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I make a presentation with regional characteristics of Mimasaka Province by "EMI NOSHO", which is a book of farming written at latter half of Edo Era. Items of presentaion as follows: (1) when and where was written "EMI NOSHO". "EMI NOSHO" was written 1823-24 and in Emi(easternmost part of MImasaka Privince). (2) geographical characteristics of Emi. Emi situate in small basin in Chugoku Mountains. Emi was a post town of Inaba Highway at Edo Era, so new informations of farming might have flowed in here by Highway. (3) farming characteristics of "EMI NOSHO". "EMI NOSHO" wrote how to grow 10 kindes of useful trees. "EMI NOSHO" wrote how to determine the sex of stuble of rice and cotton.

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The Mt. Azuchi was an important mountain of the relation of the position of the Shinto shrine. That it was admitted from of old as the position of the center of Mt. Fuji and the Mt. Daisen.

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In Musashi Province, many towns and villages held Periodic Markets during the Edo era. There are many previous works about these markets, but most of these works don't discuss the Periodic Markets in the eastern Musashi Province, such as Katsushika County. In light of this situation, I examined how the villages in Katsushika County used Periodic Markets. This paper is a case study of Nigohan District. It was the old district name of Misato City and about half of Yoshikawa City during the Edo era.
The village reports made in Nigohan District recorded that the people of these villages sold surplus rice in the markets. Hiranuma Market is recorded most often in these reports. There was a rice-trading center in Nigohan District. The villages in southern Nigohan District, however, used both Hiranuma and Matsudo Market.
Hiranuma was an urban district with over 400 houses on both sides of the main street on which the periodic market was held. Many rice traders lived there and formed the rice-traders association. They had the river barges, which transported the rice to Edo, in the middle of the nineteenth century. At this time, Hiranuma Market was used by the villages not only Nigohan District, but also in Matsubushi District and Kakinoki District.

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My thesis focuses in Bayreuth city's Historical Map & Drawing(Landkarte) from the time of citie's foundation until nowaday. I wish to point out Bayreuth has city's history not only Richard Wagner Festspiel stadt & Holy site of das Dritte Reich but also Humanity of relation to Nauture & Europian spritualism.

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This paper examines the pictorial maps of Harima Province of Japan from the Siebold collection of Leiden University Library.

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A globe at annaka city in gunma prefecture was reported. The globe was made OHTA Yusaiin 1852 year,the late edo period. A globe at Annaka city in Gunma prefecture was reported. The frame was made of woods. The diameter of the globe was 36cm. The surface was covered by the whitewash paper. The world map was drawn in the paper. That world map was published in 1835 year in France. In Japan, NITUKURI Shougo translated this map to japanese language. OHTA Yusai producted the several same ones at that time. In present,only two globes are preserved in cluding this one. The other one is in bad preserved contition. This world map type globes exists seven ones in the present Japan named "MITUKURI Shougo type".

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This study investigates the history of media industry, especially focusing on the geopolitical background in modern Shanghai, spatially divided by the French Concession and the International Settlement, which included an informal Japanese district in Hongkou, and Chinese area.

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To make clear the process and background of the migration of Han people to Manchurian area just before the time of the birth of the state of Manchuria in the beginning half of the 20th century, based on the journeys and research documents written by the students of the Toa Dobun Shoin College.

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The aim of my presentation is to make clear the trends and characteristics of fishery and fishing villages, and to bring out the pattern of the fishing villages in Shima peninsula, using the national census of fishery.

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Recently, it has become popular that firms success economically by utilizing environmental element as a tool in the society. A social trend called environmental modernization has pushed such a movement. However, it does not seem easy to realize a project that wasted ceramic dishes are collected and transformed into new dishes in the factory. There is nowhere such a project has ever been tried in the world. It is needed that one directional commodity flow from the producers to the consumers should be conversed into the mutual direction. A new process of collection and reproduction is added to the ordinal capitalistic system connecting production and consumption via distributing, and this will drastically change the relationship between human and ceramic goods. It is the beginning of new age that design means not only the coloring and figuring of dishes but also the re-building of the relationship between human and ceramics. The purpose of this study is to investigate the re-production system of ceramics using recycled resources. This system was built in Mino production region located in the southern Gifu prefecture. The project started in 1997, in order to advance, had to resolve the problems such as technological difficulty, the networking of collecting wasted dishes, and the production and sale of recycled dishes. This study clarifies how producers and distributers behave in the production site and how consumers and community groups perform so as to solve such tasks. It may seem that the building of ceramic production system using recycled resource is a kind of compliant movement adjusting environmental boom. But, it is a superficial viewpoint. It should be pointed out that this system has a possibility to strengthen the international price competition of domestic industry and to review the social relationship between human and ceramic goods.

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The purpose of this presentation is to show how environmental movement against public work projects (especially a dam construction project) has been developed.

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This article views a way to record, to conserve and to show "what was / what happened here" through collecting materials at redevelopment areas. I show a process as one way of archiving, as many as possible, the things which are difficult to conserve because of some practical restrictions or which are excluded or ignored.
1. Collecting the materials which tell "what was done" and "how a person felt" at the place in daily life or work.
2. Collecting the materials which display architectural environment at the place.
3. Keeping these materials together and preparing the retrieval method which gather information for a particular place. First, I manage the materials based on archival methods and describe a catalog ruled by EAD. Second, I edit PI gazetteer and use it as a placename authority file, then the information about "here" is able to be retrieved from multiple sources. In addition, this gazetteer also plays the role "Conservation placename", by linking placename which cannot be specified by single material with another material.
Both catalog and gazetteer comply with international standards, so this way is applicable to other cases.

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It is important for working over the residence policy in the future to understand parent and child's place of residence and the residential relationship of the visiting frequency etc. under the declining birthrate and growing proportion of elderly people. In this study, the analysis was advanced in the Momoyamadai District in the Senri New Town based on the questionnaire survey. The object of this study are public houses and condominiums. Many elderly people must be living in the former, and some of their children may be living in the latter. As a result of the analysis, it was gotten that the intentionality from cohabitation to the adjacent separation was high both the parents home and the child home.

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This research explores the households' decision-making processes on residential choices by current residences of owner-occupant condominiums in Makuhari Bay Town. Makuhari Bay Town was developed by the Chiba Prefecture on the reclamation of Tokyo Bay. Interview surveys were conducted to collect data from condominium residents in the research area. 112 households who own their condominiums were used for this analysis. Most of the residents prefered to live close both to their parental residences and to their offices. The searching areas were different by the periods they moved into Makuhari Bay Town.

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The purpose of the survey was to learn about the cultural competence of Japanese managers in their particular German working environments. We chose three very different business locations for our investigation.In the following, a brief overview of the main research results by the six categories of the interview survey. 1. For successful international communication of greatest importance is finding a common language, bridging cultural distances, and adjusting to the local system of meanings. In Düsseldorf and Berlin the common language was English, on the other hand in Wolfsburg it was German. The Wolfsburg-based manager was most integrated in the local network. 2. All managers emphasized that they feel comfortable about living in Düsseldorf, but also mentioned difficulties integrating and sharing information with German people outside of the workplace. Managers based in other locations indicated having achieved a deeper understanding since they had to overcome more difficulties. 4. The business culture at the three locations varied considerably. In Düsseldorf the high concentration of Japanese people does not challenge Japanese individuals to adjust much to the German environment. Managing in Wolfsburg, means that Japanese staff needs to work in a German workplace. This challenges the individual manager to adjust to local management style. Managing in Berlin means experiencing a multi-cultural workplace and challenging their inter-cultural management skills. 5.Japanese managers often rely on the support of German staff with a good command of English and an understanding of the local market. Working for a better life, as a common concept, can bridge cultural differences. 6. Japan-specific infrastructure was seen as important for Japanese management abroad. Düsseldorf cannot be beaten by the other locations. We investigated also the locational preferences, behavioural orientation and the culturally fluent informant in the ego-network of the manager. Company environment The Japanese managers stated that HRM is most important. Second, the working atmosphere was identified as important, but for the Wolfsburg-based manager collaboration within the multinational company network was most important. Market environment Market opportunities are most important for most managers based in Düsseldorf and Berlin. For the Wolfsburg-based managers the collaborative development with the Volkswagen AG was most important. A supportive government was important for the managers based in Düsseldorf. Living environment A livable living environment is most important for expatriated managers. The managers who lived in Berlin and Wolfsburg placed greater emphasis on the local information network whereas managers living in Düsseldorf had greater preference for manifold city life. Preferred workplace and living place Düsseldorf is the preferred working place of Japanese managers. A similarly clear yes-vote for the current work location came also from a Berlin-based manager. Behavioral orientation Düsseldorf-based managers indicated a stronger orientation to take risk and felt sufficiently confident to apply home country practices, while the Wolfsburg managers indicated more efforts to adapt to the local business practices. Experience and challenge Most managers were actively involved in the decision making of the local subsidiary but merely indicated that they succeeded in creating cross-cultural synergy. The findings infer that the disadvantage of a spare nation-specific network can be turned into an advantage by extending into local information networks and engaging with local managers who can function as cultural informants. Düsseldorf is a good location for short-and long-term assignments. Wolfsburg is a good location for knowledge building regarding German automotive engineering and management, and Berlin can be seen as a good location to train cross-cultural management skills.

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The objective of the presentation is to consider some possibilities of economic geography modeling, exploring the methodological difference between P. Krugman and A. Pred, both who have approached to each other side of discipline, neo-classical economics and economic geography.

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Verifying the effectiveness of housing support by making use of private potential resources for housing vulnerability.

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I release an analysis of a social geography of residents' fear of crime and discuss implications for sociological and geographic research.

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