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Human Geography Lab
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A human geography lab that explores health, food, and other topics from a spatial perspective.
AboutAbout the lab
Studying health, food, and geographic information from a spatial perspective.
The Human Geography Lab studies geographic disparities in health, food production and purchasing in Mongolia, and methods of geographic information science.
Using cartographic techniques and spatial statistics, the lab investigates the relationships between society and space that underlie regional differences.
The lab respects student independence: for bachelor's and master's theses, students pursue research on themes they choose themselves.
The lab works jointly with the Environmental Geography group (Nakaya Lab) in the Graduate School of Environmental Studies.
Key terms
- Spatial statistics
- Statistical methods that analyze data while taking into account how values differ from place to place and the positional relationships between locations
- Geographically weighted modeling
- A method of analysis that focuses on "spatial heterogeneity," meaning that the mechanisms generating a phenomenon vary from place to place
- Spatiotemporal kernel density estimation
- A method that estimates when and where events are likely to occur as a smooth density, using both time and location
NewsLab news
Won an Outstanding Presentation Award at the research presentation conference of the GIS Association of Japan
Launched a new "For Prospective Students" page
ResearchResearch themes
Human geography covers a wide range of topics, and this lab conducts research in areas such as health geography, agricultural geography, and spatial data science. The lab respects student independence, and students work on themes they choose themselves.
*Illustrative imageGeographic disparities in health
Using spatial statistical and cartographic methods, the lab analyzes the socioeconomic inequalities underlying geographic disparities in health in Japan. In collaboration with researchers in medicine and health sciences, it also examines how residential environments, such as air pollution and social relationships with neighbors, are related to disease and physical activity levels.
*Illustrative imageFood production and purchasing in Mongolia
The lab studies changes in food production and food prices in Mongolia, focusing on meat products, especially sheep, a symbolic food of the country. It seeks to clarify the structure of the food purchasing environment in the capital, Ulaanbaatar.
*Illustrative imageMethods for spatial data analysis
The lab studies methods in geographic information science, including spatial statistical analysis, spatial mathematical modeling, and geographic visualization. It is developing geographically weighted modeling, which focuses on differences between places, and spatiotemporal kernel density estimation, which shows the tendency of events to occur on a 3D GIS.
MembersFaculty
Members of the Human Geography Lab include faculty, visiting researchers, doctoral and master's students, research students, and undergraduates.As of 2026
- ProfessorTomoki Nakaya
- Associate ProfessorYuzuru Isoda
- Assistant ProfessorRyohei Sekine
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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: “Mercator projection SW” Strebe / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Geographic disparities in health: “Black Hispanic Bivariate Map” Bplewe / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Food production and purchasing in Mongolia: “Mongolia, horses and cowboys” Jeanne Menj / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Methods for spatial data analysis: “Atlanta murders rossmo analysis 1” Merikanto / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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