Contributors
Makoto HAGINO is a professor of the Management Information System laboratory at Kagoshima University. He specializes in marketing and has conducted fieldwork aboutenterprises in the islands of Kagoshima.

Akio HATTA is a professor of Science Education of Kagoshima University. He has researched
the recent and fossil foraminifera, and also has studied science education, environmental education, and the education of detached island areas.

Philip HAYWARD is currently Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor (Research) at Southern Cross University (Australia). His current interests include the nature of heritage and modernity
in island cultures and issues concerning heritage and tourism in island communities
in general.
Hidetaka ICHIKAWA is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law, Economics and Humanities at Kagoshima University. His research interests include product management
systems including product and process innovation, TPS manufacturing systems andhuman resources.
Kei KAWAI is a professor at the Research Center for the Pacific Islands, Kagoshima University.
He specializes in marine biology and has conducted fieldwork in the islands of thePacific and Kagoshima.

Kisei KINOSHITA is a professor emeritus, Kagoshima University. He specializes in physics
and environmental science, including atmospheric dispersion of volcanic clouds andAsian dust.

Kazuyo KUWABARA is a project research associate of the Education Center for Doctors inRemote Islands and Rural Areas, Kagoshima University. Her interests include NCD
epidemiology and community medicine. She is also a field overseer of the molecularcohort study in the Amami field.
Sueo KUWAHARA is a professor of anthropology at Kagoshima University. He has conducted
fieldwork in Malaysia over a number of years and more recently commenced research on the culture(s) of Japan’s southwestern archipelago.
Takeichi MINAMURA is a professor emeritus at Kagoshima University’s Department of Economics. He is the author of many articles and books on the economic history and thepost-war development of the Amami Islands.

Shunsuke NAGASHIMA is a professor of Nissology on Human Life and Environment, including Humanities and Social Sciences at Kagoshima University. He has conducted
fieldwork in almost all Japanese Archipelagoes and island nations since the 1970’s.
Hirohiko NAKAMURA is an associate professor of Physical Oceanography in the Faculty ofFisheries, Kagoshima University. His research interests are in the dynamics of oceanic motions with special emphasis on the Kuroshio and deep flows in the Okinawa
Trough.

Sumie NAKATANI is an associate professor of Kagoshima University International Planning
Center, concurrently serving as a researcher at the Kagoshima University ResearchCenter for the Pacific Islands. She specializes in social anthropology and has experience doing fieldwork in India, Micronesia, and Japan. Her interests are in gender andsocial change.

Hideo NAKAYA is a professor of the Faculty of Science and Graduate School of Science andEngineering, Kagoshima University. He specializes in vertebrate paleontology andhas conducted fieldwork in Japan, China, Southeast Asia and East Africa.
Hideshi NIIMURA is a lecturer of the Department of International Island and Community Medicine, Kagoshima University. His interests include atherosclerosis and communitymedicine. He is also a vice-chief of the molecular cohort study in the Amami field.

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Akira NISHIMURA is an associate professor of Religious Studies at Kagoshima University.
His main research interest is the commemoration for the war dead, especially thebattlefield pilgrimages by Japanese and their interaction with the local residents in
the Pacific islands.
Satoru NISHIMURA is a professor of Economics at Kagoshima University. He has conducted
research on land tenure systems in the Philippines since 1990. He has recently extended his areas of research to Fiji and Federal States of Micronesia.

Shinichi NODA is a professor of Research Center for the Pacific Islands, Kagoshima University.
He specializes medical entomology and public health, and has conducted fieldworkin the islands of Micronesia and Kagoshima.
Takahiro OKANO is an associate professor of Education Center at Kagoshima University andan officer of the Ministry of the Environment. He specializes nature conservation
policy and protected area system in Japan.

Michio ONJO is a professor of Experimental Farms in the Faculty of Agriculture, Kagoshima
University. He specializes in tropical agriculture science, especially tuber and root
crops. He has collected these crops from islands areas for preservation as gene resources.
Takahiro OZAKI is an associate professor of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Humanities
at Kagoshima University. He specializes in cultural anthropology and has conducted
field research in Mongolia, China and Japan.

Byoung-jae PARK is an associate professor of Experimental Farms in the Faculty of Agriculture
at Kagoshima University. He specializes in crop ecophysiology and has conducted
work as a member of the sugarcane examination & research committee in the Kagoshima

Yositaka SAKAMAKI is an associate professor of the Entomological Laboratory, Faculty ofAgriculture at Kagoshima University. He specializes in agricultural entomology andsystematic entomology. Recently, he has been working on the control of alien pest
insects and biodiversity assessment in the Nansei Islands.
Masaya SAKAMOTO is a curator of the Kagoshima Prefectural Museum. He specializes inearth science education and environmental science, including the problem of disasterprevention.
Megumi TAKARABE is a part-time lecturer in the Education Center of Kagoshima University.
She specializes in religious anthropology and has been studying about the religious
culture of Amami Islands, especially Buddhism.

Toshiro TAKEZAKI is a professor of the Department of International Island and Community
Medicine, Kagoshima University. His interests include cancer epidemiology andcommunity medicine. He is also a chief of the molecular cohort study in the Amami
field.
Ryuta TERADA is an associate professor of Marine Botany in the Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University. His scientific interests are in the biodiversity of marine plants
including coastal ecosystems, and in the sustainable utilization of seaweed resourcesworldwide.

Shigeto TOMINAGA is a professor and currently Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture at Kagoshima University. His major is “fruit science” especially physiology and biologyof citrus and subtropical fruit. He has recently conducted fieldwork in the islands ofKagoshima such as Yakushima and Amami Islands.
Takashi TORII is an associate professor of Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University. He
specializes in fisheries and economics, and has conducted fieldwork in the islands ofFiji and Kagoshima.

Sota YAMAMOTO is an associate professor in the Research Center for the Pacific Islands,
Kagoshima University. He specializes in ethnobotany and tropical agriculture. His
current interests include crop diversity, distribution, and dispersal routes in Asia andOceania.

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