Human Geography in Japan: Its Development and Current Circumstances

Abstract

This essay introduces the development of human geography in Japan and conditions affecting it at the present time. At the present time Japanese human geography, which gradually accumulated findings by absorbing and reworking methods from Europe and America beginning in the 1910s, is seeing new standpoints, subjects, and methods of research emerge from a younger generation and opportunities for transmitting findings abroad are also increasing. However, there is cause for concern in the sometimes too drastic rupture with traditional human geography.