著者
菅原 慎悦 小林 誠道 長井 裕傑
出版者
関西大学 社会安全研究センター
雑誌
社会安全学研究 = Journal of societal safety sciences (ISSN:21860815)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.11, pp.57-81, 2021-03-31

This study explores how the COVID-19 was reported in Japanese media focusing particularly on 'reducing contact by 80 percent', an oft-mentioned policy slogan during the emergency period. Our qualitative content analysis of five major newspapers in Japan between 1 April and 30 June shows that media agenda had shifted from 'socializing the slogan of 'reducing contact by 80 percent'' to 'highlighting unachieved status against this goal', and to 'reviewing the boundary between science and politics'. By and large, our analysis indicates that Japanese print media coverage were modest and 'media hype' was not observed. Rather, the slogan had been emphatically represented as a 'scientific' and thus an uncompromised goal, which might orient people toward selfrestraint behavior. Meanwhile, it may have hindered the public from scrutinizing the incertitude of scientific expertise which supported governmental decisions.
著者
山口 二郎
出版者
北海道大学公共政策大学院
雑誌
年報 公共政策学 (ISSN:18819818)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.16, pp.63-78, 2022-03-31

Masao Maruyama, one of the founders of post-war Japanese political science, formulated the concept ‘systematised irresponsibility’ in his analysis of wartime Japanese fascism. This concept is evident in the policymaking process surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. Japan marks the worst death rate among the countries in East Asia and Oceania. The outlook of the bureaucracy in charge can be summarised as follows. The officials have failed to establish the order of priority among policy goals. They planned pseudo solutions without objective or scientific evidence, and concealed facts regarding the pandemic to avoid criticism. The institutional reforms of the government in the 1990s added new characteristics to the irresponsibility; concentration of power in the administration enables irresponsible political leaders to pursue meaningless policy.
著者
室橋 春光
雑誌
LD研究 (ISSN:13465716)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.23, no.2, pp.134, 2014-05-25
著者
大塚 和義 Kazuyoshi Ohtsuka
出版者
国立民族学博物館
雑誌
国立民族学博物館研究報告 = Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology (ISSN:0385180X)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.12, no.2, pp.513-550, 1987-11-10

This article aims to reconstitute the rite of passage of theAinu, based mainly on T. Matsuura's unpublished hand writtenmanuscript, which for the sake of this article, I have entitled"The Illustrated Manuscript of Manners and Customs in Ezo",and in part on other documents written before the mid-NineteenthCentury.Takeshiro's manuscript can be considered the most accurateand detailed material illustrating the entire life cycle of theAinu. It contains the following the descriptions: a legend ontheir progenitor, teaching of sexual intercourse, children's playand games (and learning the art of life through them), a boy'swearing a loincloth for the first time, a boy's wearing a formalsapanpe for the first time to enter adulthood, tattooing (a girl'sbeing tatooed to prepare for marriage), the hot water trial (judging a crime by putting one's hands into hot water), marriageceremony, civilities, exchange of tobacco, iyomante (a ritual tosend back the spirit of bears), treatment of disease and shamanism,funeral rites, burning the house of the departed, and specialfuneral rites for a person who died an unnatural death.Adding upsor (women's loincloth expressing their descent)to these descriptions, we can reconstitute the entirety of the riteof passage as elucidated by Takeshiro.No Japanese has paid enough attention to the concepts ondeath and rebirth of the Ainu, and Takeshiro, too, did not fullyunderstand them. But what is deserving of special mention isthat he clearly stated that there was a social order in Ainusociety, which was in no way inferior to that of Japanese society.The Ainu, in those days, were governed by the Japanese,from whom they suffered discrimination and exploitation.By trying to publish the manuscript, Takeshiro intended tocorrect such a false view of the Ainu, but, unfortunately, hisambition was not realized.
著者
Milliner Brett
雑誌
The Center for English as a Lingua Franca Forum (ISSN:24362867)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.2, pp.49-58, 2022-04-01

This article provides a practical example of how English teachers can use the vocabulary profiling application, New Word Level Checker—NWLC (https://nwlc.pythonanywhere.com/) to evaluate the lexical difficulty of teaching materials. NWLC provides teachers with a quick and objective approach for appraising the difficulty of a prospective text, test, or worksheet. The paper begins with an introduction to the coverage comprehension model (McLean, 2021) and its implications for selecting classroom materials. Importantly, this section discusses the recommended coverage benchmarks for different receptive modalities, or what percentage of words learners have to know from a text to sufficiently comprehend it. A step-by-step example of how to use the NWLC to measure the lexical difficulty of a TED® talk follows.