Positive Politeness Used in the Interviews Conducted by Desi Anwar to Dewi Soekarno and Bill Gates by Theresia Arianti

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The Explosive Growth of U.S. Military Power on Guam Confronts People Power: Experience of an island people under Spanish, Japanese and American colonial rule by LisaLinda S. Natividad, Victoria-Lola Leon Guerrero

“…The island is similarly small in the consciousness of most American and Japanese taxpayers, who will be funding the military expansion. …”
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Evolution of approaches to defense policy in Japan in the post-war period by Plaksin A.D.

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The “Nixon China Shock” in the Mirror of Japanese Domestic Politics by V. V. Nelidov

“…-Chinese détente, and after this event, vice versa, making every effort to normalize its relations with Beijing as soon as possible, reaching this goal even before their American partners did. Given the historical importance of the “1955 System” for contemporary Japanese politics, the article’s conclusions are significant for the understanding of the logic of Japan’s domestic politics and foreign policy of the entire post-war period.Author declares the absence of conflict of interests.…”
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JAPANESE IRIS (IRIS ENSATA THUNB.) IN SOUTHERN WEST SIBERIA by Z. V. Dolganova

“…Crossing of geographically distant varieties, first, French and Japanese, and then, Altai, Far-Eastern, Leningrad and American, brought about 150 adapted ornamental genotypes and 15 of I. ensata varieties. …”
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Sushi Reverses Course: Consuming American Sushi in Tokyo by Matthew Allen, Rumi Sakamoto

“…The nascent American sushi trend brings into relief aspects of Japan-US relations that are seldom articulated in the context of discourse about food – in particular the continued symbolic dominance of the US in Japanese eyes;3 and it also is emblematic of how Japan engages aspects of globalisation, in this case fetishising a mundane product that has become something new in its reimported form. …”
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Retinitis Pigmentosa with EYS Mutations Is the Most Prevalent Inherited Retinal Dystrophy in Japanese Populations by Yuuki Arai, Akiko Maeda, Yasuhiko Hirami, Chie Ishigami, Shinji Kosugi, Michiko Mandai, Yasuo Kurimoto, Masayo Takahashi

“…EYS mutations are the most prevalent among Japanese patients with IRD.…”
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Biofloc technology significantly reshapes water microbiome and improves survival rates in Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica) by Jiho Yang, Hyunjun Choi, Jun Seong Park, Yehyeon Cha, Ju-Ae Hwang, Seung-Yoon Oh

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Up from the Depths: The Cultural Appropriation of Godzilla in 1970s American Animation and Comics by C. Scott Maravilla

“…This article will examine how Marvel Comics and Hanna-Barbera cartoons culturally appropriated Godzilla for American children, but how this also led to an appreciation of the Japanese films.…”
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The Great Vietnamese Famine of 1944-45 Revisited by Geoffrey Gunn

“…Outside of Vietnam, very few articles or studies have sought to contextualize this event, whether from the side of Vietnamese history, or from the perspective of Japanese and/or French and American responsibility. …”
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A Study of Functional and Radiological Outcome in Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion with Stabilization in Posttraumatic Acute Central Cord Syndrome by Sivakumar Raju, Sudeep K Velur Nagendra, Vinoth Thangamani, Bharat K Ramalingam Jeyashankaran, D Abinav Annamalai

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A randomised, double-masked, placebo-controlled trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of teprotumumab for active thyroid eye disease in Japanese patientsResearch in context by Yuji Hiromatsu, Eri Ishikawa, Ai Kozaki, Yasuhiro Takahashi, Mika Tanabe, Ken Hayashi, Yukihiro Imagawa, Kazutoyo Kaneda, Masashi Mimura, Xiaoxian Dai, Tomoko Hayashida, Takashi Akamizu

“…Summary: Background: Teprotumumab significantly improved proptosis and diplopia in patients with active, moderate-to-severe thyroid eye disease (TED) in previous North American and European studies. This is the first evaluation of efficacy and safety of teprotumumab for active, moderate-to-severe TED in Japanese patients. …”
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Comparing Non-European Literatures – Dances of Mori Ōgai’s The Dancing Princess and Sabahattin Ali’s Madonna in a Fur Coat to the Music of Goethe by Devrim Çetin Güven

“…Another common practice of comparative analysis is to study how Euro-American literary texts inspire non-European ones, and vice versa. …”
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Effectiveness of an Impella Versus Intra‐Aortic Balloon Pump in Patients Who Received Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation by Yuji Nishimoto, Hiroyuki Ohbe, Jun Nakata, Toru Takiguchi, Mikio Nakajima, Yusuke Sasabuchi, Toshiaki Isogai, Hiroki Matsui, Yukihito Sato, Tetsuya Watanabe, Takahisa Yamada, Masatake Fukunami, Hideo Yasunaga

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Coimagining the Future of Voice Assistants with Cultural Sensitivity by Katie Seaborn, Yuto Sawa, Mizuki Watanabe

“…We conducted an online elicitation study (N=135) where Americans (n=64) and Japanese people (n=71) imagined dialogues (N=282) and activities (N=73) with future VAs. …”
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The Effect of Age and Occupation on the Seroprevalence of Helicobacter pylori Infection by GI Perez-Perez, T Marrie, H Inouye, T Shimoyama, G Marshall, G Meiklejohn, MJ Blaser

“…The prevalence of serum antibodies to H pylori was studied in 473 Canadian blood donors from Manitoba, 212 healthy Japanese. and 226 healthy Americans. As expected, the seroprevalence rose progressively with age in the three populations and reached its peak (greater than 55%) in subjects 60 years of age and older. …”
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Effects of orthography presentation and loanword frequency on L2 speech shadowing by Daiki Hashimoto, Keigo Tatsuya, Reiko Asada

“…The current study explores the Japanese English learners’ shadowing of the American English vowels /æ, ɑː/. …”
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THE USA AND JAPAN IN WORLD POLITICS by S. V. Volkov

“…The institutionalization of the American- Japanese system, its interaction with world politics are considered especially. …”
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Gender earnings ratio differences among population groups in Canada by Aneta Bonikowska

“…There was essentially no change among Black and South Asian workers, and small declines were seen in the gender earnings ratio among Japanese, Latin American, and Arab and West Asian employees.…”
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Influence of Surveillance Methods in the Detection of Sports Injuries and Illnesses by Sonoko Mashimo, Takaaki Hogan, Satoru Nishida, Yumi Watanabe, Yuya Matsuki, Hirokazu Suhara, Naruto Yoshida

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