhō—Japanese Mongolian hero

Yokozuna Hakuhō, a prominent Sumo wrestler, is a Mongolian-born Japanese national hero. However, he, as other Mongolian wrestlers, presents Sumo with tensions between worldviews, which are battled both within the hierarchical setting of the Sumo association, and in public opinion. Those concern questions of etiquette and ethical behavior, between what is understood the “real Japanese” spirit, and the Mongolian attitude. Moreover, the Mongolian attitude also coincided with modern tendencies and the culture of celebrities so that those tensions are also a case of a Japanese way of dealing with the external influences of globalization. Moreover, since both Japanese and Mongolian cosmos are “inclusive,” namely, tend toward the non-dual, the tensions are not resolved but rather create a cultural enclave of shifting assemblages yielding both new regulations and popular opinions. And while those tensions are negotiated, the common belief as to what constitutes true Japanese traits is also forged and inculcated.

Postmodernism in “A Wild Sheep Chase”, the Novel by Haruki Murakami (Haruki Murakami'nin “Yaban Koyunun İzinde” romanında postmodernizm)

The eminent representative of the modern Japanese literature, writer and translator, famous face of postmodernism, Haruki Murakami has started to play an important role in the national literature with his works since the begging of 1990s. The works of Haruki Murakami reflects a large period of Japanese way of thinking in the age of globalization. With his own specific direction of writing, he is one of the writers who have directly contributed to the development of the world postmodern literature, along with the Japanese literature. Introduced to the readers in 1982, the novel of “A Wild Sheep Chase” has laid the foundation of the postmodern style of Murakami. Combining the main characteristics of postmodernism such as chaos, synthesis, montage, collage, meta-story and etc., the novel links the alienation of an individual in the Japanese society to the nature of consumer culture and authoritarian-totalitarian regimes. Alienation, which is a characteristic for political ideology regimes aims at alienating individuals from the society, nature and from even themselves, their own true essence. The author has written down the process of a human turning into a post-human as a result of not tolerating to the pressures aiming to fit them into standardizing molds and depriving them from their differentiating characteristics. The unnamed hero of the novel, Boku looks for the meaning of the existence in his world that is full of questions. This search takes him back to the times before his birth. In order to find an answer, Boku looks for something to help him to leave the reality behind. As a result, he falls into a chaos, where people move in the directions that they have not chosen and do things that they do not desire, as well where the free will does not have any meaning.

중국계 상인의 일본 정착 - 11~13세기를 중심으로 -

This paper examined the process through which ethnic Chinese merchants came to settle in Japan, specifically during the period between the 11th and 13th centuries. The said period corresponds to the Song Dynasty in China, which largely limits the subject of this study to Song merchants. Nevertheless, the use of the term “ethnic Chinese merchants” rather than “Song merchants” was attributable to the fact that most Chinese merchants, including Song merchants, are deemed to have undergone a similar route to settling down in Japan. First, Chinese merchants established a base in Japan while traveling between China and Japan, intermarried with Japanese spouses to have families in Japan, and then gradually moved their base of operations from China to Japan. As their business was based in Japan, the ethnic Chinese merchants formed social and material networks in Japanese society. In the course of using these networks, they had to understand and acclimatize themselves to the customs and laws of Japanese society, which allowed them to assimilate into the Japanese way of life. Over generations, they gradually embraced their Japanese identities.BR In addition, the study highlighted circumstances that were characteristic of the period between the 11th and 13th centuries. These factors include policy decisions in China and a war between China and Japan.

Viniculture, Social Justice, and the Environment

Research Article| November 01 2020 Viniculture, Social Justice, and the Environment Scott Haas Scott Haas Scott Haas is a writer and clinical psychologist and the author of Why Be Happy?: The Japanese Way of Acceptance (Hachette Go, 2020), Back of the House: The Secret Life of a Restaurant (Berkley, 2013), Those Immigrants!: Indians in America—A Psychological Exploration of Achievement (Prakash Book Depot, 2016), and Hearing Voices: Reflections of a Psychology Intern (Dutton, 1990). He won a James Beard award for his on-air broadcasts on public radio. He currently writes a monthly jazz column for the Bay State Banner. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Gastronomica (2020) 20 (4): 49–50. https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2020.20.4.49 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Scott Haas; Viniculture, Social Justice, and the Environment. Gastronomica 1 November 2020; 20 (4): 49–50. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2020.20.4.49 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentGastronomica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2020 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, https://www.ucpress.edu/journals/reprints-permissions.2020 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Some Japanese ways of conducting comparative educational research

ABSTRACT This personal, tentative, self-reflective essay explores some Japanese ways of conducting comparative educational research. In this essay, I not only describe a Japanese style of conducting comparative education research but also do so in a Japanese way. The four key elements I discuss are: daijini (taking care), soboku (simplicity), nagaime (long perspective) and shuudan-sei and kanjin shugi (collectivism and contextualism). Like Rappleye’s and Takayama’s recent contributions in the 2020 special issue of this journal, my paper challenges the taken-for-grantedness of the Western philosophies, theories, and methods characteristic of Anglophone comparative educational scholarship. Like those contributions, this paper argues for the value Japanese perspectives hold for comparative educational research. For me, this means arguing for the value of research methods that are not inseparable from my being Japanese.

Alessandro Valignano: educación, inculturación y adaptación en Japón

La figura del jesuita Alessandro Valignano como maestro y visitador de las misiones de las Indias Orientales nos permite conocer un nuevo método de evangelizar en Japón a finales del s. XVI y principios del s. XVII. Lejos de irrumpir en la cultura receptora, Valignano trató de que los misioneros jesuitas dialogaran interculturalmente, adaptando las creencias cristianas al estilo de vida japonés.

The Japanese Way of Strength-Based Correction

The study outlines Japan’s positive use of red ink to grade children’s homework in order to limit the amount of shame children experience over failures. The psychology of seeing and the psychodynamics of self-conscious emotions are used to explain the mechanism of Japan’s positive versus America’s negative shame-inducing grading practices. It provides an explanation for unconscious cultural grading practices that tend to differentially produce either pride or shame.

Japanese way of working and quality scandals

Japanese way of working and quality scandals

Nurse education the Japanese way

Nurse education the Japanese way

Study about the characteristics of Hanji and Washi through the analysis of dye, extracted from the peel of an onion - Focused on Oebal process in traditional Korean way and Ssangbal process in traditional Japanese way -

Study about the characteristics of Hanji and Washi through the analysis of dye, extracted from the peel of an onion - Focused on Oebal process in traditional Korean way and Ssangbal process in traditional Japanese way -