Annual Report 2007
Geographic Environmental Sciences

Department of Geography
Graduate School and Faculty of Urban Environmental Sciences
Tokyo Metropolitan University

Contents
1

Laboratory of Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology

11) Staff
2) Overview of Research Activities
3) List of Research Activities in 2007

2

Laboratory of Climatology

91) Staff
2) Overview of Research Activities
3) List of Research Activities in 2007

3

Laboratory of Environmental Geography

201) Staff
2) Overview of Research Activities
3) List of Research Activities in 2007

4

Laboratory of Geographical Information Sciences

251) Staff
2) Overview of Research Activities
3) List of Research Activities in 2007

5

Laboratory of Urban and Human Geography
1) Staff
2) Overview of Research Activities
3) List of Research Activities in 200731

1 Laboratory of Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology
1) Staff
Haruo YAMAZAKI

Professor / Dr.Sc.

Geomorphology, Quaternary Science, Seismotectonics

Takehiko SUZUKI

Associate Professor / PhD (D.Sc.)

Geomorphology, Quaternary science, Volcanology2) Overview of Research Activities
Our laboratory aims to study the various earth scientific phenomena and processes on the solid
earth surface. Especially, main object of our research is to prospect the futuristic view of ourenvironment changes through the understanding of the history and process of landform development
during the Quaternary period. The followings are some examples of our studies.
Tephra study: Tephra means a generic term on the volcanic ejecta excluding lava-flow andrelated explosive deposits. We are trying to identify the source volcano, age of the eruption and the
distribution of widespread tephras that have covered the Japanese Islands through the Pliocene,
Pleistocene and Holocene.
Reconstruction of paleo-environment and land forming process: Using tephra deposits as key
time markers, we are reconstructing the paleo-environment and land forming process since the late
Pliocene in Japan.
Paleo-sea-level change: We are trying to reconstruct the universal Quaternary sea-level changes
through the modeling of crustal deformation based on the geological and geomorphological data
along the coastal region.
Plate tectonics: The Quaternary tectonics including the historical process of seismic andvolcanic activity are our special interest along the plate collision zone in central Japan.
Natural hazards: We study the historical process of topographic changes caused by mass
movement, volcanic eruption and fault activity to prevent and mitigate the future natural hazards.

3) List of Research Activities in 2007
Peer-reviewed Articles
Suzuki, T. 2008. Analysis of titanomagnetite within weathered middle Pleistocene KMT tephra and its
application for fluvial terrace chronology, Kanto Plain, central Japan. Quaternary International
178: 119-127.
Suzuki, T. 2007. Tephra studies on Quaternary explosive eruptions in the Japanese Islands. The
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Quaternary Research 46: 283-292.
Ogawa, T and Suzuki, T. 2007. Amendment of Building Retrofitting Promotion Act and Policy
Development (Report). Journal of Geography 116: 516-523. (in Japanese with English abstract)
Kawakami, T and Suzuki, T. 2007． A Local Campaign for Retrofitting Buildings by Sumida
Quakeproof Reinforcement Promotion Conference, Sumida City, Tokyo (Report). Journal of
Geography 116: 536-541. (in Japanese with English abstract)
Murata, M., Suzuki, T., Nakayama, T., Kawashima, S. and Kawai, M.

2007．TephrochronologicalStudy on the Kazusa Group in the Southeast Part of Musashino Upland, Tokyo Metropolitan Area,
Central Japan．Journal of Geography 116: 243-259. (in Japanese with English abstract)
Ueki, U. 2007. AMS 14C age of a fossil wood in the dammed up deposits of the Kanagi Landslide,southeast Shikoku Island, Southwest Japan. Journal of the Japan Landslide Society, 44: 41-43. (inJapanese with English abstract)
Ueki, U. 2007. Terrace Chronology along the Upper Reach of Naka River, Southwest Japan.
Geographical review of Japan, 81A: 25-40. (in Japanese with English abstract)
Ueki, U. 2007. Visualization of rock magnetization using a lava sample acquired with saturated
isothermal remanent magnetization (SIRM): Introduction to paleomagnetism and plate tectonics.
Education of earth science, 60: 187-188. (in Japanese with English abstract)
Fujiwara, H., Sato, S., Shirai, M. and Tajima, Y. 2007. A Field Study on the Sediment Movement in
the Tenryu-Enshunada Watershed. Annual Journal of Coastal Engineering：54, 591-595,
November, Miyazaki. (in Japanese)
Tamura, I., Yamazaki, H. and Mizuno, K. 2008. Characteristics for the recognition of Pliocene andearly Pleistocene marker tephras in central Japan.

Quaternary International, 178: 85-99.

Other Articles
Yamazaki, H. 2007. What is the long-term stability of the geological environment for the HLW
geological disposal? , Materials science and technology, 77: 1121-1125 (in Japanese)
Yamazaki, H. and Sasaki, T. 2007. Uplift and Erosion: Potential impact on the geological environment.
OECD NEA Web page. http://www.nea.fr/download/manchester/
Suzuki, T. 2007. Landforms Formed by River: Introduction of Fluvial Geomorphology. In Kikuchi T.
(eds.) Meguro City College Sosho 8 World Opened from River: Life, Nature and Culture. pp.
69-76, Nonomiya-shoten. (in Japanese).
Suzuki, T. 2007. River and Mitigating Disaster: Fluvial Landforms and Life of People. In Kikuchi T.
(eds.) Meguro City College Sosho 8 World Opened from River: Life, Nature and Culture. pp.
77-86, Nonomiya-shoten. (in Japanese).
Suzuki, T. 2007. Coffee Break: Walking and Watching the Landforms of Tama River. In Kikuchi T.
(eds.) Meguro City College Sosho 8 World Opened from River: Life, Nature and Culture. pp.
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87-90, Nonomiya-shoten. (in Japanese).
Ueki, U. 2007. Description and age estimate of the Nariki Landslide, eastern margin of the Kanto
Mountains, Ome city, central Japan. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Japan, 58: 253-259.
(in Japanese with English abstract)Shirai, M., Nishimura, M. and Yasuda, H. 2007. Descriptive
evaluation of consolidated sedimentary rock structures with X-ray imaging: Examples from Site
1276 core. Proceedings of ODP, Scientific Results, Leg. 210 chapter111: 1-11.
Tamura, I. 2007. A situation and problems about the field work of earth science in high school in Japan(in Japanese). Chishitsu News, 640: 20-24．
Tamura, I. 2008. A lesson of 「Environmental 1」 that attached great importance to the field work(inJapanese). Report of Tokyo Metropolitan Wakaba Sogo Senior High School, 3:37-42.

Reports
Suzuki, T. 2007. Tephra Survey. Archaeological Excavation Report of Yaita City 6 ”Report ofArchaeological Excavation at Takahara-san Obsidian Kengamine Site in 2006 ”：14-16，Tochigi
Prefecture Yaita Education Committee.
Ueki, U. and Sakai, A. 2007.

Geology of the ome District.

Quadrangle series, 1: 50,000,

Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 189p. (in Japanese with English abstract)Shirai, M. 2008.
Supply of terrestrial organic-carbon to deep sea. Annual Report of Studies on Greenhouse Gas
with Research Vessels, 14: (in press, in Japanese)Book reviews
Suzuki, T. 2007. Book review of Cartgraphical Thinking of Earth Men by Nishikawa, O. Journal of
Geography, 116: 215. (in Japanese)

Miscellaneous articles
Suzuki, T., Nakabayashi, I., Eguchi, T., Kasahara, J., Obara, K., Seno, T. and Shimokawa, K. 2007．
Preface for the Special Issue on “Geosciences and Impacts of Future Earthquakes Occurring
below the Tokyo Capital Region, and Countermeasures” Journal of Geography 116: 309-312.
Suzuki, T. 2007. Pictorials 1: Future Earthquakes Occurring below the Tokyo Capital Region and its
Disaster Simulation Journal of Geography 116
Takagi, H. and Tamura, I. 2007. Will it be really good in this? In the high school, the earth science isbecoming extinct. The Science News Paper, April 13.

Presenations
Yamazaki, H. and Sasaki, T. 2007. Uplift and Erosion: Potential impact on the geological3

environment. Integration Group for Safety Case (IGSC) Workshop “Geosphere Stability”,
OECD/Nuclear Energy Agency(NEA). 2007.11. UK, Manchester.
Yamazaki, H. 2007. Quaternary tectonics in and around the onshore plate convergence boundary incentral Japan. International Symposium on Quaternary Environmental Changes and Humans in
Asia and the Western Pacific. Geological Survey of Japan Interim Report, No.42, 111-112.
2007.11.

Ibaraki, Tsukuba.

Yamazaki, H. 2007. What is the long-term stability of the geological environment for the HLW
geological disposal? , 2007 Joint Symposium of 16th IMRAM Research Panel of Tohoku
University, Research Station of Base Metal, and Research Center of Resource Conversion andReproduction, 99-103. 2007.11. Sendai (in Japanese)
Yamazaki, H. 2007. History of the global environmental changes deduced from the geology andgeomorphology of the Musashino upland. Lecture of the Open University of TMU. 2007.５-６.
Iidabashi (in Japanese)
Yamazaki, H. 2007. Natural history of the Musashino Upland II. MEXT Science partnershipprogram in the Saitama Prefectural Tokorozawa Senior High School，2007. 6. Tokorozawa (inJapanese)
Yamazaki, H. 2007. Landform development of the Kanto Plain. MEXT Science partnership programin the Tokyo Metropolitan Wakaba Sogo Senior High School．2007.10.

Inagi (in Japanese)

Yamazaki, H. 2007. Nature and Hazard Potential in Kanagawa Prifecture. MEXT Super Science
High School program “Hazard Mitigation” in the Kanagawa Prefectural Seisho Senior HighSchool，2007.5. Odawara (in Japanese)
Yamazaki, H. 2008. Natural History of the Musashino Upland．Training association for Science class
improvement in the Tokyo Metropolitan Hino Senior High School, 2008.1. Hino (in Japanese)
Yamazaki, H. 2007. Active fault and Seismic hazards mitigation. Shinjuku Ward sponsoring disasterprevention lecture meeting, 2007.12. Shinjuku (in Japanese)
Yamazaki, H. 2007. Earthquake mechanism and regional correspondence for the hazard prevention.
Open lecture of the Akishima citizens college forum. 2008.1. Akishima (in Japanese)
Yamazaki, H. 2008. The ground condition and earthquake disaster prevention of Kodaira-shi.
Kodaira city sponsoring disaster prevention lecture meeting, 2008.1.

Kodaira (in Japanese)

Yamazaki, H. 2007. Active faults in the Oiso Hills and their relation to the seismotctonics. Special
Seminar in the Hiratsuka City Musium, 2007.8. Hitratsuka (in Japanese)
Suzuki, T. 2007. Reading of Landform and its Landscape on Map. Meguro City College “Map andLandscape: Map, landscape and their inner world part 2”, April, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Suzuki, T. and Murata, M. 2007. An early Pleistocene tephra associated with Shirakawa-Kumado
pyroclastic flow derived from Aizu area, northeast Japan. Abstracts of Japan Geoscience Union
2007 Meeting, Q139-002 (CD-ROM), May, Chiba. (in Japanese with English Abstract)4

Suzuki, T. 2007. Natural history in Musashino part 2: quest for landform and geology in neighborhood(field exercise). Science Partnaership Project at Tokorozawa High School, July, Saitama. (inJapanese)
Suzuki, T. 2007. Tephras in marine isotope 3. Committee on Archaeology of Marine Isotope 3, Japan
Association for Quaternary Research, July, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Suzuki, T., Murata, M., Oishi, M., Yamazaki, H., Nakayama, T., Kawashima, S. and Kawai, M. 2007．
A study on the activity history of an active fault by geological survey of underground:
Tachikawa

Fault inwest

part ofTokyo Metropolitan ． Minami-osawa

CampusIndustry-university Corporation Meeting 2007 ”aiming to an improvement of urban
environment and life”, July, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Suzuki, T., Murata, M., Nakayama, T. Kawashima, S. and Kawai, M. 2007. TephrochronologicalStudy on Underground Quaternary Marine Strata in Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Japan.
Quaternary International, 167-168 Supplement: p. 406, August, Cairns.
Suzuki, T. 2007. How to read nature: Basic of understanding environment．Training Lecture for
Support Ranger, Tokyo Metropolitan University Open University, August, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Suzuki, T. 2007. Tephra in Ibaraki : Development of Naka Upland, quest for landform developmentof an upland where Mito 1st Senior High School stands. Science Partnership Project (SPP) at
Mito 1st Senior High School, October, Ibaraki. (in Japanese)
Suzuki, T. Geoscience of Okutama: A mountains in Japan. Field lecture for Tokyo Support Ranger,
November, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Suzuki, T. and Murata, M. 2007. Studies on early Quaternary widespread tephras derived from large
calderas located in the Northeast Japan Arc. International Symposium on Quaternary
Environmental Changes and Humans in Asia and the Western Pacific Abstracts Volume, 146,
November, Tsukuba.
Suzuki, T., Nakabayashi, T., Ogawa, N. 2007. Field lecture Izu-oshima Volcano: Eruption and its
Histrory．Tokyo Metropolitan University Open University, Izu-Oshima, November, Izu-oshima.
(in Japanese)
Terada, K. and Suzuki, T. 2007．Examination of the method of the tephra correlation using chemicalcompositions of hornblende. Programme and abstracts, Japan Association for the Quaternary
Research, 37: 118-119, August, Kobe. (in Japanese)Kaji, T. Yamazaki, H. Tokuyama, H. Kato, Y. 2007. Topography and geology of the submarine
landslide deposit by sector collapse of Oshima-Oshima island in the northern part of Japan.
Abstracts of Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2007, Q139-001,(CD-ROM), May, Japan. (inJapanese with English Abstract)
Kaji, T. Shono, S. Nemoto, K. Yamazaki, H. 2007. Geological structure of the continental shelves in
the northern part of Suruga Bay. Abstracts of Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2007,
5Q139-P009 (CD-ROM), May, Japan. ( in Japanese with English Abstract)
Kaji, T. Yamazaki, H. Tokuyama, H. Kato, Y. 2007. Topography and geology of the submarine
landslide deposits by sector collapse of Oshima-Oshima island in the northern part of Japan.
Abstracts of The Journal of the International Union for Quaternary Research Vol167-168, p199,
July, Australia.
Kaji, T. Yamazaki, H. Kato, Y. 2007. 2007. Comparison of the submarine landslide by the sector
collapse of Oshima-Oshima island in the northern part of Japan with the submarine landslide ofoff Kaimon volcano in the southern part of Japan.

Abstracts of AGU Fall Meeting 2007,

NG41B-0517, p19, December, USA.
Kaji, T. Yamazaki, H. Tokuyama, H. Kato, Y. 2007. Comparison of the submarine landslide off
Kaimon volcano with the debris avalanche off Oshima-Oshima island witch generated thetsunami in Japan. Abstracts of Ocean Sciences Meeting 2008,p ,March, USA.
Murata, M. and Suzuki, T. 2007. Re-examination on correlation of Early Pleistocene tephras in
Inubo Group at Byobugaura in Choshi Area, Northeast Japan. Abstracts of Japan Geoscience
Union 2007 Meeting, Q139-007 (CD-ROM), May, Chiba. (in Japanese with English Abstract)
Murata, M. and Suzuki, T. 2007．Study on tephras and geological structure of the early Quaternary
underground geology at the Suginami, Setagaya and Ota Wards, Tokyo Metropolitan, Central
Japan.

Proceedings of the 1st Annual Meeting of the Kanto Branch, Geological Society ofJapan, 54-57, June, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Yahata, K., Kamijo, T., Hatakeyama, H., and Yamazaki, H. 2007. Distribution of house-damage by
the Niigataken Chuetsu-oki Earthquake in Kashiwazaki City, Niigata Prefecture. Programmeand Abstracts of Japan Association for Quaternary Research 2007 Meeting. the separate volumeof 37: 20-21. (in Japanese)
Yahata, K., Kamijo, T., Hatakeyama, H., Nakamura, Y. and Yamazaki, H. 2007. Distribution andCause of House Damage Explained from the Topographical Standpoint by the Niigataken
Chuetsu-oki Earthquake in 2007 : Case Study of Kashiwazaki City, Niigata Prefecture. theAssociation of Japanese Geograprhers Fall Meeting 2007, October, Kumamoto.(in Japanese)Ueki, U. 2007.

Plio-Pleistocene history of the tachikawa fault, southwest Kanto Plain, central

Japan. Abstracts of Japan Geoscience Union 2007 Meeting, Q139-006 (CD-ROM), May,
Chiba. (in Japanese with English Abstract)
Ueki, U. 2007. Magnetostratigraphy of the Plio-Pleistocene in the western margin hills of Kanto
Plain, central Japan. Abstracts of Japan Geoscience Union 2007 Meeting, Q139-P003(CD-ROM), May, Chiba. (in Japanese with English Abstract)
Ueki, U. 2007. Oulline of the geology of Ome District and post-Pliocene history of the Tachikawa
fault.

Proceedings of the 1st Annual Meeting of the Kanto Branch, Geological Society ofJapan, 58, June, Tokyo. (in Japanese)6

Ueki, U. 2007. Magnetostratigraphy of the Plio-Pleistocene Nakatsu Group, southwestern side of
the Kanto Plain, central Japan.

Programme and abstracts, Japan Association for the

Quaternary Research, 37: 66-67, August, Kobe. (in Japanese)
Shirai, M. and Omura, A. 2007. Genesis of turbidite in surface deposit from the Kumano Trough, off
the Kii Peninsula. Abstracts of Japan Geoscience Union 2007 Meeting, G120-004 (CD-ROM),
May, Chiba. (in Japanese with English Abstract)
Ikehara, K., Ashi, J., Irino, T. and Shirai, M. 2007. Correlation and recurrence intervals of turbidite
deposition in the Ryuyo Submarine Canyon, off Tokai, Japan．Abstracts of Japan Geoscience
Union 2007 Meeting, G120-P003 (CD-ROM), May, Chiba. (in Japanese with English Abstract)
Shirai, M. and Omura, A. 2007. Sand grains transport from river to deep marine revealed by OSL
measurement technique. Quaternary International, 167/168 (supplement): 381, August, Cairns.
Shirai, M., Liu, H., Tajima, Y. and Sato, S. 2007. Sand grains transport around river mouth revealed
by OSL measurement technique. Quaternary International, 167/168 (supplement): 381, August,Cairns.
Shirai, M., Liu, H., Takagawa, T., Tajima, Y. and Sato, S. 2007. Movement of sand grains around theTenryu River–mouth based on bleaching percentage distribution．
Abstracts for the 114th Annual
Meeting: p. 209. September, Sapporo. (in Japanese)
Shirai, M 2008．Another possibility of OSL: Sand grain movement in present deposits. Advancesin ESR Applications, 24：p. 35, March, Nara. (in Japanese)
Tamura, I., Takagi, H. and Yamazaki, H. 2007. Garnet-bearing tephra layer Na-G in the InubouGroup, Choshi area, Chiba Prefecture, central Japan. Abstracts of Japan Geoscience Union 2007
Meeting, Q139-P05 (CD-ROM), May, Chiba. (in Japanese with English Abstract)
Tamura, I., Yamazaki, H. and Mizuno, K. 2007. The stratigraphy and age of Inubou Group in the
Choshi district Chiba Pref. in Japan. Abstracts of Japan Association for Quaternary Research2007 Meeting, p.38-39, August, Kobe. (in Japanese)
Tamura, I., Takagi, H. and Yamazaki, H. 2007. The correlation of Pliocene garnet tephras in thesouthen Kanto area and the volcanic activity in the Tanzawa area at about 2.5Ma. Abstracts ofGeological Society of Japan 2007 Meeting, p.73, September, Sapporo. (in Japanese)
Mizuno, K. and Tamura, I. 2007. Key tephras in the Upper Pliocene to Lower Pleistocene sedimentsof Kanto Plain, with reference to identification of vitric tephras erupted from the
Chubu-Sangaku areas. Abstracts of Kanto branch office of Geological Society of Japan 2007
Meeting, p.52-53 June, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Oishi, M. 2007. Volcanic history of northern area of Yatsugatake Volcano based on thetephrochronology. Proceedings of the 1st annual meeting of the Kanto Branch, GeologicalSociety of Japan “Geology in the Kanto District”, 14-17, June, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Oishi, M. 2007. Reexamination of distribution, stratigraphy, and eruptive style of the products in7

pumice flow stage from Asama Volcano, central Japan. Programme and Abstracts, Japan
Association for Quaternary Research, 114-115, August, Kobe. (in Japanese)
Toshida, K., Tajima, Y., and Oishi, M. 2007. Correlation between Changes in Long Term Eruption
Rate and Edifice Collapse, Magma Temperature, and Magma Geochemistry. Abstracts Volume,
Cities on Volcanoes 5 Conference, p.126, November, Shimabara.

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Laboratory of Climatology

1) Staff
Takehiko MIKAMI

Professor / PhD(D.Sc.)

Urban climatology, Climatic variation

Jun MATSUMOTO

Professor / D. Sc

Monsoon climatology

Hideo TAKAHASHI

Professor / PhD (D.Sc.)

Urban climatology

Tomoko NAKANOAssistant Professor / PhD (D.Sc.)

Land-atmosphere interaction, Carbon cycle, Biogeoscience2) Overview of Research Activities
Our studies cover various scales of climate from urban to global phenomena, aiming at
understanding their climatic processes and mechanisms. We use a wide variety of techniques such as
field observation, data collection in historical climate, and statistical analysis of global scale dataset.
Our research topics are as follows:* Urban climate (observation and analysis for heat island and cool island)* Climate change (historical and observational period)* Compiling database for paleoclimatic record measured by meteorological instruments* Seasonal march of Asian Monsoon and its variation* Climatological studies by using remote-sensing data
* Carbon dioxide exchanges between grassland and the atmosphere in a semiarid region* Heat and water budget in a semiarid ecosystem

3) List of Research Activities in 2007
Peer-reviewed Articles
Malmgren,B.A., Hullugalla,R., Lindeberg,G. Inoue,Y., Hayashi,Y. and Mikami,T. 2007.

Oscillatory

behavior of monsoon rainfall over Sri Lanka during the late 19th and 20th centuries and its
relationships to SSTs in the Indian Ocean and ENSO. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 89:
115-125.
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Inoue T. and Matsumoto, J. 2007. Abrupt climate changes observed in late August over central Japanbetween 1983 and 1984. Journal of Climate 20: 4957-4967.
He, J.-H., Sun, C.-H., Liu, Y.-Y., Matsumoto, J. and Li, W.-J. 2007. Seasonal Transition Features ofLarge-Scale Moisture Transport in the Asian-Australian Monsoon Region. Advances in
Atmospheric Sciences 24: 1-14.
Murata, F., Hayashi, T., Matsumoto, J. and Asada, H. 2007. Rainfall on the Meghalaya plateau innortheastern India ‒ one of the rainiest places in the world. Natural Hazards 42: 391-399.
Murata, F., Terao, T., Hayashi. T., Asada, H. and Matsumoto, J. 2008. Relationship between
atmospheric conditions at Dhaka, Bangladesh, and rainfall at Cherrapunjee, India. Natural
Hazards 44: 399-410.
Yokoi, S., Satomura, T. and Matsumoto，J. 2007. Climatological characteristics of the intraseasonalvariation of precipitation over the Indochina Peninsula. Journal of Climate 20: 5301-5315.
Wu, P., Hara, M., Fudeyasu, H., Yamanaka, M. D., Matsumoto, J., Syamsudin, F., Sulistyowati, R.
and Yusuf S. Djajadihardja, Y.S. 2007. The impact of trans-equatorial monsoon flow on theformation of repeated torrential rains over Java Island. SOLA 3: 93-96.
Endo, N., Matsumoto, J., Yamamoto, N., Fukushima, A. and Akasaka, I. 2007. Recent changes ofprecipitation amount and its characteristics in the world. Journal of Geography 116: 824-825.
(in Japanese with English Abstract)
Suzuki, H., Nakakita, E. and Takahashi, H. 2008. Spatial representativeness of rainfall: Analysis
using data observed at railway stations and meteorological stations. Annual Journal of
Hydraulic Engineering 52: 187-192. (in Japanese with English abstract)
Nakano, T., Nemoto, M. and Shinoda, M. 2007. Measurements of nighttime water vapor flux using aclosed chamber technique. Journal of Agricultural Meteorology 63: 103-107. (in Japanese withEnglish abstract)
Zaiki, M. and Tsukahara, T. 2008. Meteorology on the Southern Frontier of Japan’s Empire:
Ogasawara Kazuo at Taihoku Imperial University. East Asian Science, Technology and Society:
An International Journal doi: 10.1007/s12280-007-9010-9.
Grossman, M. and Zaiki, M. 2007. Reconstructing typhoon landfalls in Japan using historical
documents: 1801-1830. Papers of the applied geography conference 30: 334-343.
Akasaka I., Morishima W. and Mikami T. 2007. Seasonal march and its spatial difference of rainfall
in the Philippines. International Journal of Climatology 27: 715-725.
Hirano, J. and Mikami, T. 2007. Reconstruction of winter climate variations during the 19th century
in Japan. International Journal of Climatology DOI: 10.1002/joc.1632.

Other articles
Mikami,T. 2007. Urban heat island phenomenain Tokyo Metropolitan Area. In Proceedings of 17th
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Convention of the International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological
Sciences. 75-78. Tokyo.
Mikami,T. 2007. Urban heat island phenomena in Tokyo. In Proceedings of the International
Symposium on Sustainable Urban Environment 2007, 22-26. Tokyo: TMU.
Matsumoto, J. and Yamamoto, N. 2007. Characteristics of recent precipitation in the world. Tenki(Weather), 54, 612-616 (in Japanese)
Matsumoto, J. 2007. Meteorological disasters in the world. Urushibara, K., Fujizuka, Y., Matsuyama,
H. and Ohnishi, H. ed. Regional Issues in the World. Nakanishiya-Shuppan 10-11. (in Japanese)
Takahashi, H. 2007. Methods of investigating India from the viewpoint of the monsoon. Yagasaki, N.
and Tsubaki, M. ed. Methods of investigating various countries of the world. Kokon-Shoin
58-63. (in Japanese)
Nakano, T. 2008. Meteorological observations at Tokyo Metropolitan University since 2001.
Geographical Reports of Tokyo Metropolitan University 43: 131-136.
Zaiki M., Jones P.D. and Tsukahara T. 2008. The nineteenth century 1841-1883 temperature records
in Beijing, China. Geographical Reports of Tokyo Metropolitan University 43: 69-76.
Nagata, R. and Zaiki, M. 2008. Trends in total and daily precipitation indices in Japan from 1901 to
2000. Geographical Reports of Tokyo Metropolitan University 43: 11-16.
Morishima, W. and Akasaka, I. 2008. Dependence of rice production on the interannual variation of
rainfall in the Philippines. Geographical Reports of Tokyo Metropolitan University 43:
107-114.
Akasaka I., Morishima W. and Mikami T. 2007. Seasonal march of rainfall and its interannual
variation in the Philippines. Extended Proceedings of IGU commission on climatology session
Brisbane 2006 (CD-ROM).

Books
Ueno, K. and Takahashi, H. 2007. Methods of investigating various regions of Japan. Kokon-Shoin
150p. (in Japanese)
Takahashi, H. and Koizumi, T. 2008. Introduction to physical geography. Asakura Publishing Co.,
Ltd. 170p. (in Japanese)

Reports
Matsumoto, J. 2008. Development of Rainfall observation System in Southeast Asia. Research
Report FY2007, University of Tokyo, MEXT, 112p. (in Japanese)
Takahashi, H. and Suzuki, H. 2008. Researches on the spatial representativeness of observed value atrain gauge and the concentration structure of intense rainfall. 2007 Joint research report ofTokyo Metropolitan University and Research & Development Center of JR East Group 50p. (in11

Japanese)
Nakano, T. 2007. Observation of carbon dioxide flux and vapor flux. Report for Grant-Aid for
Scientific research (B) 2004-2006, Experimental study on self-remediation to drought event in
Mongolian grassland, 42-48. (in Japanese)
Zaiki, M., Oguchi, T., Kagawa, Y., Takahashi, A., Koike, S. and Yamauchi, M. 2007. Relationships
between distribution of Japanese residential areas and Topography. Report for Grant-Aid for
Scientific research (B) 2004-2006, GIS analysis of interaction between residential area andnatural environment, 7-19. (in Japanese)
Zaiki, M., Oguchi, T., Koike, S. Yamauchi, M. and Esaki, Y. 2007. Time series analysis ofrelationship between population growth and topography -based on municipal datasets from1920 to 2000-. Report for Grant-Aid for Scientific research (B) 2004-2006, GIS analysis ofinteraction between residential area and natural environment, 21-24. (in Japanese)
Zaiki, M., Oguchi, T., Lin, Z., Jarvie, H. and Neal, C. 2007. Statistical and GIS analyses of riverwater quality data across the Humber catchment, UK. Report for Grant-Aid for Scientificresearch (B) 2004-2006, GIS analysis of interaction between residential area and naturalenvironment, 161-168. (in Japanese)
Kagawa, Y., Oguchi, T., Zaiki, M., Koike, S., Yamauchi, M. and Esaki, Y. 2007. The analysis of the
distribution about passengers getting on and off at the stations in the Tokyo and Keihanshin
Metropolitan Area. Report for Grant-Aid for Scientific research (B) 2004-2006, GIS analysis ofinteraction between residential area and natural environment, 121-138. (in Japanese)

Miscellaneous reports
Matumoto, J. 2007. Evolution of the global environment and climatic changes (A report on the
Symposium at the 2005 Spring Assembly of the Meteorological Society of Japan). Tenki(Weather), 54, 407-408．(in Japanese)
Maruyama, S., Eguchi, T., Kasahara, J., Geshi, N., Matsumoto, J., Matsuyama, H. and Yamakawa,S.
2007．Preface for the Special Issue on “Water; from the Earthʼs Core to Planetary Space”,
Journal of Geography, 116, 1-6. (in Japanese)
Zaiki, M. 2007. A report on an International Conference Celebrating 75 years of International
Council for Science “Global Scientific Challenges: Perspectives from Young Scientists”.
Movement of Academic Research, September issue: 65-68.

Presentations
Murata, F., Terao, T., Hayashi, T., Asada, H. and Matsumoto, J. 2007. Rainfall processes at
Cherrapunjee (The 3rd Report). Abstracts of the 2007 Spring Assembly of the MeteorologicalSociety of Japan, p.196, May, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
12Mori, S., Hamada, J., Sakurai, N., Fudeyasu, H., Sasaki, T., Wu, P., Ichiyanagi, K., Kawashima, M.,
Fujiyoshi, Y., Hashiguchi, H., Fadli Syamsudin, Emrizal, Matsumoto, J. and Yamanaka, M.D.
2007. Brief report on the HARIMAU2006 Intensive Observations in Sumatera, Indonesia.
Abstracts of the 2007 Spring Assembly of the Meteorological Society of Japan, p.223, May,Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Hamada, J., Mori, S., Wu, P., Sakurai, N., Fudeyasu, H., Sasaki, T., Matsumoto, J., Yamanaka, M.D. ,Emrizal, Fadli Syamsudin 2007. Convective activity of HARIMAU2006 Intensive
Observations in coastal region of Sumatera. Abstracts of the 2007 Spring Assembly of the
Meteorological Society of Japan, p.353, May, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Yokoi, S. and Matsumoto, J. 2007. Cold surges in the developing season of Northeast monsoon.
Abstracts of the 2007 Spring Assembly of the Meteorological Society of Japan, p.354, May,Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Fudeyasu, H., Ichiyanagi, K., Sakurai, N., Mori, S., Hamada, J., Sasaki, T., Wu, P., Yamanaka, M.D.,
Matsumoto, J., Emrizal, Fadli Syamsudin 2007. Relationship between rainfall system andisotope observed in the HARIMAU2006 Intensive Observations. Abstracts of the 2007 Spring
Assembly of the Meteorological Society of Japan, p.223, May, Tokyo. (in Japanese)Endo, N., Ohnmar Htway, Inoue, T., Matumoto, J. and Tun Lwin 2007. Long-term changes ofprecipitation characteristics in Southeast Asia, Abstracts of the 2007 Spring Assembly of the
Meteorological Society of Japan, p.356, May, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Matsumoto, J., Satomura, T., Higuchi, A., Kanae, S. and Yokoi, S. 2007. MAHASRI-Monsoon
Asian Hydro-Atmosphere Scientific Research and Prediction Initiative- Abstracts of Japan
Geoscience Union 2007 Meeting, F208-001 (CD-ROM), May, Chiba. (in Japanese with English
Abstract)
Yokoi, S. and Matsumoto, J. 2007. Cold surge in developing phase of northeasterly Asian monsoon
and their relationship with heavy rainfall in central Vietnam. Abstracts of Japan Geoscience
Union 2007 Meeting, J244-P012 (CD-ROM), May, Chiba. (in Japanese with English Abstract)
Matsumoto, J., Satomura, T., Wu, P.-M., Mori, S., Hamada, J., Sakurai, N., Yamanaka, M.D.,
Higuchi, A., Kanae, S., Yokoi, S. and Oki, T. 2007. MAHASRI. International Symposium on
Global Change, Asian Monsoon and Extreme weather and Climate, p.24, June, Taipei, Taiwan.
Matsumoto, J., Satomura, T., Wu,P.-M., Mori, S., Hamada, J., Sakurai, N., Yamanaka, M.D.,
Higuchi, A., Kanae, S., Yokoi, S. and Oki, T. 2007. MAHASRI and AMY’08. The 21st Pacific
Science Congress, p.197, June, Okinawa, Japan.
Endo,N., Ohnmar Htway, Inoue, T., Matsumoto,J. and Tun Lwin 2007. Interannual Variations inPrecipitation Characteristics in Southeast Asia. The 21st Pacific Science Congress, P.194, June,
Okinawa, Japan.
Yokoi, S., Satomura, T. and Matsumoto, J. 2007: Regionality in characteristics of intraseasonal
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variations over the Indochina Peninsula. The 27th General Assembly International Union of
Geodesy and Geophysics, Perugia, July, Perugia, Italy.
Satomura, T., Matsumoto, J., Mori, S., Wu, P., Hamada, J., Sakurai, N., Yamanaka, M. D., Higuchi,A., Kanae, S., Yokoi, S. and Oki, T. 2007: MAHASRI the new international Asian monsoon
research project. The 27th General Assembly International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics,
Perugia, July, Perugia, Italy.
Terao, T. and Matsumoto, J. 2007: MAHASRI & AMY08 Programmes. Celebrating the Monsoon–An International Monsoon Conference, July, Bangalore, India.
Matsumoto, J. 2007. MAHASRI and AMY’08. The 4th Asian Oceania Geosciences Society Annual
Meeting, AS07-HS20-A0034 (CD-ROM), August, Bangkok, Thailand.
Yokoi, S. and Matsumoto, J. 2007: Cold surge in developing phase of northeasterly Asian monsoon
and their relationship with heavy rainfall in central Vietnam. The 4th Asian Oceania
Geosciences Society Annual Meeting, AS07-HS20-A0032 (CD-ROM), August, Bangkok,
Thailand.
Oki, T., Komori, D., Kanae, S., Satomura, T. and Matsumoto, J. 2007: New challenges in thehydrometeorological studies in the Indochina Peninsula. The 4th Asian Oceania Geosciences
Society Annual Meeting, AS07-HS20-A0029 (CD-ROM), August, Bangkok, Thailand.
Matsumoto, J. 2007: MAHASRI and AMY’08. International Workshop on Semi-arid Land
Surface-Atmosphere Interaction, August, Lanzhou, China.
Matsumoto, J., Endo, N., Ailikun, B., Yasunari, T., Ohnmar Htway, Inoue, T., Tun Lwin and Kadota,
T. 2007: Changes of precipitation characteristics in East and Southeast Asia from 1961 to 2000.
International Workshop on Semi-arid Land Surface-Atmosphere Interaction, August, Lanzhou,
China.
Matsumoto, J. and Wang, B. 2007. AMY08 Science and Implementation plan. The Second AMY08
Workshop, September, Bali, Indonesia.
Matsumoto, J. 2007. GEWEX/MAHASRI. The Second AMY08 Workshop, Bali, Indonesia.
Ohnmar Htway・Matsumoto, J. and Takahashi M. 2007. Interannual variations of summer monsson
onset over Myanmar. Abstracts of the 2007 Fall Assembly of the Meteorological Society ofJapan, p.48, October, Sapporo.
Matsumoto, J. 2007: MAHASRI/AMY. International Implementation Workshop of the East Asian
Monsoon Field Experiment, Chung-Li, Taiwan.
Yokoi, S. and Matsumoto, J. 2007．Synoptic features of heavy rainfalls in the east coastofIndochina.
Abstracts of the 2007 Fall Assembly of the Meteorological Society of Japan, p.356, October,
Sapporo.(in Japanese)Wu, P., Hara, M., Fudeyasu, H., Yamanaka, M.D., Matumosto, J., Fadli Syamsudin, Reni
Sulistyowate, Yusuf S. and Djajadihardja 2007 ．Heavy rainfall in Jakartha induced by14

cross-equatorial Asian winter monsoon. Abstracts of the 2007 Fall Assembly of the
Meteorological Society of Japan, p.51, October, Sapporo.(in Japanese)Mori, S., Hamada, J., Sakurai, N., Fudeyasu, H., Wu, P., Ichiyanagi, K., Kawashima, M., Fujiyoshi,
Y., Hashiguchi, H., Fadli Syamsudin, Emrizal, Matsumoto, J. and Yamanaka, M.D. 2007．
Diurnal movement of convective system in Sumatera Island and its re-development over theocean –Results from HARIMAU2006 Intensive Observation-. Abstracts of the 2007 Fall
Assembly of the Meteorological Society of Japan, p.122, October, Sapporo.(in Japanese)
Sakurai, N., Mori, S., Kawashima, M., Fujiyoshi, Y., Ooi, M., Hashiguchi, H., Fadli Syamsudin,
Emrizal, Yamanaka, M.D. and Matsumoto, J. 2007． Results of HARIMAU2007 Intensive
Observation in Sumatera, Indonesia. Abstracts of the 2007 Fall Assembly of the MeteorologicalSociety of Japan, p.123, October, Sapporo.(in Japanese)
Fujibe, F., Matsumoto, J. and Kobayashi, K. 2007. Digitization of the daily precipitation data
observed at the climatological stations and its application on the analysis of long-term
precipitation variability. Abstracts of the 2007 Fall Assembly of the Meteorological Society ofJapan, p.344, October, Sapporo (in Japanese)
Hamada, J., Mori, S., Sakurai, N., Yamanaka, M.D. and Matsumoto, J. 2007. Relationship between
diurnal cycle and intraseasonal variations based on rainfall observations in Sumatera Island andits surrounding region. Abstracts of the 2007 Fall Assembly of the Meteorological Society ofJapan, p.487, October, Sapporo.(in Japanese)
Yokoi, S. and Matsumoto, J. 2007. A heavy rainfall event in central Vietnam and collaboration effectof a cold surge and tropical intraseasonal variability. The Third China-Korea -Japan Joint
Conference on Meteorology, p.182, November, Beijing, China.
Wu, P., Yamanaka, M. D. and Matsumoto, J. 2007. The formation of nocturnal rainfall offshore fromconvection over western Kalimantan (Borneo) Island. The Third China-Korea-Japan Joint
Conference on Meteorology, p.125, November, Beijing, China.
Wu, P., Hara, M., Fudeyasu, H., Yamanaka, M. D. and Matsumoto, J., Fadli Syamsudin, Reni
Sulistyowati and Yusuf S. Djajadihardja 2007. The Impact of trans-equatorial Monsoon Flowon the Formation of Repeated Torrential Rains over Java Island. The Third China-Korea -Japan
Joint Conference on Meteorology, p.201, November, Beijing, China.
Matsumoto, J. 2007. MAHASRI and AMY. Extended abstracts of the Japan-Taiwan Joint Workshop
for the EAMEX and MAHASRI, p.1-2, Hakone, Japan.
Wu, P., Yamanaka, M. D. and Matsumoto, J. 2007. The formation of nocturnal rainfall offshore fromconvection over western Kalimantan Island. Extended abstracts of the Japan-Taiwan Joint
Workshop for the EAMEX and MAHASRI, p.21-22, December, Hakone, Japan.
Yokoi, S. and Matsumoto, J. 2007. Large-scale conditions associated with heavy rainfalls in central
Vietnam. The International Symposium for the East Asian Monsoon Experiment and15

MAHASRI, p.37-38, December, Hakone, Japan.
Ohnmar Htway・Matsumoto, J. and Takahashi M. 2007. The controlling factor of the interannual
variations of summer monsoon onset over Myanmar. The 6th International Symposium on
Asian Monsoon System (ISAM6), p.35, December, Fukuoka, Japan.
Yokoi, S. and Matsumoto, J. 2007. Heavy rainfalls in central Vietnam and cold surges from China.
The 6th International Symposium on Asian Monsoon System (ISAM6), p.64, December,
Fukuoka, Japan.
Wu, P., Hamada, J.-I., Yamanaka, M. D., Matsumoto, J. and Hara, M. 2007. Why Rainfall Rarely
Occurs over Southeast Kalimantan (Borneo) Island in the Late Afternoon and Evening. The 6thInternational Symposium on Asian Monsoon System (ISAM6), p.70, December. Fukuoka,
Japan.
Ogino, S.-Y., Nodzu, M. I., Ha, H. T., Fujiwara, M., Satomura, T., Matsumoto, J. and Thanh, N.,
2007: Temperature inversion layers and related thermal budget over Hanoi, Vietnam. The 6thInternational Symposium on Asian Monsoon System (ISAM6), p.65, December, Fukuoka,
Japan.
Matsumoto, J. 2007. MAHASRI and AMY. National Workshop on MAHASRI, December, Goura．
Matsumoto, J., Asada, H. and Hayashi, T. 2008. Flood and storm surge disasters in Bangladesh.
Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, p.17, March,
Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Takahashi, H. 2007. Urban climate and geometric structure of urban surface: Toward the evaluationof urban flood occurrence and heat island phenomenon. Tokyo Metropolitan University
research seeds symposium 2007. September, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Nakano, T. 2007. Carbon dioxide flux and its controlling factors in a semi-arid grassland ofMongolia. Abstracts of Japan Geoscience Union 2007 Meeting, J244-P012 (CD-ROM), May,
Chiba. (in Japanese with English Abstract)
Nakano, T. and Nemoto, M. 2007. Comparison of methods to measure nighttime water vapor flux.
Abstracts of Joint Conference on Environmental Engineering in Agriculture 2007, P95(CD-ROM), September, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Nakano, T. 2007. Perspective on estimation of net plant production in semi-arid grassland. The
Japan-Mongolia Joint Workshop on the Mongolian Grasslands and Mobile Pastoralism,
September, Tokyo.
Nakano, T., Nemoto, M. and Shinoda, M. 2007. Environmental controls on photosyntheticalproduction in a semi-arid grassland. Abstracts of Meteorological Society of Japan 2007 Fall
Meeting, p.313. October, Sapporo. (in Japanese)
Nakano, T., Nemoto, M. and Shinoda, M. 2008. Soil moisture and ecosystem respiration in semi-arid
grasslands of Mongolia. Abstracts of Soil Moisture Workshop 2008, p.9.1-9.4, March, Tokyo.
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(in Japanese with English abstract)
Grossman, M., Zaiki, M. and Johnson, R. 2007. Annual maximum floods and typhoons in the Kanto,
Kyushu, and Hokkaido regions of Japan (1960 - 2002). The Association of American
Geographers 2007 Annual Meeting Program, p.384, April, San Francisco.
Tsukahara, T. and Zaiki, M. 2007. Meteorological data by von Siebold and its implications for ananalysis of Global Warming. Siebold Collection Conference II July 2007. July, Leiden.
Grossman, M. and Zaiki, M. 2007. Reconstructing typhoon landfalls in Japan from historical
documentary records, 1801-1830. Papers of the applied geography conference no.30, p.334-343,
October, Indianapolis.
Tsukahara, T., Zaiki, M., Nakagami, K. and Osawa, M. 2007. Pompe's works related to science onearth and environment: mineral collection, weather observation, bathing at beach and drinking
milk. International Historical Conference: 150th Anniversary of the Beginning of Modern
Western-Style Medical Education in Japan. November, Nagasaki.
Zaiki, M., Tsukahara T., Können, G.P. and Mikami, T. 2007. Reconstruction of the pressure patternover Japan using two-point pressure/temperature datasets. American Geophysical Union Fall
Meeting 2007 PP11A-0213 (CD-ROM), December, San Francisco.
Zaiki, M., Jarvie, H.P., Lin, Z., Oguchi, T. and Neal, C. 2007. Statistical and GIS analysis of riverwater quality data across the Humber catchment, UK. Abstracts of Japan Geoscience Union
2007 Meeting, Z170-P010 (CD-ROM), May, Chiba. (in Japanese with English Abstract)
Oguchi, T., Zaiki, M., Hataya, M., Lin, Z. and Jarvie, H.P. 2007. Comparison of spatial distributionsof riverine suspended sediment concentration under high- and low-flow conditions. Abstracts ofJapan Geoscience Union 2007 Meeting, Z164-P005 (CD-ROM), May, Chiba. (in Japanese withEnglish Abstract)
Grossman, M., Zaiki, M. and Oguchi, T. 2007. Annual maximum floods and typhoons in the Kantoand Hokkaido regions of Japan in the 20th Century. Abstracts of the Study Meeting of the
Association of Japanese Geographers Autumn 2007 p.129, October, Kumamoto.
Zaiki, M., Jarvie, H.P., Lin, Z. and Oguchi, T. 2007. Statistical and spatial analysis of river water
quality data across the Humber catchment, UK. Center for Spatial Information Science theUniversity of Tokyo, the session of inter-university research activities in Japan, research
abstracts on spatial information science p.16, November, Kashiwa. (in Japanese)
Osawa, M., Tsukahara, T. and Zaiki, M. 2007. Pompe’s works related to earth science: his Japanesemineral collection. The Society for the History of Western Learning in Japan 2007 Fall Meeting.
November, Nagasaki. (in Japanese)
Zaiki, M., Jones, P., Tsukahara, T. and Mikami, T. 2008. The 19th century 1841-1883 meteorologicalrecords in Beijing, China. Abstracts of the Study Meeting of the Association of Japanese
Geographers Spring 2008 p.143, March, Soka. (in Japanese)17Zaiki, M., Ohba, T., Hirano, J. and Morishima, W. 2008. Climate reconstruction based on diary
weather records of Kawanishi, Yamagata Prefecture for 1830-1980. Abstracts of the Study
Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers Spring 2008 p.244, March, Soka. (inJapanese)
Tanaka, H., Seto, Y. Mikami, T. and Matayoshi, N. 2007. The third report of the impact statement
which the building group in the Shiodome area gives to the downwind area of the sea breeze–From a result of the synchronization observation by pilot balloon, helicopter and doppler
lidar–. Abstracts of Meteorological Society of Japan 2007 Spring Meeting, p.258. May, Tokyo.
(in Japanese)
Akasaka, I., Morishima, W. and Mikami, T. 2007. Change in seasonal cycle of rainfall in thePhilippines: A case study during the autumn-winter 1998-2000. Abstracts of MeteorologicalSociety of Japan 2007 Spring Meeting, p.279. May, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Akasaka, I., Morishima, W. and Mikami, T. 2007. Interannual variation on seasonal march of rainfall
in the Philippines. Asia Oceania Geoscience Society-Annual meeting 4th (CD-ROM). July,
Bangkok, Thai land.
Akasaka, I., Morishima, W. and Mikami, T. 2007. Characteristics of the atmospheric circulation
associated with onset of summer rainy season in the Philippines. Abstract of the Association ofJapanese Geographers 2007 Fall Meeting, p.100, October, Kumamoto. (in Japanese)
Akasaka, I., Morishima, W. and Mikami, T. 2008. Characteristics of the atmospheric circulation andsea surface temperature patterns associated with onset of summer rainy season in thePhilippines. Abstract of the Association of Japanese Geographers 2008 Spring Meeting, p.125.
March, Saitama. (in Japanese)
Fukushima, A., Takahashi, H. and Matsumoto, J. 2007. Interannual variations of pre-monsoon
season precipitation in Nepal and characteristics of large-scale circulation. Abstracts of the 2007
Spring Assembly of the Meteorological Society of Japan, p.197, May, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Fukushima, A. and Takahashi, H. 2007. The influence of circulation change from pre-monsoon to
monsoon season upon the rainfall phenomena in Nepal. AOGS, Thailand, August, 2007.
Okubo, S. and Mikami, T. 2007. Long-term trend in SPM concentration and its spatial distribution
and in the Kanto region. Abstracts of Meteorological Society of Japan 2007 Spring Meeting,p.251. March, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Okubo, S. and Mikami, T. 2007. Long-term trend in SPM spatial distribution in the Kanto region.
Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of Japan Society for Atmospheric Environment, p.319.
September, Okayama. (in Japanese)
Takahashi, K. and Mikami, T. 2007. Temperature distribution and behavior of land and sea breeze insummer in Tokyo ward area. Abstracts of Meteorological Society of Japan 2007 Spring Meeting,p.165. May, Tokyo. (in Japanese)18

Oka, A., Mikami, T., Izumi, T., Shimizu, S., Narita, K. 2008. The evaluation for the cool air flowing
out and influencing to built-up area from the Imperial Garden green space. Research Group
Meeting for Urban Climatic Environment at Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese
Geographers 2008 spring Meeting, March, Soka.

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Laboratory of Environmental Geography

1) Staff
Shuichi OKA

Associate Professor / D.Sci.

Vegetation Geography, Landscape Ecology

Shuichi OYAMA

Assistant Professor / PhD (D. Human and Environment)

Area Study(Africa, South America), Environmental Geography, Ecological Anthropology2) Overview of Research Activities
Our laboratory focuses on the relations between human and natural environment. Especially weattach great importance on the structure and its changes of the relationships in the local and global
scales. Therefore we are trying to apply inter-disciplinary approach flexibly, with not only physicaland human geography but also other environmental sciences, such as botanical science, forest
ecology, zoology, soil science, landscape design, political ecology, folklore, anthropology and so on.
Research methods are primarily based on fieldwork, including weather observation, land survey,
interview survey and participatory research as well as analysis of aerial photos and satellite images.
Study fields are all over the world, especially Japan, Asia, Africa and America. We are engaged inlong-term fieldwork on (1) environmental changes and human responses in Africa, (2) cultural
ecology of slash-and-burn cultivators in Africa, (3) domestication process of livestock and crops, and(4) vegetation and climatic landscape in north and south America and Siberia.
Recent themes are as follows;

1) Interrelation between environmental change and human response in savanna area of Africa
2) Process of land degradation in environment3) Coral reef formation and interrelation between coral and reef topography4) Geo-ecological research on landscape and the change in alpine and sub-alpine
5) Hydro-climatic environment based on the water balance in the Bonin Islands, Japan
6) Climatic landscape in view of vegetation and land use7) Cultural geography of slash-and-burn cultivators and development of cultivation system inmiombo woodland zone of Africa
8) Applied ecological study to combat desertification in Sahel zone, Africa.
9) Domestication of Camelidae animals and Solanum crops in Andes, South America

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Peer-reviewed Articles
Kobashi, S., Fujii, N. and Oka, S. 2007. A review of the studies on geographical variation in Fagus
crenata and the future prospects. Bulletin of Botanical Society of Nagano, 40, 207-213. (inJapanese)
Oyama, S. 2007. Combating desertification of rural areas and improving the sanitary conditions ofurban areas by applying indigenous ecological knowledge of Hausa cultivators in southern NigerContributing to Human Security based on field research. Journal of African Studies 71, 85-99. (inJapanese with English Abstract)

Other Articles
Oka, S., Oyama, S., Tsuchiya, T. and Yakabe, Y. 2007. Laboratory of Environmental Geography:
focusing on the multiphasic relation between human and physical environment. Proceedings ofthe International Symposium on Sustainable Urban Environment 2007, 112.
Oka, S. 2007. Change of forest zone on the southern slope of Mt. Fuji based on a view of the old
trail of Murayama. Abstract of the 9th Mt. Fuji Seminar, 15. (in Japanese)
Oka, S., Shirakawa, A. and Kanno, H. 2008. Why is larch scrub community kept around Oniwa on
the northern slope of Mount Fuji? Proceedings of the General Meeting f the Association ofJapanese Geographers, 73, 199. (in Japanese)
Oyama, S. 2007. The difference of crop production among households in Hausa village and thecontract for livestock settlement to the Fulani and Tuareg pastoral people in Niger. Abstract of the44th academic meeting of African Studies, 110. (in Japanese)
Oyama, S. 2007. Coping strategy and ecological knowledge of Hausa cultivators to land degradationin Sahel zone of West Africa. Proceedings of the General Meeting f the Association of Japanese
Geographers, 72, 148. (in Japanese)
Yakabe, Y. and Oka, S. 2008. The Pinus lutchuensis population dynamics and the physicalenvironments in the subtropical dry scrub on the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands.

Proceedings ofthe General Meeting f the Association of Japanese Geographers, 73, 240. (in Japanese)
Kawahira, N., 2008. Changes in the Middle Reaches of the Tenryu River Valley Area As Seen fromthe Land Use. T Proceedings of the General Meeting f the Association of Japanese Geographers,
73, 257. (in Japanese).
Tsuchiya, T. 2008. Interrelation of the water environment, the consciousness of the residents and theconservation activities for the river basin environment: a case study of Sakawa River in
Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. T Proceedings of the General Meeting f the Association of Japanese
Geographers, 73, 254. (in Japanese).

Reports
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Oyama, S. 2008. Land reform in Republic of Zambia- Building civil society based on modern law
and social confusion of shifting cultivators. Kodama, Y. ed. Reports of Community Based
Organizations and Civil Society in Rural Africa. Institute of Developing Economics. 128-161.
Japan External Trade Organization. Tokyo. (in Japanese)

Miscellaneous reports
Oka, S. 2008. Short trip around the Yato valley in the Tama-hill. Chiri, 53(4), 86-93. (in Japanese)
Oyama, S. 2008. Book Reviews- African Farmers who live on possibilities written by S. Shimada.
Geographical Reviews of Japan 81(3): 128-130. (in Japanese)
Tsuchiya, T. 2008. The environmental conservation and the residents in the river basin: a case studyof Sakawa River, Japan. The reports of 14th meeting of citizens’ environmental activities in
Kanagawa Prefecture. 39-42. (in Japanese)
Oyama, S. 2007. Natural History of Life- Conservation of vicuña and rural development in Peruvian
Andes. Monthly Magazine of National Museum of Ethnology 30 (6): 20-21. (in Japanese)

Presentations
Oka, S. 2007. Ogasawara Islands-the so-called Galapagos in the Orient. Meguro City College in2007, World Islands-marine station, the evidences of nature and culture in island, Tokyo, April.
(in Japanese)
Oka, S. 2007. Understanding vegetation landscape and climatic landscape on the maps. Meguro City
College in 2007, Map and Scenery-search a dense relationship between map and scenery, Tokyo,
May. (in Japanese)
Oka, S. 2007. Search various climatic landscapes in map and field. Guidance of the excursion in
Meguro City College in 2007, Map and Scenery-search a dense relationship between map andscenery, Tokyo, June. (in Japanese)
Oka, S. 2007. Landscape of the drainage basin and the management of Satoyama-cases of the Yato
valley in the Tama-hill. Landscape Seminar in Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, June. (inJapanese)
Oka, S. 2007. How to understand the nature?-fundamental of understanding the environments. The
training course of support ranger, Open University of Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo,
August. (in Japanese)
Kikuchi, T., Oka, S., Suzuki, T. and Oyama, S. 2007. obserbation and consideration of nature ofmountain. Guidance of excursion in the training course of support ranger, Open University ofTokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, September. (in Japanese)
Kazmer, M., Sho, K., Oka, S., Sugimoto, O., Asami, R., Yamada, T., and Iryu, Y. 2007. Annual
record of environmental history in corals and tree-rings―a land-sea correlation at Ogasawara
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Islands, Japan. The First Asian Dendrochronology Conference and Workshop, Thailand,
September.
Oka, S. and Kawahira, N. 2008. Change of forest use in the Hinode region, western part of Tokyo.
Forum to learn from the nature of Satoyama in Tama region, Tokyo, March. (in Japanese)
Oyama, S. 2007. The ecology of Andean indigenous Camelidae- Vicugna vicugna. 47th Academic
Meeting of Ecosophia (Ethno-Nature Sciences) “Rethinking Hunting and Pastoral Activities fromthe Andean Mountains.”. Kyoto, April. (in Japanese)
Oyama, S. 2007. The difference of crop production among households in Hausa village and thecontract for livestock settlement to the Fulani and Tuareg pastoral people in Niger. The 44th
academic meeting of African Studies, Nagasaki, May. (in Japanese)
Oyama, S. 2007. African nature, land, history and ethnic culture. Meguro City College in 2007, Map
and Scenery-search a dense relationship between map and scenery, Tokyo, June. (in Japanese)
Oyama, S. 2007. Coping strategy and ecological knowledge of Hausa cultivators to land degradationin Sahel zone of West Africa. The General Meeting f the Association of Japanese Geographers in2007 Autumn, Kumamoto, October. (in Japanese)
Oyama, S. 2007. Co-evolution of Camelidae animals and potato in Andean mountains. 1st Academic
Meeting of Nature and Society Research group. he General Meeting of the Association ofJapanese Geographers in 2007 Autumn, Kumamoto, October. (in Japanese)
Oyama, S. 2007. The desertification problems in Niger of West Africa and indigenous technologies
of Hausa cultivators for improving the soil conditions. The 727th Academic Meeting of Social
Anthropology, Tokyo Metropolitan University. Hachioji, November. (in Japanese)
Oyama, S. 2007. Land enclosure and social changes of shifting cultivators in northern Zambia.
Research Project of Community Based Organizations and Civil Society in Rural Africa. Instituteof Developing Economics. Japan External Trade Organization. Tokyo, November. (in Japanese)
Oyama, S. 2008. The ecology of vicuña from the viewpoint of domestication. The 186th Academic
Meetings of Chubu Anthropology society Symposium “Multi-disciplinary Approach on Andean
Camelidae and people’s utilization”, Nagoya, March. (in Japanese)
Kawahira, N., 2008. Changes in the Middle Reaches of the Tenryu River Valley Area As Seen fromthe Land Use. Annual meeting 2008. The General Meeting of the Association of Japanese
Geograghers, Saitama, March.
Tsuchiya, T. 2008. The environmental conservation and the residents in the river basin: a case studyof Sakawa River, Japan. 14th meeting of citizens’ environmental

activities in Kanagawa

Prefecture, Yokohama. February. (in Japanese)
Tsuchiya, T. 2008. Interrelation of the water environment, the consciousness of the residents and theconservation activities for the river basin environment: a case study of Sakawa River, Japan. The
seminar of researches in Sagamihara City Museum, Sagamihara. March. (in Japanese)23

Tsuchiya, T. 2008. Interrelation of the water environment, the consciousness of the residents and theconservation activities for the river basin environment: a case study of Sakawa River in
Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographersin 2008 Spring, Soka. March. (in Japanese)
Yakabe, Y. 2008. The Pinus lutchuensis population dynamics and the physical environments in thesubtropical dry scrub on the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands. The seminar of researches in
Sagamihara City Museum, Sagamihara. March. (in Japanese)Takishima, K. 2007. The altitudinal change of patch colony and establishment of Larix kaempferi ontree limit of northwest slope of Mt. Fuji. 9th Mt. Fuji Seminar
Yoshida, Y. 2008. Flood disturbance caused by the typhoon and plant communities in the sandbank
at Akigawa River, Japan. 56th Study Meeting for the Presentations of the Undergraduate Students,
Koganei, March.

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4Laboratory of Geographical Information Sciences

1) Staff
Hiroshi MATSUYAMA

Associate Professor / PhD (D.Sc.)

Hydrometeorology, Geographical Information Sciences

Takeki IZUMIAssistant Professor / PhD (D.Eng.)

Urban Climatology, Geographical Information Sciences, Computational Meteorological Model

Daichi NAKAYAMA

Assistant Professor / PhD (D.Sc.)

Geographical Information Sciences, Remote Sensing, Computational Geomorphology2) Overview of Research Activities
This laboratory is going to study the natural environment as a whole which is composed ofgeomorphology, climate, hydrology, vegetation, and so on. Concretely, deductive approach andinductive approach are combined for conducting studies. The former approach is going to explain
results from causes by physical lows such as mass balance, energy balance, equation of motion, andso on. The latter approach is going to explain facts demonstratively based on field surveys and in situ
observations. Therefore, collection of quantitative data, digital mapping, statistical analyses andnumerical modeling are main methods used in this laboratory.
The main study themes in this laboratory are listed as follows.
・Energy and water cycle in the atmosphere and hydrosphere・Capturing snow distribution and snow water resources, along with snowmelt-runoff based on the
remote sensing techniques
・Quantitative evaluation of spectral reflectance characteristics of coniferous forests, along with thequantitative evaluation of their leaf area indices.
・Hydrological cycle around Mt. Aso and Tokyo Metropolis
・Numerical simulation of the urban heat island
・Capturing surface conditions of cities such as albedo, roughness length, and evaporative fraction
・Estimating landslides based on digital elevation model, remote sensing, and data mining techniques
・Flood monitoring in Bangladesh based on remote sensing and geographical information systems
・Monitoring urban environment and natural environment by using synthetic aperture radar
・Precise geometric correction of satellite images

3) List of Research Activities in 200725

Peer-reviewed Articles
Shimamura, Y., Izumi, T., and Matsuyama, H. 2007. Configuration of rapid digital mapping systemusing tablet PC and its application to obtaining ground truth data: A case study of a snow survey
in Chuetsu district, Niigata prefecture.

Journal of Geography (Japan) 116: 749-758. (inJapanese with English abstract)
Saito, H., Nakayama, D., and Matsuyama, H. 2007. Estimation and evaluation of drainage basins
with landslides using decision tree technique and ASTER data. Landslides−Journal of theJapan Landslide Society 44: 1-14. (in Japanese with English abstract)
Zhang, H., Sato, N., Izumi, T., Hanaki, K. and Aramaki, T. 2008. Modified RAMS-Urban canopy
model for heat island simulation in Chongqing, China. Journal of Applied Meteorology andClimatology 47: 509-524.

Other Articles
Matsuyama, H. 2007. Subtropical convergence zone formed in Brazil: Simultaneous appearance ofwild

fire and heavy rainfall. In Regional problems in the world, ed. K. Urushibara-Yoshino,

Y. Fujitsuka, H. Matsuyama and K. Ohnishi, 56-57. Kyoto: Nakanishiya. (in Japanese)
Matsuyama, H. 2007. Water problems of the Lake Balkhash basin in Central Asia. In Regional
problems in the world, ed. K. Urushibara-Yoshino, Y. Fujitsuka, H. Matsuyama and K. Ohnishi,
104-105. Kyoto: Nakanishiya. (in Japanese)
Matsuyama, H. 2008. Estimation of snow water resources in the mountainous region: A case study
around Mt. Makihata, Niigata prefecture. Electric Power Civil Engineering No. 333: 6-11. (inJapanese)
Narumiya, H., Nakayama, D., and Matsuyama, H. 2007. Classification of springwaters in Tokyo
based on a mathematical statistical method. Water Science No. 295: 43-56. (in Japanese)
Urushibara-Yoshino, K., Fujitsuka, Y., Matsuyama, H., and Ohnishi, K. 2007. Regional problems in
the world. In Regional problems in the world, ed. K. Urushibara-Yoshino, Y. Fujitsuka, H.
Matsuyama and K. Ohnishi, 2-3. Kyoto: Nakanishiya. (in Japanese)

Books
Urushibara-Yoshino, K., Fujitsuka, Y., Matsuyama, H., and Ohnishi, K. 2007. Regional problems in
the world. Kyoto: Nakanishiya. (in Japanese)

Reports
Matsuyama, H. 2007. GIS Day in Tokyo 2006: Safety of region as depicted by GIS. Annual Reportof the Research Grant for History and Geography 2006, 168-169. Tama: Fukutake Science and26

Culture Foundation. (in Japanese)Book review
Matsuyama, H. 2007. Book review (Nishina, J. Foundamental climatology−Enlarged edition). Chiri
52(5): 121. (in Japanese)
Matsuyama, H. 2007. Book review (Tadokoro, K. Clima e literatura do nordeste Brasileiro). Chiri
52(6): 120. (in Japanese)
Matsuyama, H. 2007. Book review (Heibonsha ed. Junior national flags 3rd, rev. ed.). Chiri 52(7):120. (in Japanese)
Matsuyama, H. 2007. Book review (Hidaka, T., and Akimichi, T. Whose are forests ?−Future offorests and human in Asia−). Chiri 52(8): 120. (in Japanese)
Matsuyama, H. 2007. Book review (Nishikawa, D. Diary of a Japanese emigrant for agriculture−
General image of Japanese emigrants for agriculture in Brazil−). Chiri 52(9): 115. (inJapanese)
Matsuyama, H. 2007. Book review (Hoffman-Wellenhof, B., Lichtenegger, H., and Collins, J.,translated by S. Nishi. Global positioning system, 5th, rev. ed.). Chiri 52(10): 107. (in Japanese)
Matsuyama, H. 2007. Book review (Yoshino, M. History of climatology: From ancient tocontemporary times). Chiri 52(11): 114. (in Japanese)
Matsuyama, H. 2007. Book review (Hirakawa, K. How to write compositions in 600 words). Chiri52(12): 111. (in Japanese)

Miscellaneous reports
Matsuyama, H. (Read by K. Hasegawa) 2007. Configuration of the observing system for
multi-angular reflectance of forest canopy by using observing tower at the foot of Mt.
Yatsugatake. Proceedings of the 9th CEReS Symposium on Environmental Remote Sensing:
40-43. (in Japanese)
Matsuyama, H. 2007. Shiga highland where it has passed 17 years since the last visit. Annual Reportof Old Boys/Girls of Wandervogel Club in Tokyo University: 97-99. (in Japanese)
Matsuyama, H. 2008. Estimation of the recharge area of springwater and the mechanism for its
gushing out based on water temperature, discharge and concentration of silica−A case study ofHino city, Tokyo Metropolis. Tamagawa No. 117: 9. (in Japanese)
Maruyama, S., Eguchi, T., Kasahara, J., Geshi, N., Matsumoto, J., Matsuyama, H., and Yamakawa, S.
2007. Preface for the special issue on “Water; from the Earth’s core to planetary space”. Journalof Geography (Japan) 116: 1-6. (in Japanese)
Izumi, T. 2007. How the meteorological observation of Fukiage garden in the imperial palace isrealized ?―Very profound network of old boys/girls of wandervogel club in Tokyo University27

―. Annual Report of Old Boys/Girls of Wandervogel Club in Tokyo University: 100-101. (inJapanese)
Narumiya, H. 2007. A spring where gas bubbles were gashing out−Serigaya park in Machida city,
Tokyo Metropolis. Chiri 52(6): 81-83. (in Japanese)
Iwasaki, K. 2007. Prediction of Rausu Dashi gap wind using regional atmospheric modeling system(RAMS). Record of General Meeting for Graduation Theses of Geography, 2006. The New
Geography (The Shin-Chiri) 55(1): 62. (in Japanese)

Presentations
Matsuyama, H. 2007. Scene of hydrological cycle recalled by map. Meguro City Collage 2007 (Mapand scene−Searching for their close relationship−), May, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Izumi, T. 2007. Regional planning and regulations for preparing good conditions in a city−Reportof the scene from redevelopment of Asagaya houses−. 5th Meeting, Forum of My Town,
August, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Izumi, T. 2007. Overview of the regional planning system. 6th Meeting, Seminar for Preparing Good
Conditions in Narita Region, August, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Izumi, T., Hasegawa, K., Matsuyama, H., Kajiwara, K., and Honda, Y. 2007. A seasonal change ofbidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) in larix leptolepis. Abstracts ofMeteorological Society of Japan 2007 Fall Meeting, p. 418, October, Sapporo. (in Japanese)
Izumi, T., Mikami, T., Shimizu, S., and Oka, A. 2008. The cool-island effect in a urban green space−Report of the observation in and around the Imperial Palace− 2) Observation result ofcool-island phenomena in the Imperial Palace, Tokyo, in the summer of 2006 and 2007. Study
Group of Urban Climate and Environment, Association of Japanese Geographers, March, Soka.
(in Japanese)
Nakayama, D., Sakamoto, K., and Matsuyama, H. 2008. New topographic correction method ofsatellite image in the season of low solar elevation. Proceedings of the General Meeting of the
Association of Japanese Geographers 2008 Spring Meeting, p. 260, March, Soka. (in Japanese)
Hasegawa, K., Matsuyama, H., Tsuzuki, H., and Sweda, T. 2007. Normalized hotspot-signaturevegetation index−A new index linearly correlated with leaf area index. Proceedings of theGeneral Meeting of the Japanese Forest Society, A02 (CD-ROM), April, Fukuoka. (in Japanese)
Hasegawa, K. 2008. Seasonal/diurnal variations of the multi-angular reflectance characteristics inlarix leptolepi−Toward estimating parameters of canopy structure necessary for photosynthesis
model−. The 10th CEReS Symposium on Environmental Remote Sensing, February, Chiba.
(in Japanese)
Saito, H., Nakayama, D., and Matsuyama, H. 2007. Estimation of drainage basins with landslides in
the wide area using data mining techniques and time series analysis. Research Abstracts on
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Spatial Information Science CSIS Days 2007, p. 8, November, Kashiwa. (in Japanese)
Saito, H., Nakayama, D., and Matsuyama, H. 2007. Quantitative analysis of landslide susceptibility
and occurrence of landslides at catchment scale using data mining techniques. Proceedings ofthe General Meeting of the Japanese Geomorphological Union 2007 Fall Meeting (Transactions,Japanese Geomorphological Union 29, p.76,), November, Tsukuba. (in Japanese)
Saito, H., Nakayama, D., and Matsuyama, H. 2007. Quantitative analysis of landslide susceptibility
and occurrence of landslides at catchment scale using data mining techniques. Colloquium ofCold Region Geomorphology, December, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Saito, H. 2008. Quantitative analysis of occurrence of landslides using GIS and remote sensing
techniques−Case study in Akaishi mountains−. Workshop by Young Scientists of the Japan
Landslide Society, March, Matsumoto. (in Japanese)
Saito, H., Nakayama, D., and Matsuyama, H. 2008. Quantitative analysis of landslide susceptibility
and occurence of landslides at catchment scale using data mining technique. Abstract Volume of
the Taiwan and Japan Joint Symposium on Geomorphological Hazards and Management, p. 46,
March, Taipei, Taiwan.
Saito, H., Nakayama, D., and Matsuyama, H. 2008. Quantitative analysis of landslide susceptibility
and occurrence of landslides at catchment scale using decision tree techniques. Proceedings ofthe General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers 2008 Spring Meeting, p. 178,
March, Soka. (in Japanese)
Narumiya, H., Nakayama, D., and Matsuyama, H. 2008. Estimation of recharge area of springwater
based on the hydrochemical technique along with the change of springwater and environment−
A case study of Hino city, Tokyo Metropolis. Proceedings of the General Meeting of the
Association of Japanese Geographers 2008 Spring Meeting, p. 204, March, Soka. (in Japanese)
Hoque, R., Nakayama, D., and Matsuyama, H. 2008. Monitoring the 2004 flood in the Meghna river
basin in Bangladesh using ground data, RADARSAT imagery and GIS. Proceedings of theGeneral Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers 2008 Spring Meeting, p. 259,
March, Soka.
Watanabe, T., Nakayama, D., and Matsuyama, H. 2007. Relationship between typhoon courses andrainfall distribution characteristics in Yamanashi prefecture. Abstracts of MeteorologicalSociety of Japan 2007 Spring Meeting, p. 409, May, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Inamura, T., Sakamoto, K., Iwasaki, K., Watanabe, T., Saito, H., Izumi, T., Nakayama, D., andMatsuyama, H. 2007. Numerical simulation of Matsubori wind by using actual topography andvirtual topography. Abstracts of Meteorological Society of Japan 2007 Spring Meeting, p. 377,
May, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Inamura, T., Sakamoto, K., Iwasaki, K., Watanabe, T., Saito, H., Izumi, T., Nakayama, D., andMatsuyama, H. 2007. Effects of central cone of Mt. Aso and a gorge at the west rim of the29

caldera on Matsubori wind. Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese
Geographers 2007 Fall Meeting, p. 94, October, Kumamoto. (in Japanese)
Inamura, T. 2008. Effects of large cities on wind systems over the Kanto plain when heavy rainfall
occurred in Tokyo. General Meeting for Graduation Theses of Geography, 2007, March,
Koganei. (in Japanese)
Inamura, T., Sakamoto, K., Iwasaki, K., Watanabe, T., Saito, H., Nakayama, D., Izumi, T., andMatsuyama, H. 2008. Effects of central cone of Mt. Aso and a gorge at the west rim of thecaldera on Matsubori wind. International Symposium on Agricultural Meteorology(ISAM2008), March, Shimonoseki.
Iwasaki, K., Izumi, T., and Matsuyama, H. 2007. Prediction of Rausu Dashi gap wind using regional
atmospheric modeling system (RAMS). Abstracts of Meteorological Society of Japan 2007
Spring Meeting, p. 376, May, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Mikami, T., Izumi, T., Shimizu, S., and Oka, A. 2008. The cool-island effect in a urban green space−Report of the observation in and around the Imperial Palace− 1) Summary of cool-island
phenomena observation in the Imperial Palace, Tokyo. Study Group of Urban Climate andEnvironment, Association of Japanese Geographers, March, Soka. (in Japanese)
Narita, K., Mikami, T., Izumi, T., Shimizu, S., and Oka, A. 2008. The cool-island effect in a urban
green space − Report of the observation in and around the Imperial Palace −3)

Cold-air-seeping phenomena around the garden of the Imperial Palace, Tokyo. Study Group of
Urban Climate and Environment, Association of Japanese Geographers, March, Soka. (inJapanese)
Oka, A., Mikami, T., Izumi, T., and Shimizu, S. 2008. The cool-island effect in a urban green space−Report of the observation in and around the Imperial Palace− 4) Cool-island phenomena inalarge urban green space−Effect of the Imperial Palace Garden on the surrounding built-up

area−. Study Group of Urban Climate and Environment, Association of Japanese Geographers,
March, Soka. (in Japanese)
Teshirogi, K. Kuroda, S., Kezer, K., Koyama, T., and Iwata, S. 2008. Factors of vegetation
distribution in front of glacier number one at the headwater of the Urumqi river, the Tianshan
mountains. Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers2008 Spring Meeting, p. 226, March, Soka. (in Japanese)30

5Laboratory of Urban and Human Geography

1) Staff
Yosio SUGIURA

Professor / PhD (D.Sc.)

Human geography

Yoshiki WAKABAYASHI Associate Professor / PhD (D.Sc.)
Urban geography, Behavioral geography, Geographic information science

Yuko TAKEDA

Assistant Professor / Ph. D.

GIS, Urban geography

Hiroyuki TSUBOMOTOAssistant Professor /Urban geography, Office study

Michiko HARAYAMA

Assistant Professor /Bibliometrics(Concurrent staff)
Toshio KIKUCHI

Associate Professor / D.Sc.

Agricultural and Rural Geography, Regional Geography of Oceania, Nature Based Tourism2) Overview of Research Activities
This research unit specializes in human geography, with special emphasis on the city and its
environs. Our research interests center on the structural explanation of the relationship between
human activities and geographic environment by employing approaches of social sciences andhumanities. Methodologically, the emphasis lies largely on positivistic (viz., quantitative or
mathematical); fieldwork is also encouraged. The research interests cover quantitative,
socioeconomic, urban and behavioral geography. The main themes of our current research are as
follows:

1. Mathematical modeling of human geographic phenomena
2. Regional analysis of human geographic phenomena
1) Relationship between human activities and geographic environment2) Land use change in the city and its suburbs3) Spatial organization of the society314) Transformation of human activities brought about by environmental change
3. Geographical studies of urban systems
1) Spatial structures of intra-urban system
2) System of cities
4. Geographical thought
1) History of modern geography2) Bibliometric research of geographical studies

3) List of Research Activities in 2007
Peer-reviewed Articles
Yui, Y, Wakabayashi, Y., Nakazawa, T. and Kamiya, H. 2007. Residential choices of working womenin urban space. E-journal GEO 2(3): 139-152． (in Japanese with English abstract)
Wakabayashi, Y. 2008. The role of maps in the cognition of geographic space. Cognitive Studies
15(1): 38-50. (in Japanese with English abstract)
Tsubomoto, H. 2007. Restructuring Business Spaces in Tokyo after the 1990s. Annals of the Japan
Association of Economic Geographers, 54: 461-477.
Tsubomoto, H. 2008. Construction of a new officeconsulting

firm

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since the1990s.

Urban Geography of Japan, 3: 18-32. (in Japanese with English abstract)
Yabe, N. 2007. Spatially varying NEET factors in the Tokyo metropolitan area: a moving window
path analysis. Japanese Journal of Human Geography, 59(4): 348-362. (in Japanese with English
abstract)

Other Articles
Sugiura, Y. 2007. On book reviews of Central Place System in Southern Germany. Notes on
Theoretical Geography 16 (in press).
Kinpara, S., Sugiura, S. and Harayama, M. 2007. The present conditions of "Joyful Minowa"
shopping mall in Arakawa Ward, Tokyo with reference to Metropolitan streetcar as a symbol.
Notes on Theoretical Geography 16 (in press).
Wakabayashi, Y. 2007. Cities and their functions in Hokuriku region. In Fujita, M. and Tabayashi,A.
eds.: Regional Geography of Japan vol.7: Chubu region. 473-482，Asakura Shoten: Tokyo. (inJapanese)
Wakabayashi, Y. 2007. Geography of perception. Ueno, K., Tsubaki, M., and Nakamura,Y. eds.:
Fundamental geography series vol. 1: An introduction to geography.
Tokyo. (in Japanese)
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89-94, Asakura Shoten:Wakabayashi, Y. 2007. The world looked through maps. Kobayashi, K. ed.: Practical issues ofgeography education. 78-194, Nakanishiya: Kyoto. (in Japanese)
Arima, T. 2008. Urban Tourism in Tokyo. In Kikuchi, T. eds., Introduction of Tourism sudies,
Ninomiya Publisher, Tokyo, 133-143.(in Japanese)
Arima, T. 2008. (coffee break)Alternative Form of Urban Tourism in Tokyo: a case study of Odaiba.
In Kikuchi, T. eds., Introduction of Tourism sudies, Ninomiya Publisher, Tokyo, 144-151.(inJapanese)

Books
Kobayashi, S. and Sugiura, Y. 2008. Human Geography. 2nd Edition. Hoso-Daigaku
Kyoikushinnko-kai: Tokyo. (in Japanese)
OECD ed., translated into Japanese by Kamiya, H., Yui, Y., Kukimoto, M, Takeda, Y., Wakabayashi,
Y. and Nakazawa, T. 2008. OECD regions at a glance 2007. Akashi Shoten: Tokyo. (in Japanese)

Reports
Tsubomoto, H. 2007. Destribution and preservation of urban foreasts in Sagamihara city. Report of
Sagamihara Urban Research Institute. 16p (in Japanese).

Presentations
Wakabayashi, Y.

2007. Gender-related differences in the map use of in-vehicle navigation systems.

August 4-10, 2007，23rd International Cartographic Conference, Moscow.
Wakabayashi, Y.

2007. Geographical studies on crime and the role of crime maps.. September 2,

2007, 45th Annual Meeting of Japanese Association of Criminal Psychology, Kohriyama.
Wakabayashi, Y.

2007. Notes on the world geographic knowledge of students from the viewpointof spatial cognition. October 7, 2007, The Study Meeting of the Association of Japanese
Geographers Autumn 2007, Kumamoto.
Wakabayashi, Y.

2007. Cartographic literacy and map reading of thematic maps: the case of

Womenʼs Atlas of Japan. October 20, 2007, 41st Regional Meeting of Japan Cartographers
Association, Toyama.
Wakabayashi, Y. 2008. GIS and spatial cognition: evolution of maps and geographic information
science. March 10, 2008, GIS seminar of Chugoku division of GISA, Hiroshima.
Liang, H. S. 2007. Environment change and progress of urbanization in Chinese inner Mongolia.
Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers . 73:141 (inJapanese).
Arima. T. 2007. The space uses and experiences of guests in Ueno Zoological Garden. Proceedingsof the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers 72:155 (in Japanese).
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Arima. T. 2008. Mobility patterns and their geographical charcteristics of visitors in Ueno
Zoological Garden, Tokyo. Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese
Geographers 73:65 (in Japanese).

341Laboratory of Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology

1) Staff
Haruo YAMAZAKI

Professor / Dr.Sc.

Geomorphology, Quaternary Science, Seismotectonics

Takehiko SUZUKI

Associate Professor / PhD (D.Sc.)

Geomorphology, Quaternary science, Volcanology2) Overview of Research Activities
Our laboratory aims to study the various earth scientific phenomena and processes on the solid
earth surface. Especially, main object of our research is to prospect the futuristic view of ourenvironment changes through the understanding of the history and process of landform development
during the Quaternary period. The followings are some examples of our studies.
Tephra study: Tephra means a generic term on the volcanic ejecta excluding lava-flow andrelated explosive deposits. We are trying to identify the source volcano, age of the eruption and the
distribution of widespread tephras that have covered the Japanese Islands through the Pliocene,
Pleistocene and Holocene.
Reconstruction of paleo-environment and land forming process: Using tephra deposits as key
time markers, we are reconstructing the paleo-environment and land forming process since the late
Pliocene in Japan.
Paleo-sea-level change: We are trying to reconstruct the universal Quaternary sea-level changes
through the modeling of crustal deformation based on the geological and geomorphological data
along the coastal region.
Plate tectonics: The Quaternary tectonics including the historical process of seismic andvolcanic activity are our special interest along the plate collision zone in central Japan.
Natural hazards: We study the historical process of topographic changes caused by mass
movement, volcanic eruption and fault activity to prevent and mitigate the future natural hazards.

3) List of Research Activities in 2006
Peer-reviewed Articles
Suzuki, T. 2008. Analysis of titanomagnetite within weathered middle Pleistocene KMT tephra and its
application for fluvial terrace chronology, Kanto Plain, central Japan. Quaternary International
178: 119-127.
Suzuki, T. 2007. Tephra studies on Quaternary explosive eruptions in the Japanese Islands. The

Quaternary Research 46: 283-292.
Ogawa, T and Suzuki, T. 2007. Amendment of Building Retrofitting Promotion Act and Policy
Development (Report). Journal of Geography 116: 516-523. (in Japanese with English abstract)
Kawakami, T and Suzuki, T. 2007． A Local Campaign for Retrofitting Buildings by Sumida
Quakeproof Reinforcement Promotion Conference, Sumida City, Tokyo (Report). Journal of
Geography 116: 536-541. (in Japanese with English abstract)
Murata, M., Suzuki, T., Nakayama, T., Kawashima, S. and Kawai, M.

2007．TephrochronologicalStudy on the Kazusa Group in the Southeast Part of Musashino Upland, Tokyo Metropolitan Area,
Central Japan．Journal of Geography 116: 243-259. (in Japanese with English abstract)
Ueki, U. 2007. AMS 14C age of a fossil wood in the dammed up deposits of the Kanagi Landslide,southeast Shikoku Island, Southwest Japan. Journal of the Japan Landslide Society, 44: 41-43. (inJapanese with English abstract)
Ueki, U. 2007. Terrace Chronology along the Upper Reach of Naka River, Southwest Japan.
Geographical review of Japan, 81A: 25-40. (in Japanese with English abstract)
Ueki, U. 2007. Visualization of rock magnetization using a lava sample acquired with saturated
isothermal remanent magnetization (SIRM): Introduction to paleomagnetism and plate tectonics.
Education of earth science, 60: 187-188. (in Japanese with English abstract)
Fujiwara, H., Sato, S., Shirai, M. and Tajima, Y. 2007. A Field Study on the Sediment Movement in
the Tenryu-Enshunada Watershed. Annual Journal of Coastal Engineering：54, 591-595,
November, Miyazaki. (in Japanese)
Tamura, I., Yamazaki, H. and Mizuno, K. 2008. Characteristics for the recognition of Pliocene andearly Pleistocene marker tephras in central Japan.

Quaternary International, 178: 85-99.

Other Articles
Yamazaki, H. 2007. What is the long-term stability of the geological environment for the HLW
geological disposal? , Materials science and technology, 77: 1121-1125 (in Japanese)
Yamazaki, H. and Sasaki, T. 2007. Uplift and Erosion: Potential impact on the geological environment.
OECD NEA Web page. http://www.nea.fr/download/manchester/
Suzuki, T. 2007. Landforms Formed by River: Introduction of Fluvial Geomorphology. In Kikuchi T.
(eds.) Meguro City College Sosho 8 World Opened from River: Life, Nature and Culture. pp.
69-76, Nonomiya-shoten. (in Japanese).
Suzuki, T. 2007. River and Mitigating Disaster: Fluvial Landforms and Life of People. In Kikuchi T.
(eds.) Meguro City College Sosho 8 World Opened from River: Life, Nature and Culture. pp.
77-86, Nonomiya-shoten. (in Japanese).
Suzuki, T. 2007. Coffee Break: Walking and Watching the Landforms of Tama River. In Kikuchi T.
(eds.) Meguro City College Sosho 8 World Opened from River: Life, Nature and Culture. pp.

87-90, Nonomiya-shoten. (in Japanese).
Ueki, U. 2007. Description and age estimate of the Nariki Landslide, eastern margin of the Kanto
Mountains, Ome city, central Japan. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Japan, 58: 253-259.
(in Japanese with English abstract)Shirai, M., Nishimura, M. and Yasuda, H. 2007. Descriptive
evaluation of consolidated sedimentary rock structures with X-ray imaging: Examples from Site
1276 core. Proceedings of ODP, Scientific Results, Leg. 210 chapter111: 1-11.
Tamura, I. 2007. A situation and problems about the field work of earth science in high school in Japan(in Japanese). Chishitsu News, 640: 20-24．
Tamura, I. 2008. A lesson of 「Environmental 1」 that attached great importance to the field work(inJapanese). Report of Tokyo Metropolitan Wakaba Sogo Senior High School, 3:37-42.

Reports
Suzuki, T. 2007. Tephra Survey. Archaeological Excavation Report of Yaita City 6 ”Report ofArchaeological Excavation at Takahara-san Obsidian Kengamine Site in 2006 ”：14-16，Tochigi
Prefecture Yaita Education Committee.
Ueki, U. and Sakai, A. 2007.

Geology of the ome District.

Quadrangle series, 1: 50,000,

Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 189p. (in Japanese with English abstract)Shirai, M. 2008.
Supply of terrestrial organic-carbon to deep sea. Annual Report of Studies on Greenhouse Gas
with Research Vessels, 14: (in press, in Japanese)Book reviews
Suzuki, T. 2007. Book review of Cartgraphical Thinking of Earth Men by Nishikawa, O. Journal of
Geography, 116: 215. (in Japanese)

Miscellaneous articles
Suzuki, T., Nakabayashi, I., Eguchi, T., Kasahara, J., Obara, K., Seno, T. and Shimokawa, K. 2007．
Preface for the Special Issue on “Geosciences and Impacts of Future Earthquakes Occurring
below the Tokyo Capital Region, and Countermeasures” Journal of Geography 116: 309-312.
Suzuki, T. 2007. Pictorials 1: Future Earthquakes Occurring below the Tokyo Capital Region and its
Disaster Simulation Journal of Geography 116
Takagi, H. and Tamura, I. 2007. Will it be really good in this? In the high school, the earth science isbecoming extinct. The Science News Paper, April 13.

Presenations
Yamazaki, H. and Sasaki, T. 2007. Uplift and Erosion: Potential impact on the geologicalenvironment. Integration Group for Safety Case (IGSC) Workshop “Geosphere Stability”,
OECD/Nuclear Energy Agency(NEA). 2007.11. UK, Manchester.
Yamazaki, H. 2007. Quaternary tectonics in and around the onshore plate convergence boundary incentral Japan. International Symposium on Quaternary Environmental Changes and Humans in
Asia and the Western Pacific. Geological Survey of Japan Interim Report, No.42, 111-112.
2007.11.

Ibaraki, Tsukuba.

Yamazaki, H. 2007. What is the long-term stability of the geological environment for the HLW
geological disposal? , 2007 Joint Symposium of 16th IMRAM Research Panel of Tohoku
University, Research Station of Base Metal, and Research Center of Resource Conversion andReproduction, 99-103. 2007.11. Sendai (in Japanese)
Yamazaki, H. 2007. History of the global environmental changes deduced from the geology andgeomorphology of the Musashino upland. Lecture of the Open University of TMU. 2007.５-６.
Iidabashi (in Japanese)
Yamazaki, H. 2007. Natural history of the Musashino Upland II. MEXT Science partnershipprogram in the Saitama Prefectural Tokorozawa Senior High School，2007. 6. Tokorozawa (inJapanese)
Yamazaki, H. 2007. Landform development of the Kanto Plain. MEXT Science partnership programin the Tokyo Metropolitan Wakaba Sogo Senior High School．2007.10.

Inagi (in Japanese)

Yamazaki, H. 2007. Nature and Hazard Potential in Kanagawa Prifecture. MEXT Super Science
High School program “Hazard Mitigation” in the Kanagawa Prefectural Seisho Senior HighSchool，2007.5. Odawara (in Japanese)
Yamazaki, H. 2008. Natural History of the Musashino Upland．Training association for Science class
improvement in the Tokyo Metropolitan Hino Senior High School, 2008.1. Hino (in Japanese)
Yamazaki, H. 2007. Active fault and Seismic hazards mitigation. Shinjuku Ward sponsoring disasterprevention lecture meeting, 2007.12. Shinjuku (in Japanese)
Yamazaki, H. 2007. Earthquake mechanism and regional correspondence for the hazard prevention.
Open lecture of the Akishima citizens college forum. 2008.1. Akishima (in Japanese)
Yamazaki, H. 2008. The ground condition and earthquake disaster prevention of Kodaira-shi.
Kodaira city sponsoring disaster prevention lecture meeting, 2008.1.

Kodaira (in Japanese)

Yamazaki, H. 2007. Active faults in the Oiso Hills and their relation to the seismotctonics. Special
Seminar in the Hiratsuka City Musium, 2007.8. Hitratsuka (in Japanese)
Suzuki, T. 2007. Reading of Landform and its Landscape on Map. Meguro City College “Map andLandscape: Map, landscape and their inner world part 2”, April, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Suzuki, T. and Murata, M. 2007. An early Pleistocene tephra associated with Shirakawa-Kumado
pyroclastic flow derived from Aizu area, northeast Japan. Abstracts of Japan Geoscience Union
2007 Meeting, Q139-002 (CD-ROM), May, Chiba. (in Japanese with English Abstract)

Suzuki, T. 2007. Natural history in Musashino part 2: quest for landform and geology in neighborhood(field exercise). Science Partnaership Project at Tokorozawa High School, July, Saitama. (inJapanese)
Suzuki, T. 2007. Tephras in marine isotope 3. Committee on Archaeology of Marine Isotope 3, Japan
Association for Quaternary Research, July, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Suzuki, T., Murata, M., Oishi, M., Yamazaki, H., Nakayama, T., Kawashima, S. and Kawai, M. 2007．
A study on the activity history of an active fault by geological survey of underground:
Tachikawa

Fault inwest

part ofTokyo Metropolitan ． Minami-osawa

CampusIndustry-university Corporation Meeting 2007 ”aiming to an improvement of urban
environment and life”, July, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Suzuki, T., Murata, M., Nakayama, T. Kawashima, S. and Kawai, M. 2007. TephrochronologicalStudy on Underground Quaternary Marine Strata in Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Japan.
Quaternary International, 167-168 Supplement: p. 406, August, Cairns.
Suzuki, T. 2007. How to read nature: Basic of understanding environment．Training Lecture for
Support Ranger, Tokyo Metropolitan University Open University, August, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Suzuki, T. 2007. Tephra in Ibaraki : Development of Naka Upland, quest for landform developmentof an upland where Mito 1st Senior High School stands. Science Partnership Project (SPP) at
Mito 1st Senior High School, October, Ibaraki. (in Japanese)
Suzuki, T. Geoscience of Okutama: A mountains in Japan. Field lecture for Tokyo Support Ranger,
November, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Suzuki, T. and Murata, M. 2007. Studies on early Quaternary widespread tephras derived from large
calderas located in the Northeast Japan Arc. International Symposium on Quaternary
Environmental Changes and Humans in Asia and the Western Pacific Abstracts Volume, 146,
November, Tsukuba.
Suzuki, T., Nakabayashi, T., Ogawa, N. 2007. Field lecture Izu-oshima Volcano: Eruption and its
Histrory．Tokyo Metropolitan University Open University, Izu-Oshima, November, Izu-oshima.
(in Japanese)
Terada, K. and Suzuki, T. 2007．Examination of the method of the tephra correlation using chemicalcompositions of hornblende. Programme and abstracts, Japan Association for the Quaternary
Research, 37: 118-119, August, Kobe. (in Japanese)Kaji, T. Yamazaki, H. Tokuyama, H. Kato, Y. 2007. Topography and geology of the submarine
landslide deposit by sector collapse of Oshima-Oshima island in the northern part of Japan.
Abstracts of Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2007, Q139-001,(CD-ROM), May, Japan. (inJapanese with English Abstract)
Kaji, T. Shono, S. Nemoto, K. Yamazaki, H. 2007. Geological structure of the continental shelves in
the northern part of Suruga Bay. Abstracts of Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2007,

Q139-P009 (CD-ROM), May, Japan. ( in Japanese with English Abstract)
Kaji, T. Yamazaki, H. Tokuyama, H. Kato, Y. 2007. Topography and geology of the submarine
landslide deposits by sector collapse of Oshima-Oshima island in the northern part of Japan.
Abstracts of The Journal of the International Union for Quaternary Research Vol167-168, p199,
July, Australia.
Kaji, T. Yamazaki, H. Kato, Y. 2007. 2007. Comparison of the submarine landslide by the sector
collapse of Oshima-Oshima island in the northern part of Japan with the submarine landslide ofoff Kaimon volcano in the southern part of Japan.

Abstracts of AGU Fall Meeting 2007,

NG41B-0517, p19, December, USA.
Kaji, T. Yamazaki, H. Tokuyama, H. Kato, Y. 2007. Comparison of the submarine landslide off
Kaimon volcano with the debris avalanche off Oshima-Oshima island witch generated thetsunami in Japan. Abstracts of Ocean Sciences Meeting 2008,p ,March, USA.
Murata, M. and Suzuki, T. 2007. Re-examination on correlation of Early Pleistocene tephras in
Inubo Group at Byobugaura in Choshi Area, Northeast Japan. Abstracts of Japan Geoscience
Union 2007 Meeting, Q139-007 (CD-ROM), May, Chiba. (in Japanese with English Abstract)
Murata, M. and Suzuki, T. 2007．Study on tephras and geological structure of the early Quaternary
underground geology at the Suginami, Setagaya and Ota Wards, Tokyo Metropolitan, Central
Japan.

Proceedings of the 1st Annual Meeting of the Kanto Branch, Geological Society ofJapan, 54-57, June, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Yahata, K., Kamijo, T., Hatakeyama, H., and Yamazaki, H. 2007. Distribution of house-damage by
the Niigataken Chuetsu-oki Earthquake in Kashiwazaki City, Niigata Prefecture. Programmeand Abstracts of Japan Association for Quaternary Research 2007 Meeting. the separate volumeof 37: 20-21. (in Japanese)
Yahata, K., Kamijo, T., Hatakeyama, H., Nakamura, Y. and Yamazaki, H. 2007. Distribution andCause of House Damage Explained from the Topographical Standpoint by the Niigataken
Chuetsu-oki Earthquake in 2007 : Case Study of Kashiwazaki City, Niigata Prefecture. theAssociation of Japanese Geograprhers Fall Meeting 2007, October, Kumamoto.(in Japanese)Ueki, U. 2007.

Plio-Pleistocene history of the tachikawa fault, southwest Kanto Plain, central

Japan. Abstracts of Japan Geoscience Union 2007 Meeting, Q139-006 (CD-ROM), May,
Chiba. (in Japanese with English Abstract)
Ueki, U. 2007. Magnetostratigraphy of the Plio-Pleistocene in the western margin hills of Kanto
Plain, central Japan. Abstracts of Japan Geoscience Union 2007 Meeting, Q139-P003(CD-ROM), May, Chiba. (in Japanese with English Abstract)
Ueki, U. 2007. Oulline of the geology of Ome District and post-Pliocene history of the Tachikawa
fault.

Proceedings of the 1st Annual Meeting of the Kanto Branch, Geological Society ofJapan, 58, June, Tokyo. (in Japanese)Ueki, U. 2007. Magnetostratigraphy of the Plio-Pleistocene Nakatsu Group, southwestern side of
the Kanto Plain, central Japan.

Programme and abstracts, Japan Association for the

Quaternary Research, 37: 66-67, August, Kobe. (in Japanese)
Shirai, M. and Omura, A. 2007. Genesis of turbidite in surface deposit from the Kumano Trough, off
the Kii Peninsula. Abstracts of Japan Geoscience Union 2007 Meeting, G120-004 (CD-ROM),
May, Chiba. (in Japanese with English Abstract)
Ikehara, K., Ashi, J., Irino, T. and Shirai, M. 2007. Correlation and recurrence intervals of turbidite
deposition in the Ryuyo Submarine Canyon, off Tokai, Japan．Abstracts of Japan Geoscience
Union 2007 Meeting, G120-P003 (CD-ROM), May, Chiba. (in Japanese with English Abstract)
Shirai, M. and Omura, A. 2007. Sand grains transport from river to deep marine revealed by OSL
measurement technique. Quaternary International, 167/168 (supplement): 381, August, Cairns.
Shirai, M., Liu, H., Tajima, Y. and Sato, S. 2007. Sand grains transport around river mouth revealed
by OSL measurement technique. Quaternary International, 167/168 (supplement): 381, August,Cairns.
Shirai, M., Liu, H., Takagawa, T., Tajima, Y. and Sato, S. 2007. Movement of sand grains around theTenryu River–mouth based on bleaching percentage distribution．
Abstracts for the 114th Annual
Meeting: p. 209. September, Sapporo. (in Japanese)
Shirai, M 2008．Another possibility of OSL: Sand grain movement in present deposits. Advancesin ESR Applications, 24：p. 35, March, Nara. (in Japanese)
Tamura, I., Takagi, H. and Yamazaki, H. 2007. Garnet-bearing tephra layer Na-G in the InubouGroup, Choshi area, Chiba Prefecture, central Japan. Abstracts of Japan Geoscience Union 2007
Meeting, Q139-P05 (CD-ROM), May, Chiba. (in Japanese with English Abstract)
Tamura, I., Yamazaki, H. and Mizuno, K. 2007. The stratigraphy and age of Inubou Group in the
Choshi district Chiba Pref. in Japan. Abstracts of Japan Association for Quaternary Research2007 Meeting, p.38-39, August, Kobe. (in Japanese)
Tamura, I., Takagi, H. and Yamazaki, H. 2007. The correlation of Pliocene garnet tephras in thesouthen Kanto area and the volcanic activity in the Tanzawa area at about 2.5Ma. Abstracts ofGeological Society of Japan 2007 Meeting, p.73, September, Sapporo. (in Japanese)
Mizuno, K. and Tamura, I. 2007. Key tephras in the Upper Pliocene to Lower Pleistocene sedimentsof Kanto Plain, with reference to identification of vitric tephras erupted from the
Chubu-Sangaku areas. Abstracts of Kanto branch office of Geological Society of Japan 2007
Meeting, p.52-53 June, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Oishi, M. 2007. Volcanic history of northern area of Yatsugatake Volcano based on thetephrochronology. Proceedings of the 1st annual meeting of the Kanto Branch, GeologicalSociety of Japan “Geology in the Kanto District”, 14-17, June, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Oishi, M. 2007. Reexamination of distribution, stratigraphy, and eruptive style of the products inpumice flow stage from Asama Volcano, central Japan. Programme and Abstracts, Japan
Association for Quaternary Research, 114-115, August, Kobe. (in Japanese)
Toshida, K., Tajima, Y., and Oishi, M. 2007. Correlation between Changes in Long Term Eruption
Rate and Edifice Collapse, Magma Temperature, and Magma Geochemistry. Abstracts Volume,
Cities on Volcanoes 5 Conference, p.126, November, Shimabara.

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Laboratory of Climatology

1) Staff
Takehiko MIKAMI

Professor / PhD(D.Sc.)

Urban climatology, Climatic variation

Jun MATSUMOTO

Professor / D. Sc

Monsoon climatology

Hideo TAKAHASHI

Professor / PhD (D.Sc.)

Urban climatology

Tomoko NAKANOAssistant Professor / PhD (D.Sc.)

Land-atmosphere interaction, Carbon cycle, Biogeoscience2) Overview of Research Activities
Our studies cover various scales of climate from urban to global phenomena, aiming at
understanding their climatic processes and mechanisms. We use a wide variety of techniques such as
field observation, data collection in historical climate, and statistical analysis of global scale dataset.
Our research topics are as follows:* Urban climate (observation and analysis for heat island and cool island)* Climate change (historical and observational period)* Compiling database for paleoclimatic record measured by meteorological instruments* Seasonal march of Asian Monsoon and its variation* Climatological studies by using remote-sensing data
* Carbon dioxide exchanges between grassland and the atmosphere in a semiarid region* Heat and water budget in a semiarid ecosystem

3) List of Research Activities in 2006
Peer-reviewed Articles
Malmgren,B.A., Hullugalla,R., Lindeberg,G. Inoue,Y., Hayashi,Y. and Mikami,T. 2007.

Oscillatory

behavior of monsoon rainfall over Sri Lanka during the late 19th and 20th centuries and its
relationships to SSTs in the Indian Ocean and ENSO. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 89:
115-125.

Inoue T. and Matsumoto, J. 2007. Abrupt climate changes observed in late August over central Japanbetween 1983 and 1984. Journal of Climate 20: 4957-4967.
He, J.-H., Sun, C.-H., Liu, Y.-Y., Matsumoto, J. and Li, W.-J. 2007. Seasonal Transition Features ofLarge-Scale Moisture Transport in the Asian-Australian Monsoon Region. Advances in
Atmospheric Sciences 24: 1-14.
Murata, F., Hayashi, T., Matsumoto, J. and Asada, H. 2007. Rainfall on the Meghalaya plateau innortheastern India ‒ one of the rainiest places in the world. Natural Hazards 42: 391-399.
Murata, F., Terao, T., Hayashi. T., Asada, H. and Matsumoto, J. 2008. Relationship between
atmospheric conditions at Dhaka, Bangladesh, and rainfall at Cherrapunjee, India. Natural
Hazards 44: 399-410.
Yokoi, S., Satomura, T. and Matsumoto，J. 2007. Climatological characteristics of the intraseasonalvariation of precipitation over the Indochina Peninsula. Journal of Climate 20: 5301-5315.
Wu, P., Hara, M., Fudeyasu, H., Yamanaka, M. D., Matsumoto, J., Syamsudin, F., Sulistyowati, R.
and Yusuf S. Djajadihardja, Y.S. 2007. The impact of trans-equatorial monsoon flow on theformation of repeated torrential rains over Java Island. SOLA 3: 93-96.
Endo, N., Matsumoto, J., Yamamoto, N., Fukushima, A. and Akasaka, I. 2007. Recent changes ofprecipitation amount and its characteristics in the world. Journal of Geography 116: 824-825.
(in Japanese with English Abstract)
Suzuki, H., Nakakita, E. and Takahashi, H. 2008. Spatial representativeness of rainfall: Analysis
using data observed at railway stations and meteorological stations. Annual Journal of
Hydraulic Engineering 52: 187-192. (in Japanese with English abstract)
Nakano, T., Nemoto, M. and Shinoda, M. 2007. Measurements of nighttime water vapor flux using aclosed chamber technique. Journal of Agricultural Meteorology 63: 103-107. (in Japanese withEnglish abstract)
Zaiki, M. and Tsukahara, T. 2008. Meteorology on the Southern Frontier of Japan’s Empire:
Ogasawara Kazuo at Taihoku Imperial University. East Asian Science, Technology and Society:
An International Journal doi: 10.1007/s12280-007-9010-9.
Grossman, M. and Zaiki, M. 2007. Reconstructing typhoon landfalls in Japan using historical
documents: 1801-1830. Papers of the applied geography conference 30: 334-343.
Akasaka I., Morishima W. and Mikami T. 2007. Seasonal march and its spatial difference of rainfall
in the Philippines. International Journal of Climatology 27: 715-725.
Hirano, J. and Mikami, T. 2007. Reconstruction of winter climate variations during the 19th century
in Japan. International Journal of Climatology DOI: 10.1002/joc.1632.

Other articles
Mikami,T. 2007. Urban heat island phenomenain Tokyo Metropolitan Area. In Proceedings of 17th

Convention of the International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological
Sciences. 75-78. Tokyo.
Mikami,T. 2007. Urban heat island phenomena in Tokyo. In Proceedings of the International
Symposium on Sustainable Urban Environment 2007, 22-26. Tokyo: TMU.
Matsumoto, J. and Yamamoto, N. 2007. Characteristics of recent precipitation in the world. Tenki(Weather), 54, 612-616 (in Japanese)
Matsumoto, J. 2007. Meteorological disasters in the world. Urushibara, K., Fujizuka, Y., Matsuyama,
H. and Ohnishi, H. ed. Regional Issues in the World. Nakanishiya-Shuppan 10-11. (in Japanese)
Takahashi, H. 2007. Methods of investigating India from the viewpoint of the monsoon. Yagasaki, N.
and Tsubaki, M. ed. Methods of investigating various countries of the world. Kokon-Shoin
58-63. (in Japanese)
Nakano, T. 2008. Meteorological observations at Tokyo Metropolitan University since 2001.
Geographical Reports of Tokyo Metropolitan University 43: 131-136.
Zaiki M., Jones P.D. and Tsukahara T. 2008. The nineteenth century 1841-1883 temperature records
in Beijing, China. Geographical Reports of Tokyo Metropolitan University 43: 69-76.
Nagata, R. and Zaiki, M. 2008. Trends in total and daily precipitation indices in Japan from 1901 to
2000. Geographical Reports of Tokyo Metropolitan University 43: 11-16.
Morishima, W. and Akasaka, I. 2008. Dependence of rice production on the interannual variation of
rainfall in the Philippines. Geographical Reports of Tokyo Metropolitan University 43:
107-114.
Akasaka I., Morishima W. and Mikami T. 2007. Seasonal march of rainfall and its interannual
variation in the Philippines. Extended Proceedings of IGU commission on climatology session
Brisbane 2006 (CD-ROM).

Books
Ueno, K. and Takahashi, H. 2007. Methods of investigating various regions of Japan. Kokon-Shoin
150p. (in Japanese)
Takahashi, H. and Koizumi, T. 2008. Introduction to physical geography. Asakura Publishing Co.,
Ltd. 170p. (in Japanese)

Reports
Matsumoto, J. 2008. Development of Rainfall observation System in Southeast Asia. Research
Report FY2007, University of Tokyo, MEXT, 112p. (in Japanese)
Takahashi, H. and Suzuki, H. 2008. Researches on the spatial representativeness of observed value atrain gauge and the concentration structure of intense rainfall. 2007 Joint research report ofTokyo Metropolitan University and Research & Development Center of JR East Group 50p. (inJapanese)
Nakano, T. 2007. Observation of carbon dioxide flux and vapor flux. Report for Grant-Aid for
Scientific research (B) 2004-2006, Experimental study on self-remediation to drought event in
Mongolian grassland, 42-48. (in Japanese)
Zaiki, M., Oguchi, T., Kagawa, Y., Takahashi, A., Koike, S. and Yamauchi, M. 2007. Relationships
between distribution of Japanese residential areas and Topography. Report for Grant-Aid for
Scientific research (B) 2004-2006, GIS analysis of interaction between residential area andnatural environment, 7-19. (in Japanese)
Zaiki, M., Oguchi, T., Koike, S. Yamauchi, M. and Esaki, Y. 2007. Time series analysis ofrelationship between population growth and topography -based on municipal datasets from1920 to 2000-. Report for Grant-Aid for Scientific research (B) 2004-2006, GIS analysis ofinteraction between residential area and natural environment, 21-24. (in Japanese)
Zaiki, M., Oguchi, T., Lin, Z., Jarvie, H. and Neal, C. 2007. Statistical and GIS analyses of riverwater quality data across the Humber catchment, UK. Report for Grant-Aid for Scientificresearch (B) 2004-2006, GIS analysis of interaction between residential area and naturalenvironment, 161-168. (in Japanese)
Kagawa, Y., Oguchi, T., Zaiki, M., Koike, S., Yamauchi, M. and Esaki, Y. 2007. The analysis of the
distribution about passengers getting on and off at the stations in the Tokyo and Keihanshin
Metropolitan Area. Report for Grant-Aid for Scientific research (B) 2004-2006, GIS analysis ofinteraction between residential area and natural environment, 121-138. (in Japanese)

Miscellaneous reports
Matumoto, J. 2007. Evolution of the global environment and climatic changes (A report on the
Symposium at the 2005 Spring Assembly of the Meteorological Society of Japan). Tenki(Weather), 54, 407-408．(in Japanese)
Maruyama, S., Eguchi, T., Kasahara, J., Geshi, N., Matsumoto, J., Matsuyama, H. and Yamakawa,S.
2007．Preface for the Special Issue on “Water; from the Earthʼs Core to Planetary Space”,
Journal of Geography, 116, 1-6. (in Japanese)
Zaiki, M. 2007. A report on an International Conference Celebrating 75 years of International
Council for Science “Global Scientific Challenges: Perspectives from Young Scientists”.
Movement of Academic Research, September issue: 65-68.

Presentations
Murata, F., Terao, T., Hayashi, T., Asada, H. and Matsumoto, J. 2007. Rainfall processes at
Cherrapunjee (The 3rd Report). Abstracts of the 2007 Spring Assembly of the MeteorologicalSociety of Japan, p.196, May, Tokyo. (in Japanese)Mori, S., Hamada, J., Sakurai, N., Fudeyasu, H., Sasaki, T., Wu, P., Ichiyanagi, K., Kawashima, M.,
Fujiyoshi, Y., Hashiguchi, H., Fadli Syamsudin, Emrizal, Matsumoto, J. and Yamanaka, M.D.
2007. Brief report on the HARIMAU2006 Intensive Observations in Sumatera, Indonesia.
Abstracts of the 2007 Spring Assembly of the Meteorological Society of Japan, p.223, May,Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Hamada, J., Mori, S., Wu, P., Sakurai, N., Fudeyasu, H., Sasaki, T., Matsumoto, J., Yamanaka, M.D. ,Emrizal, Fadli Syamsudin 2007. Convective activity of HARIMAU2006 Intensive
Observations in coastal region of Sumatera. Abstracts of the 2007 Spring Assembly of the
Meteorological Society of Japan, p.353, May, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Yokoi, S. and Matsumoto, J. 2007. Cold surges in the developing season of Northeast monsoon.
Abstracts of the 2007 Spring Assembly of the Meteorological Society of Japan, p.354, May,Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Fudeyasu, H., Ichiyanagi, K., Sakurai, N., Mori, S., Hamada, J., Sasaki, T., Wu, P., Yamanaka, M.D.,
Matsumoto, J., Emrizal, Fadli Syamsudin 2007. Relationship between rainfall system andisotope observed in the HARIMAU2006 Intensive Observations. Abstracts of the 2007 Spring
Assembly of the Meteorological Society of Japan, p.223, May, Tokyo. (in Japanese)Endo, N., Ohnmar Htway, Inoue, T., Matumoto, J. and Tun Lwin 2007. Long-term changes ofprecipitation characteristics in Southeast Asia, Abstracts of the 2007 Spring Assembly of the
Meteorological Society of Japan, p.356, May, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Matsumoto, J., Satomura, T., Higuchi, A., Kanae, S. and Yokoi, S. 2007. MAHASRI-Monsoon
Asian Hydro-Atmosphere Scientific Research and Prediction Initiative- Abstracts of Japan
Geoscience Union 2007 Meeting, F208-001 (CD-ROM), May, Chiba. (in Japanese with English
Abstract)
Yokoi, S. and Matsumoto, J. 2007. Cold surge in developing phase of northeasterly Asian monsoon
and their relationship with heavy rainfall in central Vietnam. Abstracts of Japan Geoscience
Union 2007 Meeting, J244-P012 (CD-ROM), May, Chiba. (in Japanese with English Abstract)
Matsumoto, J., Satomura, T., Wu, P.-M., Mori, S., Hamada, J., Sakurai, N., Yamanaka, M.D.,
Higuchi, A., Kanae, S., Yokoi, S. and Oki, T. 2007. MAHASRI. International Symposium on
Global Change, Asian Monsoon and Extreme weather and Climate, p.24, June, Taipei, Taiwan.
Matsumoto, J., Satomura, T., Wu,P.-M., Mori, S., Hamada, J., Sakurai, N., Yamanaka, M.D.,
Higuchi, A., Kanae, S., Yokoi, S. and Oki, T. 2007. MAHASRI and AMY’08. The 21st Pacific
Science Congress, p.197, June, Okinawa, Japan.
Endo,N., Ohnmar Htway, Inoue, T., Matsumoto,J. and Tun Lwin 2007. Interannual Variations inPrecipitation Characteristics in Southeast Asia. The 21st Pacific Science Congress, P.194, June,
Okinawa, Japan.
Yokoi, S., Satomura, T. and Matsumoto, J. 2007: Regionality in characteristics of intraseasonalvariations over the Indochina Peninsula. The 27th General Assembly International Union of
Geodesy and Geophysics, Perugia, July, Perugia, Italy.
Satomura, T., Matsumoto, J., Mori, S., Wu, P., Hamada, J., Sakurai, N., Yamanaka, M. D., Higuchi,A., Kanae, S., Yokoi, S. and Oki, T. 2007: MAHASRI the new international Asian monsoon
research project. The 27th General Assembly International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics,
Perugia, July, Perugia, Italy.
Terao, T. and Matsumoto, J. 2007: MAHASRI & AMY08 Programmes. Celebrating the Monsoon–An International Monsoon Conference, July, Bangalore, India.
Matsumoto, J. 2007. MAHASRI and AMY’08. The 4th Asian Oceania Geosciences Society Annual
Meeting, AS07-HS20-A0034 (CD-ROM), August, Bangkok, Thailand.
Yokoi, S. and Matsumoto, J. 2007: Cold surge in developing phase of northeasterly Asian monsoon
and their relationship with heavy rainfall in central Vietnam. The 4th Asian Oceania
Geosciences Society Annual Meeting, AS07-HS20-A0032 (CD-ROM), August, Bangkok,
Thailand.
Oki, T., Komori, D., Kanae, S., Satomura, T. and Matsumoto, J. 2007: New challenges in thehydrometeorological studies in the Indochina Peninsula. The 4th Asian Oceania Geosciences
Society Annual Meeting, AS07-HS20-A0029 (CD-ROM), August, Bangkok, Thailand.
Matsumoto, J. 2007: MAHASRI and AMY’08. International Workshop on Semi-arid Land
Surface-Atmosphere Interaction, August, Lanzhou, China.
Matsumoto, J., Endo, N., Ailikun, B., Yasunari, T., Ohnmar Htway, Inoue, T., Tun Lwin and Kadota,
T. 2007: Changes of precipitation characteristics in East and Southeast Asia from 1961 to 2000.
International Workshop on Semi-arid Land Surface-Atmosphere Interaction, August, Lanzhou,
China.
Matsumoto, J. and Wang, B. 2007. AMY08 Science and Implementation plan. The Second AMY08
Workshop, September, Bali, Indonesia.
Matsumoto, J. 2007. GEWEX/MAHASRI. The Second AMY08 Workshop, Bali, Indonesia.
Ohnmar Htway・Matsumoto, J. and Takahashi M. 2007. Interannual variations of summer monsson
onset over Myanmar. Abstracts of the 2007 Fall Assembly of the Meteorological Society ofJapan, p.48, October, Sapporo.
Matsumoto, J. 2007: MAHASRI/AMY. International Implementation Workshop of the East Asian
Monsoon Field Experiment, Chung-Li, Taiwan.
Yokoi, S. and Matsumoto, J. 2007．Synoptic features of heavy rainfalls in the east coastofIndochina.
Abstracts of the 2007 Fall Assembly of the Meteorological Society of Japan, p.356, October,
Sapporo.(in Japanese)Wu, P., Hara, M., Fudeyasu, H., Yamanaka, M.D., Matumosto, J., Fadli Syamsudin, Reni
Sulistyowate, Yusuf S. and Djajadihardja 2007 ．Heavy rainfall in Jakartha induced bycross-equatorial Asian winter monsoon. Abstracts of the 2007 Fall Assembly of the
Meteorological Society of Japan, p.51, October, Sapporo.(in Japanese)Mori, S., Hamada, J., Sakurai, N., Fudeyasu, H., Wu, P., Ichiyanagi, K., Kawashima, M., Fujiyoshi,
Y., Hashiguchi, H., Fadli Syamsudin, Emrizal, Matsumoto, J. and Yamanaka, M.D. 2007．
Diurnal movement of convective system in Sumatera Island and its re-development over theocean –Results from HARIMAU2006 Intensive Observation-. Abstracts of the 2007 Fall
Assembly of the Meteorological Society of Japan, p.122, October, Sapporo.(in Japanese)
Sakurai, N., Mori, S., Kawashima, M., Fujiyoshi, Y., Ooi, M., Hashiguchi, H., Fadli Syamsudin,
Emrizal, Yamanaka, M.D. and Matsumoto, J. 2007． Results of HARIMAU2007 Intensive
Observation in Sumatera, Indonesia. Abstracts of the 2007 Fall Assembly of the MeteorologicalSociety of Japan, p.123, October, Sapporo.(in Japanese)
Fujibe, F., Matsumoto, J. and Kobayashi, K. 2007. Digitization of the daily precipitation data
observed at the climatological stations and its application on the analysis of long-term
precipitation variability. Abstracts of the 2007 Fall Assembly of the Meteorological Society ofJapan, p.344, October, Sapporo (in Japanese)
Hamada, J., Mori, S., Sakurai, N., Yamanaka, M.D. and Matsumoto, J. 2007. Relationship between
diurnal cycle and intraseasonal variations based on rainfall observations in Sumatera Island andits surrounding region. Abstracts of the 2007 Fall Assembly of the Meteorological Society ofJapan, p.487, October, Sapporo.(in Japanese)
Yokoi, S. and Matsumoto, J. 2007. A heavy rainfall event in central Vietnam and collaboration effectof a cold surge and tropical intraseasonal variability. The Third China-Korea -Japan Joint
Conference on Meteorology, p.182, November, Beijing, China.
Wu, P., Yamanaka, M. D. and Matsumoto, J. 2007. The formation of nocturnal rainfall offshore fromconvection over western Kalimantan (Borneo) Island. The Third China-Korea-Japan Joint
Conference on Meteorology, p.125, November, Beijing, China.
Wu, P., Hara, M., Fudeyasu, H., Yamanaka, M. D. and Matsumoto, J., Fadli Syamsudin, Reni
Sulistyowati and Yusuf S. Djajadihardja 2007. The Impact of trans-equatorial Monsoon Flowon the Formation of Repeated Torrential Rains over Java Island. The Third China-Korea -Japan
Joint Conference on Meteorology, p.201, November, Beijing, China.
Matsumoto, J. 2007. MAHASRI and AMY. Extended abstracts of the Japan-Taiwan Joint Workshop
for the EAMEX and MAHASRI, p.1-2, Hakone, Japan.
Wu, P., Yamanaka, M. D. and Matsumoto, J. 2007. The formation of nocturnal rainfall offshore fromconvection over western Kalimantan Island. Extended abstracts of the Japan-Taiwan Joint
Workshop for the EAMEX and MAHASRI, p.21-22, December, Hakone, Japan.
Yokoi, S. and Matsumoto, J. 2007. Large-scale conditions associated with heavy rainfalls in central
Vietnam. The International Symposium for the East Asian Monsoon Experiment andMAHASRI, p.37-38, December, Hakone, Japan.
Ohnmar Htway・Matsumoto, J. and Takahashi M. 2007. The controlling factor of the interannual
variations of summer monsoon onset over Myanmar. The 6th International Symposium on
Asian Monsoon System (ISAM6), p.35, December, Fukuoka, Japan.
Yokoi, S. and Matsumoto, J. 2007. Heavy rainfalls in central Vietnam and cold surges from China.
The 6th International Symposium on Asian Monsoon System (ISAM6), p.64, December,
Fukuoka, Japan.
Wu, P., Hamada, J.-I., Yamanaka, M. D., Matsumoto, J. and Hara, M. 2007. Why Rainfall Rarely
Occurs over Southeast Kalimantan (Borneo) Island in the Late Afternoon and Evening. The 6thInternational Symposium on Asian Monsoon System (ISAM6), p.70, December. Fukuoka,
Japan.
Ogino, S.-Y., Nodzu, M. I., Ha, H. T., Fujiwara, M., Satomura, T., Matsumoto, J. and Thanh, N.,
2007: Temperature inversion layers and related thermal budget over Hanoi, Vietnam. The 6thInternational Symposium on Asian Monsoon System (ISAM6), p.65, December, Fukuoka,
Japan.
Matsumoto, J. 2007. MAHASRI and AMY. National Workshop on MAHASRI, December, Goura．
Matsumoto, J., Asada, H. and Hayashi, T. 2008. Flood and storm surge disasters in Bangladesh.
Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, p.17, March,
Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Takahashi, H. 2007. Urban climate and geometric structure of urban surface: Toward the evaluationof urban flood occurrence and heat island phenomenon. Tokyo Metropolitan University
research seeds symposium 2007. September, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Nakano, T. 2007. Carbon dioxide flux and its controlling factors in a semi-arid grassland ofMongolia. Abstracts of Japan Geoscience Union 2007 Meeting, J244-P012 (CD-ROM), May,
Chiba. (in Japanese with English Abstract)
Nakano, T. and Nemoto, M. 2007. Comparison of methods to measure nighttime water vapor flux.
Abstracts of Joint Conference on Environmental Engineering in Agriculture 2007, P95(CD-ROM), September, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Nakano, T. 2007. Perspective on estimation of net plant production in semi-arid grassland. The
Japan-Mongolia Joint Workshop on the Mongolian Grasslands and Mobile Pastoralism,
September, Tokyo.
Nakano, T., Nemoto, M. and Shinoda, M. 2007. Environmental controls on photosyntheticalproduction in a semi-arid grassland. Abstracts of Meteorological Society of Japan 2007 Fall
Meeting, p.313. October, Sapporo. (in Japanese)
Nakano, T., Nemoto, M. and Shinoda, M. 2008. Soil moisture and ecosystem respiration in semi-arid
grasslands of Mongolia. Abstracts of Soil Moisture Workshop 2008, p.9.1-9.4, March, Tokyo.

(in Japanese with English abstract)
Grossman, M., Zaiki, M. and Johnson, R. 2007. Annual maximum floods and typhoons in the Kanto,
Kyushu, and Hokkaido regions of Japan (1960 - 2002). The Association of American
Geographers 2007 Annual Meeting Program, p.384, April, San Francisco.
Tsukahara, T. and Zaiki, M. 2007. Meteorological data by von Siebold and its implications for ananalysis of Global Warming. Siebold Collection Conference II July 2007. July, Leiden.
Grossman, M. and Zaiki, M. 2007. Reconstructing typhoon landfalls in Japan from historical
documentary records, 1801-1830. Papers of the applied geography conference no.30, p.334-343,
October, Indianapolis.
Tsukahara, T., Zaiki, M., Nakagami, K. and Osawa, M. 2007. Pompe's works related to science onearth and environment: mineral collection, weather observation, bathing at beach and drinking
milk. International Historical Conference: 150th Anniversary of the Beginning of Modern
Western-Style Medical Education in Japan. November, Nagasaki.
Zaiki, M., Tsukahara T., Können, G.P. and Mikami, T. 2007. Reconstruction of the pressure patternover Japan using two-point pressure/temperature datasets. American Geophysical Union Fall
Meeting 2007 PP11A-0213 (CD-ROM), December, San Francisco.
Zaiki, M., Jarvie, H.P., Lin, Z., Oguchi, T. and Neal, C. 2007. Statistical and GIS analysis of riverwater quality data across the Humber catchment, UK. Abstracts of Japan Geoscience Union
2007 Meeting, Z170-P010 (CD-ROM), May, Chiba. (in Japanese with English Abstract)
Oguchi, T., Zaiki, M., Hataya, M., Lin, Z. and Jarvie, H.P. 2007. Comparison of spatial distributionsof riverine suspended sediment concentration under high- and low-flow conditions. Abstracts ofJapan Geoscience Union 2007 Meeting, Z164-P005 (CD-ROM), May, Chiba. (in Japanese withEnglish Abstract)
Grossman, M., Zaiki, M. and Oguchi, T. 2007. Annual maximum floods and typhoons in the Kantoand Hokkaido regions of Japan in the 20th Century. Abstracts of the Study Meeting of the
Association of Japanese Geographers Autumn 2007 p.129, October, Kumamoto.
Zaiki, M., Jarvie, H.P., Lin, Z. and Oguchi, T. 2007. Statistical and spatial analysis of river water
quality data across the Humber catchment, UK. Center for Spatial Information Science theUniversity of Tokyo, the session of inter-university research activities in Japan, research
abstracts on spatial information science p.16, November, Kashiwa. (in Japanese)
Osawa, M., Tsukahara, T. and Zaiki, M. 2007. Pompe’s works related to earth science: his Japanesemineral collection. The Society for the History of Western Learning in Japan 2007 Fall Meeting.
November, Nagasaki. (in Japanese)
Zaiki, M., Jones, P., Tsukahara, T. and Mikami, T. 2008. The 19th century 1841-1883 meteorologicalrecords in Beijing, China. Abstracts of the Study Meeting of the Association of Japanese
Geographers Spring 2008 p.143, March, Soka. (in Japanese)Zaiki, M., Ohba, T., Hirano, J. and Morishima, W. 2008. Climate reconstruction based on diary
weather records of Kawanishi, Yamagata Prefecture for 1830-1980. Abstracts of the Study
Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers Spring 2008 p.244, March, Soka. (inJapanese)
Tanaka, H., Seto, Y. Mikami, T. and Matayoshi, N. 2007. The third report of the impact statement
which the building group in the Shiodome area gives to the downwind area of the sea breeze–From a result of the synchronization observation by pilot balloon, helicopter and doppler
lidar–. Abstracts of Meteorological Society of Japan 2007 Spring Meeting, p.258. May, Tokyo.
(in Japanese)
Akasaka, I., Morishima, W. and Mikami, T. 2007. Change in seasonal cycle of rainfall in thePhilippines: A case study during the autumn-winter 1998-2000. Abstracts of MeteorologicalSociety of Japan 2007 Spring Meeting, p.279. May, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Akasaka, I., Morishima, W. and Mikami, T. 2007. Interannual variation on seasonal march of rainfall
in the Philippines. Asia Oceania Geoscience Society-Annual meeting 4th (CD-ROM). July,
Bangkok, Thai land.
Akasaka, I., Morishima, W. and Mikami, T. 2007. Characteristics of the atmospheric circulation
associated with onset of summer rainy season in the Philippines. Abstract of the Association ofJapanese Geographers 2007 Fall Meeting, p.100, October, Kumamoto. (in Japanese)
Akasaka, I., Morishima, W. and Mikami, T. 2008. Characteristics of the atmospheric circulation andsea surface temperature patterns associated with onset of summer rainy season in thePhilippines. Abstract of the Association of Japanese Geographers 2008 Spring Meeting, p.125.
March, Saitama. (in Japanese)
Fukushima, A., Takahashi, H. and Matsumoto, J. 2007. Interannual variations of pre-monsoon
season precipitation in Nepal and characteristics of large-scale circulation. Abstracts of the 2007
Spring Assembly of the Meteorological Society of Japan, p.197, May, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Fukushima, A. and Takahashi, H. 2007. The influence of circulation change from pre-monsoon to
monsoon season upon the rainfall phenomena in Nepal. AOGS, Thailand, August, 2007.
Okubo, S. and Mikami, T. 2007. Long-term trend in SPM concentration and its spatial distribution
and in the Kanto region. Abstracts of Meteorological Society of Japan 2007 Spring Meeting,p.251. March, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Okubo, S. and Mikami, T. 2007. Long-term trend in SPM spatial distribution in the Kanto region.
Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of Japan Society for Atmospheric Environment, p.319.
September, Okayama. (in Japanese)
Takahashi, K. and Mikami, T. 2007. Temperature distribution and behavior of land and sea breeze insummer in Tokyo ward area. Abstracts of Meteorological Society of Japan 2007 Spring Meeting,p.165. May, Tokyo. (in Japanese)Oka, A., Mikami, T., Izumi, T., Shimizu, S., Narita, K. 2008. The evaluation for the cool air flowing
out and influencing to built-up area from the Imperial Garden green space. Research Group
Meeting for Urban Climatic Environment at Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese
Geographers 2008 spring Meeting, March, Soka.

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Laboratory of Environmental Geography

1) Staff
Shuichi OKA

Associate Professor / D.Sci.

Vegetation Geography, Landscape Ecology

Shuichi OYAMA

Assistant Professor / PhD (D. Human and Environment)

Area Study(Africa, South America), Environmental Geography, Ecological Anthropology2) Overview of Research Activities
Our laboratory focuses on the relations between human and natural environment. Especially weattach great importance on the structure and its changes of the relationships in the local and global
scales. Therefore we are trying to apply inter-disciplinary approach flexibly, with not only physicaland human geography but also other environmental sciences, such as botanical science, forest
ecology, zoology, soil science, landscape design, political ecology, folklore, anthropology and so on.
Research methods are primarily based on fieldwork, including weather observation, land survey,
interview survey and participatory research as well as analysis of aerial photos and satellite images.
Study fields are all over the world, especially Japan, Asia, Africa and America. We are engaged inlong-term fieldwork on (1) environmental changes and human responses in Africa, (2) cultural
ecology of slash-and-burn cultivators in Africa, (3) domestication process of livestock and crops, and(4) vegetation and climatic landscape in north and south America and Siberia.
Recent themes are as follows;

1) Interrelation between environmental change and human response in savanna area of Africa
2) Process of land degradation in environment3) Coral reef formation and interrelation between coral and reef topography4) Geo-ecological research on landscape and the change in alpine and sub-alpine
5) Hydro-climatic environment based on the water balance in the Bonin Islands, Japan
6) Climatic landscape in view of vegetation and land use7) Cultural geography of slash-and-burn cultivators and development of cultivation system inmiombo woodland zone of Africa
8) Applied ecological study to combat desertification in Sahel zone, Africa.
9) Domestication of Camelidae animals and Solanum crops in Andes, South America

3) List of Research Activities in 2006

Peer-reviewed Articles
Kobashi, S., Fujii, N. and Oka, S. 2007. A review of the studies on geographical variation in Fagus
crenata and the future prospects. Bulletin of Botanical Society of Nagano, 40, 207-213. (inJapanese)
Oyama, S. 2007. Combating desertification of rural areas and improving the sanitary conditions ofurban areas by applying indigenous ecological knowledge of Hausa cultivators in southern NigerContributing to Human Security based on field research. Journal of African Studies 71, 85-99. (inJapanese with English Abstract)

Other Articles
Oka, S., Oyama, S., Tsuchiya, T. and Yakabe, Y. 2007. Laboratory of Environmental Geography:
focusing on the multiphasic relation between human and physical environment. Proceedings ofthe International Symposium on Sustainable Urban Environment 2007, 112.
Oka, S. 2007. Change of forest zone on the southern slope of Mt. Fuji based on a view of the old
trail of Murayama. Abstract of the 9th Mt. Fuji Seminar, 15. (in Japanese)
Oka, S., Shirakawa, A. and Kanno, H. 2008. Why is larch scrub community kept around Oniwa on
the northern slope of Mount Fuji? Proceedings of the General Meeting f the Association ofJapanese Geographers, 73, 199. (in Japanese)
Oyama, S. 2007. The difference of crop production among households in Hausa village and thecontract for livestock settlement to the Fulani and Tuareg pastoral people in Niger. Abstract of the44th academic meeting of African Studies, 110. (in Japanese)
Oyama, S. 2007. Coping strategy and ecological knowledge of Hausa cultivators to land degradationin Sahel zone of West Africa. Proceedings of the General Meeting f the Association of Japanese
Geographers, 72, 148. (in Japanese)
Yakabe, Y. and Oka, S. 2008. The Pinus lutchuensis population dynamics and the physicalenvironments in the subtropical dry scrub on the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands.

Proceedings ofthe General Meeting f the Association of Japanese Geographers, 73, 240. (in Japanese)
Kawahira, N., 2008. Changes in the Middle Reaches of the Tenryu River Valley Area As Seen fromthe Land Use. T Proceedings of the General Meeting f the Association of Japanese Geographers,
73, 257. (in Japanese).
Tsuchiya, T. 2008. Interrelation of the water environment, the consciousness of the residents and theconservation activities for the river basin environment: a case study of Sakawa River in
Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. T Proceedings of the General Meeting f the Association of Japanese
Geographers, 73, 254. (in Japanese).

Reports

Oyama, S. 2008. Land reform in Republic of Zambia- Building civil society based on modern law
and social confusion of shifting cultivators. Kodama, Y. ed. Reports of Community Based
Organizations and Civil Society in Rural Africa. Institute of Developing Economics. 128-161.
Japan External Trade Organization. Tokyo. (in Japanese)

Miscellaneous reports
Oka, S. 2008. Short trip around the Yato valley in the Tama-hill. Chiri, 53(4), 86-93. (in Japanese)
Oyama, S. 2008. Book Reviews- African Farmers who live on possibilities written by S. Shimada.
Geographical Reviews of Japan 81(3): 128-130. (in Japanese)
Tsuchiya, T. 2008. The environmental conservation and the residents in the river basin: a case studyof Sakawa River, Japan. The reports of 14th meeting of citizens’ environmental activities in
Kanagawa Prefecture. 39-42. (in Japanese)
Oyama, S. 2007. Natural History of Life- Conservation of vicuña and rural development in Peruvian
Andes. Monthly Magazine of National Museum of Ethnology 30 (6): 20-21. (in Japanese)

Presentations
Oka, S. 2007. Ogasawara Islands-the so-called Galapagos in the Orient. Meguro City College in2007, World Islands-marine station, the evidences of nature and culture in island, Tokyo, April.
(in Japanese)
Oka, S. 2007. Understanding vegetation landscape and climatic landscape on the maps. Meguro City
College in 2007, Map and Scenery-search a dense relationship between map and scenery, Tokyo,
May. (in Japanese)
Oka, S. 2007. Search various climatic landscapes in map and field. Guidance of the excursion in
Meguro City College in 2007, Map and Scenery-search a dense relationship between map andscenery, Tokyo, June. (in Japanese)
Oka, S. 2007. Landscape of the drainage basin and the management of Satoyama-cases of the Yato
valley in the Tama-hill. Landscape Seminar in Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, June. (inJapanese)
Oka, S. 2007. How to understand the nature?-fundamental of understanding the environments. The
training course of support ranger, Open University of Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo,
August. (in Japanese)
Kikuchi, T., Oka, S., Suzuki, T. and Oyama, S. 2007. obserbation and consideration of nature ofmountain. Guidance of excursion in the training course of support ranger, Open University ofTokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, September. (in Japanese)
Kazmer, M., Sho, K., Oka, S., Sugimoto, O., Asami, R., Yamada, T., and Iryu, Y. 2007. Annual
record of environmental history in corals and tree-rings―a land-sea correlation at Ogasawara

Islands, Japan. The First Asian Dendrochronology Conference and Workshop, Thailand,
September.
Oka, S. and Kawahira, N. 2008. Change of forest use in the Hinode region, western part of Tokyo.
Forum to learn from the nature of Satoyama in Tama region, Tokyo, March. (in Japanese)
Oyama, S. 2007. The ecology of Andean indigenous Camelidae- Vicugna vicugna. 47th Academic
Meeting of Ecosophia (Ethno-Nature Sciences) “Rethinking Hunting and Pastoral Activities fromthe Andean Mountains.”. Kyoto, April. (in Japanese)
Oyama, S. 2007. The difference of crop production among households in Hausa village and thecontract for livestock settlement to the Fulani and Tuareg pastoral people in Niger. The 44th
academic meeting of African Studies, Nagasaki, May. (in Japanese)
Oyama, S. 2007. African nature, land, history and ethnic culture. Meguro City College in 2007, Map
and Scenery-search a dense relationship between map and scenery, Tokyo, June. (in Japanese)
Oyama, S. 2007. Coping strategy and ecological knowledge of Hausa cultivators to land degradationin Sahel zone of West Africa. The General Meeting f the Association of Japanese Geographers in2007 Autumn, Kumamoto, October. (in Japanese)
Oyama, S. 2007. Co-evolution of Camelidae animals and potato in Andean mountains. 1st Academic
Meeting of Nature and Society Research group. he General Meeting of the Association ofJapanese Geographers in 2007 Autumn, Kumamoto, October. (in Japanese)
Oyama, S. 2007. The desertification problems in Niger of West Africa and indigenous technologies
of Hausa cultivators for improving the soil conditions. The 727th Academic Meeting of Social
Anthropology, Tokyo Metropolitan University. Hachioji, November. (in Japanese)
Oyama, S. 2007. Land enclosure and social changes of shifting cultivators in northern Zambia.
Research Project of Community Based Organizations and Civil Society in Rural Africa. Instituteof Developing Economics. Japan External Trade Organization. Tokyo, November. (in Japanese)
Oyama, S. 2008. The ecology of vicuña from the viewpoint of domestication. The 186th Academic
Meetings of Chubu Anthropology society Symposium “Multi-disciplinary Approach on Andean
Camelidae and people’s utilization”, Nagoya, March. (in Japanese)
Kawahira, N., 2008. Changes in the Middle Reaches of the Tenryu River Valley Area As Seen fromthe Land Use. Annual meeting 2008. The General Meeting of the Association of Japanese
Geograghers, Saitama, March.
Tsuchiya, T. 2008. The environmental conservation and the residents in the river basin: a case studyof Sakawa River, Japan. 14th meeting of citizens’ environmental

activities in Kanagawa

Prefecture, Yokohama. February. (in Japanese)
Tsuchiya, T. 2008. Interrelation of the water environment, the consciousness of the residents and theconservation activities for the river basin environment: a case study of Sakawa River, Japan. The
seminar of researches in Sagamihara City Museum, Sagamihara. March. (in Japanese)

Tsuchiya, T. 2008. Interrelation of the water environment, the consciousness of the residents and theconservation activities for the river basin environment: a case study of Sakawa River in
Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographersin 2008 Spring, Soka. March. (in Japanese)
Yakabe, Y. 2008. The Pinus lutchuensis population dynamics and the physical environments in thesubtropical dry scrub on the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands. The seminar of researches in
Sagamihara City Museum, Sagamihara. March. (in Japanese)Takishima, K. 2007. The altitudinal change of patch colony and establishment of Larix kaempferi ontree limit of northwest slope of Mt. Fuji. 9th Mt. Fuji Seminar
Yoshida, Y. 2008. Flood disturbance caused by the typhoon and plant communities in the sandbank
at Akigawa River, Japan. 56th Study Meeting for the Presentations of the Undergraduate Students,
Koganei, March.

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Laboratory of Geographical Information Sciences

1) Staff
Hiroshi MATSUYAMA

Associate Professor / PhD (D.Sc.)

Hydrometeorology, Geographical Information Sciences

Takeki IZUMIAssistant Professor / PhD (D.Eng.)

Urban Climatology, Geographical Information Sciences, Computational Meteorological Model

Daichi NAKAYAMA

Assistant Professor / PhD (D.Sc.)

Geographical Information Sciences, Remote Sensing, Computational Geomorphology2) Overview of Research Activities
This laboratory is going to study the natural environment as a whole which is composed ofgeomorphology, climate, hydrology, vegetation, and so on. Concretely, deductive approach andinductive approach are combined for conducting studies. The former approach is going to explain
results from causes by physical lows such as mass balance, energy balance, equation of motion, andso on. The latter approach is going to explain facts demonstratively based on field surveys and in situ
observations. Therefore, collection of quantitative data, digital mapping, statistical analyses andnumerical modeling are main methods used in this laboratory.
The main study themes in this laboratory are listed as follows.
・Energy and water cycle in the atmosphere and hydrosphere・Capturing snow distribution and snow water resources, along with snowmelt-runoff based on the
remote sensing techniques
・Quantitative evaluation of spectral reflectance characteristics of coniferous forests, along with thequantitative evaluation of their leaf area indices.
・Hydrological cycle around Mt. Aso and Tokyo Metropolis
・Numerical simulation of the urban heat island
・ Capturing surface conditions of cities such as albedo, roughness length, and evaporative fraction
・ Estimating landslides based on digital elevation model, remote sensing, and data mining
techniques
・Flood monitoring in Bangladesh based on remote sensing and geographical information systems
・Monitoring urban environment and natural environment by using synthetic aperture radar・ Precise geometric correction of satellite images

3) List of Research Activities in 2006
Peer-reviewed Articles
Shimamura, Y., Izumi, T., and Matsuyama, H. 2007. Configuration of rapid digital mapping systemusing tablet PC and its application to obtaining ground truth data: A case study of a snow survey
in Chuetsu district, Niigata prefecture.

Journal of Geography (Japan) 116: 749-758. (inJapanese with English abstract)
Saito, H., Nakayama, D., and Matsuyama, H. 2007. Estimation and evaluation of drainage basins
with landslides using decision tree technique and ASTER data. Landslides−Journal of theJapan Landslide Society 44: 1-14. (in Japanese with English abstract)
Zhang, H., Sato, N., Izumi, T., Hanaki, K. and Aramaki, T. 2008. Modified RAMS-Urban Canopy
Model for Heat Island Simulation in Chongqing, China. Journal of Applied Meteorology andClimatology, 47(2), 509-524.

Other Articles
Matsuyama, H. 2007. Subtropical convergence zone formed in Brazil: Simultaneous appearance ofwild

fire and heavy rainfall. In Regional problems in the world, ed. K. Urushibara-Yoshino,

Y. Fujitsuka, H. Matsuyama and K. Ohnishi, 56-57. Kyoto: Nakanishiya. (in Japanese)
Matsuyama, H. 2007. Water problems of the Lake Balkhash basin in Central Asia. In Regional
problems in the world, ed. K. Urushibara-Yoshino, Y. Fujitsuka, H. Matsuyama and K. Ohnishi,
104-105. Kyoto: Nakanishiya. (in Japanese)
Urushibara-Yoshino, K., Fujitsuka, Y., Matsuyama, H., and Ohnishi, K. 2007. Regional problems in
the world. In Regional problems in the world, ed. K. Urushibara-Yoshino, Y. Fujitsuka, H.
Matsuyama and K. Ohnishi, 2-3. Kyoto: Nakanishiya. (in Japanese)
Matsuyama, H. 2008. Estimation of snow water resources in the mountainous region: A case study
around Mt. Makihata, Niigata prefecture. Electric Power Civil Engineering No. 333: 6-11. (inJapanese)
Narumiya, H., Nakayama, D., and Matsuyama, H. 2007. Classification of springwaters in Tokyo
based on a mathematical statistical method. Water Science No. 295: 43-56. (in Japanese)

Books
Urushibara-Yoshino, K., Fujitsuka, Y., Matsuyama, H., and Ohnishi, K. 2007. Regional problems in
the world. Kyoto: Nakanishiya. (in Japanese)

Reports
Matsuyama, H. 2007. GIS Day in Tokyo 2006: Safety of region as depicted by GIS. Annual Report

of the Research Grant for History and Geography 2006, 168-169. Tama: Fukutake Science andCulture Foundation. (in Japanese)Book review
Matsuyama, H. 2007. Book review (Nishina, J. Foundamental climatology−Enlarged edition). Chiri
52(5): 121. (in Japanese)
Matsuyama, H. 2007. Book review (Tadokoro, K. Clima e literatura do nordeste Brasileiro). Chiri
52(6): 120. (in Japanese)
Matsuyama, H. 2007. Book review (Heibonsha ed. Junior national flags 3rd, rev. ed.). Chiri 52(7):120. (in Japanese)
Matsuyama, H. 2007. Book review (Hidaka, T., and Akimichi, T. Whose are forests ?−Future offorests and human in Asia−) Chiri 52(8): 120. (in Japanese)
Matsuyama, H. 2007. Book review (Nishikawa, D. Diary of a Japanese emigrant for agriculture−
General image of Japanese emigrants for agriculture in Brazil−) Chiri 52(9): 115. (in Japanese)
Matsuyama, H. 2007. Book review (Hoffman-Wellenhof, B., Lichtenegger, H., and Collins, J.,translated by S. Nishi. Global Positioning System, 5th, rev. ed.). Chiri 52(10): 107. (inJapanese)
Matsuyama, H. 2007. Book review (Yoshino, M. History of climatology: From ancient tocontemporary times). Chiri 52(11): 114. (in Japanese)
Matsuyama, H. 2007. Book review (Hirakawa, K. How to write compositions in 600 words). Chiri52(12): 111. (in Japanese)

Miscellaneous reports
Matsuyama, H. (Read by K. Hasegawa) 2007. Configuration of the observing system for
multi-angular reflectance of forest canopy by using observing tower at the foot of Mt.
Yatsugatake. Proceedings of the 9th CEReS Symposium on Environmental Remote Sensing:
40-43. (in Japanese)
Matsuyama, H. 2007. Shiga highland where it has passed 17 years since the last visit. Annual Reportof Old Boys/Girls of Wandervogel Club in Tokyo University: 97-99. (in Japanese)
Matsuyama, H. 2008. Estimation of the recharge area of springwater and the mechanism for its
gushing out based on water temperature, discharge and concentration of silica−A case study ofHino city, Tokyo Metropolis. Tamagawa No. 117: 9. (in Japanese)
Maruyama, S., Eguchi, T., Kasahara, J., Geshi, N., Matsumoto, J., Matsuyama, H., and Yamakawa, S.
2007. Preface for the special issue on “Water; from the Earth’s core to planetary space”. Journalof Geography (Japan) 116: 1-6. (in Japanese)
Izumi, T. 2007. How the meteorological observation of Fukiage garden in the imperial palace isrealized ?―Very profound network of old boys/girls of wandervogel club in Tokyo University― Annual Report of Old Boys/Girls of Wandervogel Club in Tokyo University: 100-101. (inJapanese)
Narumiya, H. 2007. A spring where gas bubbles were gashing out−Serigaya park in Machida city,
Tokyo Metropolis. Chiri 52(6): 81-83. (in Japanese)
Iwasaki, K. 2007. Prediction of Rausu Dashi gap wind using regional atmospheric modeling system(RAMS). Record of General Meeting for Graduation Theses of Geography, 2006. The New
Geography (The Shin-Chiri) 55(1): 62. (in Japanese)

Presentations
Matsuyama, H. 2007. Scene of hydrological cycle recalled by map. Meguro City Collage 2007 (Mapand scene−Searching for their close relationship−), May, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Izumi, T. 2007. Regional planning and regulations for preparing good conditions in a city−Reportof the scene from redevelopment of Asagaya houses−. 5th Meeting, Forum of My Town,
August, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Izumi, T. 2007. Overview of the regional planning system. 6th Meeting, Seminar for Preparing Good
Conditions in Narita Region, August, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Izumi, T., Hasegawa, K., Matsuyama, H., Kajiwara, K., and Honda, Y. 2007. A seasonal change ofbidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) in larix leptolepis. Abstracts ofMeteorological Society of Japan 2007 Fall Meeting, p. 418, October, Sapporo. (in Japanese)
Izumi, T., Mikami, T., Shimizu, S., and Oka, A. 2008. The effect of cool-island effect in a urban
green space−Report of the observation in and around the Imperial Palace− 2) Observation
result of cool-island phenomena in the Imperial Palace, Tokyo, in the summer of 2006 and 2007.
Study Group of Urban Climate and Environment, Association of Japanese Geographers, March,
Soka. (in Japanese)
Nakayama, D., Sakamoto, K., and Matsuyama, H. 2008. New topographic correction method ofsatellite image in the season of low solar elevation. Proceedings of the General Meeting of the
Association of Japanese Geographers 2008 Spring Meeting, p. 260, March, Soka. (in Japanese)
Hasegawa, K., Matsuyama, H., Tsuzuki, H., and Sweda, T. 2007. Normalized hotspot-signaturevegetation index−A new index linearly correlated with leaf area index. Proceedings of theGeneral Meeting of the Japanese Forest Society, A02 (CD-ROM), April, Fukuoka. (in Japanese)
Hasegawa, K. 2008. Seasonal/diurnal variations of the multi-angular reflectance characteristics inlarix leptolepis − Toward estimating parameters of canopy structure necessary forphotosynthesis model−.

The 10th CEReS Symposium on Environmental Remote Sensing,February, Chiba. (in Japanese)
Saito, H., Nakayama, D., and Matsuyama, H. 2007. Estimation of drainage basins with landslides inthe wide area using data mining techniques and time series analysis. Research Abstracts on
Spatial Information Science CSIS Days 2007, p. 8, November, Kashiwa. (in Japanese)
Saito, H., Nakayama, D., and Matsuyama, H. 2007. Quantitative analysis of landslide susceptibility
and occurrence of landslides at catchment scale using data mining techniques. Proceedings ofthe General Meeting of the Japanese Geomorphological Union 2007 Fall Meeting (Transactions,Japanese Geomorphological Union 29, p.76,), November, Tsukuba. (in Japanese)
Saito, H., Nakayama, D., and Matsuyama, H. 2007. Quantitative analysis of landslide susceptibility
and occurrence of landslides at catchment scale using data mining techniques. Colloquium ofCold Region Geomorphology, December, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Saito, H. 2008. Quantitative analysis of occurrence of landslides using GIS and remote sensing
techniques−Case study in Akaishi mountains−. Workshop by Young Scientists of the Japan
Landslide Society, March, Matsumoto. (in Japanese)
Saito, H., Nakayama, D., and Matsuyama, H. 2008. Quantitative analysis of landslide susceptibility
and occurence of landslides at catchment scale using data mining technique. Abstract Volume of
the Taiwan and Japan Joint Symposium on Geomorphological Hazards and Management, p. 46,
March, Taipei, Taiwan.
Saito, H., Nakayama, D., and Matsuyama, H. 2008. Quantitative analysis of landslide susceptibility
and occurrence of landslides at catchment scale using decision tree techniques. Proceedings ofthe General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers 2008 Spring Meeting, p. 178,
March, Soka. (in Japanese)
Narumiya, H., Nakayama, D., and Matsuyama, H. 2008. Estimation of recharge area of springwater
based on the hydrochemical technique along with the change of springwater and environment−
A case study of Hino city, Tokyo Metropolis. Proceedings of the General Meeting of the
Association of Japanese Geographers 2008 Spring Meeting, p. 204, March, Soka. (in Japanese)
Hoque, R., Nakayama, D., and Matsuyama, H. 2008. Monitoring the 2004 flood in the Meghna river
basin in Bangladesh using ground data, RADARSAT imagery and GIS. Proceedings of theGeneral Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers 2008 Spring Meeting, p. 259,
March, Soka.
Watanabe, T., Nakayama, D., and Matsuyama, H. 2007. Relationship between typhoon courses andrainfall distribution characteristics in Yamanashi prefecture. Abstracts of MeteorologicalSociety of Japan 2007 Spring Meeting, p. 409, May, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Inamura, T., Sakamoto, K., Iwasaki, K., Watanabe, T., Saito, H., Izumi, T., Nakayama, D., andMatsuyama, H. 2007. Numerical simulation of Matsubori wind by using actual topography andvirtual topography.
Abstracts of Meteorological Society of Japan 2007 Spring Meeting, p. 377, May, Tokyo. (inJapanese)Inamura, T., Sakamoto, K., Iwasaki, K., Watanabe, T., Saito, H., Izumi, T., Nakayama, D., andMatsuyama, H. 2007. Effects of central cone of Mt. Aso and a gorge at the west rim of thecaldera on Matsubori wind. Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese
Geographers 2007 Fall Meeting, p. 94, October, Kumamoto. (in Japanese)
Inamura, T. 2008. Effects of large cities on wind systems over the Kanto plain when heavy rainfall
occurred in Tokyo. General Meeting for Graduation Theses of Geography, 2007, March,
Koganei. (in Japanese)
Inamura, T., Sakamoto, K., Iwasaki, K., Watanabe, T., Saito, H., Nakayama, D., Izumi, T., andMatsuyama, H. 2008. Effects of central cone of Mt. Aso and a gorge at the west rim of thecaldera on Matsubori wind. International Symposium on Agricultural Meteorology(ISAM2008), March, Shimonoseki.
Iwasaki, K., Izumi, T., and Matsuyama, H. 2007. Prediction of Rausu Dashi gap wind using regional
atmospheric modeling system (RAMS). Abstracts of Meteorological Society of Japan 2007
Spring Meeting, p. 376, May, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Mikami, T., Izumi, T., Shimizu, S., and Oka, A. 2008. The effect of cool-island effect in a urban
green space−Report of the observation in and around the Imperial Palace− 1) Summary ofcool-island phenomena observation in the Imperial Palace, Tokyo. Study Group of Urban
Climate and Environment, Association of Japanese Geographers, March, Soka. (in Japanese)
Narita, K., Mikami, T., Izumi, T., Shimizu, S., and Oka, A. 2008. The effect of cool-island effect in aurban green space−Report of the observation in and around the Imperial Palace− 3)
Cold-air-seeping phenomena around the garden of the Imperial Palace, Tokyo. Study Group of
Urban Climate and Environment, Association of Japanese Geographers, March, Soka. (inJapanese)
Oka, A., Mikami, T., Izumi, T., and Shimizu, S. 2008. The effect of cool-island effect in a urban
green space−Report of the observation in and around the Imperial Palace− 4) Cool-island
phenomena in alarge urban green space−Effect of the Imperial Palace Garden on thesurrounding built-up area−. Study Group of Urban Climate and Environment, Association ofJapanese Geographers, March, Soka. (in Japanese)
Teshirogi, K. Kuroda, S., Kader, K., Koyama, T., and Iwata, S. 2008. Factors of vegetation
distribution in front of glacier number one at the headwater of the Urumqi river, the Tianshan
mountains. Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers2008 Spring Meeting, p. 226, March, Soka. (in Japanese)5

Laboratory of Urban and Human Geography

1) Staff
Yosio SUGIURA

Professor / PhD (D.Sc.)

Human geography

Yoshiki WAKABAYASHI Associate Professor / PhD (D.Sc.)
Urban geography, Behavioral geography, Geographic information science

Yuko TAKEDA

Assistant Professor / Ph. D.

GIS, Urban geography

Hiroyuki TSUBOMOTOAssistant Professor /Urban geography, Office study

Michiko HARAYAMA

Assistant Professor /Bibliometrics(Concurrent staff)
Toshio KIKUCHI

Associate Professor / D.Sc.

Agricultural and Rural Geography, Regional Geography of Oceania, Nature Based Tourism2) Overview of Research Activities
This research unit specializes in human geography, with special emphasis on the city and its
environs. Our research interests center on the structural explanation of the relationship between
human activities and geographic environment by employing approaches of social sciences andhumanities. Methodologically, the emphasis lies largely on positivistic (viz., quantitative or
mathematical); fieldwork is also encouraged. The research interests cover quantitative,
socioeconomic, urban and behavioral geography. The main themes of our current research are as
follows:

1. Mathematical modeling of human geographic phenomena
2. Regional analysis of human geographic phenomena
1) Relationship between human activities and geographic environment2) Land use change in the city and its suburbs3) Spatial organization of the society4) Transformation of human activities brought about by environmental change
3. Geographical studies of urban systems
1) Spatial structures of intra-urban system
2) System of cities
4. Geographical thought
1) History of modern geography2) Bibliometric research of geographical studies

3) List of Research Activities in 2006
Peer-reviewed Articles
Yui, Y, Wakabayashi, Y., Nakazawa, T. and Kamiya, H. 2007. Residential choices of working womenin urban space. E-journal GEO 2(3): 139-152． (in Japanese with English abstract)
Wakabayashi, Y. 2008. The role of maps in the cognition of geographic space. Cognitive Studies
15(1): 38-50. (in Japanese with English abstract)
Tsubomoto, H. 2007. Restructuring Business Spaces in Tokyo after the 1990s. Annals of the Japan
Association of Economic Geographers, 54: 461-477.
Tsubomoto, H. 2008. Construction of a new officeconsulting

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Urban Geography of Japan, 3: 18-32. (in Japanese with English abstract)
Yabe, N. 2007. Spatially varying NEET factors in the Tokyo metropolitan area: a moving window
path analysis. Japanese Journal of Human Geography, 59(4): 348-362. (in Japanese with English
abstract)

Other Articles
Sugiura, Y. 2007. On book reviews of Central Place System in Southern Germany. Notes on
Theoretical Geography 16 (in press).
Kinpara, S., Sugiura, S. and Harayama, M. 2007. The present conditions of "Joyful Minowa"
shopping mall in Arakawa Ward, Tokyo with reference to Metropolitan streetcar as a symbol.
Notes on Theoretical Geography 16 (in press).
Wakabayashi, Y. 2007. Cities and their functions in Hokuriku region. In Fujita, M. and Tabayashi,A.
eds.: Regional Geography of Japan vol.7: Chubu region. 473-482，Asakura Shoten: Tokyo. (inJapanese)
Wakabayashi, Y. 2007. Geography of perception. Ueno, K., Tsubaki, M., and Nakamura,Y. eds.:
Fundamental geography series vol. 1: An introduction to geography.
Tokyo. (in Japanese)

89-94, Asakura Shoten:Wakabayashi, Y. 2007. The world looked through maps. Kobayashi, K. ed.: Practical issues ofgeography education. 78-194, Nakanishiya: Kyoto. (in Japanese)
Arima, T. 2008. Urban Tourism in Tokyo. In Kikuchi, T. eds., Introduction of Tourism sudies,
Ninomiya Publisher, Tokyo, 133-143.(in Japanese)
Arima, T. 2008. (coffee break)Alternative Form of Urban Tourism in Tokyo: a case study of Odaiba.
In Kikuchi, T. eds., Introduction of Tourism sudies, Ninomiya Publisher, Tokyo, 144-151.(inJapanese)

Books
Kobayashi, S. and Sugiura, Y. 2008. Human Geography. 2nd Edition. Hoso-Daigaku
Kyoikushinnko-kai: Tokyo. (in Japanese)
OECD ed., translated into Japanese by Kamiya, H., Yui, Y., Kukimoto, M, Takeda, Y., Wakabayashi,
Y. and Nakazawa, T. 2008. OECD regions at a glance 2007. Akashi Shoten: Tokyo. (in Japanese)

Reports
Tsubomoto, H. 2007. Destribution and preservation of urban foreasts in Sagamihara city. Report of
Sagamihara Urban Research Institute. 16p (in Japanese).

Presentations
Wakabayashi, Y.

2007. Gender-related differences in the map use of in-vehicle navigation systems.

August 4-10, 2007，23rd International Cartographic Conference, Moscow.
Wakabayashi, Y.

2007. Geographical studies on crime and the role of crime maps.. September 2,

2007, 45th Annual Meeting of Japanese Association of Criminal Psychology, Kohriyama.
Wakabayashi, Y.

2007. Notes on the world geographic knowledge of students from the viewpointof spatial cognition. October 7, 2007, The Study Meeting of the Association of Japanese
Geographers Autumn 2007, Kumamoto.
Wakabayashi, Y.

2007. Cartographic literacy and map reading of thematic maps: the case of

Womenʼs Atlas of Japan. October 20, 2007, 41st Regional Meeting of Japan Cartographers
Association, Toyama.
Wakabayashi, Y. 2008. GIS and spatial cognition: evolution of maps and geographic information
science. March 10, 2008, GIS seminar of Chugoku division of GISA, Hiroshima.
Liang, H. S. 2007. Environment change and progress of urbanization in Chinese inner Mongolia.
Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers . 73:141 (inJapanese).
Arima. T. 2007. The space uses and experiences of guests in Ueno Zoological Garden. Proceedingsof the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers 72:155 (in Japanese).

Arima. T. 2008. Mobility patterns and their geographical charcteristics of visitors in Ueno
Zoological Garden, Tokyo. Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese
Geographers 73:65 (in Japanese).