Present-day Japan is marked by two associated problems: the social problem of communication and connection and the economic problem of labor shortage. The social problem of connection, which emerged in the 1990s, was originally thought to be centered on disconnected, lonely, anx…
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Nation-building has historically and contemporaneously been a significant part of the foreign policy of the United States, and has been embraced by Republicans and Democrats alike at one point or another. It is therefore worth delving into this matter with a new frame of referen…
Empires may be dead; however memories of empire are alive and well. The list of incidents involving the remembrance and contested memories of imperial experiences across the globe include every modern empire that has fallen in the last century and resonate in almost every nation…
This dissertation examines two major parallel but intersecting trajectories: that of kangaku (Chinese studies), specifically the Kidendō (history and literature) curriculum that flourished at the State Academy in the Heian period (794-1185), and kagaku (waka studies), which emer…
This dissertation examines the connections between global capitalism, modern medicine, and empire through a close study of Hoshi Pharmaceuticals during the interwar years. As one of the leading drug companies in East Asia at the time, Hoshi embodied Japan's imperial aspirations,…
The futures market is used extensively for price discovery, arbitrage, and hedging. Since their introduction in the 1980's, the stock index futures have also become an active market and a very important research area. Any additional knowledge to understand the underlying effects…
This dissertation investigates changing state policies toward immigrants in Germany, Japan, Canada, and Malaysia. A number of rights have been extended to immigrants in the post WWII era and much of this progress is attributable to international human rights norms. Nonetheless, …
This dissertation consists of two studies dealing with corporate financial policy as practiced in a foreign market. The studies share an international dimension and the fact that little has been published on either market, but otherwise they are unrelated and deal with distinct …
This thesis is a collection of three essays on industrial productivity growth in Asia. The first two essays analyze an unbalanced panel data set on 606 Chinese machinery factories in Guangdong province, from 1980 to 1991. We find rapid although volatile TFP growth in these facto…
This thesis argues that the explanation for underdevelopment should be sought primarily in the structural distortions of the domestic economy, the incoherence of national interests, as well as other internal political contradictions. By looking at the dynamics of Japan's relatio…
Most capitalist countries rely on imported labor to a significant degree, especially for low-paid, insecure, unpleasant work. Why, despite profound technological advances, do capitalist economies continue to demand such large amounts of low-wage labor? How do we understand the c…
This study explores how American undergraduate interns from a large urban university cope with and adjust to cultural differences encountered during a two-month internship in Asia. The research investigates student perceptions and socio-cultural factors that affect interns as th…
This dissertation investigates mechanisms used to conduct initial public offerings (IPOs) of common stock. Using data from the United States, Japan, and Israel I compare the book-building mechanism used in the United States, the discriminatory price auction mechanism used in Jap…
In my dissertation, I seek to explain when the military will use force internally to protect its organizational interests, and when it will use force externally for the same reasons. When domestic political institutions are unstable, the military's interests will be threatened, …
Images of evil, scissor-wielding censors lurk in most narratives of literary and film history. Japan has had its own share of artists being persecuted by the official censors and their self-appointed minions. The brutal murders of proletariat writer Kobayashi Takiji by police in…
This dissertation is a history of commemoration of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in the context of the global development of Holocaust and WW II memory. Using the history of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park as a platform, it examines the role of architecture, psychiatry, emotion…
Over the centuries, the term feudalism has come to encompass a variety of definitions. This has led to numerous works concentrating on the subject of feudalism, with a majority of them focusing on western European feudalism. However, a definitive definition of feudalism that enc…
This dissertation explores the steady-state relationship between foreign income and expenditures, import prices, and U.S. exports for unmilled wheat. Specifically, the study estimates implicit dynamic import-export demand schedules based on a two-stage utility maximization frame…
In examining the work of three "ethnic" writers (Nakagami Kenji is Japanese burakumin, Leslie Marmon Silko Native American, Salman Rushdie an Indian living in England), this project studies literary depictions of ways in which the body is portrayed and used as a space for cultur…