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YANO Keiji

Department / Course College of Letters Area Studies Program

Title / Position Professor

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

Academic background
1.	1980/04～1984/03	Department of Geography │ Faculty of Science │ Tokyo Metropolitan University │ Graduated
2.	1984/04～1986/03	Master Course │ Geography │ Graduate School of Science │ Tokyo Metropolitan University │ Completed
3.	1986/04～1988/03	Doctorial Course │ Geography │ Graduate School of Science │ Tokyo Metropolitan University │ Unfinished
4.	1992/06 Degree Acquisition	│ Tokyo Metropolitan University Doctor of Science (Ph.D.)

Business career
1.	1988/04/01 ～ 1992/03/31	Assistant Professor │ │ Faclty of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University
2.	1992/04/01 ～ 2002/03/31	Associate Professor │ │ College of Letters
3.	2002/04/01 ～	Professor │ │ College of Letters, Ritsumeikan University

Committee and society
1.	2020/10 ～	Science Council of Japan (SCJ) Member
2.	2018/04/01 ～ 2022/03/31	Research Center for Science Systems, JSPS Program Officer

Research activities
1.		The Human Geographical Society of Japan
2.		The Association of Japanese Geographers
3.		GIS Association of Japan
4.		TOKYO GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
5.		Japan Cartographers Association
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Subject of research
1.	Human Geography
2.	Geographical Information Science
3.	Digital Humanities

Research summary
GIS & GISc in Human Geography GIS in Digital Humanities

Present specialized field
Human geography (Keyword：Human Geography)

Books
1.	2022/07/25	Developing and Evaluating Virtual Heiankyō AR │ ,pp.39-64
2.	2019	The rise in vacant housing in post-growth Japan. │ ,pp.45-72
3.	2019	The Shape of Japan: Backgrounds, Materials and Methods │ ,pp.9-28
4.	2019	Urban Abandonment and Housing Vacancies in Japanese Local Cities: A Case of Kyo-machiya, Traditional Wooden Town Houses │ ,pp.111-122
5.	2017/03	3D structures, acquisition │ ,pp.0
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Papers
1.	2024/03	Spatiotemporal analysis of cities using spatial big data centered on human flow data: Case study of Kyoto City during the COVID-19 pandemic │ Geographical Reports of Tokyo Metropolitan University │ 59,pp.119-126
2.	2023/11/16	Japanese Studies Spotlight: The CDDP Great Kantō Earthquake Project: A Collaborative Mapping Project │
3.	2021/03	Construction of GIS Database of Alexandria Based on the Old Maps │ アート・リサーチ │ 21,pp.33-44
4.	2020/09	Visualization of Geospatial Information in Humanities: Overlapping Maps │ ,pp.1-6
5.	2019	Japanese Lexical Variation Explained by Historical Contact Patterns │ ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information │ 8 (9)
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2025/03/28	Creating a gazetteer of place names on old Japanese topographical maps using MapKurator
2.	2025/03/15	The Evolution and Development of the Association of Japanese Geographers and the Human Geographical Society of Japan: Collaboration for the Future of Geography
3.	2024/11/16	The Virtual Kyoto Project as a Tool for Digital Humanities
4.	2024/08/28	Constructing a place-name dictionary for the present and the past - a case study of the old Japanese maps
5.	2024/08/27	Urban Analysis of Mobile Phone Big Data and the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Winning science prize
1.	2012	Esri Esri 2012 Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research -KAKENHI-
1.	2022/06/30 ～ 2027/03/31	A Geographical Pursuit on the Development of a "GIS Place-Name Dictionary" for Japan as a Foundation for Interdisciplinary Research on Digital Humanities │ etc.
2.	2022/04/01 ～ 2025/03/31	Reformulating the map literacy in a digital age │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B)
3.	2021/04/05 ～ 2025/03/31	Ultra-High-Resolution Visualization of 3D Scanned Big Data for Assisting Recognition of Large-Scale 3D Structures in the Real World │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(A)
4.	2020/04 ～ 2025/03	Health geographies integrating human life course and environmental changes │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(A)
5.	2019/11/08 ～ 2022/03/31	Restoration of the Archaeological Water System of Alexandria for Sustainable Development -Via Remote Sensing and GIS │ Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows
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