To investigate why female labor supply is lower than male labor supply in Japan, we extend the business cycle accounting approach of Chari et al. (2007, Econometrica, vol. 75, pp. 781–836). We first apply business cycle accounting with two labor types of supply to the Japanese economy an...
Tokyo. I think there is no so much differences with the Japanese countryside where people are only slightly more likely to point their finger at foreigners or say "gaijin, gaijin !" (the fact is, it happens in the suburbs of Tokyo too). From what I hear there is a world of ...
Why Japanese workers show low work engagement: an item response theory analysis of the Utrecht Work Engagement scale. BioPsychoSocial Medicine 4, 1-6.Shimazu A, Schaufeli WB, Miyanaka D, Iwata N: Why Japanese workers show low work engagement: An Item Response Theory analysis of the Utrecht ...
“Why do Japanese like working so hard? I find the idea of going to work on the weekend quite amazing.” Admittedly, many people across the globe share the same view and see the Japanese as a people of integrity and dedicated to their jobs. But looking at it from a different...
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"Cool Japan" Big Questions for Japanese! Why doesn't the way people work change? (TV Episode 2021) - Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
We examine the impact of a large number of Japanese government-sponsored research consortia on the research productivity of participating firms by measuring their patenting in the targeted technologies before, during, and after participation. Consistent with the predictions of the theoretical literature on...
On the other hand, in Europe and North America, the decline in tobacco consumption and smoking rates began about 10 years earlier, so it is estimated that the decrease in age-adjusted mortality rate of cancer in these countries began about 10 years earlier than in Japan. Conclusion Japanese ...
Vocabulary is a sticking point for many language learners. That’s because words have a certain arbitrary quality that makes them hard to memorize.
There is much more to be said on kawaii as it pertains to the perception of beauty, gaming, and pop culture, but I’ll leave that for another post. In the meantime, what else do you think defines the Japanese concept of kawaii? How is it the same or different from the idea of cute...