Faculty of Natural System, Institute of Scien Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan Tel: +81-76-234-4828 Institute for Frontier Science Initiative, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan Graduate School of Natural Science an Engineering, Kanazawa University, Kakum E-mail: [email protected] Research Center for Sustainable Energy a Engineering, Kanazawa University, Kakuma Department of Chemistry, Carn...

Traces of long-lived fallout-derived radioisotopes ((134)Cs and (137)Cs) were found in wet and dry deposition samples collected from the west and east coasts of South Korea from March to May 2011 following the release of radionuclides from the damaged nuclear power plants in Fukushima, Japan. The analysis of air mass back trajectory and atmospheric pressure systems indicated that the Fukushima-...

The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry announced recently that they will terminate preferential treatment in the licensing specific chemical products for export to South Korea. This announcement evoked concern impact on Korean semiconductor electronics industries, which rely heavily imports from Japan, might cause a serious supply shortage global market. To assess economic tighter...

There has been a confrontational structure to the relationship between Korea and Japan for several years, as South Korean government reneged on Japanese military “comfort women” agreement, Supreme Court’s ruling compensation forced laborers led restrictions exports. In tandem with these developments, anti-Japanese sentiment in society growing stronger, have anti-Korean attitudes society. This a...

a Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Republic of Korea. b IBS Centre for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, Institute for Basic Science, Suwon 440746, Republic of Korea c Department of Chemistry, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 156-756, Republic of Korea. d Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan ‡These authors c...

With the steady progress of “Belt and Road” Initiative construction, economic cultural ties between China, Japan, South Korea have be-come increasingly close. When faced with global issue water control, spirit harmonious coexistence human nature shared by three countries based on agricultural culture ancient oriental farming civilization will be key to solving problem. This paper sum-marizes in...

Agricultural trade policies in Korea and Japan drew much attention during the negotiations leading to the Uruguay Round Agreements on Agriculture (URAA). Before the UR the countries and others had been using non-tariff barriers and many other intervention measures in agriculture. Korea and Japan argued vigorously for maintaining their farm import barriers and subsidies. Throughout the negotiati...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the second most common cause of cancer deaths worldwide. The global HCC BRIDGE study was a multiregional, large-scale, longitudinal cohort study undertaken to improve understanding of real-life management of patients with HCC, from diagnosis to death. METHODS Data were collected retrospectively from January 2005 to September 2012 by chart re...

abstract t he relationship between public sector deficits and inflation is one of the important and controversial issues in the academic literature as well as in economic policy field. on the other hand, a major objective of macroeconomic policies is to foster economic growth and to keep inflation on a low level. so keeping the price stability plays an important role in determining the growth r...

BACKGROUND In the past two decades, rates of suicide mortality have declined among most OECD member states. Two notable exceptions are Japan and South Korea, where suicide mortality has increased by 20 % and 280 %, respectively. METHODS Population and suicide mortality data were collected through national statistics organizations in Japan and South Korea for the period 1985 to 2010. Age, peri...