In the credit default swap (CDS) market, Japan’s major companies are regarded on average as having weak pathways leading from their stakeholder relationships to reducing their default risks. This assertion is based on panel data analyses to investigate the determinants of companies’ CDS...

This presentation outlines a proposal for a new frame work for the provision of universal service aimed at solving the various issues inherent in community informatization, and goes on to look at the advantages and disadvantages of the proposed framework and review its feasibility. In order to...

This paper aims to investigate the existence of "data network effects" in data platform services such as Big Data, Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and their influence on the diffusion of the services. It intendsto present a preliminary formal analysis ofthe effects of...

Communication via mobile telephones is widespread in East Asian metropolis such as Seoul, Taipei and Tokyo. In the last ten years, the number of mobile telephone users has increased dramatically, with the younger generation in particular depending on the services available via mobile telephones....

This study quantitatively examines factors behind the Japanese public's high voluntary compliance with the government's 'new normal' advice during COVID-19 from both sociocultural and health communication perspectives. Using survey data collected from 3,100 adults in Japan in October 2021, it is...

This study aims to investigate the influence of different types of trust on the installation of the COVID-19 Contact-Confirming Application (COCOA) in Japan with data collected from both installed and non-installed users. Despite the country's digital readiness, Japanese people hesitate to...

This paper aims to analyze how the prevalence of COVID-19 infection has affected the adoption of the contact-confirming application in Japan and how network externalities have emerged in the diffusion process. Japan's COVID-19 contact-confirming application (COCOA), launched on June 19, 2020,...