Planning Thoughts and Activities of Architecture Student Yonenaga Daiichiro in the Postwar Reconstruction Period

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 991-998
Author(s):  
Naoto Nakajima
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 702-708 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chihaya Onda ◽  
Tetsuya Sumi ◽  
Tsuyoshi Asahi ◽  
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Sedimentation in hydropower reservoirs is one of the most important problems facing power generation. Many of the reservoirs our company’s dams, built in the postwar reconstruction period, have been storing up sedimentation for decades. The percentage of sedimentation is now considerable, about 9%, because of a combination of a high degree of sediment production and the river flow regime. We have been trying to excavate the sedimentation from the reservoirs to avoid aggradations of upstream riverbeds and to eliminate obstacles to intake and outlet functions. Considering sediment properties, we have carried out representative five different ways of managing reservoir sediment. At the Sakuma dam, which is comparatively large, provisional transporting inside the reservoir is the main countermeasure, but radical management will be required in the near future. At the Futatsuno dam and Taki dam, which are medium-sized, the current volume of sedimentation excavation is not sufficient to maintain the size of the reservoir, due to flow sedimentation. Sediment routing methods, such as bypassing, will therefore be urgently planned. At the Setoishi and Yambara dams, the testing of sediment sluicing or hydro-suction sediment removal systems has already started. Regarding sedimentation sluicing, we have studied the feasibility of sediment bypass tunnels and gated outlets in the dam reservoir that is unsuitable for sluicing with the existing spillway. We found that gated outlet will be effective. Although there are no quick remedies that can reduce reservoir sedimentation dramatically, there are some methods that may be suitable, considering the size, life and basin of each reservoir. Not only the technical feasibility, but also the economic advantages and ecological acceptability should be considered. To sustain reservoirs and hydropower, sedimentation should be managed effectively and adaptively, based on the specific conditions of each reservoir.


2012 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yujin Yaguchi

This article investigates the relationship between Asian American and modern Japanese history by analyzing the image of Japanese Americans in postwar Japan. Based on a book of photographs featuring Japanese immigrants in Hawai‘i published in 1956, it analyzes how their image was appropriated and redefined in Japan to promote as well as reinforce the nation’s political and cultural alliance with the United States. The photographs showed the successful acculturation of Japanese in Hawai‘i to the larger American society and urged the Japanese audience to see that their nation’s postwar reconstruction would come through the power and protection of the United States. Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i served as a lens through which the Japanese in Japan could imagine their position under American hegemony in the age of Cold War.


2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-296
Author(s):  
Cheehyung Harrison Kim

Abstract This article explores North Korea’s postwar reconstruction through the variegated features of architectural development in Pyongyang. The rebirth of Pyongyang as the center of both state authority and work culture is distinctly represented by architecture. In this setting, architecture as theory and practice was divided into two contiguous and interconnected types: monumental structures symbolizing the utopian vision of the state and vernacular structures instrumental to the regime of production in which the apartment was an exemplary form. The author makes three claims: first, Pyongyang’s monumental and vernacular architectural forms each embody both utopian and utilitarian features; second, the multiplicity of meaning exhibited in each architectural form is connected to the transnational process of bureaucratic expansion and industrial developmentalism; and third, North Korea’s postwar architectural history is a lens through which state socialism of the twentieth century can be better understood—not as an exceptional moment but as a constituent of globalized modernity, a historical formation dependent on the collusive expansion of state power and industrial capitalism. A substantial part of this article is a discussion of the methods and sources relevant to writing an architectural history of North Korea.


Author(s):  
Dmytro Kolechko

The article analyzes the evolution of Vietnam’s economic strategy based on the concept of institutional archi- tecture. The main internal and external factors that determined the goals of the economic strategy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam since its inception have been identified. The evolution of the country’s economic strategy in response to the change of target priorities under the influence of not only internal factors, but also in view of the formation of global architecture is substantiated. There are four main stages in the evolution of Vietnam’s economic strategy in global architectonics according to the main characteristics. The first stage (1975–1985) of the transition from an autonomous to a partially autonomous economic strategy of Vietnam in global architecture is characterized as postwar reconstruction, unification of economic complexes of the northern and southern territories into a single system on a planning and administrative basis and external economic integration on the ideological principle. The second stage (1986–2001) of the transition from an autonomous to a partially open economic strategy of regional orientation is characterized by market reform while maintaining the directive role of the state and a pragmatic regional foreign economic strategy. The third stage (2002–2010) of the transition from a partially open economic strategy of regional orientation to a partially open economic strategy of global orientation is characterized by expanding the spheres of market reform while maintaining planning and administrative principles and increasing openness in foreign economic strategy. The fourth stage (2011 – present) the transition to an open export-oriented economic strategy of catching up is characterized by expanding market economy, increasing transparency of state-owned enterprises, narrowing sectors of direct planning and administrative management, pragmatism in geoeconomic strategy, expanding global participation. The results of the economic strategy and significant successes in the market reform of Vietnam’s economy are manifested in high rates of economic growth, improving the welfare of the population. However, not all strategic goals have been achieved yet, in particular the task of industrialization remains relevant.


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