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East Asian Cold War and Criticism of Colonialism : Focusing on the Controversy over Principle of Japan-Korea Friendship Movement in The Japanese Institute of Korean Studies
Get PDFThis paper focuses on a latent ideological conflict over the evaluation of Japanese colonialism between The Japanese Institute of Korean Studies and Japanese Communist Party, which occurred from the ratification of Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea and the expansion of Vietnam War. This is a good illustration of the difficulty that the Japanese attempting to criticize colonialism during the Cold War in East Asia had to face. Japanese Communist Party, which gave top priority to the opposition to Vietnam War, severely criticized Goro Terao’s theory of the Japan-Korea Friendship Movement and claimed that he persisted in the history of Japan’s invasion of Asia and ignored the ferocity of the current American imperialism. However, Terao’s assertion that there could be no Japan-North Korea friendship movement without criticism of colonialism became more and more persuasive because the Japanese government oppressed ethnic education soon after the ratification of the Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea. In the end, Terao was expelled from the Japanese Communist Party and left The Japanese Institute of Korean Studies, which was supported by the branch members of the Japan-Korea Society and the teachers of the Japan Teachers’ Union, who were actively involved in the movement to protect national education.departmental bulletin pape
Railroad Land Grants and Native Americans : The Case of Walapai in Arizona
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The Characteristics of a Distractor Influences Change blindness in Augmented Reality
Get PDFA previous study demonstrated that change blindness could be avoided when a gray monotonous distractor is presented monocularly. This result might be because the distractor was not perceived in a monocular presentation. Hence, change blindness when a more perceivable distractor was presented was investigated. We conducted the flicker paradigm task and then the distractor was presented binocularly and monocularly. The distractor was a Mondrian stimulus that had various colors and numerous edges. We manipulated the luminance of the Mondrian distractor because it was supposed that a higher luminance distractor became more perceivable even in the monocular condition. As a result, change blindness occurred even when the distractor was presented monocularly. Moreover, the higher the luminance of the Mondrian stimulus became, the more frequently change blindness occurred both in the binocular and monocular conditions. However, more alternations were needed to detect the change in the binocular condition. These results revealed that change blindness might require perception of the distractor, and even though change blindness occurred in the monocular condition, participants could detect the change earlier compared with in the binocular condition.departmental bulletin pape
Are Negative Attitudes toward Immigrants Related to Favor for the Control of Invasive Foreign Species?
Get PDF移民が自分の住む地域に増えることへの賛否が外来種駆除への賛否にどのように関連するのかを調べた。これまで人文学の一部の立場から、外来種駆除の発想が排外主義や外部者嫌悪の発想を反映しているのではないかという批判が提出されてきた。そこで、移民への意識が外来種駆除への態度にどう影響するかについて、西東京市在住の20～70歳を対象にした郵送質問紙調査のデータをもとに分析した。分析の結果、移民へ否定的な意識を持つ人ほど、駆除活動への賛成傾向がみられた。departmental bulletin pape
Usability development of Trehalose Fatty Acid Esters Prepared with Natural Fatty Acids Extracted from Oil Palm
Get PDFThe oil derived from the oil palm plant has become one of the most contested agricultural commodities in Southeast Asia, and development of novel uses for it is in high demand. Trehalose fatty acid esters have begun attracting attention due to their specific potent applications (based on the exceptional intrinsic properties of the hydrophilic trehalose part) and their amphiphilicity. In order to enhance the usability of palm products and trehalose fatty acid esters, in this present study we focused on the use of trehalose fatty acid monoesters (TMEs) prepared with natural fatty acids extracted from oil palms as cryoprotectants. Both saturated fatty acid and unsaturated fatty acid (e.g., oleic acid) could be used as the lipid substrate for the solvent-free enzymatic synthesis of trehalose fatty acid esters, using Novozym®435 as the enzyme catalyst. Additionally, three pure TMEs with fatty acid substitutions (e.g., lauric acid, palmitic acid, oleic acid, and mixtures of these) were assessed for their ability to maintain the enzymatic activity of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) in the freeze/thaw processes. While 6-O-dodecanoyl trehalose (TME12) exhibited a much higher effect for preserving LDH activity than 6-O-hexadecanoyl trehalose (TRE16), substituting TME12 with TRE16 retained LDH activity up to a molar ratio of about 1:1 caused no distinct loss in the LDH’s enzymatic activity, which indicates the effectiveness of a mixing strategy for the stabilizer, and that the concept is important for the use of TME product prepared with natural fatty acid extracted from oil palms.departmental bulletin pape
“The Garb of Fiction” : Edgar Allan Poe's Notes for the Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838)
Get PDFIn his elusive and eccentric 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Edgar Allan Poe presents a sensation first-person account of his fictional title-character’s experiences of cannibalism, mutiny and shipwreck as a stowaway on the South Seas. He adds a series of footnotes and an extensive endnote that point out Pym’s factual errors and lack of documentary evidence. In the “Preliminary Notice at the beginning of the novel, Poe has the fictional character Pym admit that the real-life Poe is the author of the earlier sections, even claiming that Poe had them serialized in the periodical The Southern Literary Messenger “under the garb of fiction”.1 In this article, I argue that, in spite of their ostensibly marginal position, the notes Poe creates for Pym help us better to understand Poe’s play with fact and fiction throughout his writing. Poe uses these annotations to achieve an effect of ludic anticlimax, in which the flaws in his plot and characterization accrete so as to disintegrate the narrative the moment before its expected culmination. Poe thereby exploits the footnote’s capacity to bring exuberant reverie into collision with plain information, and to traverse the boundary between fact and fiction, ripping away “the garb of fiction” to reveal the intricacy of his fabrication.departmental bulletin pape
