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Insularity and Geographic Diversity of the Peripheral Japanese Islands

Akitoshi Hiraoka , Hisamitsu Miyauchi , Takehisa Sukeshige , Satoshi Suyama

This book clarifies the geography of the peripheral Japanese islands from a variety of angles. The islands are distributed in the tropical and cool temperate zones, and the most distant inhabited islands are more than 1,000 km from the mainland. In the past, they were...



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Glaciers, Nature, Water, and Local Community in Mount Kenya

Kazuharu Mizuno , Yuya Otani

This book describes the challenges for the natural environments and local communities in the future. Among the high mountains of Africa, only Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya, and the Rwenzori Mountains are still capped with glaciers. The retreating rate of these glaciers has...



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Regional Innovation and Networks in Japan

Yutaka Yokura

This book provides a novel perspective on networks and innovation in the field of economic geography and presents new findings through theoretical foundations and empirical analyses. The book focuses on various temporary systems in industrial agglomerations such as...



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Community-Based Integrated Care and the Inclusive Society

Teruo Hatakeyama , Hitoshi Miyazawa

This book discusses the building of comprehensive community support systems, which constitutes a key issue in social security reforms in Japan. The book comprises three parts: (I) Mapping Social Security in Japan, (II) Community-Based Integrated Care Systems in Japan,...



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Adaptive Fisheries Governance in Changing Coastal Regions in Japan

Akiko Ikeguchi , Seishiro Sakita , Takafumi Yokoyama

Japan’s fisheries sector is undergoing a major restructuring. The coastal ecological change and natural disasters such as tsunami demand that communities transform or organize resource governance anew. Under the national policy of decentralization to cope with the aging...



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Japanese Advance into the Pacific Ocean

Akitoshi Hiraoka

This book asserts that the albatross was the reason for the advance of the Japanese into the isolated islands in the Pacific after the abolition of the Japanese “closed-door” policy that had been in effect from the seventeenth century to the latter part of the...



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Himalayan Nature and Tibetan Buddhist Culture in Arunachal Pradesh, India

Kazuharu Mizuno , Lobsang Tenpa

This is the first book to systematically describe the formation and historical changes of the Monpa people’s area (Monyul) through its nature, society, culture, religion, agriculture and historically deep ties with Bhutan, Tibet and the Tibetan Buddhist faith. The state...



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Environmental Change and the Social Response in the Amur River Basin

Shigeko Haruyama , Takayuki Shiraiwa

This book features research on historical land use and land cover in the Amur River Basin, which are important not only for residents there but also for those affected by its material and water cycles. Land use and land cover are affected by natural and human...



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Geography Education in Japan

Collectif

In a globalized market where the emerging workforce will increasingly travel within their nations and abroad for work opportunities, it is valuable to learn about the international education system and practices, to assess the competition. For example, annual comparison...



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The Agglomeration of the Animation Industry in East Asia

Kenta Yamamoto

This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Asian studies, cultural industries, economic geography, and related areas of study. It discusses the results of a microscopic survey focusing on topics such as how animation studios form business relationships...



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