Property In Japan Research Articles

Application of image quality metamerism to investigate gold color area in cultural property

A concept of image quality metamerism as an expansion of conventional metamerism defined in color science is introduced, and it is applied to segment similar color areas in a cultural property. The image quality metamerism can unify different image quality attributes based on an index showing the degree of image quality metamerism proposed. As a basic research step, the index is consisted of color and texture information and examined to investigate a cultural property. The property investigated is a pair of folding screen paintings that depict the thriving city of Kyoto designated as a nationally important cultural property in Japan. Gold-colored areas painted by using high granularity colorants compared with other color areas are evaluated based on the image quality metamerism index locally, then the index is visualized as a map showing the possibility of the image quality metamer to the reference pixel set in the same image. This visualization means a segmentation of areas where color is similar but texture is different. The experimental result showed that the proposed method was effective to show areas of gold color areas in the property.

Effects of successive application of organic materials to paddy fields on rice yield and soil properties in Japan, based on the data base of long-term field experiments

Effects of successive application of organic materials to paddy fields on rice yield and soil properties in Japan, based on the data base of long-term field experiments

ANALYSIS AND CONSIDERATION OF THE BILLS IN GHQ/SCAP RECORDS

The Japanese Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties was promulgated on May 30, 1950, and became effective on August 29, 1950, during the occupation period after the World War II. Although the Law has been the basis for the protection of cultural properties in Japan since then, little information that explains the drafting of the Law has been left, and even the basic historical materials, the actual bills of the Law, have been unfound. This paper reveals where the ten bills written in Japanese and the eight bills translated in English for the GHQ/SCAP have been kept, and clarifies the characteristic and transition of the bills by comparing each bill specifically.

イングリッシュ・ヘリテッジによる歴史的公園の登録とその基準

This study referred the activity of historic parks conservation and renovation by the English Heritage, and got hold of some instructive findings to protect historic parks to the future in Japan. It was the presupposition that the understanding the framework of conservation and renovation of historic parks as a heritage at national level, the result of historic parks registration and grading, and the register criteria and registration process. As a result, it was confirmed some suggestions as follows; i) the comprehensive system for historic parks conservation and renovation in association with national government, local authorities and private charities have been established; ii) the registration activities closely links to the policy making and development control in city planning; iii) the English Heritage has prepared broad and various register criteria and is now challenging to increase the number of the Registration of historic parks to the future; iv) the registration is made possible if it is restored to a former condition; and so on. Above all, it was discussed that we need to establish the registration system of historic parks through expanding existing registration system of tangible cultural properties in Japan.

Book Review: Valuing Intellectual Property

Valuing Intellectual Property in Japan, Britain and the United States, Edited by Dr. Ruth Taplin, May 2004, RoutledgeCurzon Press.

Losers: Recovering Lost Property in Japan and the United States

This article examines the lost property regime of Japan, which has one of the most impressive reputations in the world for returning lost property to its rightful owner, and compares it with that of the United States. Folk legend attributes Japanese lost-and-found success to honesty and other-regarding preferences. In this article, I focus on another possible explanation: legal institutions that efficiently and predictably allocate and enforce possessory rights. These recognized, centuries-old rules mesh with norms, institutional structures, and economic incentives to reinforce mutually the message that each sends and yields more lost-property recovery than altruism alone.

Losers: Recovering Lost Property in Japan and the United States

This Article examines the lost property regime of Japan, which has one of the most impressive reputations in the world for returning lost property to its rightful owner, and compares it with that of the United States. Folk legend attributes Japanese success to honesty and other-regarding preferences. In this Article, relying in part on analysis of official data, history, and statutes, as well as surveys, interviews, and lost-wallet experiments conducted in New York and Tokyo, I discuss another possible reason for the apparent success of lost-and-found in Japan: legal institutions that efficiently and predictably allocate and enforce possessory rights. These recognized, centuries-old rules mesh with norms, institutional structures, and economic incentives to reinforce mutually the message that each sends and yield more lost-property recovery than altruism alone.

A Statistical Analysis of Gardens Designated as Cultural Properties in Japan

本研究では, 国指定文化財庭園に関する文献を整理し, 基礎資料として具体的な情報を示した。また, これを用いて統計をとり, 国指定文化財庭園の全体像を明らかにした。その結果, 以下のことが分かった。国指定文化財庭園は指定状況から, 実質的には名勝として指定された庭園 (名勝庭園) とみなしてよく, 名勝庭園はこの約80年の間, 例外的な期間を除けば, ほぼ毎年のように指定され続けている。名勝庭園が名勝全体に占める割合は徐々に大きくなってきており, 50%にも達している。名勝庭園は, 管理者が寺院であるものが多く, 地方公共団体のものも相当数ある。名勝庭園の約30%は京都府にあり, 近畿地方に約50%が集中している。

Corporate management of intellectual property in Japan

Intellectual property has rapidly become an area of strategic concern for corporate management and technology management within leading companies, with a concomitant growth of IP (intellectual property) resources. The paper describes how large Japanese corporations organise and manage their IP operations, which is quite different from the traditional patent organisation in Western companies. It appears as if Japanese industry has developed still another area of management from which Western companies have much to learn. The typical IP department in a large Japanese corporation has evolved into a department which is comprehensive regarding IP responsibilities, relatively large, engineer dominated, embedded in a corporate patent culture, and of strategic concern to business, technology and top managers. The paper also describes how this new type of IP organisation could be precursory to further extensions and how IP management could be extended into what could be called distributed intellectual capital management.

Debris flow and its countermeasures in Japan

Japan is an island lying off the east border of the Asian Continent. Its total area is about 370,000 km2 75% of the whole land area of Japan is mountainous. The lowlands, chiefly plains and alluvial fans, that constitute the remaining 25% are formed from sediments which have flowed there from the mountains in the past. In these lowlands live 85% of our population of 110 million people. Geologically, japan is extremely fragile and her topography is very steep. Under these conditions, sediment disasters caused by debris flow have occurred by torrential downpours, typhoons or the seasonal rain front in every year somewhere in Japan. These sediment disasters are the most harmful natural disaster to human life and property in Japan. For this reason the Sabo Law (Erosion Control Law) was enacted in 1897, and the government has exerted every effort to prevent such disasters. Thus Japan is one of the most advanced countries with regard to the study and research of sediment disasters and to the development of countermeasures.

Conservation of rock-cliff sculptures in japan

Factor Damage 1 JNTRODUCTION Compared with western countries and even other Asian countries, we do not have very many stone monuments in Japan. However, rock-cliff sculptures (Buddhas) are stone monuments unique to Japan (Fig. 1). They were carved directly on cliffs of which the rocks are porous, fragile and damp (they are quite often argillaceous to some extent). So the preservation and restoration of these sculptures is very difficult and one of the biggest problems at present in the conservation of cultural property in Japan. Here, the current circumstances of the conservation work on rock-cliff sculptures are presented for discussion and suggestions. Mechanical: Landslide Ground movement Abrasion by wind and rain

New earthquake prediction association

The Association for the Development of Earthquake Prediction (ADEP) was founded in January under the direction of Takahiro Hagiwara, a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo. ADEP concerns itself with research related to earthquake prediction and prevention of earthquake disasters. It also aims to develop necessary technology to predict earthquakes and to help save lives and properties in Japan.

The Netherlands in re s.s. Op Ten Noort v. Japan (Jurisdiction).

War — In general — Treaties of peace — Performance of — Treaty of Peace with Japan, 1951 — Netherlands-Japanese Property Commission — Competence of — “Property in Japan of an Allied Power” (Peace Treaty, Article 15 (a)) — Captured Netherlands ship sunk outside territorial waters of Japan after cessation of hostilities — Offer by Japanese Government to compensate by returning vessel of same type — Effect on offer of waiver of reparations claims in Peace Treaty.

Registration of Immovable Property in Japan

Registration of Immovable Property in Japan

Eminent Domain. Compensation. American Corporation Not Entitled to Compensation for Use of Property in Japan by Allied Occupation Forces. Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. v. United States (Ct. Cl. 1957)

Eminent Domain. Compensation. American Corporation Not Entitled to Compensation for Use of Property in Japan by Allied Occupation Forces. Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. v. United States (Ct. Cl. 1957)