Author: Takeshi Ogura
Publisher: CRC Pre
Keywords: chemistry, products, natural, aspects, dynamic
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1997-11-21
List price: $173.95
ISBN-10: 9057022095
ISBN-13: 9789057022098

Preface: Natural products chemistry has a long history, and could be regarded as having its roots in the use of many kinds of herbal mixtures as crude drugs in traditional medicine. Systems of traditional medicine have been practiced in China and Japan for thousands of years, and virtually all regions of the world have used natural materials to treat human disease. It was clear that many plants, herbs, etc. contain components with powerful biological activities. The dawn of modern natural products chemistry began with the isolation of the active component, morphine, from opium. Subsequently, v

Author: Michiko Ogura
Publisher: D.S.Brewer
Keywords: english, medieval, motion, verbs
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2002-11-14
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 0859917681
ISBN-13: 9780859917681

The investigation of the medieval uses of verbs of motion remains important for a view of the syntactic development of the English language; this present study covers most of the functional features found in medieval English contexts. Verbs of motion are ordinary words, for which cognates can be found among Germanic languages, but the choice of words as renderings of the Latin verbs can be different. These linguistic developments are clarified in chapters on: The Rivalry among Synonyms, The Reflexive Construction, ’Impersonal’ Uses of Verbs of Motion, Verbs with Preposed or Postpos

Author: Michiko Ogura
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Keywords: english, prose, topics, verse, linguistics, verb, medieval, differences, verbs, choice
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 1996-01
List price: $136.00
ISBN-10: 3110144263
ISBN-13: 9783110144260

Authors:Seiritsu Ogura, Toshiaki Tachibanaki, David A. Wis
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: economic, research, conference, report, bureau, national, issues, united, states, japan, aging
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2001-09-01
List price: $97.00
ISBN-10: 0226620816
ISBN-13: 9780226620817

The population base in both the United States and Japan is growing older and, as those populations age, they provoke heretofore unexamined economic consequences. This cutting-edge, comparative volume, the third in the joint series offered by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Japan Center for Economic Research, explores those consequences, drawing specific attention to four key areas: incentives for early retirement; savings, wealth, and asset allocation over the life cycle; health care and health care reform; and population projections.Given the undeniable global importance of t

Author: Takeshi Yao
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: energy, global, program, science, coe, system, technology, warming, symposium, kyoto, carbon, proceedings, first, international, zero
Number of Pages: 390
Published: 2010-04-02
List price: $249.00
ISBN-10: 4431997784
ISBN-13: 9784431997788

Emissions of CO2 have come to be regarded as the main factor in climate change in recent years, and how to control them has become a pressing issue. The problem cannot simply be labeled a technological one, however, because it is deeply involved with social and economic issues. Since 2008, the Global Center of Excellence (COE) program titled “Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming—Toward a CO2 Zero-Emission Energy System” has been held at Kyoto University, Japan. The program aims to establish an international education and research platform to foster educators, researchers, and poli

Author: Takeshi Furuichi
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: primatology, progress, prospects, developments, conservation, behavior, ecology, bonobos
Number of Pages: 330
Published: 2008-03-03
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 0387747850
ISBN-13: 9780387747859

Among all great ape species, the bonobo is still the least studied in both captivity and the wild. Nevertheless we have observed a considerable increase in knowledge across various fields of bonobo research in recent years. In part due to the ongoing peace process in the Democratic Republic of Congo, research and conservation activities on the bonobo have resumed and multiplied since 2001. Part One of The Bonobos: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation focuses on scientific research. Behavioral studies in captivity propose to answer why bonobos have some unique characteristics such as high soc

Author: Takeshi Matsuda
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: cold, dependency, war, international, project, history, permanent, japan, perils, power, cultural, policy, postwar, soft
Number of Pages: 394
Published: 2007-07-23
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0804700400
ISBN-13: 9780804700405

This book examines the cultural aspects of U.S.-Japan relations during the postwar Occupation and the early years of the Cold War and analyzes their effect on the adoption of democratic values by the Japanese. Matsuda finds that the results were mixed: Japan is an electoral democracy but intellectually remains elitist and submissive—in part because of U.S. efforts to reinforce the domestic importance of intellectual elites. The author is especially concerned with the development of American Studies in Japan, and U.S. efforts to foster it. Soft Power and Its Perils brings forward a great deal