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Yoshi, who was Married to the Eldest Son Makoto of Kenjiro Yamakawa from Aizu : The Records of the Yamakawa and Kajii Families since the Meiji Period
Get PDFKenjiro Yamakawa of Aizu fought in the Boshin War on the losing side. After the war, he studied abroad at Yale University in the early Meiji era, earning a PhD in physics. Later, he served as president of Tokyo Imperial University and led the education world in the Meiji period. Kenjiro’s eldest son Makoto took a wife named Yoshi from the Kajii family of military doctors from Daishouji. According to the “Aizu Zakki” recorded by Yoshi and preserved by her descendants, Kenjiro had informed Yoshi about the history of the Chugoku region and the Aizu clan, the relatives of the Yamakawa family, and his knowledge of waka poetry. The records show that Kenjiro passed on knowledge and education to his eldest son’s wife and expected her to support the Yamakawa family. People of Aizu who moved to Tokyo maintained a sense of belonging to Aizu, which helped discipline themselves even after the modern era. Descendants of Yoshi, too, live in modern society with a sense of pride and identification with their ancestor’s hometown.departmental bulletin pape
Differences in How Thermal Environments are Controlled Related to Health Conditions
Get PDFThe purpose of this research is to examine differences in ways of controlling thermal environments and determining how different people achieve suitable environments for healthy people, elderly people, children, and people requiring special care due to constitutional defects or diseases. One-hundred-and-ninety subjects responded to an online questionnaire between August and November, 2018. The research asked about the family structure, health condition, and their ways of controlling the thermal environments of their residences, and the kinds of media they consume.
Respondents were divided into two groups: a healthy group （114 replies） and a group containing one or more members who needed special care （76 replies）. A comparison of the two groups revealed that the latter had taken more steps to improve their environments. Most respondents got most of their information from TV, though people living with family members who needed special care got more information from medical institutions or the government.departmental bulletin pape
Why Do We Have Trouble with the Shoes We Wear?: The Difficulty of Finding Shoes that Fit in Japan
Get PDFAccording to research in ergonomics and medicine, finding shoes that fit is a difficult task. However, it is not just the physical difficulty of matching shoes with consumers’ feet that causes problems. Some Japanese shoe industry players have written books for general audiences and have pointed out that most participants in the shoe market, including manufacturers, distributors, and consumers, lack an understanding of how to fit shoes. The author comprehensively reviews 29 of these books published since 2000 considering the contradictory claims in them. The results can be summarized as follows: a variety of misunderstandings leads to problems in finding shoes that fit. This academic research on the Japanese shoe industry will help consumers find shoes that fit and thus avoid pain.departmental bulletin pape
Yoshiko Shigekane and the Culture Center: A Case Study of Women’s Serious Leisure in the Post-war Educational History
Get PDFYoshiko Shigekane （1927-93） was the 12th female winner of the Akutagawa prize in 1979 and was the 10th winner among post-war female winners. This paper looks mainly at journal articles and essays about her achievement and her own recollections of how she became a novelist. Using relevant information from those sources, the author clarifies the factors which allowed this woman to become a celebrated author and her educational environment.
Shigekane was disparagingly called the “housewife author.” She was particularly criticized for her amateurism because she won the prize after preparing in ways that were unusual. She attended a course called “Novel Writing Method” at a Culture Center （a Japanese private further education school）. Culture Centers were one of the most accessible choices women of Shigekane’s time had for further education. It was difficult for women to enroll in courses at universities or other officially recognized institutions.
Looking at the criticism Shigekane received for her non-traditional education, the author concludes that people, even in those post-war days, undervalued the seriousness of the pursuits some women undertook in their leisure time.departmental bulletin pape
