In urban areas, where it is difficult to expect support based on geographical and blood ties, social isolation problems due to the shift to nuclear families and the thinning of communities are considered to be latent care needs that can be addressed through the cooperation of diverse actors. This presentation will discuss the possibility and significance of co-productive spaces, using the care supply system in Toyoake City, Aichi Prefecture, as a case study, which responds to care needs in urban areas.

The theme of this symposium is "New Directions for Geographical Study in Elementary, Middle and High Schools for the Next Revision" and will be held as the 45th Open Lecture in Geography Education.

Coastal pine forests are buffer zones between the sea and human living areas. In terms of ecosystem services, regulating services, which prevent sand and wind from the sea, are more important than resource provisioning services and cultural services, which correspond to recreation and education. However, many residents and citizens are more concerned with provisioning and cultural services. These services motivate people to understand and conserve the regulating services and supporting services of coastal pine forests.

The aim of this study is to take a coherent view of the geography education curriculum in elementary, junior high and senior high schools in relation to the two disciplines of 'regional geography' and 'systematic geography'.

The Khumbu region including Mt. Everest in the eastern Himalayas of Nepal, is located at an altitude above 3,500m. Traditional agropastoralism which combines crop growing and livestock breeding, has been managed by Sherpas. The Khumbu keeps many temporary summer settlements. They cultivate potatoes in some summer settlements. Traditional agropastoralism involves traveling with their livestock between some summer settlements and permanent settlements. Sherpa communities have been greatly affected by the tourism development after World War II. Today, only the basic form of traditional agropastoralism is maintained and the Khumbu Sherpas have been facing various problems that threaten their agropastoralism as subsistence.

A quarter of a century has passed since The Association of Japanese Geographers established a disaster response committee in 2001. During this time, our society has responded to many disasters, including the Great East Japan Earthquake and the heavy rain disaster in western Japan. We have also examined the dissemination of hazard maps and topographical classification maps, and disaster prevention education in geography education from a geographical perspective. Today, when the sustainability of Japanese society is once again being questioned and the contribution of geography is required, this symposium will look back on the past history and discuss future prospects for the development of disaster geography. Immediately after the Noto Peninsula earthquake occurred on New Year's Day 2024, we began disaster response. We need to continue to consider how our society should respond to disasters. It is also important to pursue the theory of disaster geography and reflect it in disaster prevention education. This symposium looks at the future of geographical disaster response, research, and education.

The study used statistical data to determine the relationship between the location, size and type of head office of state-owned, private and foreign-invested enterprises and the city. Over the past two decades, these enterprises have had their own characteristics. First, state-owned enterprises are overwhelmingly concentrated in Beijing, especially the larger-scale central enterprises. Second, privately-owned enterprises are concentrated in Shenzhen and Beijing, while there is also a tendency for larger enterprises to locate their headquarters in Hangzhou and Suzhou since 2010. Finally, foreign-invested enterprises tended to locate in Shenzhen in 2001, but in 2020 many of them are headquartered in Shanghai.

The purpose of this paper is to respond to this research topic by exploring the best way to learn regional geography in geography education curriculum for K-12. This research method will be examined based on the curriculum guidelines in Japan, and framework for geography education curriculum for K-12 by Yoshida (2023), which is based on geographical concepts.

In this report, I would like to propose a somewhat concrete framework for regional geography learning in geography education curriculum for K-12.

The purpose of this presentation is to use Shiiba Village, Miyazaki Prefecture as an example, to (1)understand what kind of traditional cuisine there is, (2)have a eating habits of those traditional foods changed compared to the past, and (3)explain the eating habit of those traditional dishes. The aim is to clarify the characteristics seen in the regional development of the region.As the result of the research, the following was clarified. That is, Among the diverse traditional foods of Shiiba Village, we were able to narrow down the most important to 23 items. Rank the items by scoring them based on how much they are currently being eaten. Based on the score, the 23 items are grouped into the 1st group, which are widely eaten, and the 2nd group, which are not as popular as the 1st group, but which are still loved by the local community, and the 3rd group, we were able to classify them into those that are in danger of disappearing. There is almost no difference in the consumption of these foods depending on age, and the items in group 1 and 2 can be said to the soul foods that have long been rooted in the region. Analysis of the regional evolution of consumption of 23 items revealed six regional evolution.

The GeoCapabilities philosophy emphasizes the importance of using students' disciplinary knowledge (PDK) in lessons to enhance their capabilities and think about alternative social, economic, and environmental futures. The GeoCapabilities 3 project aimed to bridge the gap between academic and school knowledge, focusing on migration and using students' everyday knowledge and geographies. Fourteen geography teachers in five European countries collaborated on the theme, identifying challenges and developing a model of teacher development. The Netherlands school used the concept of 'home' to challenge the official version of migration in school geography, resulting in meaningful lessons.

Monthly fixed-point observations of the Hirasaku River, which flows through Yokosuka City, revealed that the trends in electrical conductivity values were different between the main stream and tributaries. In the future, we will mainly analyze the components.

The study explores the building evacuation policy in Taiwan under Japanese rule. Enacted from December 1943 to August 1945, this policy aimed at preventing air raid damage and securing evacuation sites. The implementation in Taiwan, initially hesitant due to differences in architectural styles and climatic conditions compared to Japan, but evolved in August 1944, ultimately leading to designations in six cities. A significant expansion in Taipei in April 1945 indicated an increased awareness of air raid damage to Taiwan, also suggesting a potential connection to urban planning from 1932.

This is the second report of "Extraction of aspect ratio of band-shaped heavy rainfall area using directional variogram," which was presented by the authors at The General Meeting of the AJG autumn 2023. In the previous presentation, we proposed a method for extracting the aspect ratio of band-shaped heavy rainfall area using directional variograms, focusing on the value of aspect ratio of 2.5 or higher, which is one of the criteria for the release of "Information on Significant Heavy Rainfall," which the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) started to release in June 2021.In this presentation, we set precipitation thresholds and calculated directional variograms for 17 cases for which "Information on Significant Heavy Rainfall" was released in 2022. As a result, when the precipitation threshold was set at 80 mm/3 h, the value was closest to the value announced by the JMA. However, even with the threshold set, there were cases in which the values were lower than the values announced by JMA because of a precipitation system separated from the band-shaped heavy rainfall area. This suggests that a quantitative study of the coverage area is an issue to be addressed in the future.

The Imaichi Alluvial Fan is located in the western part of Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. This study suggests that fluvial terraces in the Imaichi fan area were formed 150, 120-110, and 60 ca ka. Fluvial terraces of the same period have been reported in the surrounding areas, suggesting that they may be climatic terraces formed in response to climatic changes.

“The Fundamentals Program" (since 2021: fundamentalz.jp) aims to reconnect science, art, and society and form a new culture. Here, the results of exchanges between scientists and artists have been publicized through events such as “The Fundamental Festival” and online events such as video streaming. I have participated as a field scientist (urban environmental studies) since the first year and have collaborated with artists. I focus on the differences between field science (such as geography) and other academic disciplines, the characteristics of the artist's point of view, and the possibility of developing collaborations.

2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake caused ground damage in the Echigo Plain. Building damage was concentrated in the Nishi Ward of Niigata City. This paper presents the results of a survey and investigation from a geographical perspective into the factors causing ground disasters in the Nishi Ward of Niigata City.

The ground disasters that occurred in the Nishi Ward of Niigata City can be divided into two types. (1) Ground failure disasters caused by the downward sliding of dune components due to earthquake shaking. (2) Disasters caused by liquefaction of the ground in flood plains caused by earthquake shaking.

The purpose of this study is to elucidate the efforts and innovations in brand strategy through the collaboration of production area organizations, using the lily industry of Uonuma City and Okinoerabu Island.

This presentation considers basic concepts in the research themes of location, and space.

We investigated the triggers and ages of the pre-earthquake slope failure topography (SFT) in the area affected by the 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi Earthquake (H30EQ). As a result, the age of the SFT is considered to be pre-Ta-b fall from post-B-Tm fall. In addition, the tephra slides caused by the H30EQ showed a very similar structure to the trenching survey in this study, which suggests that the SFT may have been formed by an earthquake.

We found sereis of glacier piracy along the grand watershed of the Himalayas where the glaciers flowing north in the southern part of the Tibetan plateau were beheaded by the glaciers flowing soth in the Himalayan range.