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Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University / Design Research Institute
Associate Professor・ Urban ecology: Cities should serve as habitat not only for humans, but also for living creatures, including animals and plants. Exploring how we can design and create spaces that symbolize such ecology.
・ Landscape Cemetery Project: A plan for a new mourning landscape that combines reforestation and regional regeneration planning methods to address the social issue of insufficient cemeteries.
Recent Topics of Interest: The Wildness of the City as a Cultural Landscape
Motto in Research or in Life: Live with flexibility just like the flowing water, while keeping your destination in sight.
Hobby / Holiday: Creating a Sustainable Garden
Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University / Research Center for Space Agriculture and Horticulture
Professor / DirectorMy primary research encompasses various areas, including studying how plants respond to environmental stimuli such as gravity, light, touch, and moisture. Additionally, I investigate sex differentiation and expression of cucurbit flowers. Notably, I have rediscovered the ability of plant roots to show positive hydrotropism and clarified the unique molecular mechanisms underlying this process. Moreover, I have demonstrated the value of spaceflight experiments in enhancing our understanding of plant functionality.
Recent Topics of Interest:
I have been fascinated by peanut gynophore for a long time. After flowering, these gynophores exhibit a remarkable response to gravity as they grow downward and penetrate the soil. Despite being a part of the flower’s above-ground tissue, the gynophore behaves like a root. My particular interest lies in unveiling the mechanistic aspect of this phenomenon in peanuts, which hold a special significance as a prized product of Chiba prefecture.
Motto in Research or in Life:
Making an effort brings about serendipitous encounters with individuals that can create profound turnings point in life
Hobby / Holiday: Mountain climbing (walking), Skiing, Fishing
Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University
ProfessorMy research mainly focuses on the following two areas:
1）Expanding social farming initiatives, which aim to provide opportunities for individuals with disabilities to work and remain in agriculture-related fields through collaborative efforts between the agriculture and welfare sectors
2）Implementing food system initiatives necessary to increase domestic wheat and barley production, addressing food security concerns within the unstable international environment
Current Topics of Interest:
・Social Farming for individuals with disabilities, social withdrawal, and elderly with dementia
・Enterprise support for social farming initiatives
・Wheat production and processing through social farming
Research and Life Motto:
Research Motto: Practice over theory
Life Motto: Every experience counts
Hobbies / Holiday Activities:
Listening to rock music, Watching professional baseball games and movies, Traveling, Walking, Dining out
