(1) Though geographical research in eighteen-nineties were only simple topographies, I was excessivelly suggested by Professor Nitobe's “Nogyo Honron, ” the principle of Agriculture.
(2) In August of 1910, by the suggestion of Satoru Nakame, I organized the Society of Home Land with Inazo Nitobe, Kunio Yanagida and the others. The society carried the co-operation survey in August of 1917 at uchigo village of Kanagawa prefecture, but such a method of study had not been adopted for the Human geography.
(3) Geography should be pursued as a branch of cultural science as well as sociology.
(4) I, for my part, owe my basic Knowledge of human geography to Shigeru Kamizawa, Torajiro Naito and liberaliets of Waseda Univ. And I believe the theories of Banse and the others must be instructive to the Japanese students of geography, as I have been so.