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Management Geography

Rolf D. Schlunze , Atsushi Taira

Management geography explores the spatial characteristics of management-related issues, especially of firms. This book discusses management geography in Japan and other Asian countries from Asian perspectives. The field has made significant contributions to the global...



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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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Urban Food Deserts in Japan

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This book introduces the Japanese urban food desert (FD). Currently, Japan has the most rapidly aging society in the world, with a shrinking population and food desert issues in connection with the isolation of the elderly people from their families and local...



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Ethnic Enclaves in Contemporary Japan

Yoshitaka Ishikawa

This book is the first work to comprehensively investigate the enclaves of non-Japanese residents in Japan. In a comparative study, it convincingly examines eight enclaves of five nationalities (Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Brazilian and Turkish) in twelve municipalities....



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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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Nature, Culture, and Food in Monsoon Asia

Hitoshi Araki , Jun Matsumoto , Satoshi Yokoyama

The giant Asian monsoon has formed a diverse climate and natural environment.The Asian monsoon climate manifests itself in manifold ways depending not just on the latitude or altitude of an area but also on physical conditions such as topography and vegetation and even...



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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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