• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 10th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.178-185
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• 2024

The concept of the circular economy is gaining popularity due to the growing awareness of sustainability. However, Japan seems to have lower awareness of this concept compared to other countries. The aim of this study is to clarify the current status of the implementation of circular design in Japanese architectural design. The case studies utilizing the 'Circular Design Toolkit' framework and interviews with architectural designers who practice the circular economy is conducted for it.

• 토지주택연구
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.227-238
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• 2011

There are similarities between Korea and Japan in terms of national planning and development system and housing policies. Japan has suffered from great shifts of social and economic systems due to skyrocketing land prices for three times and the collapse of the bubble economy after the Second World War. The study reviews historically important changes in the national territory and housing policies for last 60 years in Japan. It also investigates changing trends and characteristics of many socioeconomic indicators with regard to population, housing and other fields in response to these policies. First of all, Japan has experienced significant economic growth before and after the 1960's, and the era of national rebuilding projects in the 1970's. After then, the period of the bubble economy has emerged since 1980; however, it suffered from skyrocketing land values between the late 1980's and the early 1990's, and the collapse of Japanese bubble economy in the early 1990's. In response, many urban regeneration policies and projects were proposed to recover the national economy since 2000. It is found that these national territory development and housing supply policies throughout the country have been influenced by the changing characteristics of social and economic conditions. Since the housing supply ratio in 1968 reached up to around 100% on average, Japan has been focusing attention to improving the residential and living quality for existing housing stock rather than supplying new housing units through large-scale new town projects. These experiences are full of helpful suggestions for our future housing and urban regeneration policies as we reach to more than 100% of housing supply ratio on average.

• 국제지역연구
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.175-188
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• 2011

본 논문은 미국의 경제변동이 일본경제에 어떻게 영향을 미쳤는가에 대한 연구를 수행한다. 미국경제가 일본경제에 다양한 영향을 미치고 있다는 것이 광범위하게 받아들여지고 있다. 실제로 미국은 일본의 수출입에 있어서 중요한 부분을 차지하고 있다. 미국에서 발생된 경제변동이 일본경제에 어떻게 전달되는가를 인지하는 것이 경제정책가들에게는 매우 중요하다고 할 수 있다. VAR모형이 경제변동의 국제전달경로를 분석하는데 활용된다. 미일경제의 상호작용은 분산분해(VDCs)를 이용하여 분석된다. 본 논문의 분석결과 몇가지 경제적 시사점을 도출할 수 있다. 첫째는, 미국의 경제변동에 대한 일본 통화정책의 일부 의존성을 지적할 수 있다.미국의 경제변동은 일본 통화량과 이자율에 어느정도의 영향성을 나타내는 것으로 조사되었다. 둘째는, 미국의 물가변동에 대한 일본 물가의 긍정적인 반응이다. 셋째는, 미국의 경제변동에 대한 엔/달러 환율의 반응성이다. 엔/달러 환율의 반응은 조사기간이 장기로 진행할수록 보다 강력하고 의미있게 나타났다. 결론적으로, 본 논문은 조사분석기간동안 미국의 경제변동이 일본경제에 중요한 영향을 미쳤음을 나타낸다. 본 연구는 상대적으로 규모가 큰 경제(미국)에 대한 규모가 작은 경제(일본)의 경제의존성에 대한 개념을 지지한다.

• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.55-71
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• 2011

China has been experiencing high economic growth along with massive change in its industrial structure. How will the industrial structure change affect the Chinese economy? Similar changes were observed by Japan, when the Japanese banking system fell into a structural failure in terms of the inability to respond to the paradigm shift from "catching up" to "frontier economy." This paper is undertaken to highlight the lessons that China can learn from Japan's prolonged financial slump. We point out that big cities in China have already shifted to frontier economy and major provinces are on the same trend. We argue that in spite of economic reform reshaping the Chinese banking system, the financing pattern of state owned commercial banks (SOCB) is not in line with the industrial change. The Chinese banking system should be overhauled or transformed to respond to the increasing uncertainty along with the paradigm shift. Otherwise, China may fall into the same dilemma that Japan had faced in its industrial structure change.

• 산학경영연구
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.99-110
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• 2008

최근 미국발 서브프라임 문제로 세계 각국의 경제가 공황이라고 불릴 정도로 악화되어가고 있다. 특히, 한국은 몇 년 전부터 일본의 "잃어버린 10년"과 빗대어 이야기 되어졌다. 본고에서는 일본의 경우 어떤 원인과 당시의 상황을 알아보고 한국의 경우 어떤 차이와 유사점이 있는지를 살펴본 후, 일본의 사례를 통해 한국이 취할 교훈을 알아보려고 하였다.

• 분석과 대안
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.5-31
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• 2019

How can we reconcile our aspirations for more economic growth or prosperity with the constraints of a finite planet? One of the high-income countries, Japan, makes us wonder if we can deal with two different challenges simultaneously: overcoming economic recession and solving environmental degradation. This study investigates the supply-side perspective which highlights the productive capacity and efficiency of the economy through economic lenses and the demand-side perspective which highlights the Japanese personal lifestyles through social lenses. This study aims to answer the question, if Japan's sustainable consumption behavior is counter to economic development whilst environmentally proactive. It finds that translating individual practices and cultures of sustainability into the macro- scopic economic growth path is key to a sustainable and healthy Japan.

• Asian review of World Histories
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.265-293
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• 2013

The second volume of the Iwakura Reports is the writing on Britain. What is interesting, here, is the fact that the mission had visited the large factories in the major industrial cities. The editor of the reports in particular recorded the productive processes of goods at many factories, and wrote his own impressions of the landscapes of those cities. Those records let us know the real situation of the British economy at the time. Japanese historians admit that the activities of the Iwakura mission largely contributed to Japan's modernization. But there are few studies that analyzed the second volume of the reports which had mainly described modern factories and industrial cities. The purpose of this paper is to summarize the records of the reports on the British industry, and to examine what they recognized from the industrial civilization. The Iwakura Reports would furnish important information to the notables that had initiated the early industrialization in Japan. After the mission's visit, some British companies' export to Japan increased rapidly. What is more important, however, is that the British economy was losing its own vitality in the late Victorian age in which Japan began to be rapidly industrialized. During the Japanese industrialization, some Japanese diplomats and factory-owners might have realized the decline of the British industry. Britain began to be overtaken by her rival countries such as the United States and Germany. The Iwakura Reports do not let us know the change of the British manufacture in the late nineteenth century. Later, the leading figures of Japan's industrialization might focus on the rise of Germany or America. As the Iwakura mission had visited Britain in the early stage of the competition between Britain and other rival states, they could not know the real situation of the British economy. Furthermore, with compiling his manuscripts, the editor of the reports could not help being based upon the factory-owners' explanations and their brochures. This is the reason why he focused only on the excellence and competitiveness of British manufacture.

• 한국항만경제학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.43-55
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• 2004

This paper investigates how Japanese economic shocks affect the Korean economy and analyzes the channels through which they are transmitted. Also, the relative importance of domestic and foreign shocks on the dynamics of certain key macro variables is investigated. The techniques of vector autoregression (VAR) are employed to investigate the international transmission of economic disturbances. The VAR methodology is a particularly useful means for characterizing the dynamic relationships among economic variables without imposing certain types of theoretical restrictions. The dynamic effects of Japanese economic shocks on the Korean economy are evaluated by estimating variance decompositions (VDCs) and impulse response functions (IRFs). This study supports the notion of economic dependence of a small open economy such as Korea to a large economy such as Japan.

• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.27-45
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• 2012

Among political scientists, Japan's free trade agreements (FTA) with member nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been considered to be a political tool that can compete against China for regional leadership in East Asia. However, this paper demonstrates that Japan's so-called FTA diplomacy towards ASEAN nations serves the broad interests of Japanese actors in both the political and economic sectors. Given the attention to Japanese domestic political issues, it is argued that diplomacy primarily facilitates a need for free trade with ASEAN and ASEAN markets for Japanese corporations to compete in the global economy and for the government to nurture Japan's stagnant economy by assisting these corporations. This work also contends that the unclear function of FTA as an economic good is due to the lack of the government capacity to effectively manage FTA diplomacy. This partly results from the conventional view with regard to Sino-Japanese rivalry.

• 한국포장학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.31-42
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• 2024

This review paper provides a detailed analysis of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottle recycling in Japan. Japan is a global leader in PET bottle recycling due to its advanced regulatory framework and proactive industry initiatives. Japan's success attributes to the widespread adoption of bottle-to-bottle recycling, driven by the beverage industry's commitment to sustainability. By utilizing post-consumer PET bottle recovery and food-grade mechanical recycling technologies, Japan has achieved significant milestones in PET bottle recycling. This paper examines regulatory frameworks, collection systems, reprocessing facilities, and food safety assessments to highlight Japan's innovative approaches to PET bottle recycling and their impact on global sustainability efforts. Drawing parallels with Korea's early stages of PET recycling, it suggests involving major beverage companies and re-evaluating regulations to promote bottle-to-bottle recycling. The focus is on the implications for Korea to promote circular economy principles in plastic recycling.