A Propaganda Film Subverting Ethnic Hierarchy?: "Suicide Squad at the Watchtower" and Colonial Korea

Naoki Mizuno 고려대학교 민족문화연구원 2012 Cross-Currents Vol.- No.5

In the film Suicide Squad at the Watchtower (1943), the appearance of a Korean female physician carries with it the potential to subvert the film’s representation of the colonial ethnic hierarchy. The film’s director, Ch’oe In-gyu, had in his earlier film Homeless Angels presented the edifying message that a Korean female orphan could aspire to become a physician. This message was also incorporated into Suicide Squad at the Watchtower. In these two films the story of a Korean woman who studies to become a physician (or at least desires to become one) unfolds through the same actress, Kim Sin-jae. The suggestion that a Korean could achieve a social position equal to or even higher than a Japanese introduced the possibility of subverting the colonial ethnic hierarchy. But while the screenplay for the film had explicitly portrayed the female physician, the film version suppressed the representation, making it less evident. Nevertheless, it is possible to see Suicide Squad at the Watchtower’s enlightened message as an element with the potential to upset the ruling colonial order.

朝鮮에 있어서 治安維持法 體制의 植民地的 性格

水野直樹(MIZUNO Naoki),이영록 한국법사학회 2002 法史學硏究 Vol.26 No.-

Effects of Geometrical Uncertainties on Whole Breast Radiotherapy: A Comparison of Four Different Techniques

Naoki Nakamura,Osamu Takahashi,Minobu Kamo,Shogo Hatanaka,Haruna Endo,Norifumi Mizuno,Naoto Shikama,Mami Ogita,Kenji Sekiguchi 한국유방암학회 2014 Journal of breast cancer Vol.17 No.2

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to quantify the targetcoverage, homogeneity, and robustness of the dose distributionsagainst geometrical uncertainties associated with fourwhole breast radiotherapy techniques. Methods: The study wasbased on the planning-computed tomography-datasets of 20patients who underwent whole breast radiotherapy. A total offour treatment plans (wedge, field-in-field [FIF], hybrid intensitymodulatedradiotherapy [IMRT], and full IMRT) were created foreach patient. The hybrid IMRT plans comprised two opposedtangential open beams plus two IMRT beams. Setup errors weresimulated by moving the beam isocenters by 5 mm in the anterioror posterior direction. Results: With the original plan, thewedge technique yielded a high volume receiving ≥107% of theprescription dose (V107; 7.5%±4.2%), whereas the other threetechniques yielded excellent target coverage and homogeneity. A 5 mm anterior displacement caused a large and significant increasein the V107 (+5.2%±4.1%, p<0.01) with the FIF plan, butnot with the hybrid IMRT (+0.4%±1.2%, p=0.11) or full IMRT(+0.7%±1.8%, p=0.10) plan. A 5-mm posterior displacementcaused a large decrease in the V95 with the hybrid IMRT (-2.5%±3.7%, p<0.01) and full IMRT (-4.3%±5.1%, p<0.01) plans, butnot with the FIF plan (+0.1%±0.7%, p=0.74). The decrease inV95 was significantly smaller with the hybrid IMRT plan than withthe full IMRT plan (p<0.01). Conclusion: The FIF, hybrid IMRT,and full IMRT plans offered excellent target coverage and homogeneity. Hybrid IMRT provided better robustness against geometricaluncertainties than full IMRT, whereas FIF provided comparablerobustness to that of hybrid IMRT

Efficacy of Novel Ultrathin Single-Balloon Enteroscopy for Crohn’s Disease: A Propensity Score-Matched Study

Kaoru Takabayashi,Naoki Hosoe,Motohiko Kato,Yukie Hayashi,Ryoichi Miyanaga,Kosaku Nanki,Kayoko Fukuhara,Yohei Mikami,Shinta Mizuno,Tomohisa Sujino,Makoto Mutaguchi,Makoto Naganuma,Naohisa Yahagi,Haruh 거트앤리버 소화기연관학회협의회 2020 Gut and Liver Vol.14 No.5

Background/Aims: The evaluation of small bowel lesions of Crohn’s disease (CD) using balloon-assisted enteroscopy (BAE) is crucial because mucosal healing is associated with a good prognosis. However, BAE procedures are invasive, requiring sedation or analgesia to reduce the patient’s pain. This study evaluated the clinical usefulness of a novel ultrathin single-balloon enteroscopy (SBE) procedure for CD. Methods: This single-center retrospective study included 102 CD patients who underwent trans-anal SBE between January 2012 and May 2018. Of these patients, 82 underwent enteroscopy using conventional SBE, while 20 underwent ultrathin SBE. Patients were analyzed using propensity score matching, with 20 patients per group. The median duration of the examination, terminal ileum intubation rate, median cecum intubation time, median insertion depth, adverse events, and sedated dose in each group were compared. Results: Before propensity score matching, the conventional SBE group had a larger number of surgical history patients than the ultrathin SBE group (p=0.05). After matching, the two groups did not significantly differ clinically. There were no significant differences in the mean duration of the examination, cecum intubation time, or terminal ileal intubation rate between ultrathin SBE and conventional SBE. The mean insertion depth of ultrathin SBE tended to be deeper than that of conventional SBE (p=0.09). The use of ultrathin SBE also reduced the sedative dose during needed for enteroscopy compared with conventional SBE (p=0.005). Conclusions: Novel ultrathin SBE may be less painful for CD patients than conventional SBE.

일본제국대학(日本帝國大學)의 조선유학생(朝鮮留學生) 연구(硏究)(1) -경도제국대학(京都帝國大學) 조선유학생의 현황, 사회경제적 출신 배경, 졸업 후 경력을 중심으로

정종현 ( Jong Hyun Jeong ),( Mizuno Naoki ) 성균관대학교 대동문화연구원 2012 大東文化硏究 Vol.80 No.-

이 글은 개교(1897) 이래 1945년 8월 15일까지 교토제국대학의 조선인 유학생 졸업자 236명의 명단을 추출하고 그들의 학부별 현황, 사회경제적 배경 및 출신고 교, 졸업 이후 식민지 사회에서의 사회적 경력과 해방 이후 남북한에서의 사회적 역 할 등을 다양한 자료를 통해 정리하여 목록화하고 해제한 연구이다. 1년 동안 교토 대학 방문 연구를 통해 수행된 본 연구의 목록은 교토제국대학이 발간한 공식자료 와 당대 조선 유학생들이 생성한 자료, 해방 이후 재일조선인사회의 교토대학 출신 들이 남긴 자료, 아직 생존해 있는 교토제국대학 출신의 백종원(白宗元)(1948, 경제학부졸(經濟學部卒)), 강상균(姜祥均)(1950, 법학부졸(法學部卒)) 두 졸업생과의 인터뷰를 통해 구성한 구술자료 및 다양한 회고록과 고등문관시험 합격자의 총독부 신원조회, 조선총독부 직원록, 각종 인명사전 등을 기반으로 하여 작성되었다. 이들 자료의 분석을 통해 식민지 유력자 집단의 교육을 통한 재생산의 실상을 확인할 수 있었으며, 졸업 이후 제국대학 출신 자들의 사회적 경력이 대부분 관료로 이어지고 있는 점을 논증함으로써 식민지 권력과 제국대학 출신 지식인 집단의 밀월관계를 확인할 수 있었다. 동시에 그들의 의 식이 제국대학 출신의 특권의식과 피식민지인으로서의 분노 사이에서 균열되며 식 민지 권력과 불화하는 측면을 확인할 수 있었다. 전체적인 이력의 조사를 통해서 식 민지 및 남북한 사회의 제영역에서 그들이 사회적 중추를 형성하고 있다는 점을 논증할 수 있었다. 본 연구를 향후 여타 제국대학으로 확장하여 제국대학의 조선인 유학생 전모를 파악하는 것이 향후의 과제이다. The purpose of this study was to examine Korean students who studied at Kyoto University in Japan. A list of 236 Korean students who graduated from that university since its foundation in 1897 till August 15, 1945, was obtained, and a wide variety of materials were analyzed to investigate the state of their departments, their socioeconomic background, alma mater, social career in the colony after graduation and social roles in South or North Korea after the liberation of the nation to prepare their bibliographical notes. The bibliography was prepared by visiting the university for a year and based on the official data released by the university, data provided by contemporary Korean students studying there, and data offered after the liberation of the nation by Korean residents in Japan who graduated from that university. And additional data were utilized: oral statements of two graduates from that university, various memoirs and biographical dictionaries. Two graduates who were still alive were interviewed to obtain their oral statements. One was Baek Jong-won who graduated in 1948 from the college of economics, and the other was Kang Sang-kyun who graduated in 1950 from the college of laws. Besides, a relevant organization was asked to confirm the successful applicants for the higher civil official examination administered by the then government-general, and the staff list of the Joseon government-general was consulted as well. The analysis of these data made it possible to check how contemporary influential people continued to be produced through education in the colony, and it showed that as for the social career of the graduates of Kyoto University, most of them became bureaucrats, which indicated the honeymoon relationship between contemporary power of the colony and the intellectuals who graduated from that university. At the same time, it``s found that they were torn between the sense of privilege as graduates of Kyoto university and wrath as colonials, which implied that they were in conflicts with contemporary power. As a result of analyzing their entire career, it``s found that they were leading figures not only during the Japanese occupation but in every field of South Korea and North Korea. In the future, it``s required to examine Korean students at other Japanese universities during the Japanese occupation to offer an overview of their life and career.

Total Cholesterol Level for Assessing Pancreatic Insufficiency Due to Chronic Pancreatitis

( Kenji Hirano ),( Tomotaka Saito ),( Suguru Mizuno ),( Minoru Tada ),( Naoki Sasahira ),( Hiroyuki Isayama ),( Miho Matsukawa ),( Gyotane Umefune ),( Dai Akiyama ),( Kei Saito ),( Shuhei Kawahata ),( 대한소화기학회 2014 Gut and Liver Vol.8 No.5

Background/Aims: To determine the nutritional markers important for assessing the degree of pancreatic insufficiency due to chronic pancreatitis in routine clinical practice. Methods: A total of 137 patients with chronic pancreatitis were followed up for more than 1 year. They were divided into two groups: a pancreatic diabetes mellitus (DM) group, consisting of 47 patients undergoing medical treatment for DM of pancreatic origin, and a nonpancreatic DM group, consisting of 90 other patients (including 86 patients without DM). Serum albumin, prealbumin, total cholesterol, cholinesterase, magnesium, and hemoglobin were compared between the two groups. Results: The total cholesterol was significantly lower in the pancreatic than the nonpancreatic DM group (164 mg/dL vs 183 mg/dL, respectively; p=0.0028). Cholinesterase was significantly lower in the former group (263 U/L vs 291 U/L, respectively; p=0.016). Among the 37 patients with nonalcoholic pancreatitis, there was no difference in the cholinesterase levels between the pancreatic and nonpancreatic (296 U/L vs 304 U/L, respectively; p=0.752) DM groups, although cholesterol levels remained lower in the former (165 mg/dL vs 187 mg/dL, respectively; p=0.052). Conclusions: Cholinesterase levels are possibly affected by concomitant alcoholic liver injury. The total cholesterol level should be considered when assessing pancreatic insufficiency due to chronic pancreatitis. (Gut Liver 2014;8:563-568)

The associations of the national health and productivity management program with corporate profits in Japan

Yano Yuichiro,Kanegae Hiroshi,Node Koichi,Mizuno Atsushi,Nishiyama Akira,Rakugi Hiromi,Itoh Hiroshi,Kitaoka Kaori,Kashihara Naoki,Ikeno Fumiaki,Tsuji Ichiro,Okada Kunio 한국역학회 2022 Epidemiology and Health Vol.44 No.-

OBJECTIVES: Using a dataset from a survey on national health and productivity management, we identified health and productivity factors associated with organizational profitability. METHODS: The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry conducted an annual survey on Health and Productivity Management between 2014 and 2021. We assessed the associations of organizational health and productivity management using survey questions collected in 2017 and 2018, and the rate of change in profits from 2017 and 2018 to 2020. We identified factors associated with organizational profitability using eXtreme Gradient Boosting, and calculated SHapley Additive exPlanation (SHAP) values for each factor. RESULTS: Among 1,593 companies (n= 4,359,834 employees), the mean age for employees at baseline was 40.3 years and the proportion of women was 25.8%. The confusion matrix for evaluating model performance had accuracy of 0.997, precision of 0.993, recall of 0.997; and area under the precision-recall curve of 0.999. The most important factors related to an increase in corporate profits were the percentage of current smokers (SHAP value 0.121), per-employee cost for health services (0.084) and medical services (0.050); the percentage of full-time employees working in sales departments (0.074), distribution or customer service departments (0.054); the percentage of employees who sleep well (0.055); and the percentage of employees who have a habit of regular exercise within a company (0.043). CONCLUSIONS: The lifestyle health risk factors of employees and organizations’ management systems were associated with organizational profitability. Lifestyle medicine professionals may demonstrate a significant return on investment by creating a healthier and more productive workforce.