This paper focuses on the causality relation between US and the several Asia-pacific markets (Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, and Indonesia). We check the causality of the co-movement among the markets across Pacific by using Granger-Causality test, VAR, and event studying on unexpected high volatile period. Our tests show that U.S. and Japan have strong influence to other As...

Based on specific sequencing, we found that a Borrelia garinii strain from a rodent in Fukui Prefecture, Japan was highly similar to the unique Borrelia strains (pattern R'/R) isolated in northeastern China and Korea, and to strains from ticks feeding on migratory birds in Fukui Prefecture. These findings indicate that the Borrelia with this unique pattern may be locally naturalized to the epiz...

a Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency, 178, Anyang-ro, Manan-gu, Anyang-si, Gyeonggi-do 430-016, Republic of Korea b Conservation Science Division, National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Daejeon 305-380, Republic of Korea c Wood Processing Division, Korea Forest Research Institute, Seoul 130-712, Republic of Korea d Household and Structural Entomology Laboratory, Department of Entomol...

1 Institute of Dermato-Immunology and Allergy, Southern TOHOKU Research Institute for Neuroscience, Koriyama, Japan 2Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea 3 Devision of Rheumatology, School of Medicine, Marmara University Hospital, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey 4Ophthalmology, Hokkaido Universit...

Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) consists of five genotypes (GI-V). Phylogenetic characterization of 16 JEV strains isolated from the 'USSR', Japan and Korea during the 1930-1970s revealed that 15 strains fell into GIII, confirming that GIII was the predominant genotype of JEV in Japan and Korea between 1935 (isolation of the prototype strain; a GIII virus) and the 1990s (when GI supplanted GI...

Based on the strong similarities between energy-resource-poor and fossil-fuel-centered economies (e.g., Taiwan, Japan, South Korea) in terms of economy, culture, energy usage characteristics, they should be analyzed collectively. This study adopted two-tier input-output structural decomposition analysis to identify driving forces behind CO2 emissions these countries formulation effective enviro...

Japan-South Korea relations have consistently been presented by International Relations scholars as a puzzle that confounds mainstream rationalist theories, which struggle to explain the consistent...

T.K. Gaisser, M. Honda, K. Kasahara, H. Lee, S. Midorikawa, V. Naumov and Todor Stanev Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA Inst. for Cosmic Ray Research, Univ. of Tokyo, Tanashi, Tokyo 188, Japan Faculty of Engineering, Kanagawa University, Yokohama 221, Japan Dept. of Physics, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 305-764, Korea Faculty of Engineering, Aomo...

Blood Products Division, National Institute of Food and Drug Safety Evaluation, Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, Cheongju, Korea World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Western Pacific, Manila, Philippines National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, China Food and Drug Administration, Beijing, China Department of Pharmacolog...

This paper examines the ways in which individual’s income and subjective social status are determined by one’s work-related and personal factors and studies the ways in which social contexts shape social stratification in Japan, (South) Korea, and Taiwan from a comparative perspective. The empirical analysis using the 2005 SSM survey data has revealed that institutional factors such as Japanese...