Musashi University

About: Musashi University is a education organization based out in Tokyo, Japan. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Supply chain & Frugivore. The organization has 125 authors who have published 328 publications receiving 3844 citations.

When Does Perceived Hardness Affect Consumers' Judgments: A Conceptual Replication of Krishna and Morrin (2008)

Abstract: When Does Perceived Hardness Affect Consumers' Judgments: A Conceptual Replication of Krishna and Morrin (2008)

Environmental Policy in a Vertically Differentiated Product Market

Abstract: Using a discrete-continuous model that deals with both consumers' choice and usage of an environmentally differentiated product in a utility-consistent framework, this paper investigates welfare impacts of emission taxes, subsidies and ad valorem taxes/subsidies on a green market where consumers emit a pollutant through their usage of the products offered by duopolists. An emission tax is always welfare dominant over a subsidy on consumers' purchase of the clean product because the emission tax contributes to a reduction in environmental damage by inducing firms to improve environmental qualities of the products and by constraining consumers' usage of the products. An ad valorem subsidy is always dominated by both an emission tax and a subsidy in terms of social welfare.

Index of Donor Performance (2006 Edition): Selectivity and Project Proliferation Reconsidered

Abstract: In this paper, we take up the Index of Donor Performance (IDP) constructed by the Center for Global Development (CGD), especially, discussing issues of selectivity and project proliferation in the IDP index. We argue theoretical issues of the Index from the aspect of the aid data characteristics.

Wishful thinking: Japan’s public debate on the Sino-Soviet relationship, 1950–62

Abstract: Even as the terms of the Sino-Soviet Pact were being negotiated in Moscow in early 1950, Japanese were busy debating the likely objective of the alliance, its durability, and the symmetry of the relationship as defined by the new treaty. The consensus among journalists was that Sino-Soviet cooperation appeared ‘very solid for the time being’, but that this was only because of Beijing’s current economic dependence on Moscow. Citing Mao Zedong’s unprecedented two-month stay in the Soviet Union as evidence of difficult relations, many predicted that Titoisation was only a matter of time.1 Leftist intellectuals like Iwamura Michio, director of the pro-Beijing Chugoku Kenkyujo (China Research Institute), denounced such prophecies of ‘rifts’ (tairitsu) and ‘discord’ (fuwa) as the ‘bad miscalculation… [of] Western European propaganda’.2 Indeed, in contrast to the press, many intellectuals both ‘progressive’ and ‘conservative’, claimed that the Chinese and Soviets were now a ‘strong coalition’ (teikei) and even of ‘one flesh’ (ittai).3

Leaning to one side: Japanese diplomacy and the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1950–60

Abstract: The origins of the Cold War lay not in the post-war division of Asia but in superpower disagreement over the future of Europe. Stalin’s demand for a strategic buffer zone to prevent another invasion from the West caused President Harry Truman to respond with a policy of containment and deterrence. To this end, the US concluded a series of alliances aimed at preventing the spread of Communist power, resulting in much of the world being divided into two antagonistic blocs. Each superpower was able to exploit its hegemonic status to impose loyalty within its own bloc: increasing the costs of defection by encouraging economic and strategic dependence.