Prior studies show that both mass and social media have played an influential role after the Great East Japan …

In Japan, many local mixed enterprises owned and operated jointly by local governments and private sectors had been … established from the late 1980's to the early 1990's in order to provide public services more efficiently. At present, in Japan …

the west side of Japan, and is near the Korean peninsula. There are two government-designated major cities in Fukuoka …

By using a prospective, nation-wide, population-based out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) database (All-Japan Utstein … Registry, January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2012), we examined the disparity in emergency medical services across Japan and found … significant disparities among prefectures. By dividing Japan into seven parts, Hasegawa et al. (2013) analysed regional …

. After the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, government investment in the disaster stricken areas was provided for … consists of 47 prefectures and 20 industrial sectors in Japan. Also, this study assumes two scenarios. First, in order to … measure economic damages in Japan, this study assumes a supply constraint by collapsed private capital stocks in the disaster …

Toyohashi City in Japan. More concretely, this paper emphasizes a computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling approach to …

The main purpose of this paper is to estimate and evaluate the social costs of highways in Japan. In general, with more … warming, and traffic congestion. By using a data set from Japan, this paper aims to estimate the social costs of vehicular … Japan: 1) traffic accidents, 2) air pollution, 3) noise, 4) global warming, and 5) traffic congestion. Third, by using a …

conduct an empirical analysis using data from Japanese cities. As there is no official definition in Japan, we first define … metropolitan areas and create a data set of 269 metropolitan areas in Japan for the year 2000. Then we estimate cities f urban …