The latest/revised information and question of the Kyoto Regional Conference 2013 (IGU 2013 KRC) and theexcursion executed by the C12.29[May 9, 2013]
1. KRC
Conference Theme: Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth’s Future
Date: August 5- August 9
Sessions of C12.29 will be held on August 5 and August 6*: Tentative programme of the Sessions of all the Commissions was sent by email to the Japanese liaisons by
the Chair of the Programme Committee of KRC on 8 May. It shows all of three Sessions of C12.29 is to beheld from the afternoon of August 5 to the evening of August 6. The programme will be decided formally after
10 May when the Commission does not tell him other hope and opinion during from 8 to 10 May. The
tentative programme is attached.
Venue: Kyoto International Conference Center
It is located in the north of Kyoto City. You will arrive there within 30 minutes by subway from the Kyoto Station.
Sessions of C12.29: Marginalization, Globalization and Regional and Local Responses
Chair: Prof. Stanko Pelc, Primorska University, Slovenia
Secretary: Prof. Emeritus Walter Leimgruber, Friourg University, Switzerland
Session 1. Context and methodologies leading to the definition and understanding of process and structure issues inmarginality
Session 2. Spatial and social responses to globalization and marginalization
Session 3. Rural areas, Development Dynamics, Policy Options and Marginalization [in collaboration with C12.35
Sustainability of Rural Systems]
Documents for submission/preparation for the presentation:
Desk of the KRC requests the presenters to send an abstract beforehand only. C12.29 requests the presenters to prepare
their ppt/pptx file for the presentation. It would be desirable for the presenters to bring with you twenty
five copies of the full paper for their presentations. Before the opening of each slot (One slot is equal to 90
minutes for four presentations.) the documents will be distributed to the delegates at the room of Session 1,2 and 3.
Accommodation: For the presenters at C12.29 and their accompanying persons who would like to stay there
APA Hotel: It is located in front of the Kyoto Station
From the night of August 4 to the morning of August 9, 2013 (five-nights booking)Single room: 5400 yen on August 4, 4900 yen on August 5, 5400 yen on August 6, and 5900 yen onAugust 7 and 8.
Twin room (two beds in a room): 9400 yen on August 4, 9000 yen on 5 and 6, 10000 yen on August 7and 8.
I, Yasutaka Matsuo, have booked ten non-smoking single rooms and four non-smoking twin rooms. So,if you would like to stay there, please check the sheet attached and send it via email to me:matsuo@isc.senshu-u.ac.jp. You need not confirm yourself, but you will surely stay at APA Hotel and pay
yourself at the reception desk when you arrived/stayed at the hotel.
Publication: C12. 29 will propose the plan to publish a book composed of the (selected) papers revised within thepresentations of the three Sessions of C12.29.
2. Excursion of C12.29
Date: August 9 – August 11 (Chartered bus)
Itineraries and visiting spots:
August 9: 8 o’clock start from the APA Hotel
10:45: Japanese Paper Museum at Mino City of Gifu Pref. (paper making, lunch, visit to a traditional paper
maker named Mamoru Sawamura at Goju-mura settlement)
14:45: Meihou area of Gujo City (Exchange with the NPO and action groups for local development with theexplanation by Yu-ichi Okida, Head of the Meiho Promotion Office/former municipal office)17:30: The Yoshida-ya Hotel (Dinner and stay. It is located at the central area of Gujo-Hachiman Castle
town with famous cultural landscape. The Bon-dance is performed in the Ima-machi Community
during ca. 19:00-21:00. )August 10: 7:30 breakfast, 8:45 visit to the Castle
10:15 start from the Yoshida-ya Hotel
11:30 Visit to Shirakawa-gou mountain village (Wooden houses with a steep five-layer rafter roof, lunch)
14:00 Miboro dam and reservoir (15:30 Visit to Local Culture Museum of Taira village of Gokayama Region
16:30 Ainokura Settlement (Dinner and stay at the Nakaya guest house. World Cultural Heritage, Wooden
houses with a steep three-layer rafter roof, The juridical-person body of the inhabitants of Ainokura
manages the settlement and the landscape. More than half homes manage guest houses. We stay at aguest house exclusively. Its head is the chief of the juridical-person body. After dinner we will havethe opportunity to listen from him the local history and the way to manage the Ainokura-world
heritage settlement.)
August 11: 7:00 breakfast, 8:30 start
9:30 Woodworking Museum and exhibition and the walking of Inami monzenmachi, that is, the town
which grew up around the gate of a major Shinshu Sect temple
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Tonami Region famous for dispersed settlements (Museum, View from Yumenodaira, Visit to theHouse of Masao Shindo, the Head of the Museum, His house is the typical homestead. He will guideus the structure and function of a farmstead of the Tonami dispersed settlement)
16:30 Breakup at the Toyama Station (to Tokyo)(17:30-18:00 at the Kanazawa Station (to Kyoto, Osaka))(If you wish to go to the Toyama Airport or the Komatsu Airport, please inform me of it beforehand.)On August 9: Prof Koh-ichi Togashi of Gifu University will support us and elucidate the contents and characteristics
the local development activities in Gifu prefecture.
Price: 40,000 yen
Inclusive of the fare of the chartered bus, stay of the Yoshida-ya Hotel and the Nakaya guest house, breakfasts(August 10, 11) and dinners (August 9,10), and the admission fee for the museums and the CastleNote)
I changed the period of the booking of the APA Hotel. Now it is reserved from the night of August 4 to the morning ofAugust 9. It is because the Commission 12.29 Sessions will begin in the afternoon of August 5 andend in the evening of August 6.
*As the Yoshida-ya Hotel is composed of three single rooms and six twin rooms (both are with the bathroom ensuite)
in total except the gardens and large bath, more than half the participants will stay at the twin roomby two.
If you have a hope to stay one more day on August 12 in Noto/Hokuriku Region, please inform me of it.
As the Commission Sessions are to be held on August 5 and 6, I will try to think one or two optional short trip orexperience visit for the for vacant time. Actual expenses may be collected from the participants.
One-day subway ticket would be better for us. You can freely ride and drop the subway/tube in a day if we buy
one-day ticket.

Statement of Intention to Participate
Name:
Institution/affiliation:
Professional address:
E-mail:Select and Check the following boxes.
1. Accommodation in Kyoto
I would like to stay at the APA Hotel from the night of August A to the morning of August B.
Single room or Twin-room
Please fill the box of A and B by the figure 4,5, 6, 7, 8, or 9.
Or
I do not stay there, so I don’t request.
2. Excursion
I would like to participate in the excursion to Gifu and Toyama prefectures.
Single room or Twin-room (the Yoshida-ya Hotel)
The guest house of Nakaya is exclusively used by our participants. (Japanese-style guest house)Or
I do not participate in the excursion.
If you have some queries or hopes, please send it to me by email. matsuo@isc.senshu-u.ac.jp
I would like you to get much interest to both of them above.
Please make a reply by answering and sending this sheet by email to matsuo@isc.senshu-u.ac.jp.
Compared with the sheet that I sent on May 2, The booking period of the APA Hotel is changed.