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A Consideration on Onchi and Singing Development
No full textThe purpose of this article is to introduce briefly the contents of the book entitled “Onchi and Singing Development: A Cross-Cultural Perspective”, witch wrote up the contents of the presentations of the symposium, “First International Symposium on Poor Pitch Singers”, and to denote the author’s consideration about that contents. Firstly, this author denotes the interest to the onchi in a karaoke society from sociological aspects of poor pitch singing. Following it, the author denotes various aspects of singing in tune. Moreover, a sequence of observations for the features of the pitches of children’s singing, and considers the results of the experiments concern effects of memory on melody reproduction ability with voices and of vocal pitching by nine year olds. And, reviews several studies concerns children’s singing skills, and so, remarks that the needs for the studies on teaching systematically accurate pitching. After that, denotes the result of the survey of poor pitch singers of school children in Japan and introduces the results of experiments which concerns for identifying poor pitch singing. And surveys studies on evaluation of voice performance and at last, implicates pedagogically the development of poor pitch singing and development of singing
Plasma Loss Spectra of Fe(100) Surfaces by Means of Low Energy Electron Reflection (Memorial Issue Dedicated to the Late Professor Yoshiaki Uemura)
No full textSpectroscopic measurement of increases in hydrogen molecular rotational temperature with plasma-facing surface temperature and due to collisional-radiative processes in tokamaks
No full text水素分子の回転温度を予測し、プラズマ再結合を効果的に起こす. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2023-07-28.Fusion model hot off the wall: Predicting molecular rotational temperature for enhanced plasma recombination. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2023-07-28.Spatially resolved rotational temperature of ground state hydrogen molecules desorbed from plasma-facing surface was measured in QUEST, LTX-β, and DIII-D tokamaks, and the increases of the rotational temperature with the surface temperature and due to collisional-radiative processes in the plasmas were evaluated. The increase due to collisional-radiative processes was calculated by solving rate equations considering electron and proton collisional excitation and deexcitation and spontaneous emission. The calculation results suggest a high sensitivity for the rotational temperature to electron and proton densities, but a negligible sensitivity to the electron, proton, and surface temperatures. In the three tokamaks with different plasma parameters and plasma-facing surface materials, the spatial profile of the rotational temperature was estimated using Fulcher-α emission lines (600–608 nm). In QUEST, the spatial profile of the rotational temperature was estimated from spatially resolved spectra. In the other tokamaks, the rotational temperature was evaluated assuming a single point emission with a location determined from the Fulcher-α emission profile as measured with a filtered camera. In metal-walled devices QUEST and LTX-β, the rotational temperature increased with the surface temperature, and the calculated collisional-radiative increase is consistent with measured increase assuming that the rotational temperature at the surface is approximately 500–600 K higher than the surface temperature. In DIII-D with carbon walls, a larger collisional-radiative increase than the other tokamaks was observed because of the higher density leading to a large difference from the calculated increase compared to the other smaller tokamaks. Measurement of the Fulcher-α emission profile with higher spatial resolution in DIII-D may reduce the difference and reveal the effect of the surface temperature on the rotational temperature. These results show the increases in the rotational temperature with the surface temperature and due to the collisional-radiative processes
Destructive discourse: 'Japan-bashing' in the United States, Australia and Japan in the 1980s and 1990s
No full textBy the 1960s-70s, most Western commentators agreed that Japan had rehabilitated itself from World War II, in the process becoming on the whole a reliable member of the international community. From the late 1970s onwards, however, as Japan’s economy continued to rise, this premise began to be questioned. By the late 1980s, a new ‘Japan Problem’ had been identified in Western countries, although the presentation of Japan as a dangerous ‘other’ was nevertheless familiar from past historical eras. The term ‘Japan-bashing’ was used by opponents of this negative view to suggest that much of the critical rhetoric about a ‘Japan Problem’ could be reduced to an unwarranted, probably racist, assault on Japan.
This thesis argues that the invention and popularisation of the highly-contested label ‘Japan-bashing’, rather than averting criticism of Japan, perversely helped to exacerbate and transform the moderate anti-Japanese sentiment that had existed in Western countries in the late 1970s and early 1980s into a widely disseminated, heavily politicised and even encultured phenomenon in the late 1980s and 1990s. Moreover, when the term ‘Japan-bashing’ spread to Japan itself, Japanese commentators were quick to respond. In fact, the level and the nature of the response from the Japanese side is one crucial factor that distinguishes ‘Japan-bashing’ in the 1980s and 1990s from anti-Japanese sentiment expressed in the West in earlier periods.
Ultimately, the label and the practice of ‘Japan-bashing’ helped to transform intellectual and popular discourses about Japan in both Western countries and Japan itself in the 1980s and 1990s. Moreover, in doing so, it revealed crucial features of wider Western and Japanese perceptions of the global order in the late twentieth century. Debates about Japan showed, for example, that economic strength had become at least as important as military power to national discourses about identity. However, the view that Western countries and Japan are generally incompatible, and share few, if any, common values, interests or goals, has been largely discarded in the early twenty-first century, in a process that demonstrated just how constructed, and transitory, such views can be
