Kho Nishimura
Biographic Data
| ID | 88963 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kho Nishimura |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kho |
| FAMILY NAME | Nishimura |
| SIGNATURE | NISHIMURA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Seismology |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-8047-0982 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Changing Imaginations of AI/Robots in Japan
It is well known that Tezuka Osamu's Astro Boy influenced not only popular culture but also the industrial and academic interest in robotics. In contrast, less attention is paid to artificial intelligence (AI) in Tezuka's works. Tezuka gives AI a starkly different role and personality from robots, depicting it negatively and not seeing the humanity in AI characters. Despite this, more than 30 years after his death, a posthumous work released in 2…
Surechigaisociality
Every day on Tokyo's Yamanote line, over a million people come face to face. For some, this can be a source of anxiety and discomfort, because they are expected to obey the social etiquette of maintaining one's distance from strangers, despite the train cars being filled beyond capacity. To make the train ride bearable, passengers have adopted a wide range of practices aimed at creating and maintaining personal space, and these practices increasi…
Mobilizing discontent
The ways in which social media becomes recognized, legitimated and used as an effective tool of political activity—that is, framing issues, mobilizing members, logistical organizing of offline events and the subsequent re-representation of these events to a wider audience—depends upon a number of contingent factors. These factors differ quite widely with respect to time and place, media environment and social structure, cultural expectations and …
Social Media, Information and Political Activism in Japan's 3.11 Crisis
This paper is an expanded and updated version of “Social Media in Disaster Japan,” in Jeff Kingston, ed., Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan: Response and Recovery after Japan's 3/11 (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies). Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan: Response and Recovery after Japan's 3/11 (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies) by Jeff Kingston
Shamanism and Medical Cures
Shamanism and Medical Cures
Social Media, Information and Political Activism in Japan's 3.11 Crisis
This paper is an expanded and updated version of “Social Media in Disaster Japan,” in Jeff Kingston, ed., Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan: Response and Recovery after Japan's 3/11 (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies). Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan: Response and Recovery after Japan's 3/11 (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies) by Jeff Kingston
Shamanism and Medical Cures
Social Media, Information and Political Activism in Japan's 3.11 Crisis
This paper is an expanded and updated version of “Social Media in Disaster Japan,” in Jeff Kingston, ed., Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan: Response and Recovery after Japan's 3/11 (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies). Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan: Response and Recovery after Japan's 3/11 (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies) by Jeff Kingston
Mobilizing discontent
The ways in which social media becomes recognized, legitimated and used as an effective tool of political activity—that is, framing issues, mobilizing members, logistical organizing of offline events and the subsequent re-representation of these events to a wider audience—depends upon a number of contingent factors. These factors differ quite widely with respect to time and place, media environment and social structure, cultural expectations and …
Surechigaisociality
Every day on Tokyo's Yamanote line, over a million people come face to face. For some, this can be a source of anxiety and discomfort, because they are expected to obey the social etiquette of maintaining one's distance from strangers, despite the train cars being filled beyond capacity. To make the train ride bearable, passengers have adopted a wide range of practices aimed at creating and maintaining personal space, and these practices increasi…
Changing Imaginations of AI/Robots in Japan
It is well known that Tezuka Osamu's Astro Boy influenced not only popular culture but also the industrial and academic interest in robotics. In contrast, less attention is paid to artificial intelligence (AI) in Tezuka's works. Tezuka gives AI a starkly different role and personality from robots, depicting it negatively and not seeing the humanity in AI characters. Despite this, more than 30 years after his death, a posthumous work released in 2…
Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social media (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Alienation (1 work) · Alternative medicine (1 work)