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Yagi Lab
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The lab studies the strategy and organization of farm management from the field, from urban areas to hilly and mountainous areas.
AboutAbout the lab
Agricultural management that adapts to a changing environment.
The Yagi Lab studies the management of agriculture, agriculture-related businesses, and the economy, society, resources, and environment of the surrounding regions.
The focus of its research is how to set strategies suited to social and economic change, how to run organizations, which are groups of people, and how to keep them growing sustainably.
Using methods from management science and related economics, the lab conducts research based on fieldwork, as well as theoretical research built on that foundation.
In the undergraduate lab seminar, students not only read the literature on farm management but also hold discussions with farm managers.
Key terms
- Hilly and mountainous areas (chusankan chiiki)
- Areas stretching from the outer edge of the plains into the mountains, with little flat land. Many have difficult conditions for farming.
- Multifunctionality of agriculture
- The roles agriculture plays beyond producing food, such as conserving land and water and creating scenic landscapes.
- Organization theory
- A field of management science that studies how organizations, which are groups of people, operate and how they can work well.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the strategy and organization of farm management and its links with local communities. Recent main themes also include urban agriculture, agriculture in hilly and mountainous areas, and the use of information technology.
*Illustrative imageStrategy and Organization of Farm Management and the Region
Drawing on international discussions in management strategy, organization theory, and family business studies, the lab examines how far these apply to real farm management and what findings are useful in practice.
*Illustrative imageUrban and Peri-urban Agriculture
As a lab based in Tokyo, the world's largest metropolitan area, it examines whether agriculture can continue in and around cities (sustainability).
*Illustrative imageAgriculture in Hilly and Mountainous Areas
In hilly and mountainous areas that have lost population, the lab examines systems that make use of the multifunctional role of agriculture and allow creative, resourceful people to thrive.
*Illustrative imageUse of Information Technology
The lab examines the impact of new information technology on agriculture, especially from the perspective of the people and organizations involved.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Yagi Lab consist of faculty and students in the doctoral program, master's program, and undergraduate program.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorHironori YagiPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “A field in Hazawa Nerima” Koujigenba / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Strategy and Organization of Farm Management and the Region: “Combine harvester Kyoto JPN 001” ignis / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture: “Kitami 1chome 9 setagaya” 鋸香具師 / CC0 (cropped)
- Agriculture in Hilly and Mountainous Areas: “Find47 Niigata-Early summer awakening (Yamakoshi's rice terraces and ponds)-m” Koichi_Hayakawa / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Use of Information Technology: “Agricultural drone in use on rice field near Nisoshi, Aomori” Benlisquare / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Kiminami Lab): “Greenhouse horticulture area in Kitanomachi Ishizaki, Kurume” Peka / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Ando Lab): “Village houses and rice planting in Kamimutsuro, Fuji” Pekachu / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Kojima Lab): “Rice terraces in Hatenashi village A” さか
おり / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped) - Related lab (Saito Lab): “Container ship MSC Tokyo - IMO 9318046 - moored at Container Terminal Burchardkai, Hamburg-9496” Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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