The purpose of this paper is to identify Chinese recognition and attitude to visiting Japan after the Great East Japan Earthquake. The Web surveys, also called Panel surveys, were conducted for six times to analyze the intentions tendency in time series and the difference of personal attributes. The samples included 973 current Chinese living in China. Based on the simple and cross tabulation analysis, an intention linear regression model was further established, of which the parameters were estimated with least squares method of dummy variables. It found that, among explanatory variables (e.g. personal attribute, Japanese attractiveness), tendencies effect is a major impact to visit Japan among some variables.

Among four JR companies which are yet-to-be listed on the stock exchange, JR Kyushu has started preparation for getting listed. However, in the absence of management stabilization fund, it is estimated that it would not be easy for the company to attain self-sustaining accounting figures. For other three JR companies, it is likely that the privatization through usual process of listing would involve even more longer term issues. On the other hand, as the initial listing requirement is eased recently, the goal of complete privatization is attainable if the growth of the company remains healthy under stable management. In this article, instead of the standard process of listing, the possibility of tentative listing with specific institutional arrangement maintaining the special characteristics of four JR companies is examined.

Since neighborhood graphs are noteworthy tools that analyze the similarity and proximity between data items and visualize the structure of data, they are utilized in many research fields. However, they have not been used in the analysis and visualization of origin-destination trip matrices, which record the proximity and hierarchy of regions. This report focuses on neighborhood graphs; it proposes to extract the major origin-destination pairs from data and visualize the extracted results. The applicability of proposed method is confirmed using the inter-prefectural passenger trip data in Japan.