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Takuyuki Yoshioka, Associate Professor
Food & Agriculture0 student voices
The Forest Utilization Lab studies the technology and science for maximizing the revenue obtained from forests. Focusing on forestry as a primary industry, the lab works on improving profitability and on making forest work safe and comfortable. Research combines field surveys in Japan and abroad with mathematical analysis in the lab. In undergraduate lectures and practicals, students learn through the main keywords of forestry machinery, forest roads, work systems, labor science, and biomass.
Tomo'Omi Kumagai, Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban0 student voices
The Forest Biogeoscience Lab studies the mechanisms by which forests and the global environment influence each other. Its research spans scales from the cells of organisms to global vegetation zones, and from atmospheric turbulence to vegetation change over hundreds of years. The lab investigates how forests mitigate floods, how they contribute to the climate system, and how water and materials cycle through forest ecosystems. It also works to clarify the mechanisms of sediment movement in mountain forests, with the aim of applying the findings to sediment disaster countermeasures.
Akihiko Ito, Professor
Environment & Sustainability0 student voices
The Forest Management Lab studies how to plan and evaluate forest management so that forests can be managed sustainably. Forests produce timber, and at the same time they prevent mountain disasters, sustain water resources, provide habitat for wildlife, and absorb carbon dioxide. These roles are called public-benefit functions, and continuing to provide them requires proper planning and management. The lab also works, in both theory and practice, on forest measurement, growth prediction, and GIS, which form the foundation of forest planning.
Tomoya Yokoyama, Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis0 student voices
The Wood Chemistry Lab studies the chemistry of plant biomass. The lab's name includes "wood" because most biomass exists as the cell walls of trees. Focusing on lignin, the cell wall component whose structure is still poorly understood, the lab examines in detail how it reacts under chemical treatment. In particular, it puts great effort into studying the reactions that occur during chemical pulping, the largest chemical use of plant biomass.
Toru Terada, Associate Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban0 student voices
The Urban and Landscape Planning Lab studies methods for evaluating, planning, and designing cities and regions from a landscape perspective. A landscape perspective views cities and regions as expressions of the relationships among climate, topography, ecosystems, daily life, and culture. Using green spaces, trees, and farmland as clues, the lab explores sustainable urban forms in which human activity and the natural environment are in harmony. Students come from a wide range of fields, including civil engineering, architecture, ecology, and economics.
Kenji Aoki, Professor
Structures & Mechanics0 student voices
The Wood Material Science Lab conducts research to make the most effective use of wood as a structural material in buildings. In its basic research, the lab experimentally investigates how wood, a natural material with inconsistent quality, deforms and how strong it is. In its applied research, the lab works on the design of timber buildings, on improving the structural safety and durability of buildings, and on developing new construction methods. As an extracurricular activity, students have designed and built wooden pavilions and exhibited them at the May Festival (Gogatsusai).
Masafumi Inoue, Professor
Economics & Social Systems0 student voices
The Environmental Materials Design Lab studies wood utilization together with the Endowed Chair of Wood Utilization Systems. The lab evaluates how using wood affects the global environment, regional economies, and society. It also studies the marketing of wood products and the policies that promote wood utilization. By combining natural science and social science, the lab aims to create a new research field on the processing, distribution, and use of wood.
Itaru Sotome, Associate Professor
Food & Agriculture0 student voices
The Bioprocess Engineering Lab studies the science, engineering, and technology of food. The lab focuses on the processes that fruits, vegetables, and grains go through from harvest until they reach the dining table, including sorting, storage, processing, packaging, and transportation. During operations such as heating, drying, mixing, and shaping, heat and mass move inside the food and its structure changes. The lab aims to make these phenomena "visible" by combining experiments, measurements, and numerical simulation.
Daizo Kojima, Professor
Economics & Social Systems0 student voices
The Kojima Lab studies food, agriculture, and rural areas, and the policies related to them. Building on economics, the lab also draws on perspectives from politics, public administration, society, and history to clarify policy problems through both theory and empirical analysis. Its methods are analysis using statistical data and on-site field surveys. Prof. Kojima also studies public finance and local public finance, as well as comparisons of policy with the EU and Germany.
Gaku Takimoto, Associate Professor
Environment & Sustainability0 student voices
The Biodiversity Science Lab studies the mechanisms that maintain and disrupt ecosystem balance, focusing on the interactions between organisms and their environment. Ecosystems have the capacity to recover from a certain degree of disturbance, but in recent years biodiversity has been disappearing at a rate that exceeds this limit. Building on ecology, the lab works to clarify and predict how the abundance and diversity of organisms, the structure of food webs, and other features will change. The lab shares its findings with the world through papers, and also delivers them to society as concrete recommendations for protecting and managing ecosystems and biodiversity.
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