THE NEW GEOGRAPHY
Online ISSN : 1884-7072
Print ISSN : 0559-8362
ISSN-L : 0559-8362
Volume 52, Issue 4
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  • Effective Use of Block Models to Help Students Visualize and Understand Real Landforms
    Shinya AMANO
    2005 Volume 52 Issue 4 Pages 1-17
    Published: March 25, 2005
    Released on J-STAGE: April 30, 2010
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  • Kazuhiko UENO, Jia Yin Hu
    2005 Volume 52 Issue 4 Pages 18-31
    Published: March 25, 2005
    Released on J-STAGE: April 30, 2010
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    This paper aims to make clear changes in the relation between the township enterprises and the town, examining the economic and social role of the township enterprises in the town, in the case of Dongcheng District in Beijing City. The result can be summarized as follows:
    1. From planned economy to the initial stage of Reform and Opening, the township enterprises was united with local administration, and contributed greatly to town's economy and society through public finance, employment, and residents' service. However, economic system reform and change of locational environment for the township enterprises have reduced gradually their role in employment, administrative expenses and so forth.
    2. And the Local management organization reform “Separation of politics and economy” carried out from 1999 has separated local administration from the township enterprises, and their relation has disappeared in the eye of the law. The arrangement integration by the Collection object economy management centerof Dongcheng District, new management organization, and reform of Possession system tended to convert township enterprises to private companies, and resulted in disappearance of the relation between the enterprises and the town.
    3. However, some companies completely sever relations with the local society, namely the town and others maintain them in some way. The former are usually classified into manufacturing industry, the latter into commerce or service industry. Such situation is influenced by the locational environment in Dongcheng District and the “tertiary industry-oriented” policy of Beijing City based on it and by the industrial feature that commerce and service industry have close combination with residents' life.
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  • The Case of Exercise for College Entrance Examination
    Tomoaki ITO
    2005 Volume 52 Issue 4 Pages 32-43
    Published: March 25, 2005
    Released on J-STAGE: April 30, 2010
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    This report is a practice record of high school geography class with using GIS (Geographic Information System). Today, GIS does not become a popular tool in Japanese geography class. The reasons, the author points out, are two problems. First, many high school teachers think that GIS does not fit their geographical exercise for college examinations Second, a GIS software is not easy for students. When the teachers teach geography with GIS, they have to teach about software more about geographical subjects. The teachers who do not use GIS not so more tend to think that GIS is not useful tool for their classroom. The author tried to make a practice to solve these problems.
    The author showed students how to solve a “Center test”, or a simultaneously test for college entrance examination asked by public examination center, with a diagram which was drawn by GIS software, “Kashmir”. It is well known software among Japanese mountain lover. Not only processing digitalized topographical data, drawing a bird's view diagram for example, but also searching Japanese topographical map from an Internet service. The teacher could comment smoothly with showing online map and bird's view diagram. Students understood about how to solve the tests more.
    Today, we can get the map and data from an internet. But if students use the data with each own computer, it is very difficult to understand more. In this case, the teacher is just showing the diagram made by GIS. The author believes that the teachers have to use GIS more easily.
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