Faculty Members: Academic Areas and Research Topics
Graduate School of Humanities Major in Geography
Tatsuya Itoh
Professor
Economic geography, resource and environmental research
Research into water resources, environmental issues, and regional economies and societies
Takeaki Kohara
Professor
Urban geography, urban development
Spatial and social significance of urban development, urban formation and transformation from the viewpoint of land ownership
Shinobu Komeie
Professor
Historical geography, research into Japan’s northern territories and Russian regions
Historical geography of Ezo and Hokkaido, research into cartographic history of Siberia and the Far East
Hideaki Maemoku
Professor
Physical geography, geomorphology, quaternary research
Geomorphological and geological research on tectonic and environmental changes
Takako Yamaguchi
Professor
Climatology and meteorology
Study into urban climates and the heat island phenomenon
Satoshi Yoshida
Professor
Nuclear physics
Research into atomic nuclei via the mean-field theory
Kouji Kodera
Associate Professor
Oceanography and limnology, hydrology, GIS
Basic theory of hydrogeography and research into its global scale application
Toru Sasaki
Associate Professor
Economic geography, agricultural geography, regional economic theory
Elucidation of the regional structure of the Japanese economy, geography of agricultural issues
Masato Tanaka
Associate Professor
Environmental and Geochemistry, computer chemistry
Research on adsorption of trace elements in the environment
Yohei Murata
Associate Professor
Cultural geography
Diverse social issues in Japan, environmental policy, gender