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Hiroki Kobayashi, Professor
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The Kobayashi Lab studies systems in which information systems and ecosystems work together as one, in support of solving environmental problems. Human contact with ecosystems damages nature, so keeping the two apart is effective. However, natural heritage sites and natural monuments are tied to tourism, agriculture, and forestry, so they cannot be separated completely. To address this, the lab combines sensors attached to animals (animal wearables) with sensors placed in their surroundings, building systems that connect people with distant nature through information while keeping the two apart. The lab aims to create an information society in which both people and animals carry communication devices and can always feel close to one another.
Mayumi Fukunaga, Professor
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The Fukunaga Lab studies the relationship between people and nature from the perspectives of environmental sociology and environmental ethics. Drawing on sociological fieldwork, the lab traces the memories, words, and practices that connect people and nature, clarifies the values and norms found there, and re-examines how society is structured. Its themes include the design of environmental restoration, food ethics, the governance of watershed and coastal resources in the age of the climate crisis, and the history of relationships between living things and people. The lab places importance on the question of what kind of beings humans are as they live alongside other living things.
Yu Maemura, Lecturer
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Maemura Lab studies how the dynamics of people and society hinder cooperation in solving problems. The lab is interested in how development aid can help address challenges such as global poverty, climate change and sustainability, and conflict and security. The lab aims to understand the challenges that stakeholders face in the field of development projects, analyze how organizations and institutions work, and draw lessons that can be applied in practice. In the master's program, students present their research to one another at weekly meetings, building the ability to formulate their own research questions.
Hiroyuki Nakata, Professor
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Nakata Lab specializes in the economics of uncertainty and studies, mathematically, how people make decisions and form beliefs. Building rigorous theory on mathematics such as measure theory, the lab pursues policy-oriented research that includes methods for evaluating impacts on society and the economy as a whole. Using topics such as climate change, disasters, and social division driven by social media, the lab also conducts research that tests hypotheses derived from theory against data. The lab welcomes students from science and mathematics backgrounds such as mathematics and physics, as well as students from humanities and social science backgrounds who want to pursue logical thinking to its end.
Jin Sato, Professor
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Sato Lab studies how resources and aid are governed, with Southeast Asia as its main field. It looks at the "resources" found in a given place and the "aid" brought in from outside, considering how each is governed and how the two are combined. The lab also reviews the history of Japan's Official Development Assistance (ODA) and draws implications for future development cooperation. In the master's program, students are expected to take on concrete problems, collect primary data themselves, and wrestle with the "problem" while also taking the perspectives of the people directly involved into account.
Koshi Yoshida, Professor
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The Yoshida Lab (Agro-Environmental Science Lab) studies the sustainable management of water resources, with a focus on the relationship between agriculture and water. Much of the water people use goes to agriculture, and nutrients from sources such as fertilizer flow into rivers and lakes, causing problems such as algal blooms. The lab's mission is to propose solutions that balance development and conservation, so that agriculture can continue while a healthy water cycle is maintained. Through fieldwork in Thailand, Laos, Indonesia, and other countries, the lab aims to help students develop the ability to see things from multiple perspectives.
Maiko Sakamoto, Associate Professor
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Sakamoto Lab (Resource and Environmental Management) studies resources, the environment, and development, with a focus on human behavior and social institutions. Using resources effectively is essential for sustainable development, but it is not easily achieved when people act only on individual rationality. For example, in villages in developing countries without piped water, the water in a pond is often too polluted to drink, and building a system to bring water from a distant river would solve the shortage of drinking water. But the water is right there in front of them. Could people not cooperate to clean the pond and make good use of it? The lab explores questions like this through case studies in developing countries.
Masato Kawanishi, Visiting Professor
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The Kawanishi Lab specializes in climate change and development cooperation, and studies climate action in developing countries. Under the Paris Agreement, all Parties, including developing countries, are required to set targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and to report on their progress. For adaptation to climate change as well, countries are required to put in place processes that run from risk assessment to planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation. Drawing on cases of cooperation the professor has been involved in as a JICA Senior Advisor, the lab works with students to think about how international cooperation on climate action should be done.
Aya Suzuki, Professor
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The lab studies social and economic issues in developing countries, mainly through empirical research from a micro-level perspective. Starting from the view that reducing poverty requires employment that gives people a stable livelihood, along with the industrial development needed to create it, the lab is interested in the processes of agricultural and industrial development. Each student chooses a theme of personal interest and completes a master's or doctoral thesis through regular lab seminars. Because the professor's expertise is in development economics and empirical analysis, students are encouraged to carry out fieldwork and quantitative analysis using data.
Khohchahar E. Chuluu, Associate Professor
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The Chuluu Lab studies "law" broadly, from multiple perspectives within society and history. The lab mainly researches legal history, and also draws on the perspectives of sociology of law and legal anthropology. Its current topics are comparative Asian legal history, Mongolian legal history, the environmental legal history of Inner Asia, and environmental and climate justice. At the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the lab is in charge of a graduate seminar on environmental and climate justice.
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