All Data

Due to the COVID-19, many countries including Japan have reinforced regulations at the borders. As many international students could not enter Japan due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some universities offered online education services as an alternate. On the other hand, since April 2020, many of international student livening in Japan have not been able to go back to their countries.

In 2020, global phenomena such as unprecedented scale forest fires, storms, melting glaciers, and dramatic declines in northern polar glaciers are very likely to be caused by climate change. By the middle of this century, it is becoming clear that it is not enough for Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions to be cut by 80％ compared to 1990 levels. In December 2015, to meet the climate targets agreed in the Paris agreement, stricter cuts from Germany are required, limiting global temperature rises to an average of 2 ℃（better 1.5 ℃） compared to pre-industrial levels. With regard to the transition of Germany’s energy systems, this paper begins with a comprehensive model of the Germany power and thermal sector in future energy systems with a major contribution to renewable energy technologies. Based on REMod-D （Renewable Energy Model - Germany）, the basic structure is summarized briefly. Then, we introduce some of the simulation results by REMod-D models by Philip et al. （2020）. The aim is to assess the energy transition and the possibility of climate-neutral systems in Germany.

In recent years, the Japanese government has been encouraging the nationwide promotion of digital transformation initiatives. In Japan, however, many software-based ICT companies are concentrated in urban areas. In this study, we clarify how this fact affects the economic effects of digital investment made by local governments. Although this kind of analysis generally requires interregional input-output tables, only a few local governments have prepared and published them. In contrast, this study proposes a simple method that uses the intra-regional input-output tables published by all prefectures and the national input-output tables published by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. As a result, it was found that in the case of local governments with insufficient ICT industrial base, a considerable amount of the economic ripple effect derived from digital investment leaks out of the region. The results also indicate that the digital investment by local governments with insufficient ICT industrial base induces the leakage of employment effects, and might lead to a declining population.

This paper follows on Sadamitsu (2020) of a case study on a dubbed film from Japanese into English. Focusing on Venuti's (1995) domestication and foreignization in translation, the paper analyzed the gaps in language/culture and in time between the source and the target text of the translation, and demonstrated that domesticated samples were found far more than foreignized ones in order to fill the former type of gaps. This paper goes on to more precise analyses on how the translators have dealt with the gabs between the two languages by closely looking at their domesticating strategies for English readers/audience of the film. Specifically, their coping strategies of adding/deleting information of the source text will be discussed here based on a Cognitive Linguistics perspective.

As a part of development study in developing a relevant vocational course to improve student skills for meeting the industry requirement, this research aims to enhance collaborative mindset in CAD construction drawing course using the blended online learning platform. The flipped classroom strategy is employed to conduct the learning process with a project-based approach. The platform facilitates the learning process and changes the negative mindset with the positive ones, inside and outside the class. It provides a project showroom embedded on the website with comment tools for discussion, learning material, and sustainably developed tutorial video. The blended online platform is including WordPress content management system (CMS), Zoom, YouTube, Google for Education, Imgbb, WhatsApp SNS, and Efront learning management system (LMS), which combined into an integrated learning media for providing the needs of the learning methods used in the course with better benefits, accessible and easy to follow by the students. A study was conducted to discover students’ collaborative mindset improvement in two different classes, an experiment class B and a control class A. Class B consisted of 36 students use the blended online learning platform with a project-based flipped classroom strategy, and Class A use the regular learning model consists of 39 students. Data analysis was performed by descriptive analysis, paired sample t-test, and independent-sample t-test. The descriptive analysis showed collaborative mindset average scores of 70.90 in the pre-test and 73.91 in the post-test on a scale of 100 for class A. In contrast, class B collaborative mindset average scores are 70.28 and 79.93 for the pre-test and post-test, with an N-gain score of 0.3225, which means the collaborative mindset increased by 32.25% after being treated by applying the blended online learning platform for one month. The paired samples t-test analysis of the experiment class discovers a significant improvement of collaborative mindset with a highly significant correlation of 0.935 and Sig. 0.000 < 0.05 between pre-test and post-test. Moreover, the independent samples t-test revealed the two classes’ initial behaviors are equal with a tcount of 0.278 < ttable of 1.665 and the value of Sig. (2-tailed) 0.782 > 0.05 probability. In opposition, the posttest result asserts a significant difference of collaborative mindset between the experiment class and the control class with a tcount of 3.707 > ttable of 1.665 and the value of Sig. (2-tailed) 0.000 < 0.05. Based on all the analysis tests, it can be concluded that the blended online learning platform with project-based flipped classroom strategy is significantly enhancing students’ collaborative mindset. Furthermore, the future work is conducting the summative evaluation and developing the platform based on further evaluation.

有島武郎は『或る女』の執筆意図について、「醜」や「邪」、あるいは「堕落」にこそ目指すべき「人生の可能」があると述べている。従来、この「人生の可能」をめぐっては、それが『或る女』という作品でどのように主題化されているかという観点から論じられる傾向にあった。本稿ではこの問題に対し、作品の主題との関連にとどまらず、そういった発想を持つに至った有島の人生観の形成や、その人生観が作中人物早月葉子の形象にどう関わっているのかについても検討を加えていく。本来、「醜」や「邪」、「堕落」といったネガティブな概念は「人生の可能」というポジティブな展望と結び付くものではない。しかし、有島はそれらを半ば強引に結び付けていく。果たしてこのような特異な人生観はどのようにして形成されたものであるのか。本稿ではまず、有島の特異な人生観の形成について明らかにする。考察を展開するうえで着目するのは、有島とキリスト教の関係についてである。友人の森本厚吉に誘われてクリスチャンとなった有島は、アメリカへの留学中、キリスト教に順応できない自分の姿に悩み、空虚感に襲われる。この懐疑と苦悩は、制度や組織といったものに対する不信につながり、ついには背教へと至る。そして、制度としての宗教から解放された有島が向かった先は文学であった。有島にとって文学は、制度というものを介してキリスト教と対立的な関係に置かれているのである。その対立的な関係が象徴的に表れているものとして、本稿では<姦淫の女>に注目する。キリスト教の価値観では否定される<姦淫の女>に対し、有島は文学的な価値を見出していく。その価値を実践しているのが『或る女』の主人公早月葉子である。葉子は、社会制度上は蔑視される存在となる娼婦や芸者たちの生き方を羨望し、<姦淫の女>の生き方を肯定していく。葉子のこのような転倒した発想は、有島の堕落の先に「人生の可能」があるという特異な人生観に通じるものだと言える。ところが、葉子はこの特異な人生観を最後まで徹底することはない。ここに、作品に描かれる葉子の形象の揺れを見ておきたい。

林京子の「黄砂」は一九七七年七月に雑誌『群像』に掲載された小説であり、一九三七年の上海租界での出来事を少女時代の「私」の目で描いたものである。この小説は原爆体験にはほとんど触れず、戦前の上海における少女の「私」と日本人娼婦お清さんの出会いと別れを描いた作品であるにもかかわらず、原爆小説集『ギヤマン ビードロ』に収録された。なぜ本作品が原爆小説集に入れられたのか、その理由について、林京子自身は、この「連作のなかに『黄砂』を持ち込んだのは、上海時代と八月九日以降の人生と生命、また私の底流にある戦争と時代を呼応させ、一つの環に結びたかったからです。それは、陽であったはずの上海時代も、負に転化する色濃い陰を持っているからです」と述べている。「色濃い陰」とは直接的にはお清さんの悲惨な運命を指しているのだが、お清さんにはさらに積極的な意義がある。「私」は作品冒頭において、お清さんとの出会いは「私の思考の原図ともいうべき出来ごと」であったと語っている。つまり、「私」における上海での幼時体験と長崎での被爆体験が「一つの環に結び」つけられるには、お清さんの存在が不可欠だったのである。本稿では、人間に対するお清さんの独自な見方が、「私」にどのような影響を与えたのかを通じて「黄砂」におけるお清さんの意味を追求し、作品の意義を明らかにしたい。