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（Last updated : 2023-05-03 12:52:16）

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.	～1987/03	│ Hiroshima University │ Graduated
3.	～1989/03	Doctoral Program (1st Semester) │ Hiroshima University │ Completed
4.	～1993/03	Doctoral Program (2nd Semester) │ Graduate School, Division of Letters │ Hiroshima University │ Accomplished credits for doctoral program

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.		The Association of Japanese Geographers
2.		The Human Geographical Society of Japan
3.		The Japan Association of Economic Geographers
4.		The Japanese Society for Geographical Sciences
5.		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 │ (Co-authored)
2.	2020/02	Nature, Culture, and Food in Monsoon Asia │ ,pp.vii-xvii, 165-169 (Co-authored)
3.	2019/04	An Introduction to Field Research │ (Co-authored)
4.	2018/03	Modern Japan’s Food Chains: Geography and Overseas Operaion │ (Sole-authored)
5.	2017	Geography of Relief Goods Transportation │ (Co-authored)
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Papers
1.	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 (Sole-authored)
2.	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 (Sole-authored)
3.	2021/03	Perspectives of the World as Depicted in Children’s Encyclopedias from Japan’s Period of Rapid Economic Growth │ Journal of East Asian Identities │ 6,pp.1-23 (Sole-authored)
4.	2021/03	Food and Agriculture as Depicted in Children’s Encyclopedias: Differences in This Half Century │ 4,pp.57-75 (Sole-authored)
5.	2021	A consideration of the emergency relief expenses for the 7. 18 Flood in Gobo City, 1953 │ Annals of the Yamaguchi Geographical Association (Area Yamaguchi) │ 50,pp.25-41 (Sole-authored)
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2023/03/08	The rice supply system of East Asian countries in the late 1930s (The International Workshop on Climate, Water, land, and Life in Monsoon Asia)
2.	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
3.	2019/10/19	Information Collection and Exchange in Times of Major Wide-Area Disaster: A case study of the 7.18 Flood (The 14th Japan-Korea-China Joint Conference on Geography)
4.	2018/10/20	How Relief Supplies Should Be Delivered to Areas Affected by a Natural Disaster: The Method Used during the Great East Japan Earthquake Will Not Be Applied during the Nankai Trough Earthquake (The 13th China-Korea-Japan Joint Conference on Geography)
5.	2018/09/23	A book titled “Nature, Culture and Food in Monsoon Asia” The past and the future
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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.