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Tetsuya Araki, Associate Professor
Food & Agriculture1 student voices
The International Information Agriculture Lab (Araki Lab) studies topics surrounding food, mainly in Japan and Asia. The fields it covers are wide-ranging, from food science and food engineering to food distribution, the relationship between food and society, and contributions to the international community. The lab pursues interdisciplinary research that is not bound by the divide between the sciences and the humanities, and aims to develop people who can come up with new ideas.
Sakiko Shiratori, Associate Professor
Economics & Social Systems1 student voices
The International Environmental Economics Lab studies issues surrounding agriculture, the environment, and food through data-driven empirical analysis. One pillar of the lab's work is the analysis of agricultural production and land use using GIS and remote sensing, along with the analysis of consumer demand and policy evaluation through surveys. The other pillar is agricultural development economics, which investigates food security, nutrition, and related issues in developing regions through field surveys and quantitative analysis. In both areas, collecting data and analyzing it quantitatively is at the heart of the research.
Mitsuo Yamamoto, Professor
Environment & Sustainability1 student voices
The International Agricultural Development Lab (Yamamoto Lab) studies the development of environmental technologies and the conservation of coastal and marine ecosystems, with a focus on the connections among forests, rivers, and the sea. To address isoyake, in which seaweed communities (seaweed beds) decline and disappear, the lab develops technologies that restore and create seaweed beds by supplying iron, through both fundamental research and field trials. To protect coastal ecosystems, the lab also studies the movement of materials, centered on iron, in river basins and coastal areas. The lab also works on marine environmental conservation using underused resources such as agricultural waste.
Yutaro Sakai, Associate Professor
Economics & Social Systems1 student voices
The International Fisheries Development Lab conducts wide-ranging research centered on fisheries policy and fisheries economics. Aiming to achieve harmony between aquatic environments and human society, the lab takes on research from basic to applied, regardless of field. Students can take a cross-disciplinary approach that is not bound by a single area of specialization, and can conduct joint research with local researchers in overseas fieldwork sites. The lab's vision is to train people who can work on the international stage, and to be an active and open lab.
Hiromi Nakanishi, Associate Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The New Functional Plant Development Lab uses biotechnology to create plants and crops with new functions. Its goals include edible vaccines, hairy roots for cleaning up the environment, crops that grow even in soils where plants grow poorly, and crops suited to low-input agriculture. To develop such plants, the lab also conducts basic research to uncover how plants absorb nutrients.
Takuya Hiroshima, Professor
Environment & Sustainability0 student voices
The Global Forest Environment Lab studies sustainable forest management using technologies such as geoinformatics. Many of today's global environmental problems are related to forests. Forests have a large impact on the environment and account for most of the Earth's biological resources, so how to use them sustainably has become a major challenge. The lab studies forests, which hold the key to solving global environmental problems, and the environment surrounding them.
Takuya Akiyama, Associate Professor
Materials & Nanotech0 student voices
The International Plant Materials Science Lab researches how to create functional materials from plants, which are abundant in nature. The lab aims to open a path for using unused plants and agricultural residues as renewable resources. Its research rests on two pillars: studying woody cell walls to understand them chemically, and using the adhesive power of plants' natural components to make materials for furniture and construction. The lab also accepts students from other universities, students from humanities and other non-science faculties, and international students, and its lab seminars are held half in English and half in Japanese.
Kae Miyazawa, Associate Professor
Food & Agriculture0 student voices
The International Plant Resource Science Lab (Miyazawa Lab) studies agricultural systems that work in harmony with natural ecosystems. Human activities, including agriculture, place a heavy burden on the functions that maintain the cycles and sustainability of ecosystems. The lab aims to create technologies and systems in which people producing food and living well can itself enrich the global environment and ecosystems. The lab approaches its work from both natural science and social science, from the connections among living things in the soil to the mechanisms by which delicious vegetables spread.
Yoichiro Kato, Professor
Food & Agriculture0 student voices
The Kato Lab (International Plant Resource Science Lab) studies plant resource biology as field agronomy for food production. Its work covers new crop species and varieties, cultivation methods, and ways to harmonize agriculture with the environment and biodiversity. The lab is located on the main campus in Yayoi and conducts crop experiments in the fields of the Institute for Sustainable Agro-ecosystem Services (the university farm). The lab also actively carries out on-site research in tropical regions and developing countries.
Yasunobu Matsumoto, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences0 student voices
The International Animal Resource Science Lab (Matsumoto Group) studies the relationship between pathogenic microorganisms that cause infectious diseases and the immune systems of their host animals. Using a variety of infection models, the lab investigates how pathogens survive inside the host's body and how the host's immune response suppresses pathogen growth and the onset of disease. The lab also focuses on mucosal vaccines that do not require injection and on edible vaccines, and is evaluating their efficacy. Many of the infectious diseases the lab studies are endemic overseas, so the lab also conducts overseas field surveys and international collaborative research.
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