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The author elucidates three distinct currents of research trends arising during the period 1980-1995 in Japanese cultural geography. First to be noted is the growing concern of the cultural geographer with methodological discussion on the culture concept in cultural geography and on its applicability to data organization in practical work. Next is the rejuvenation of traditional study of subsistence activities in the peasant society, in which a large proportion of Japanese cultural geographers have single-mindedly engaged, through the dominant influence of ethnoscience and the cognitive sciences during this period. And finally, cultural studies and other critical theories came to have an impact on the formation of new interest in the issues of the politics of culture and cultural representation in recent Japanese cultural geography.
