“The Past, Foreign Countries and Fantasy ... They All Make for a Good Outing”: Staging the Past in Japan and Some Other Locations

2010 ◽  
pp. 41-56 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
Foreign Countries

scholarly journals NEW DIRECTIONS OF CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES (DYNAMICS OF THE LAST FIVE YEARS)

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Татьяна Масловская ◽  
Tatyana Maslovskaya
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Constitutional Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Constitutional Reforms ◽  
Constitutional Changes

The article analyzes the conditions of the constitutional reforms in foreign countries, the goal of constitutional changes at the present stage. Attention is paid to popularity of practice of adopting of interim constitutions. We study the full and partial constitutional reforms passed in foreign countries over the past five years. Provide new directions of constitutional reforms, based on modern challenges. Careful attention is paid to analysis of constitutional reforms as a response to the crisis: a crisis of values in society and the state, the security crisis. Subject to review are new constitutions of the XXI century, as well as draft constitutional laws. Provided the tendency of strengthening the state’s position in order to protect national interests. The author attempts to envisage further constitutional development in foreign countries.

THE RITUAL MEANING OF MA'NENE 'FOR THE SOCIETY OF TORAJASPECIFIC AND CLEAR TITLE IN INDONESIAN (Makna Ritual Ma'nene bagi Masyarakat Toraja Sebagai Budaya Indonesia)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
HARZIKO
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Probability Sampling ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
New Religion

AbstractToraja culture with its authenticity makes this culture unique and cannot even be found in other areas. This uniqueness and authenticity is what makes Toraja culture known to foreign countries. Culture includes a way of thinking and a way of acting. This is characteristic of certain societies. This study aims to (1) find out the development of the Ma'nene 'ritual for the Toraja people and (2) to know the symbolic meaning contained in the Ma'nene' ritual. Ma'nene 'is a tradition of the ancestors of the Toraja people, namely the procession of changing ancestral clothes. This research is qulitative descriptive research. Research informants are determined by non?probability sampling. Primary data is carried out through observation and interviews with parties related to the research and secondary data is carried out through library research by reviewing some literature which isclosely related to the issues to be discussed. The data that has been collected is then presented in the form of realism narrative and analyzed qualitatively. The results showed that (1) the development of Ma'nene 'rituals that are still being carried out in the Toraja area until now has experienced many changes when compared to the Ma'nene' rituals that were carried out in the past. This is inseparable from the influence of the new religion adopted by the local community at this time which then replaced the previous religion, namely Aluk Todolo. (2) the meaning of Ma'nene 'for the Toraja people is through the ritual of caring for ancestral corpses carried out in this ritual, which is reflected in an attitude of continuing to love, respect and honor ancestral services.Keywords: makna, ritual, Ma’nene’, Toraja

scholarly journals History and Progress of Japanese Acupuncture

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akiko Kobayashi ◽  
Miwa Uefuji ◽  
Washiro Yasumo
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Edo Period ◽  
Traditional Treatment ◽  
The Past ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Firm Evidence

After Chiso brought acupuncture to Japan from Wu (China) in the sixth century, it has progressed in unique ways within the various historical milieus of the past 1500 years. Ishitsu-rei, the first medical law of Japan established in 701, explains the medical system of acupuncture in detail showing that acupuncture was being administered under the authorization of the national government. For the next 1200 years, acupuncture continued to be an important facet of public health in Japan. From the Azuchimomoyama through the Edo period, the knowledge exchange with China became active and people who studied in China developed new styles and techniques of acupuncture treatment and organized their own private schools orryu-hain Japan. In 1635, when the Edo government decided to close the country, Japan cut-off exchange with foreign countries for over 200 years. The national isolation caused some development that was unique to Japan. During that time, acupuncture filtered into people's everyday lives. Moxibustion, in particular, became popular as a treatment that ordinary people could practice by themselves. Also in this period of isolation, Western medicine was imported from Holland, the only country allowed to maintain trade with Japan. This novel modern medicine had a strong impact on Japanese medicine, which has its foundation of Chinese traditional medicine. At the same time, Japanese acupuncture was introduced into Europe via Holland. When Japan opened its borders in 1865 period, the new government was eager to accept Western culture to the extent of prohibiting the progress of Japanese acupuncture for a period of time. Even so, Japanese acupuncture has survived and flourished up to the present day due to the strong demand and the great efforts of the practitioners. Scientific studies are now in the process of establishing a firm evidence base for over a millennium of clinical use, respecting the classic ideas of the traditional treatment.

scholarly journals Russian Emigration at the Turn of 21st Century

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Vorobyeva ◽  
Ivan Aleshkovski ◽  
A. A. Grebenyuk
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Age Structure ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Benchmark Analysis ◽  
National Statistics ◽  
The Past ◽  
Russian Immigrants ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Migration Flows

The article deals with the evolution of the Russian emigration processes at the turn of the 21st century. Based on the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the Russian emigration flows over the past 25 years, the authors highlighted five emigration waves characterized by their main emigrant categories and emigration channels. Attention has been given not only to the size of the emigration flows but also to the emigration flow’s own compositional characteristics, especially age structure. The authors’ benchmark analysis of the Russian emigration data provided by the Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation and the data on Russian immigrants provided by the national statistics services of foreign countries showed the overwhelming quantitative discrepancies in the migration flows set out in the Russian statistics, thus underestimating the intensity of emigration.

scholarly journals Alternative Approaches to Stabilizing International Markets

1976 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-62
Author(s):  
W. Scott Steele
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Markets ◽  
Grain Production ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
The Past ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Grain Prices

As a result of the recent world food situation, particularly the problem of repeated production shortfalls, the precipitous drawdown in grain stocks and the rapid increase in grain prices, widespread concern has developed over instability in food supplies and prices. Government officials and heads of international organizations have given considerable attention to stabilization measures, particularly grain reserves, as a means of offsetting fluctuating supplies and unstable prices of basic foodstuffs.For the United States, the problem of fluctuations in grain prices and unstable markets is not one of domestic origin. At recent levels of production, grain supplies have always exceeded domestic needs in the past two decades. Wheat is a good example. U.S. exports of wheat as a share of domestic production went from about 40 percent in 1970-71 to about 70 percent in 1972-73. In recent years, U.S. overseas markets have been the main source of instability in grain prices. Instead of reducing grain consumption or relying on their own grain reserves, many foreign countries experiencing shortfalls in grain production used the world and U.S. markets to purchase needed supplies.

THE PEDIATRICIAN AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-168
Author(s):  
Shiela Mitchell ◽  
S. Gilbert Blount ◽  
Sidney Blumenthal ◽  
Mary Jane Jesse ◽  
William H. Weidman
Keyword(s):  
American Heart Association ◽  
Congenital Heart ◽  
American Heart ◽  
Heart Diseases ◽  
Heart Association ◽  
The United States ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Future Risk

The incidence of premature disability and death from complications of atherosclerosis in the adult American is so high that pediatricians must accept the responsibility of finding the threatened child and, insofar as possible, reducing the future risk. The Council of Rheumatic Fever and Congenital Heart Diseases of the American Heart Association formed a Committee which, during the past 2½ years, has met with a number of different experts in the field. These presentations have been supplemented by a selected review of the literature, and a workshop made up of experts in several related fields selected from the United States and a number of foreign countries to complement the above presentations.

Strategies and Achievements of Overseas Taiwanese Archives Acquisition

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (supplement) ◽  
pp. 72-83
Author(s):  
Hsueh-chi Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Geographic Location ◽  
Value Added ◽  
The Qing Dynasty ◽  
Historical Materials ◽  
The Past ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Academic Network ◽  
Taiwan History ◽  
Historical Resources ◽  
Official Records

Archives, being original records of all human activities, provide first-hand sources for historical research. However, due to the geographic location of Taiwan and its political vicissitudes, many of these primary records and valuable resources of Taiwan history have been drained with human relocation to overseas and remained in foreign countries. In 2007, the ‘International Collaboration of Taiwan Historical Resources Acquisition Project’ was launched, aiming to collect and acquire precious historical materials scattered overseas with digital archiving strategies and value-added approaches. Taking into consideration the constraints of time and distance, the project focused first in acquiring historical resources of the Qing Dynasty and Japanese Era, while at the same time continued the ongoing practice of the Institute of Taiwan History in collecting and obtaining historical materials from the greater society. In the past five years, precious sources and data have been gathered through the international academic network. The achievements include acquisition of historical images of Taiwan, personal documents, official records etc. and authorization for online publication of historical materials. As seen in the above, the Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica has by now successfully accumulated rich experiences in digitising archival materials and gained fruitful achievement over the years.

The External Implications of Closer European Integration

1990 ◽  
Vol 134 ◽  
pp. 73-85
Author(s):  
David G. Mayes
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Market Share ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Trade Barriers ◽  
Privileged Access ◽  
The Past ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
The World

The happy outcome which is looked for in closer economic integration in the world is that all countries gain. This is particularly clear for a general removal of trade barriers, such as those indicated for the whole range of products by Stoeckel et al. (1990) or for individual products, such as the ending of the Multifibre Arrangement explored by Trela and Whalley (1990). Here those who have been protecting their industries gain because the losses to producers are more than offset by the gains to consumers, those who have been discriminated against in the past gain because they can increase their exports and those foreign countries which were previously benefiting from privileged access to the protected markets gain because their loss of market share is more than offset by an expansion in the market.

Policies Underlying the Enforcement of Foreign Commercial Judgments

1997 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 443-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. L. Ho
Keyword(s):  
Modern Times ◽  
Legal Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
The Law

There is a tendency to divide legal development into historical stages, to say how wrong and befuddled we were in the past and to describe how we came finally to see the light. This inclination is particularly evident in the area of enforcement of judgments given by courts of foreign countries (in this article the term “foreign judgments” is confined to such judgments). Before the turn of this century, the main bases for enforcement were the concept of “comity” and the doctrine of “sovereignty”. These were criticised by later generations of lawyers who were uncomfortable with the vagueness of the terms and who could not agree on what they meant and how they should be used. In modern times positivist bases have been substituted in their place. So we had the “vested rights” theory, which did not last long as it was soon overshadowed by the “obligation” rationalisation. Most writers accept and, in their account of the theory of the law in this area, do not attempt to go beyond these words of Blackburn J: “The judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction over the defendant imposes a duty or obligation on him to pay the sum for which judgment is given, which the courts in [the country of enforcement] are bound to enforce.”

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