The purpose of this study is to consider the transformation of television programs in mid 1980s, namely the transiton period of television media, in Japan. This paper, at first, investigates the fixed program schedule list from fiscal year 1980 to 1989, and then, scrutinizes the changes of the titles of the cultural program for women “Fujin-Hyakka” in the period by analyzing their morphemes. The result is that the ratio of nouns in the titles of “Fujin-Hyakka” decreased and in contrast, that of verbs increased, after mid 1980s. This fact indicates the content of cultural programs for women “Fujin-Hyakka” transferred its major emphasis from culture to physical skills in the period despite of the lack of their noticeable change of forms, thus this study visualizes an aspect of transformation of television media in mid 1980s in Japan.

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  The progress of research is shown by article publications and/or conference presentations. This study aimed to clarify the correlations between the presenting patterns in Japanese literary studies and Japanese linguistics.
  The period of investigation was 2005–2014, and 1,958 articles published in nine major journals were surveyed.
   The items investigated included the ratio of publications following presentation at a meeting, the names of the conferences at which the presentations were held, and the time lag between the conference and the publication of the article. The results of the survey showed that 729 articles (37%) were published after conference presentations, out of which 420 (21%) were presented in the same academy’s conferences and journals and 309 (16%) were presented in the conferences and journals of different academies. In conclusion, in some academies in the fields of Japanese literary studies and Japanese linguistics, a significantly higher correlation was found between conference presentations and publication of the respective study.

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  This study consisted of panel surveys of 500 university students at two points of time, with the aim of investigating the effects of LINE use on social capital and resilience. According to the results, the following effects were confirmed: (1) LINE use amounts increased reciprocity on LINE, and the sense of belonging created a sense of trust on LINE, suggesting that LINE use may increase social capital; (2) Reciprocity on LINE was found to increase resilience, suggesting the possibility that a portion of the social capital generated through LINE may serve to increase resilience. The study results in total thus suggest that LINE use fosters social capital; the higher this social capital, the higher the resilience of individual LINE users.

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About the description of lies in “the Logic of the Committee”(1936) of Masakazu NAKAI, Hiroyuki GOTO (1965) and Ichiro HARIU & Seigo MATSUOKA (1982) regarded the lies as useful for the development of social communication. On the other hand, Yutaka ARASE (1979) emphasized the theme of overcoming the lies in NAKAI's all works and his life. However, when we read “the Logic of the Committee” carefully, the text of it supports the useful side of lies and we find the reference of the merits of lies latent but ubiquitous in the text. In the postscript of the no.14 of World Cultures (Sekai Bunka) in which “the Logic of the Committee” was compiled, the editor had expressed having urged NAKAI to compress his existing manuscripts due to the space. Although ‘a basic and veritable projection' and ‘absence of copula', which both are important concepts of NAKAI's other works, appear only once in “the Logic of the Committee”, we could understand these concepts in the context of lies, if we overlap them with his preceding or succeeding works. Lies also involve the looped models of the 16th section, which is ‘the main section' (Shunpei UEYAMA) of “the Logic of the Committee”. Owing to these interpretations, this article aims to help us to understand the complicated text of “the Logic of the Committee” more easily.

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