@misc{Graupe2005,
  author    = {Graupe, Silja},
  title     = {Mythos Arbeitsmarkt : japanische Sichten},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-48322},
  year      = {2005},
  abstract  = {Modern Japanese philosophy offers a new approach to describing the world of labour. The article compares this approach with neoclassical labour market theories. Neither the working individual nor her "labour world" are sufficient as starting points to explain certain forms of organization. Instead, Graupe focuses on the "context of action". As an example of organisation, which classic economical theory is unable to explain, she presents "internal labour markets". The Japanese philosophical understanding of the world influences thus the specific design of working worlds in Japan.},
  language  = {de}
}
@misc{OPUS4-5439,
  title     = {Japan in der Katastrophe},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-53998},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {Die verheerenden Erdbeben im M{\"a}rz dieses Jahres ersch{\"u}tterten nicht nur Japan, sie ersch{\"u}tterten die Welt. Das Reaktorungl{\"u}ck von Fukushima weckte d{\"u}stere Erinnerungen an Tschernobyl. Wie geht das asiatische Land mit der Katastrophe um? Das Thema zeigt deutlich, dass die Krise noch lange nicht {\"U}berwunden ist. Weitere Themen: Europa macht die Eurokrise zu schaffen. Werner Weidenfeld kritisiert die Verengung und pl{\"a}diert f{\"u}r ein politisches Projekt Europa. Berlins Große Politik im Fall Libyen analysiert Gunther Hellmann. Zudem ein aktuelles Interview mit dem Generaldelegierten Pal{\"a}stinas in Deutschland: Pal{\"a}stinas Antrag auf UN-Vollmitgliedschaft im September 2011 - L{\"o}sung des Knotens oder Versch{\"a}rfung der Auseinandersetzung?},
  language  = {de}
}
@misc{PlenefischSpremberg2013,
  author    = {Plenefisch, Julian and Spremberg, Felix},
  title     = {Rechtsruck in Japan},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-65181},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {Ein dreifacher Rechtsruck geht nach den Wahlen durch Japan: Die rechtsradikale Restaurationspartei feiert ihren Aufstieg zur drittst{\"a}rksten Macht, der rechte Fl{\"u}gel des Wahlverlierers, der Demokratischen Partei, hat {\"u}berlebt und der r{\"u}ckw{\"a}rtsgewandte Wahlsieger der Liberaldemokratischen Partei, Abe Shinzō, regiert wieder. Wie werden diese Ver{\"a}nderungen die Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik Japans beeinflussen?},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{KorupHayakawaCodileanetal.2014,
  author    = {Korup, Oliver and Hayakawa, Yuichi and Codilean, Alexandru T. and Matsushi, Yuki and Saito, Hitoshi and Oguchi, Takashi and Matsuzaki, Hiroyuki},
  title     = {Japan's sediment flux to the Pacific Ocean revisited},
  series = {Earth science reviews : the international geological journal bridging the gap between research articles and textbooks},
  volume    = {135},
  journal   = {Earth science reviews : the international geological journal bridging the gap between research articles and textbooks},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {Amsterdam},
  issn      = {0012-8252},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.03.004},
  pages     = {1 -- 16},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {Quantifying volumes and rates of delivery of terrestrial sediment from island arcs to subduction zones is indispensable for refining estimates of the thickness of trench fills that may eventually control the location and timing of submarine landslides and tsunami-generating mega-earthquakes. Despite these motivating insights, knowledge about the rates of erosion and sediment export from the Japanese islands to their Pacific subduction zones remains patchy regardless of the increasing availability of highly resolved data on surface deformation, climate, geology, and topography. Traditionally, natural erosion rates across the island arc have been estimated from regression of topographic catchment metrics and reservoir sedimentation rates that were recorded over several years to decades. We review current research in this context, correct for a systematic bias in one of the most widely used predictions, and present new estimates of decadal to millennial-scale erosion rates of Japan's terrestrial inner forearc. We draw on several independent and unprecedented inventories of mass wasting, reservoir sedimentation, and concentrations of cosmogenic Be-10 in river sands. We find that natural Be-10-derived denudation rates of several mm yr(-1) in the Japanese Alps have been sustained over several centuries to millennia, and are, within error, roughly consistent with sediment yields inferred from artificial reservoir sedimentation. Local exceptions may likely result from release of sediment storage or regional landsliding episodes that trigger transient sediment pulses. Our synopsis further reveals that catchments draining Japan's eastern seaboard differ distinctly in their tectonic, lithological, topographic, and climatic characteristics between the Tohoku, Japanese Alps, and Nankai inner forearc segments, which is underscored by a marked asymmetric pattern of erosion rates along the island arc. Erosion rates are highest (up to at least 3 mm yr(-1)) in the Japanese Alps that mark the collision of two subduction zones, where high topographic relief, hillslope and bedrock-channel steepness foster rapid denudation by mass wasting. Comparable, if slightly lower, erosion rates characterise the Nankai inner forearc in southwest Japan, most likely due to higher typhoon-driven rainfall totals and variability rather than its high topographic relief. In contrast, our estimated erosion and flux rates are lowest in the Tohoku inner forearc catchments that feed sediment into the Japan Trench. We conclude that collisional mountain building of the Japanese Alps drives some of the highest erosion rates in the island arc despite similar uplift and precipitation controls in southwest Japan. We infer that, prior to extensive river damming, reservoir construction, and coastal works, the gross of Japan's total sediment export to the Pacific Ocean entered the accretionary margin of the Nankai Trough as opposed to the comparatively sediment-starved Japan Trench. Compared to documented contemporary rates of sediment flux from mountainous catchments elsewhere in the Pacific, the rivers draining Japan's inner forearc take an intermediate position despite high relief, steep slopes, very high seismicity, and frequent rainstorms. However, the average rates of millennial-scale denudation in the Japanese Alps particularly are amongst the highest reported worldwide. Local mismatches between these late Holocene and modern rates emphasise the anthropogenic fingerprint on sediment retention that may have significantly reduced the island arc's mass flux to its subduction zones, as is the case elsewhere in east and southeast Asia. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Havertz2014,
  author    = {Havertz, Ralf},
  title     = {Abe auf Provokationskurs : Japans politisches Spiel mit dem Feuer},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-71118},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {Das Land des L{\"a}chelns zeigt unter Ministerpr{\"a}sident Abe zunehmend fratzenhaftere Z{\"u}ge. Japans im negativen Sinne „reizvolle" Politik irritiert nicht nur seine n{\"a}chsten Nachbarn China und Korea. Auch die USA sind beunruhigt {\"u}ber das provokante Verhalten ihres Partners im B{\"u}ndnisfalle. Territorialstreitigkeiten drohen zu eskalieren, die Auseinandersetzung mit der wenig ruhmreichen Vergangenheit wird verweigert. L{\"a}uft Japan Gefahr, s{\"a}mtliche Sympathien zu verspielen?},
  language  = {de}
}
@misc{Adair2017,
  author    = {Adair, Gigi},
  title     = {The "Feringhi Hakīm": medical encounters and colonial ambivalence in Isabella Bird's travels in Japan and Persia},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe},
  number    = {120},
  issn      = {1866-8380},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-395316},
  pages     = {13},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {This article considers Isabella Bird's representation of medicine in Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1880) and Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan (1891), the two books in which she engages most extensively with both local (Chinese/Islamic) and Western medical science and practice. I explore how Bird uses medicine to assert her narrative authority and define her travelling persona in opposition to local medical practitioners. I argue that her ambivalence and the unease she frequently expresses concerning medical practice (expressed particularly in her later adoption of the Persian appellation "Feringhi Hakīm" [European physician] to describe her work) serves as a means for her to negotiate the colonial and gendered pressures on Victorian medicine. While in Japan this attitude works to destabilise her hierarchical understanding of science and results in some acknowledgement of traditional Japanese traditions, in Persia it functions more to disguise her increasing collusion with overt British colonial ambitions.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{BoersGoswamiGhil2017,
  author    = {Boers, Niklas and Goswami, Bedartha and Ghil, Michael},
  title     = {A complete representation of uncertainties in layer-counted paleoclimatic archives},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {641},
  issn      = {1866-8372},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-41803},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-418030},
  pages     = {12},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {Accurate time series representation of paleoclimatic proxy records is challenging because such records involve dating errors in addition to proxy measurement errors. Rigorous attention is rarely given to age uncertainties in paleoclimatic research, although the latter can severely bias the results of proxy record analysis. Here, we introduce a Bayesian approach to represent layer-counted proxy records - such as ice cores, sediments, corals, or tree rings - as sequences of probability distributions on absolute, error-free time axes. The method accounts for both proxy measurement errors and uncertainties arising from layer-counting-based dating of the records. An application to oxygen isotope ratios from the North Greenland Ice Core Project (NGRIP) record reveals that the counting errors, although seemingly small, lead to substantial uncertainties in the final representation of the oxygen isotope ratios. In particular, for the older parts of the NGRIP record, our results show that the total uncertainty originating from dating errors has been seriously underestimated. Our method is next applied to deriving the overall uncertainties of the Suigetsu radiocarbon comparison curve, which was recently obtained from varved sediment cores at Lake Suigetsu, Japan. This curve provides the only terrestrial radiocarbon comparison for the time interval 12.5-52.8 kyr BP. The uncertainties derived here can be readily employed to obtain complete error estimates for arbitrary radiometrically dated proxy records of this recent part of the last glacial interval.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Ganghof2018,
  author    = {Ganghof, Steffen},
  title     = {A new political system model},
  series = {European Journal for Political Research},
  volume    = {57},
  journal   = {European Journal for Political Research},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Wiley},
  address   = {Hoboken},
  issn      = {0304-4130},
  doi       = {10.1111/1475-6765.12224},
  pages     = {261 -- 281},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {Semi-parliamentary government is a distinct executive-legislative system that mirrors semi-presidentialism. It exists when the legislature is divided into two equally legitimate parts, only one of which can dismiss the prime minister in a no-confidence vote. This system has distinct advantages over pure parliamentary and presidential systems: it establishes a branch-based separation of powers and can balance the 'majoritarian' and 'proportional' visions of democracy without concentrating executive power in a single individual. This article analyses bicameral versions of semi-parliamentary government in Australia and Japan, and compares empirical patterns of democracy in the Australian Commonwealth as well as New South Wales to 20 advanced parliamentary and semi-presidential systems. It discusses new semi-parliamentary designs, some of which do not require formal bicameralism, and pays special attention to semi-parliamentary options for democratising the European Union.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{BentsGrothSatake2018,
  author    = {Bents, Dominik and Groth, Detlef and Satake, Takashi},
  title     = {The secular trend and network effects on height of male Japanese students from 1955 to 2015},
  series = {Journal of biological and clinical anthropology},
  volume    = {74},
  journal   = {Journal of biological and clinical anthropology},
  number    = {5},
  publisher = {Schweizerbart},
  address   = {Stuttgart},
  issn      = {0003-5548},
  doi       = {10.1127/anthranz/2018/0838},
  pages     = {423 -- 429},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {Introduction: Body height is influenced by biological factors such as genetics, nutrition and health, but also by the social network, and environmental and economical factors. During centuries, the Japanese society has developed on islands. This setting provides ideal natural conditions for studying the influence of social networks on human height. Material and methods: We investigated body height of male Japanese students aged 17.5 years obtained in 47 prefectures, from the Japanese school health survey of the years 1955, 1975, 1995, and 2015. Results: Japanese students increased in height from 163.23 cm in 1955 to 170.84 cm in 1995, with no further increase thereafter (170.63 cm in 2015). Students living in neighboring prefectures were similar in height. The correlation of height between neighboring prefectures ranged between r = 0.79 and r = 0.49 among first degree neighbors, between r = 0.49 and r = 0.21 among second degree neighbors and dropped to insignificance among third degree neighbors indicating psychosocial effects of the community on body height. Tall stature and short stature prefectures did not remain tall or short throughout history. Autocorrelations of height within the same prefectures decreased from the 20 years periods of 1955-1975, 1975-1995 and 1995-2015 (r = 0.52, r = 0.61, r = 0.63, respectively) to the 40 years periods of 1955-1995 and 1975-2015 (r = 0.49, r = 0.52), down to the 60 years period of 1955-2015 (r = 0.27), indicating significant volatility of height. Conclusion: Body height of 17.5 years old Japanese students increased since 1955. Body height depended on height of the neighboring prefecture, but was volatile with decreasing autocorrelation during a period of 60 years.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SchellerSchmid2020,
  author    = {Scheller, Frieder W. and Schmid, Rolf},
  title     = {A tribute to Isao Karube (1942-2020) and his influence on sensor science},
  series = {Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry : a merger of Fresenius' journal of analytical chemistry, Analusis and Quimica analitica},
  volume    = {412},
  journal   = {Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry : a merger of Fresenius' journal of analytical chemistry, Analusis and Quimica analitica},
  number    = {28},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Berlin},
  issn      = {1618-2642},
  doi       = {10.1007/s00216-020-02946-5},
  pages     = {7709 -- 7711},
  year      = {2020},
  language  = {en}
}