OBJECTIVES The aim of this study is to compare the quantity and quality of scientific publications in transplantation fields that were written by researchers from Mainland China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan in the East Asia region. SETTINGS East Asia. PARTICIPANTS AND OUTCOME MEASURES Articles except editorials, conference abstracts, letters, news and corrections published in 25 transplan...

1Department of Biochemistry, College of Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 2Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Kangwon National University, Chunchon, Kangwon-Do, Republic of Korea; 4Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 5Seoul Artificial Eye...

Grafted seedlings are used commonly in commercial vegetable culture in countries such as Korea and Japan, where land use is intensive. Lee (1994) has reviewed the physiological aspects of grafting. The percentage of cultivated area of grafted seedlings in outdoor commercial vegetable culture amounts to 81% in Korea and 54% in Japan (Table 2 in Lee, 1994). In greenhouse cultivation, the percenta...

Instant noodles appear to have originated in Japan in the 1950s and, today, are produced in over 80 countries worldwide. In 2001, over 1 million MT of instant noodles were produced in China, about 700,000 MT in both Japan and Indonesia, 270,000 MT in South Korea, 200,000 MT in Vietnam, 80,000 MT in Thailand, 50,000 MT in Taiwan, and 40,000 MT in the Philippines. Convenience and affordability ar...

N. Kamakura,1 A. Kimura,2 T. Saitoh,3 O. Rader,4 K.-S. An,5 and A. Kakizaki6 1Soft X-ray Spectroscopy Laboratory, RIKEN/SPring-8, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan 2Department of Physical Science, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan 3Department of Applied Physics, Tokyo University of Science, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan 4...

1 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kobe University, Rokkodai 1-1, Nada-ku, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan 2 Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Chuou-ku, Tokyo, 113-0027, Japan 3 Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology, San 31 Hyoja Dong, Pohang 790-784, Korea 4 Department of Life Science, Graduat...

1Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Pharmacogenomics and Pharmacoinformatics, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie 514-8507, Japan 2Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Biofunctional Evaluation, Gifu Pharmaceutical University, Gifu 501-1196, Japan 3Department of Ophthalmology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie 514-8507, Japan 4Department of Ophthal...

Department of Physics, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, 525-8577 Japan Department of Physics, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Korea Department of Physics, Ochanomizu University, 2-1-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 112-8610 Japan The center for Continuing Professional Development, Kogakuin University, 1-24-2 Nishi-shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo 163-8677 Japan Advanced Research Institute for Science...

The physical strength and motor ability of children in Japan South Korea have tended to decline due a decrease activity the lack acquisition basic movements. This study aimed measure abilities during early childhood among examine measurement values, fitness, skills both We found that 4-year-old girls, 5- 6-year-olds were slightly taller than same age Japan, but difference was not significant. a...

This paper seeks to balance the regional and thematic focus of cholera historiography by examining maritime quarantine in Busan, as it was devised and implemented by Japanese officials and doctors during the pre-colonial period. It also places the relationship between Korea and Japan in the context of relations with China, Russia and Britain. This paper shows that quarantine measures in Busan a...