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Survey on Exchange Agreements with Chinese Universities in Japanese Universities : From Questionnaire Survey of Japanese Universities
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The Impact of Migration on Tourism Demand : Evidence from Japan
Get PDFThis paper investigates the impact of migration on both inbound and outbound Japanese tourism flows during the period 2000-2013. The results reveal that the stock of immigrants in Japan represents an important determinant of inbound tourism flows. The effect remains positive and statistically significant after disaggregating the flows by purpose of visit, though the impact is higher for “holiday” than for “business” arrivals. The number of Japanese residing abroad does not affect the inbound tourist arrivals. On the contrary, they exert a noticeable effect on outbound tourism flows, whilst immigrants in Japan seem not to have a significant effect.departmental bulletin pape
The Romanization of Chinese Language
Get PDFThe Chinese writing form is not a phonetic system and the Chinese characters do not represent the phonology, which, in part, hampers the mass education in China. For a long time to transliterate Chinese sound, native Chinese as well as the westerners have produced quite a number of phonetic systems, which can be divided into two schools: one is composed of Latin Alphabet, most commonly accepted writing letters in the west, and the other is of Chinese writing strokes, more traditional in China. However in terms of initials, finals and tones, each system has its special set of marks. Until now, Hanyu Pinyin has been accepted as the only standard of Chinese Romanization scheme, and has also been acknowledged as the international standard. The creation and adaptation of Hanyu Pinyin is also viewed as the process of acculturation, that is, to adapt the western form of writing letters to the traditional Chinese language.departmental bulletin pape
英語の歌詞が日本語に聞こえる : 非母語話者の空耳現象
Get PDFThis study investigates the mondegreen phenomenon - Japanese speakers, who are not proficient in English, mishear certain English lyrics as Japanese rather than just as nonsense - which occurs when Japanese speakers listen to English songs. The dataset was adopted from a website and a magazine that contained the songs of the well-known band, Queen. This dataset was presented to participants to test if they could aurally detect any Japanese words from the data. The results are comparable to those of a previous study of native speakers of English, showing that phonetically similar segments cause perceptual reinterpretations. The results also suggest a particular feature of nonnative listeners. They tend to interpret what they hear at face value because they cannot compensate for phonological reduction(s): speaking/listening strategies of native speakers such as coarticulation and deletion. From an experiment, we also obtained the results that Japanese listeners tend to isolate Japanese words from English songs where the same vowels are shared in both languages and where the structure of a syllable and a mora are matched. In EFL contexts, listening learning usually focuses on differences between sound features, but the results of this study suggest that common phonetic features also deserve attention.departmental bulletin pape
