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HANAOKA Kazumasa

Department / Course College of Letters Area Studies Program

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Letters
2.	Kinugasa Research Organization Institute of Disaster Mitigation for Urban Cultural Heritage

Academic background
1.	～2007/03	Doctoral Program (2nd Semester) │ Geography Major │ Graduate School, Division of Letters │ Ritsumeikan University │ Completed
2.	2007/03 Degree Acquisition	│ Ritsumeikan University PhD
3.	～2004/03	Doctoral Program (1st Semester) │ Geography Major │ Graduate School, Division of Letters │ Ritsumeikan University │ Completed
4.	～2003/10	Master Course │ MA in Geographical Information Systems │ School of Geography │ [UK] University of Leeds │ Completed
5.	～2002/03	Department of Geography │ College of Letters │ Ritsumeikan University │ Graduated
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Business career
1.	2024/04/01 ～	Professor │ College of Letters │ Ritsumeikan University
2.	2018/04/01 ～ 2022/03/31	│ │ Ritsumeikan University
3.	2016/04/01 ～ 2024/03/31	Associate Professor │ College of Letters │ Ritsumeikan University
4.	2012/10/01 ～ 2016/03/31	Assistant Professor │ International Research Institute of Disaster Science │ Tohoku University
5.	2009/04/01 ～ 2012/09/30	Assistant Professor │ Department of Geography │ Ritsumeikan University
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Research activities
1.		The Japan Association of Economic Geographers
2.		The Human Geographical Society of Japan
3.		The Japanese Society for Geographical Sciences
4.		GIS Association of Japan
5.		Tokyo Geographical Society
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Qualification and license
1.	2017	Advanced Regional Analyst
2.	2002	Assistant Surveyor

Subject of research
1.	Development of new spatial analysis with Big Data
2.	Evaluation of socual vulnerability against natural disaster
3.	Japanese in abroad and foreign residents in Japan

Research summary
Spatial analysis of disasters, crimes, health and population based on geospatial big data

Present specialized field
Geography, Human geography (Keyword：Human Geography, Geographic Information Science, Disaster Science, Big Data, Spatial Analysis, Population migration, Land-use, Kyoto)

Books
1.	2021	Ethnic Enclaves in Contemporary Japan
2.	2021	Long-Term Mass Displacements—The Main Demographic Consequence of Nuclear Disasters? │ ,pp.15-48
3.	2015	Fertility Outcomes and the Demographic and Socioeconomic Backgrounds of Three Types of Couples: Cross-border, Immigrant, and Native-born Couples(In Ishikawa, Y. (ed.): International Migrants in Japan: Contributions in an Era of Population Decline) │ ,pp.44-73
4.	2015	Turkish Communities and Islamic Education for Children in Aichi Prefecture(In Ishikawa, Y. (ed.): International Migrants in Japan: Contributions in an Era of Population Decline) │ ,pp.195-211
5.	2012/03	Digital maps and landscape analysis on a naval port city │ ,pp.233-236+口絵
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Papers
1.	2024/07	Can heterolocalism explain the residential patterns of small populations of foreigners in Japan? The cases of Afghans, Laotians, Bolivians and Turks │ Population, Space and Place │
2.	2021/03	Population Change and Internal Migration in Australia During the Resource Boom in 2000s │
3.	2019/07	Visualizing Regional Characteristics of Community Names by Using “Historical Gazetteer” │ 13,pp.185-192
4.	2018/03	New insights on relationships between street crimes and ambient population: Use of hourly population data estimated from mobile phone users’ locations │ Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science │ 45 (2),pp.295–311
5.	2018/03	Strategic cross-border marriages:An investigation based on the spousal age gaps of foreign-born wives in the US │ Memoirs of the Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University │ 57,pp.135-154
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2012/05/19	A Spatial microsimulation for creating a synthetic lifestyle database and individual based consumer classification
2.	2011/09/05	A spatio-temporal analysis on applicants for enlisted soldiers in Modern Japan during 1897-1921
3.	2011/04/15	Reading space-time clusters of outbreaks on a set of historical disease maps: Analysing an early effort to detect clusters of typhoid fever cases in Kyoto, 1928-9
4.	2011/04/15	Space-Time dynamics of the Japanese urban system
5.	2011/04/14	Microsimulating spatio-temporal commuting behavior of university students in Kyoto City, Japan
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Other research achievements
1.	2011/03/18	Maps of foreign nationals living in eastern Japan (Personal homepage)

Winning science prize
1.	2003	The EuroDirect Demograf* International Award

Teaching achievements

●Practical Example of Education Technique

1.	2009/04	Interactive assessment using a comment card　among students
2.	2008/04	Fieldwork using a mobile GIS

●Other Special Instructions about Teaching Activities

1.	2009/06 ～ 2009/06	Indonesia Public Policy Training Program (Practical)

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