Projects

Project 01 Preparing

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Project 02 Fish behavior

My ecological research project focused on the effects of human disturbance on animal behaviors, in particular, how habituation to human presence and disturbance could make animals less wary, in general, and thus more likely to be killed by their predators.

I set up a series experiment to answer the following questions: (1) How does human intervention influence the response to predator cues? (2) How does human intervention influence the vulnerability to predators? (3) How does human intervention influence the response to novel foods?

In the First experiment, Goldfish were held in the laboratory in 4 treatments that differ in human intervention: (fed by humans or by automatic feeders) x (disturbed regularly by humans attempting to capture them: yes versus no). These conditions habituated fish to different types of human interventions that are common for fish in tourist areas. Behavioral assays were conducted to examine treatment effects on responses to novel foods and predation risk cues. A predation trial was to assay treatment effects on survival with largemouth bass.
In the second experiment, Goldfish was held in the laboratory in 3 treatment that differs in human intervention levels: control group, low-disturb group, and high-disturb group. Behavioral assays were conducted to examine treatment effects on responses to novel foods and predation risk cues. A predation trial was to assay treatment effects on survival with largemouth bass.
The last experiment I did was the Goldfish resting behavior. Although there are some studies on the resting behavior of fish and Goldfish, it still has many mysteries. Significantly， based on my experiments with human interference and how human interference affects the resting behavior of Goldfish. For example, more nervous fish (high-disturb) may stay at the bottom longer.

Project 03 Tourism research

The arrival number of inbound tourists in Japan has been increasing in recent years. However, most international tourists choose the most famous tourist cities and top tourist attractions as their destination, rather than rural areas. Most international tourists in Japan are from China. Although group tourists take the proportion of 61.1 percent at Chinese tourist market, potential Chinese individual tourist market will increase because new individual tourist visa policies and preferential policies are promoted. Foreign individual tourists (FIT) can manage the whole travel dependently. I clarified the influence of collecting information on Chinese individual tourists on their travel destination selection. The results showed that Chinese individual tourists from the collection of information to set the route of all the travel must be resolved by themselves. The main source of information gathering was the word of mouth. In the future, it is necessary to clarify the contents of information being collected

Project 04 Fukushima 1_New Farmer

The first research project in Fukushima focused on how new farmers got farmland and successful in farming in Fukushima Minami Aizu area. In this study, based on the survey of the "Nango tomato" newcomers, we clarified the role of the mediating farmers to secure of farmland for newcomers. As a result, the mediating farmers have taken care of the newcomers from many aspects, such as the teaching of agricultural technology to the securement in a farmland and so on. Therefore, the choice of the training farmhouse is very important. And there are many examples that the securement in a farmland of the newcomers depends on the adjustment of the support farmer.

Project 05 Fukushima 2_Internal migration

The second research project I did in Fukushima's research area was the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident area, where most residents are still taking refuge. Still, some new immigration phenomena exist there. Therefore, my project aimed to clarify immigrant motives and their reasons to choose the disaster area. The occupation of immigrants has a difference, and respondents who have NPO account more than other occupation. Other occupations are self-employed, hotel management and civil servant. It can be considered the cause of the following. Even immigrants are invited to the reconstruction of the meeting, as a real resident

Project 06 Fukushima 3_Community development

As the final research project in Fukushima, I did a study of community construction through iPad during the evacuation of Namie-machi in Fukushima Prefecture. In this study, we focus on the impact of Tablets on community reconstruction in the disaster area. The tablet availability of Namie-machi is high. There is much use of the information retrieval when I receive information, but there is little use of the communication. Inhabitants feel information increase and attachment and the bond to the area

Project 07 Tokyo questionnaires

I conducted an extensive online questionnaire, which surveyed residents of the Tokyo area about their intention to move to the countryside, choose information, and determine which rural area they wanted to move to. As a result, in the ranking of migration requirements, there are many respondents who selected jobs and houses as the first place, and the goodness of medical care and the natural environment etc. is often ranked third and fourth. It is necessary to clear basics condition to support the life such as the work and house to lead to migration. In addition, possibility chosen as an emigration place increase in work and a house if medical care and natural environments are good.

Project 08 Internet in rural area

During my Ph.D. degree at the Rural Planning Laboratory, Department of Agriculture, Kyoto University, I was interested in how rural areas react under new stimuli, and I had two primary focuses: rural development and social media impacts. My dissertation is a study on the influencing factors of Internet adoption in rural areas of China. With the development of ICT technology, Internet was playing a vital role in the rapidly growing rural China. Internet is capable to delivers information to rural residents at anytime and anywhere. However, user acceptance of Internet was an important problem to the successful implementation of Internet development. Therefore, there was a need to study the factors that affect user intention to use Interment, based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). I did series of studies and published four papers.