Property In Japan Research Articles

Customer acceptance of humanoid service robots in hotels: moderating effects of service voluntariness and culture

Purpose This study aims to propose a research model integrating technology acceptance model 3 (TAM3) constructs and human aspects of humanoid service robots (HSRs), measured by the Godspeed questionnaire series and tested across two hotel properties in Japan and the USA. Design/methodology/approach Potential participants were approached randomly by email invitation. A final sample size of 395 across two hotels, one in Japan and the other in the USA, was obtained, and the data were analysed using structural equation modelling. Findings The results confirm that perceived usefulness, driven by subjective norms and output quality, and perceived ease of use, driven by perceived enjoyment and absence of anxiety, are the immediate direct determinants of users’ re-patronage intentions for HSRs. Results also showed that users prefer anthropomorphism, perceived intelligence and the safety of an HSR for reusing it. Practical implications The findings have practical implications for the hospitality industry, suggesting multiple attributes of an HSRs that managers need to consider before deploying them in their properties. Originality/value The current study proposes an integrated model determining factors that affect the re-patronage of HSRs in hotels.

Trend analysis of CASBEE Wellness Office certified properties

AbstractCASBEE Wellness Office, a tool assessing buildings and workplaces in terms of worker health, workplace productivity, and resilience, has been in operation since 2019 and has certified more than 90 properties in Japan. In this study, the trends of certified properties were analyzed. Most of them were accredited with high ranks, S or A. CASBEE allows self‐certification, and properties with high potential tend to be applied for third‐party certification. Buildings occupied or owned by a single company tend to have higher scores than buildings with multiple tenants. Among buildings with multiple tenants, those with larger floor areas tend to be accredited with higher scores. In some categories of the assessment systems, it might be easier to obtain higher scores for large‐scale properties, such as serving various refreshment spaces. Questionnaire surveys using the CASBEE Office Health Checklist were conducted on properties evaluated by the CASBEE Wellness Office. A strong correlation was identified between the scores. Owing to the evident correlations between the CASBEE Office health checklist, workplace productivity, and worker health, it can be concluded that the CASBEE Wellness Office can appropriately measure the planning and operation of properties in terms of worker performance related to wellness.

The growing role of intellectual property in Japan's national economic security: legislative provision

Keywords: intellectual property, innovation, national security, economic security,critical technology, critical infrastructure, inventor, non-disclosure guidelines, securityexpertise, secret patent
 The article examines the role ofintellectual property, in particular, the Institute of Secret Inventions in the developmentof the Japanese economy, ensuring the national economic security of the state.An analysis of the new Law on Strengthening National Security through ComprehensiveEconomic Measures, adopted on May 11, 2022, is given. The organizational andeconomic mechanism for ensuring measures aimed at strengthening Japan's national economic security is considered: a system that ensures a stable supply of critical materials,a system for supporting the development of critical technologies, and a secretpatent system. Japan's Economic Security Act gives the Japanese government theright to determine economic threats and risks associated with foreign economic activity.Focusing on four areas of economic security — supply chains, basic infrastructure,advanced technology and the publication of patents on sensitive technologies — thelaw allows the national government to intervene in Japanese companies' deals withforeign companies. It is concluded that the economic and legal institution of secret inventions,which directly affects national security, will gain more and more importance.And certain provisions of the Law can be used in law-making and law-enforcementactivities in Ukraine: a system for supporting the development of critical technologies,designated patent classifications (Designated Patent Classifications) in thefields of technology that can affect national security, guidelines for non-disclosure, securityexpertise, a system of preliminary determination secrecy, government compensationfor restrictions in the form of payment of «ordinary damages», sanctions forleaking undisclosed patent information.

Child and Adolescent Service Intensity Instrument Development in Japan

Abstract Objectives: Level of Care (LOC) determination is an important process of care planning for emotionally disturbed children and adolescents. As a tool of LOC determination, the Child and Adolescent Service Intensity Instrument (CASII) has been developed and tried to extend the usage out of the United States. As part of that effort, the CASII is currently being evaluated for its psychometric property in Japan. Methods: The CASII has been translated into Japanese, and then, 23 child psychiatrists and 70 nonpsychiatrist professionals who completed CASII training rated 7 vignettes to test inter-rater reliability. External validity was being evaluated by comparing the CASII ratings of 163 participants aged 6–17 against the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)/Youth Self-Report (YSR) and Child Global Assessment Scale (CGAS). Results: Inter-rater reliability among psychiatrists showed intra-class correlation coefficients ranging from 0.63 to 0.91 and those by nonpsychiatrists from 0.42 to 0.80. Cronbach's alpha was higher than 0.97 for both psychiatrists and nonpsychiatrists. The CASII ratings and LOC determination for 145 participants were significantly correlated with the Actual LOC and ratings of CBCL/YSR and CGAS except for the Internalizing Problem scores. There was no significant difference between LOC Recommended and Actual LOC. Conclusions: The Japanese version of the CASII showed fairly good inter-rater reliability and validity to use in the practice of mental health as well as child welfare in Japan.

Current Status and Challenges of Open data on Cultural Property in Japan

Current Status and Challenges of Open data on Cultural Property in Japan

Istoriya formirovaniya i razvitiya instituta intellektual'noj sobstvennosti v Yaponii

The development of the legal system of any country is impossible without the protection of intellectual property. Japan, as a country with an economic culture of exporting technologies and equipment, pays special attention to this issue. First of all, this is due to the priority direction of the state policy of Japan, a country of advanced technologies and innovations. The whole system of creation and protection of the intellectual property in Japan is regulated by the Copyright Act (Act No. 48 of 1970), Intellectual Property (Law No.122 of 2002), disputes shall be resolved in the Intellectual Property High Court, and the registration procedure takes place in the Japan Patent Office.

A consideration concerning current significance of the "Viewpoints" as a target item under the criteria for designating the Places of Scenic Beauty in Japan

In this discussion, the current significance of the "Viewpoints" was considered, as one of the target items in the criteria for designating the Places of Scenic Beauty under the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties in Japan. At first, there was introduced an overview of the criteria and the latest application results of designation of the Places of Scenic Beauty, and secondary, the origin, revision process and the meaning of the "Viewpoints" in the criteria. Next, 39 application cases of the 422 designations and their diversity were examined. Then, it was confirmed that the application of the target item in the designation standard clearly indicates the emphasis of the designation reason, and it was found that there are several types of viewing activities such as sequence as well as just looking out, among the cases already designated. In addition, "action for watching" and "experiences about scenery" were cited as indicators for understanding the "Viewpoints", and the "Viewpoints" mediate and connect them. Finally, it was suggested that the target item of the "Viewpoints" should be re-expressed as including a wider range of contents and components, such as "Places that provide us some unique experiences about scenery ".

Era of Unpredictable Earthquakes to Predictable: A New Perspective to Predict Earthquakes to Mitigate Loss of Life and Destruction of Property in Japan, California and Mexico

The single-most important purpose of this observational successful earthquake prediction research is to mitigate the loss of life and destruction of property by earthquakes. The basic innovative concept is entirely new and related to the tectonic plate activities of epicenter zones, may not familiar to many and may not be readily found in the existing literature. This manuscript is prepared based on 35 years of earthquake prediction study and over 10 years of observation of onshore observable precursors and the corresponding earthquakes. Past precursory phenomena for earthquakes have been observed, recorded, analyzed and can be used to predict future earthquakes for seismically risky regions, Japan, California and Mexico. It is significant to mention that there are more than 250 epicenter zones and equal number of precursor areas identified, centrifugal force due to the orbital motion of the earth is the major driving force of tectonic plates, each and every epicenter zone has its own creation of atmospheric weather anomalies, due to the change in position of the orbital motion of the earth. Though all form of weather anomalies are preceded by earthquakes, among them rainfall is the best earthquake precursor and rainfall location is best to identify the future earthquake direction, location frame, time frame and magnitude frame can be established 15 days before earthquakes occur. Based on this prediction method each and every individual earthquake can be predicted without false alarm in Japan, California and Mexico.

Connection of Seismic Noise Properties in Japan and California with Irregularity of Earth’s Rotation

The problem of the relationship of the properties of seismic noise with the irregular rotation of the Earth is considered. We study the median daily values of the multifractal singularity spectrum support width, the generalized Hurst exponent, and the seismic noise wavelet-based entropy on the networks of broadband seismic stations in Japan and California for the time interval 1997–2019. The first principal components of the noise properties in a half year moving time window are calculated. The coherence spectra are estimated both between the principal noise components in two regions and each principal component with a time series of the length of day (LOD). It has been shown that an increase in the power of high-frequency pulsations of LOD (for periods less than 6 days) is accompanied by a decrease in the coherence between the properties of seismic noise in Japan and California. The degree of synchronization of the response of changes in the properties of seismic noise in Japan and California to the irregularity of Earth’s rotation in a “long” moving time window of 5 years is estimated. For this purpose, the correlation coefficient and the “secondary” coherence spectrum between synchronous variations of the “primary” coherence spectra between the LOD and each of the main noise components obtained in the “short” half-year window, as well as their mutual correlation function, were calculated.

Cover Crop Mixtures Effects on Soil Physical and Chemical Properties in Japan

Cover Crop Mixtures Effects on Soil Physical and Chemical Properties in Japan

Development of Seismic Resistance in Conservation for Architectural Cultural Properties in Japan

Development of Seismic Resistance in Conservation for Architectural Cultural Properties in Japan

Empirical analysis on the depreciation of the structure of wooden residential properties in Tokyo Metropolitan Area

Market price of existing houses in Japan depreciates more dramatically than in other advanced economies including the US. It is usually recognized that the price of the structure of wooden residential properties in Japan become zero after 20 years of construction. In this paper, actual transaction data from MLIT is analyzed with several assumptions because of availability of data. The attempt to decompose the price of the structure and land revealed that the structure component depreciates very rapidly and the price of the structure becomes not only zero but also negative after 28 years on average.

El patrimonio japonés a través del material turístico promocional: pasado y presente

En esta investigacion se centra en un variado corpus de carteles y folletos turisticos sobre Japon, destinados esencialmente al publico foraneo, a traves de los cuales examinaremos, valoraremos y cuantificaremos la manera en la que el patrimonio japones —material e inmaterial— ha sido retratado por el negocio turistico y, por tanto, percibido por el publico general. Para ello, ofreceremos algunos rasgos generales sobre las consideraciones del Patrimonio Cultural en Japon y las representaciones que del mismo se hace en los materiales de publicidad y difusion turisticos. Por ultimo, reflexionaremos sobre las notables ausencias de ciertos elementos dentro de estos materiales.

Regional Structural Investigation on the Preservation Districts of Yuasa and Ine in Japan

The preservation district of groups of traditional buildings is an important category of cultural properties in Japan. Japan has entered an earthquake active period. However, conventional culturally and socially oriented site investigation methods hardly satisfy the requirements of risk management of district preservation. In this study, the authors introduce an investigation method from the structural and security perspectives. They explain the study procedure, methods and results. Results of the investigation of two coastal districts, namely, Ine and Yuasa, are comparatively studied, and regional disparities are highlighted. The study concludes that district vulnerability and house structural performance should be considered as important indices when making decisions regarding district preservation.

Long-range coherence between seismic noise properties in Japan and California before and after Tohoku mega-earthquake

The coherences between daily time series of four low-frequency seismic noise properties which were calculated for 78 broadband seismic stations of the network F-net in Japan and 81 broadband seismic stations in California for 13 years of observation, 2003–2015, is investigated. The studied time interval includes Tohoku mega-earthquake, M9, on March 11, 2011. The chosen noise properties are the following: minimum normalized entropy of squared wavelet coefficients, multifractal singularity spectrum support width, generalized Hurst exponent and index of linear predictability. These properties were estimated daily as median values taken over all stations of the networks. For each pair of these noise properties from Japan and California squared coherence spectrums were estimated within moving time window of the length 730 days. The maximum values of squared coherence spectra for periods more than 20 days were essentially increasing as the time window approaches the time moment of Tohoku mega-earthquake and achieved their maximum values for position of moving time window strictly before the seismic catastrophe. This fact is interpreted as a consequence of general global seismic noise synchronization before huge seismic catastrophe.

Modelling temperature and humidity in storage spaces used for cultural property in Japan

From rainy season to summer in Japan, the climate is humid. Especially in these seasons, it is difficult to maintain suitable conditions of temperature and relative humidity in exhibition and storage rooms in museums. Such climate conditions and problems are common to many countries in East Asia. Analysis using computer simulation can be a powerful tool because it is cheap and allows the simulation of a range of conditions without having to make changes to buildings and environments surrounding cultural objects. In this study, a storage building in which there is no air-conditioning unit was chosen as a target. The modelling of temperature and relative humidity in storage spaces was conducted using the Thermal and Airflow Network Model Simulation Program for buildings (NETS). The effect of seismic retro-fitting on the variation of temperature was predicted using NETS and the results were evaluated by comparing with the measured values. As a result, the heat transfer was successfully calculated and the modelled temperature represents the measured values reasonably well. Computing relative humidity by taking into account the effect of porous hygroscopic materials is challenging. In order to overcome this problem, the κ-ν model was adopted. We have some improvements but the study is still ongoing.

Structure Depreciation and Returns to Scale of Real Estate

This study simultaneously analyzes the real estate production function and economic depreciation of structures by using data from Japan and the U.S. The estimated share of structure value is used to infer returns to scale, the land-structure substitution, and the structure depreciation rate. Real estate exhibits approximately constant returns in Japan, but decreasing returns in the U.S. Land and structures are gross substitutes in both countries. The land value ratio is 10% in Centre County, PA, but 60%-70% in Japan, reflecting the scarcity of land. The property depreciation rate is larger for newer and denser properties located further away from the downtown area in a smaller city. The structure depreciation rate corrected for a survivorship bias significantly varies by property type and country: approximately 7% for residential properties and 10% for commercial properties in Japan in contrast with 1% for residential structures in the U.S. These results serve as important inputs for macro, financial, urban, and real estate economic models.

Psychosocial Characteristics of Subjects Who Hoped to Receive Psychotherapy as Part of a Research Study in Japan

Aims: This study examined the psychosocial characteristics of subjects who hoped to receive psychotherapy, but were not receiving psychiatric medication as part of a research study using quantitative methods to measure psychometric properties in Japan. Methods: Subjects were examined using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I disorders, Global Assessment of Functioning, a questionnaire (including the resilience scale, social desirability scale, and the State Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI)) and psychological assessments. Results: Of the 67 people who initially volunteered, 22 came to the clinical centre at Tokyo International University. Of these, 16 completed a psychiatric diagnostic interview. They all had a fair IQ and were highly resilient and functioning well. Nine subjects had an Axis I disorder that could be classified as a life-long prevalence or 12-month prevalence. The subjects were diagnosed as follows: depressive episode group (N=7), manic episode group (N=1), anxiety disorder group (N=7), and eating disorder group (N =2). There were no significant differences between the subjects with (N=9) and without (N=6) a psychiatric diagnosis except for GAF. The results of a Mann-Whitney test between subjects with or without a desire to seek psychotherapy revealed that the former (N=7)

Incentives for the conservation of traditional settlements: residents' perception in Ainokura and Kawagoe, Japan

This study emerged from the author(s)’ experience in conducting a survey with the residents in Ainokura Village at the Toyama Prefecture and the Kawagoe in the Saitama Prefecture, Japan. With the comprehensive legislations bound into the cultural heritage's sophisticated systems, Japan is often regarded as one of the leading countries in promoting cultural heritage protection despite the tendency for westernization and modernization influences prevalent after World War II. At present, the establishment of the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties in Japan has increased public awareness for the conservation of the cultural heritage including tangible and intangible heritage. This research intends to look at the perceptions of the residents on the implementation of the cultural heritage conservation and incentives programme in those two traditional settlements. By using questionnaires and interviews involving the residents in the two areas, this study has employed the quantitative and qualitative approach in order to gather factual data. This research is conducted in order to address the overarching question of whether the incentive programmes that have been created for the community have been found to be suitable for the fulfilment of their aspirations and real needs.

Modelling temperature and humidity in storage spaces used for cultural property in Japan

Modelling temperature and humidity in storage spaces used for cultural property in Japan