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Not quite the 'Great Britain of the Far East': Japan's security, the US-Japan alliance and the 'war on terror' in East Asia
Full text linkJapan, in responding to US expectations for support in the 'war on terror', has displayed a degree of strategic convergence on global security objectives, thus prompting policy-makers and observers to dub it the 'Great Britain of the Far East'. This article argues, however, that Japan is far from assuming this role. For Japan, the 'war on terror' serves more as a political pretext for legitimating long-planned changes in military security policy that are often only marginally related to the US's anti-terrorism agenda. Instead, Japan has focused much more on using the terror threat rationale as a means to push forward its response to the regional and traditional security challenges of North Korea and China, even if at times it attempts to depict both as 'new security challenges' or as involving elements of counterterrorism. The final conclusion is that US military hegemony may be weakened by Japan's and the Asia-Pacific's potential divergence from the US global security agenda
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Japanese sports journalism in multimedia / Tanaka Hitoshi
No full textРаздзел V. Міжнародная журналістыка і дыскурс-аналіз медыяпрацэсаўИсследование раскрывает специфику спортивного информирования в мультимедийном пространстве журналистики Японии, что благотворно влияет на взаимодействие новых источников информации с аудиторией.The study reveals the specifics of sports informing in the multimedia space of Japanese journalism, which has a beneficial effect on the interaction of new sources of information with the audience
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Japanese sports journalism in multimedia / Tanaka Hitoshi
No full textРаздзел V. Міжнародная журналістыка і дыскурс-аналіз медыяпрацэсаўИсследование раскрывает специфику спортивного информирования в мультимедийном пространстве журналистики Японии, что благотворно влияет на взаимодействие новых источников информации с аудиторией.The study reveals the specifics of sports informing in the multimedia space of Japanese journalism, which has a beneficial effect on the interaction of new sources of information with the audience
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
My History in Last Half a Century
Full text linkThis paper describes my life over 40 years after entry into Kyoto University. In the postgraduate course, my major field of study was about reinforced concrete structures. My career as teaching staff and a researcher started at National Institute of Technology, Akashi College in 1979. Then, I studied at University of Canterbury, New Zealand, as research associate from 1984 to 1987. I become a lecturer at University of Canterbury from 1990. In 1993, I was promoted to senior lecture and conferred tenure title. I came back to Japan in 1995 and joined Toyohashi University of Technology as associate professor. Then I moved to Kyoto University as Professor in 2001. The main part of this paper covers my contributions to research works on seismic design of reinforced concrete structures and laminated timber structures. Also contribution to the study about damages of buildings due to Tsunami .were describedThis paper describes my life over 40 years after entry into Kyoto University. In the postgraduate course, my major field of study was about reinforced concrete structures. My career as teaching staff and a researcher started at National Institute of Technology, Akashi College in 1979. Then, I studied at University of Canterbury, New Zealand, as research associate from 1984 to 1987. I become a lecturer at University of Canterbury from 1990. In 1993, I was promoted to senior lecture and conferred tenure title. I came back to Japan in 1995 and joined Toyohashi University of Technology as associate professor. Then I moved to Kyoto University as Professor in 2001. The main part of this paper covers my contributions to research works on seismic design of reinforced concrete structures and laminated timber structures. Also contribution to the study about damages of buildings due to Tsunami .were describe
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