2010, At the Crossroads: Limahon and Wako in Sixteenth-Century Philippines

2003

Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ)

This paper clarifies the spatial composition and formation history of a Theravada Buddhist temple, Wat Paknam Japan Branch, which is a focal point of daily lives of Thai originated dwellers, and the relationship between the temple and them through on-site surveys. By considering land and facilities, Thai-Japanese mixed characteristics of the temple are clarified. Buddhist concept of merit was the key of temple expansion. Then, by considering movement route and activities within facilities it is clarified that temple is used by eight types of peoples with different purposes and degrees of overlap between their dwelled enviroment and temple differ.

Journal of The Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture, 2015

The purpose of this research is to identify the history of natural conservation related to tourism development in the Republic of Palau through literature review and interview survey and to investigate the effectiveness of the current natural conservation polices at two case study sites. The results show that the primitive natural conservation had focused on sustainable use of natural resources by local communities, and it has then turned into wildlife conservation because of the many environmental issues, for example, the severe coral bleaching event, the soil erosion problem caused by new developments, and the environmental degradation by tourist activities. Currently, the unique natural conservation policies are in effect such as Protected Area Network, Micronesia Challenge Endowment Fund, and Green Fee. The national government carries out those policies by means of attracting tourists, who pay the Green Fee, and gathering attention from international society, which donates Micronesia Challenge Endowment Fund. The national government distributes those funds to local communities, which manage their natural resources sustainably as the Protected Area Network sites. The funds are used not only for the conservation objective itself, but also for the purpose of the small community developments such as starting nature tourism projects. The result of this study would be useful for discussing the direction of nature tourism development in Japan.

Journal of The Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture, 2017

Iriomote Island in Okinawa is now receiving a lot of attention because the National Park area was recently expanded to cover almost the entire island. Being the next promising candidate for a World Natural Heritage Site title, an investigation was conducted. The purpose of this study is to investigate the history of land use in Iriomote from the 1960s and analyze the transition as well as its sociocultural backgrounds to extract the factors that may affect land use. Land use analysis and a field research were conducted, the former was conducted by analyzing topographical map with scale 1/50,000 and aerial photographs, and the latter was conducted to obtain actual land use data. Interviews were also used to reveal historical backgrounds. The results show that the changes in land use have been mainly affected by demographic changes, this is closely related to the changes in lifestyle and culture. Significant differences found in land use between the western and the eastern parts of the island were attributed to the history of the villages.

2013

Many discussions about urbanization in the ancient world have been heavily derived from ‘ The Urban Revolution’ of V. Gordon Childe in 1950. Proposing ten criteria deducing from archaeological data, he distinguished the earliest cities form any older or contemporary villages, and thought irrigation cultivation in the valleys of the TigrisEuphrates and others had begun to yield a social surplus. Concerning the urbanization in West Asia, thereafter, archaeologists and anthropologists became to sustain and develop the Childe’s scenario that plenty of food surplus accumulated by the growth of economic subsistence through the irrigational agriculture in the southern Mesopotamia might have triggered the emergence of social surplus and differentiation which are invariably observed in urbanized society. Most of the scholars have held a general view on the Mesopotamian urbanization that the ancient culture or society evolved in the Uruk period through 4th millennium B.C.E., and then the earl...

2006

Tōnan Ajia, rekishi to bunka, 1975

1994

2008

JOURNAL OF INDIAN AND BUDDHIST STUDIES (INDOGAKU BUKKYOGAKU KENKYU), 1985