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Item type: Item , When Cultural Exchanges Go Awry: Korea-Japan Relations and Popular Culture(2025) Jayson Makoto ChunThis article looks at the soft power relations of Korean popular culture in postwar Japan and Korea, taking the 2011 appearance of Korean groups at the NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen (NHK Red and White Song Festival), a televised nationwide New Year's Eve music program in Japan, as an example. What was supposed to be a media event of international friendship sparked an online right-wing nationalist backlash, illustrating how soft power can have the opposite effect if it runs counter to the prevailing political and social climate. Although this criticism represented a minority of Japanese and stood in contrast to support from female fans, K-pop acts disappeared from the Kōhaku until 2017 and only reappeared on the program when they began adapting to social and political realities. The negative reaction of Japanese online nationalists illustrates how soft power, while serving as a powerful tool of mutual connection, can backfire in unfavorable social and political conditions. In times of deteriorating relations, music's close relation to a country's national pride becomes more pronounced than its role as a unifying tool.Item type: Item , Improving efficiency of disease vector sampling in the field: An automatic solar-powered mosquito trapping system(University of Hawai'i at Hilo, 2025-09-12) Paxton, Eben H.; van Bergeijk, Laura; Nash, SarahTrapping mosquitoes to quantify their distribution and abundance is often a key step in monitoring dynamics of vector-borne diseases. This is the case in Hawaii, where avian malaria is devastating native forest birds that are highly susceptible to non-native diseases. However, mosquito trapping is difficult and labor intensive. A typical operation requires traps to be visited multiple times within a 24-hour period to control their active components and batteries. For example, traps for nocturnal mosquitoes require trap fans and carbon dioxide (CO2) tanks turned on in the evening and then turned off the following morning, with batteries changed frequently. For traps in very remote locations, this frequent attendance accrues considerable cost and personnel time. To help minimize field efforts required for maintaining mosquito trapping arrays, we developed an automated power system to operate the mosquito traps. The traps can be set to operate on a schedule using a built-in timer, eliminating the need for personnel to manually turn traps on and off. Additionally, this system is powered by a solar-recharged battery so that the system can run indefinitely in many field locations. We tested the system at ‘Āinahou Ranch in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, Island of Hawai‘i, where we operated a trapping array continuously for over two years. Specifically, two types of traps were deployed at each location, one a gravid trap and another a CO2 trap. We provide a step-by-step guide on how to build the systems and describe how to deploy them in the field.Item type: Item , Union Density in the U.S.: 2022(Center for Labor Education and Research, University of Hawaii West Oahu, 2022) Center for Labor Education & Research University of Hawai‘i - West O‘ahuItem type: Item , Union Density in the U.S.: 2021(Center for Labor Education and Research, University of Hawaii West Oahu, 2021) Center for Labor Education & Research University of Hawai‘i - West O‘ahuItem type: Item , Union Density in the U.S.: 2023(Center for Labor Education and Research, University of Hawaii West Oahu, 2023) Center for Labor Education & Research University of Hawai‘i - West O‘ahuItem type: Item , Union Density in the U.S.: 2018(Center for Labor Education and Research, University of Hawaii West Oahu, 2018) Center for Labor Education & Research University of Hawai‘i - West O‘ahuItem type: Item , Union Density in the U.S.: 2012(Center for Labor Education and Research, University of Hawaii West Oahu, 2012) Center for Labor Education & Research University of Hawai‘i - West O‘ahuItem type: Item , Union Density in the U.S.: 2017(Center for Labor Education and Research, University of Hawaii West Oahu, 2017) Center for Labor Education & Research University of Hawai‘i - West O‘ahuItem type: Item , Union Density in the U.S.: 2013(Center for Labor Education and Research, University of Hawaii West Oahu, 2013) Center for Labor Education & Research University of Hawai‘i - West O‘ahuItem type: Item , Union Density in the U.S.: 2020(Center for Labor Education and Research, University of Hawaii West Oahu, 2020) Center for Labor Education & Research University of Hawai‘i - West O‘ahu