Modularisation provides new challenges for the automobile industry. Following the trend, this study empirically compared the cases of Korea and Japan. This study finds out the characteristics of modularisation dynamics in Korea which are different from those of Japan. The results show that modularisation of Korean automobile industry is shifting to modularisation in inter-firm system which outs...

In the “Sandglass” machine translation architecture, we identify the class of monosemous Japanese functional expressions and utilize it in the task of translating Japanese functional expressions into English. We employ the semantic equivalence classes of a recently compiled large scale hierarchical lexicon of Japanese functional expressions. We then study whether functional expressions within a...

The Japanese bubble economy in the 1980s, one boosted by capital gains income from inflated asset prices, burst in the early 1990s resulting in strong deflationary pressure. In the face of a sluggish economy, corporate investment has been sluggish. Amid such a weak economy, investment in information technology (IT) has remained relatively strong, particularly in the telecommunications sector. T...

Japanese listeners detected Japanese words embedded at the end of nonsense sequences (e.g., kaba 'hippopotamus' in gyachikaba). When the final portion of the preceding context together with the initial portion of the word (e.g., here, the sequence chika) was compatible with many lexical competitors, recognition of the embedded word was more difficult than when such a sequence was compatible wit...

This paper describes an experimental expert system for proofreading Japanese text. The system is called CRITAC (CRITiquing using Accumulated knowledge). It can detect typographical errors, Kana-to-Kanji conversion errors, and stylistic errors in Japanese text. We describe the basic concepts and features of CRITAC, including preprocessing of text, a high-level text model, Prolog-coded heuristic ...

System architecture, experimental settings and evaluation results of the EIWA in the WAT2014 Japanese to English (jaen) and Chinese to Japanese (zh-ja) tasks are described. Our system is combining rule-based machine translation (RBMT) and statistical post-editing (SPE). Evaluation results for ja-en task show 19.86 BLEU score, 0.7067 RIBES score, and 22.50 human evaluation score. Evaluation resu...

This paper is to reconstruct design process of Japanese pavilion in Venice biennale, Italy (1956) designed by Takamasa YOSHIZAKA with his laboratory and reveal architect's formal manipulations conducted under strategic thinking. Study materials were original drawings possessed National Archives Modern Architecture, Tokyo. The discussion goes as following:

This paper introduces studies on Japanese Landscape and environmental design work by author. Japanese people have venerated nature from the far ancient times and led life in unison with nature. This paper describes about the characteristics of Japanese architecture, the characteristics of Japanese civilization, and influence on "Japonism" from the viewpoint of the author as a design researcher ...