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Status of Technology and Policy for the Utilization of Biomass in Japan (일본 바이오매스 활용 정책 및 기술현황)

  • Yoon, Young-Man;Yoo, Ho-Chun;Kim, Chang-Hyun;Choi, Eun-Hee;Yoon, Sung-Yee
    • Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.459-474
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    • 2012
  • Based on the general policy called "Green Growth", the Korean government planed to establish a biomass town in South Korea in order to recover energy from organic waste and to substitute for fossil fuel at rural region. Technical and financial support for the establishment of biomass town was insufficient so far. There are some policies to support biomass town establishment, however financial support from several Korean ministries seemed not to have been used efficiently. Some policies are planned excessively so that they cannot be realized on time. Therefore, there is a need to analyze the status of biomass utilization technology and policy in Japan from the point of view of an external biomass expert, since biomass utilization technology and policy of Japan take good achievement during the many developed countries. For the analyzing of technology and policy in Japan, literatures concerned biomass management policy and biomass town design were collected by visiting Japan Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and interview of public officials in charge was carried out. There are several implications for the promotion of Korean policy concerned with biomass utilization and biomass town establishment.

CURRENT STATUS OF THE EAVN EXPERIMENTS

  • HAGIWARA, YOSHIAKI;AN, TAO;JUNG, TAEHYUN;RHO, DUK-GYOO;ZHANG, MING;HAO, LONGFEI;FUJISAWA, KENTA;YONEKURA, YOSHINORI;BAAN, WILLEM;KIM, JONGSOO;KOBAYASHI, HIDEYUKI
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.641-643
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    • 2015
  • VLBI experiments have been conducted by radio telescopes in the East Asia VLBI Network (EAVN) in which 14 telescopes in China, Japan, and Korea participated. One of the aims of the EAVN is to obtain higher angular resolution that is provided by the 6,000 km baseline between China and Japan and better sensitivity by adding large telescopes. Data were recorded at 1 a Gbps recording rate at all stations and processed on the Korea-Japan Joint VLBI Correlator (KJJVC) at the Korea-Japan Correlation Center (KJCC) after experiments. Fringes were obtained from these experiments conducted at 8 GHz and 22 GHz and post-correlation data analysis of the experiments is undergoing. The outcomes of these experiments open the possibility of conducting EAVN observations with global VLBI networks. In this presentation, the recent status of these experiments and future prospects are presented.

A Comparative Study of the Utilization Condition and Typical Characteristics after the Closed School in Japan (일본 폐교 이후 활용 현황과 유형적 특징 비교)

  • Sung, Lee-Yong
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Educational Facilities
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.25-31
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    • 2020
  • The reasons for studying the case of Japan are as follows. First, the increases in the aged population is similar to the case of Korea, and consumers are aging as the population ages. Second, the structure of industry in Japan is very similar to Korea, which describes the fact that the share of the manufacturing industry decreases but the service industry (e.g., medicine, finance, and insurance) increases. Third, Japan is considered as the best predictive model for forecasting the future of closed schools in Korea because the GNI gross income per capita is relatively close to the one of Korea among the several neighboring countries. The purpose of this study is to analyze the current extent of utilizing closed schools in Japan and, based on the analysis, to provide basic data on the use of closed schools in Korea in the future. The types of closed schools can be classified into education facilities, social welfare facilities, cultural facilities, public sports facilities, income growing facilities, and others. Based on the classification, the analyses of the characteristics of each type for the facilities are presented. and When the utilization status of closed schools in Japan is analyzed, 363 schools were utilized (51.4%) in 2003, means the lowest utilization rate of the target year, after that 4198 schools (70.6%) were utilized in 2015. The utilization ratio is steady increased.

The Impact of Japan's Pursuit of Constitutional Amendment on Marine Security and Countermeasures (일본의 개헌(改憲) 추진이 우리 해양안보에 미치는 영향과 대응방안)

  • Heo, Song
    • Strategy21
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    • s.44
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    • pp.54-78
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    • 2018
  • The core of the current constitutional amendment pursued by the Abe administration depends on the status of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, which include the right to engage in war, in the legal and regular military positions. This is an important turning point for the Abe administration, which aims to become a normal country for Japan, and it is a series of steps that followed in the revision of the U.S. and Japan guidelines in 2015 and the overhaul of the security law in 2016. In this paper, we propose building "A navy Attractive to Alliances" as a way to secure Korea's maritime security under the current security environment. The term "attraction" refers to the alliance "first priority" especially in the United States. The way to do this is to transform the paradigm of the ROK-U.S. alliance into a naval hub in the vast seas, which will allow us to strengthen our national defense and even deter threats from neighboring countries. To this end, our navy needs to have a more active approach to U.S. East Asian strategy. If we can convince the United States to be a nation that contributes more to its East Asian strategy, it will only lead to a strengthening of the status of its alliance and expansion of its unilateral support and military capability against Japan, thus minimizing Japan's influence.

JAPAN 8M TELESCOPE: SUBARU PROJECT

  • IYE MASANORI
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.29 no.spc1
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    • pp.371-374
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    • 1996
  • An updated project status review of the Japan 8m telescope, Subaru, scheduled for its first light in the second quater of 1998 atop Mauna Kea is given.

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Sick House/Building Syndrome in JAPAN -Current Status and Practical Research on Indoor Air Quality-

  • Sekine Yoshika
    • Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.207-214
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    • 2005
  • Many Japanese today are suffering from health disorders related to their living environment, such as allergies and hypersensitivity to chemical substances. The Sick House/Building Syndrome has been a serious problem since 1996, due to low level exposure to hazardous chemicals such as formaldehyde and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted in airtight houses. This paper aims to show current status of the syndrome in Japan and practical researches to promote prevention of, and improvement to indoor air pollution due to chemicals.

Sick House/ Building Syndrome in Japan - Current Status and Practical Research on Indoor Air Quality -

  • Sekine, Yoshika
    • Proceedings of the Korean Environmental Health Society Conference
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.143-167
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    • 2005
  • Many Japanese today are suffering from health disorders related to their living environment, such as allergies and hypersensitivity to chemical substances. The Sick House/Building Syndrome has been a serious problem since 1996, due to low level exposure to hazardous chemicals such as formaldehyde and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted in airtight houses. This paper aims to show current status of the syndrome in Japan and practical researches to promote prevention of, and improvement to indoor air pollution due to chemicals.

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Toward Establishment of Japan-Korea Long-Term Forest Hydrological Research Network

  • Otsuki, Kyoichi;Ogawa, Shigeru;Kume, Atsushi;Kumagai, Tomo'omi
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2002.05a
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    • pp.51-58
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    • 2002
  • In this paper, the status of forest and forestry together with the trend of forest hydrology in Japan are firstly overviewed for the mutual understanding between the Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources (JSHWR) and the Korean Water Resources Association (KWRA). Then, Long-Term Ecological Research recently introduced in Asia is briefly explained, and the establishment of Japan-Korea Long-Term Forest Hydrological Research Network is proposed.

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