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（Last updated : 2025-02-17 17:07:43）　

ARAKI HITOSHI

Department / Course College of Gastronomy Management Department of Gastronomy Management

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Gastronomy Management

Academic background
1.	2000/06 Degree Acquisition	│ Hiroshima University
2.	1990/04～1993/03	Doctoral Program (2nd Semester) │ Graduate School, Division of Letters │ Hiroshima University │ Accomplished credits for doctoral program
3.	1987/04～1989/03	Doctoral Program (1st Semester) │ Hiroshima University │ Completed
4.	1983/04～1987/03	│ Hiroshima University │ Graduated

Business career
1.	2010/04/01 ～ 2018/03/31	professor │ │ Yamaguchi University
2.	1997/10/01 ～ 2010/03/31	Associate Professor │ │ Yamaguchi University
3.	1995/04/01 ～ 1997/09/30	Associate Professor │ │ Asahikawa University
4.	1993/04/01 ～ 1995/03/31	Lecturer │ │ Asahikawa University

Research activities
1.	1990 ～	The Association of Japanese Geographers
2.	1987 ～	The Human Geographical Society of Japan
3.	1990 ～	The Japan Association of Economic Geographers
4.	1987 ～	The Japanese Society for Geographical Sciences
5.	1997 ～	The Yamaguchi Geographical Association
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Subject of research
1.	Geographical study on food supply of Japan and Asian countries
2.	Geographical study on relief goods transportation under the large-scale disaster
3.	Theoretical study on food geography

Research summary
Geography of Foods 1.Theoretical approach Key words; Food Regime, Commodity Chain, Food Network 2.Empirical approach 2.1.Contemporary food supply chains of Japan Key words; quality of food, food security, overseas dependency 2.2.Contemporary food supply chains of Asia Case study areas; India, China, Korea, Taiwan, Key words; fruit and vegetables, wholesale market 2.3.Food supply chains in the Modern Asia Case study areas: Japan, East Asia Key words; grains, colony, food companies 2.4.Relief goods transportation Key words: relief goods, disaster, transportation routes

Present specialized field
Geography, Human geography

Books
1.	2022	Insularity and Geographic Diversity of the Peripheral Japanese Islands
2.	2020/02	Nature, Culture, and Food in Monsoon Asia │ ,pp.vii-xvii, 165-169
3.	2019/04	An Introduction to Field Research
4.	2018/03	Modern Japan’s Food Chains: Geography and Overseas Operaion
5.	2017	Geography of Relief Goods Transportation
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Papers
1.	2024/11	The Old Farmer and His Diary; A Study of Life Space in a Rural Area of Postwar Japan │ Journal of Ritsumeikan Geographical Society │ ,pp.13-37
2.	2024/03	Food and Beverage Trade in East Asia in the Late 1930’s seen from “Annual Return of the Trade of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” │ Journal of East Asian Identities │ 9,pp.1-18
3.	2023/12	The Grain Trade of East Asian Countries in the Late 1930s the Multilateral Trade Described by Annual Return of the Trade of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and the Food Security │ The Journal of Ritsumeikan Geographical Society │ 35,pp.37-52
4.	2022/03/31	China’s Food Trade in the Late 1930s Seen from Annual Returns of the Trade of the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere │ Journal of Ritsumeikan Gastronomic Arts and Sciences │ ,pp.57-72
5.	2022/03/24	Review of Relief Operation Base Deployment and Geography: Case of Hidaka County, Wakayama Prefecture │ E-journal GEO │ 17 (1),pp.23-45
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2024/10/13	A brief history of our conference: 2024 revised version of Sapporo Keynote
2.	2024/10/12	Wide area disasters and the relief operation bases: availability of railway facilities in case of Nankai Trough Earthquake
3.	2023/10/21	Method of evaluating relief operation bases for the Nankai Trough Earthwuake
4.	2023/03/08	The rice supply system of East Asian countries in the late 1930s
5.	2021/09/18	China’s food trade in the late 1930s; Seen from returns of the trade of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
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Winning science prize
1.	2016/03	日本地理学会 2015年度日本地理学会賞（論文発信部門） (「食料の安定供給と地理学—その海外依存の学史的検討—」E-journal GEO 9-2)

Teaching achievements

●Prepared Textbook and Other Teaching Materials

1.	2008 ～ 2008	『Discovering Japan: A New Regional Geography』Chapter 2 Chugoku/Shikoku Region

Message
1.	Do good geography. Do your geography.