NISHIMURA Yuichiro
| Faculty Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Group of History,Sociology and Geography | Professor |
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Yuichiro
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Research History
- Apr. 2021 - Present, Nara Women's University, Faculty Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor
- Apr. 2012 - Mar. 2021, Nara Women's University, Faculty, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor
- Oct. 2008 - Mar. 2021, Aichi Institute of Technology, Disaster Prevention Research Center, 客員准教授
- Apr. 2010 - Mar. 2012, Nara Women's University, Faculty of Letters, 准教授
- Oct. 2005 - Sep. 2008, Aichi Institute of Technology, Disaster Prevention Research Center, ポストドクトラル研究員
- Sep. 2003 - Sep. 2005, 大学共同利用機関法人人間文化研究機構 総合地球環境学研究所講師（研究機関研究員）研究プロジェクト4-2「アジア・熱帯モンスーン地域における生態史モデルの構築1945-2005」所属, 研究機関研究員（講師）
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Academic Activities
- 地理学学生・院生・若手研究者オンライン研究会, Academic society etc, Oct. 2020 - Present
- 友引ナイト！！, Academic society etc, Mar. 2015 - Present
- 日本地理学会「GISと社会」研究グループ集会, Academic society etc, 20 Mar. 2024
- International Cartographic Conference 2019 Tokyo, Competition etc, Jul. 2019
- International Geographical Union 2013 Kyoto regional Conference, Competition etc, Aug. 2013
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Published Papers
- Refereed, The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Copernicus GmbH, Analysis of the spatiotemporal accumulation process of Mapillary data and its relationship with OSM road data: A case study in Japan, Toshikazu Seto; Yuichiro Nishimura, Abstract. This paper presents a geospatial analysis of a FlatGeobuf database composed of six years of geographic data on approximately 41.7 million Mapillary photo shooting locations throughout Japan and geospatial data including road data from OpenStreetMap (OSM). Although Mapillary has a shorter track record than OSM, it is a massive data source and its use as a new resource for volunteered geographic information is expected to attract attention in the future. Therefore, we aim to clarify the geographical distribution of Mapillary users and time-series transitions and attempt to analyze the relationships of these road landscape images with OSM road data and the local geographical distribution characteristics. Although the geographical distribution of Mapillary locations is biased, much information is collected for local roads, which may improve the quality of OSM road data and expand the overall road data., 06 Aug. 2022, XLVIII-4/W1-2022, 403, 410, Scientific journal, 10.5194/isprs-archives-xlviii-4-w1-2022-403-2022
- Refereed, Geo-spatial Information Science, Informa UK Limited, Quality assessment of volunteered geographic information for outdoor activities: an analysis of OpenStreetMap data for names of peaks in Japan, Jun Yamashita; Toshikazu Seto; Nobusuke Iwasaki; Yuichiro Nishimura, 01 Jul. 2022, 1, 13, Scientific journal, 10.1080/10095020.2022.2085188
- Refereed, ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION, MDPI, Quality Verification of Volunteered Geographic Information Using OSM Notes Data in a Global Context, Toshikazu Seto; Hiroshi Kanasugi; Yuichiro Nishimura, Although the data obtained from volunteered geographic information (VGI) are inherently different from public surveys, the quantity of the data are vast and the quality of the data are often poor. To improve the quality of VGI data, the positional accuracy and diversity and interaction of the number of users involved in the regional generation of the data are important. This research proposes a new approach for the accumulation of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data by using OSM Notes and attempts to analyze the geographical distribution and the characteristics of the contents of the contributions, quantitatively and qualitatively. Subsequently, the results demonstrated regional differences in OSM Notes, but it provided users with an understanding of the new features of quality management in OSM, even in regions where OSM activities are not necessarily active. In addition, it was also possible to discover new factors such as the time transition required for the correction and contribution of anonymous users. These results are expected to serve as a tool for users to communicate with each other to resolve data bugs that exist in OSM and provide future researchers with examples of user interaction in global OSM activities., Jun. 2020, 9, 6, 372, 372, Scientific journal, 10.3390/ijgi9060372
- Refereed, International Journal of Cartography, Informa {UK} Limited, VGI contributors’ awareness of geographic information quality and its effect on data quality: a case study from Japan, Jun Yamashita; Toshikazu Seto; Yuichiro Nishimura; Nobusuke Iwasaki, In many countries, geospatial data are typically provided by public institutions. Cities have been mapped using such public data. On the other hand, the demand for geospatial data has been diversifying, given the requirements for mapping cities. To respond to demands for new geospatial data, creation of citizen-generated open data and volunteered geographic information (VGI) have recently become popular. However, the quality of such open data and VGI are not always guaranteed. The number of studies on quality assessments of VGI have increased in recent years. The present study aimed to identify OpenStreetMap (OSM), one type of VGI, as well as contributors' awareness of data quality, and the relationships between their awareness and the positional accuracy of the OSM data contributed by them. The results showed that awareness or lack of the positional accuracy did not affect the quality of the OSM data created by the contributors. These findings suggest that the crowdsourcing approach might not guarantee the data quality of VGI., 04 May 2019, 5, 2-3, 214, 224, Scientific journal, 10.1080/23729333.2019.1613086
- Not Refereed, 地理情報システム学会講演論文集(CD-ROM), ボランタリーな地理空間情報作成者のデータ品質に関する意識と実践, 山下潤; 岩崎亘典; 西村雄一郎; 瀬戸寿一, Oct. 2018, 27, ROMBUNNO.C‐7‐2
- Refereed, Japanese Journal of Human Geography, The Human Geographical Society of Japan, A Survey of Geographical Studies in Japan, 2016, Oct. 2017, 69, 3, 330, 333, 10.4200/jjhg.69.03_303
- Not Refereed, 地理情報システム学会講演論文集(CD-ROM), ボランタリーな地理情報(VGI)のデータ改善に向けた投稿情報の傾向分析:OpenStreetMapにおけるNotes機能を事例に, 瀬戸寿一; 西村雄一郎; 岩崎亘典; 金杉洋, 2017, 26, ROMBUNNO.C74
- Not Refereed, 地理情報システム学会講演論文集(CD-ROM), ボランタリーな地理空間情報の品質評価に関する一考察, 山下潤; 岩崎亘典; 西村雄一郎; 瀬戸寿一, 2017, 26, ROMBUNNO.C71
- Not Refereed, 名古屋産業大学・名古屋経営短期大学環境経営研究所年報, 名古屋産業大学・名古屋経営短期大学環境経営研究所, Results of Spacial Statistical Analayses on Application of Kriging Method For Providing Digital Hazard Maps of Strong Ground Motion in the City of Owariasahi, 菅井 径世; 小川 克郎; 加藤 悟; 森 保宏; 廣内 大助; 西村 雄一郎; 水谷 由香里, Mar. 2016, 15, 1, 15, 10.14995/00000481
- Not Refereed, 奈良女子大学地理学・地域環境学研究報告, 奈良女子大学文学部地理学・地域環境学研究報告編集委員会, Present Situation of proproety Geoweb and the challenge of Counter-mapping by OpenStreetMap in Nara, Japan, 西村 雄一郎, 30 May 2015, 8, 8, 71, 78
- Results of Application of Kriging Method to Producing By Providing Digital Hazard Maps of Strong Ground Motion in the City of Owariasahi, Mar. 2015, 14, 12, 26, 10.14995/00000478
- Not Refereed, 環境経営研究所年報 = BULLETIN OF INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, 名古屋産業大学・名古屋経営短期大学環境経営研究所, Building of A System for Earthquake Disaster Risk Reduction By Providing Digital Hazard Maps of Strong Ground Motion in the City of Owariasahi ~ Set up of A Strong Ground Motion Observation System ~, 菅井 径世; 小川 克郎; 加藤 悟; 森 保弘; 廣内 大助; 西村 雄一郎; 正木 和明, Mar. 2014, 13, 85, 93, 10.14995/00000205
- Not Refereed, 2014, 11, 35, 54
- Refereed, Oct. 2013, 15, 108, 109
- Not Refereed, 名古屋産業大学・名古屋経営短期大学環境経営研究所年報, 名古屋産業大学・名古屋経営短期大学環境経営研究所, Stochastic Analyses of Site Amplifications for Providing Digital Hazard Maps of Strong Ground Motion at the Areas in the City of Owariasahi : An Analysis of the Accuracies Based on the Observations, 菅井 径世; 小川 克郎; 森 保弘; 廣内 大助; 西村 雄一郎; 正木 和明; 倉橋 奨, Mar. 2013, 12, 28, 39, 10.14995/00000171
- Refereed, Proc. of the 15th World Conference in Earthquake Engineering, Detailed Scale Ground Motion Maps with the Guaranteed Accuracy and the Application of Web-GIS for Local Communities, Michiyo Sugai; Haruna Yamda; Sayaka Tomida; Katsuro Ogawa; Yuichiro Nishimura; Susumu Kurahashi, Sep. 2012
- Not Refereed, Stochastic Analyses of Site Amplifications for Providing Digital Hazard Maps of Strong Ground Motion at the\nAreas in the City of Owariasahi ～Toward Wide Public Use of Strong Ground Motion Hazard Maps With High and Guaranteed Accuracies～, Mar. 2012, 11, 46, 62, 10.14995/00000125
- Not Refereed, Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. F6 (Safety Problem), Japan Society of Civil Engineers, SURVEY REGARDING AWARENESS OF LARGE SCALE PRE-STORM EVACUATION IN TIMES OF APPROACHING SUPER TYPHOONS, IMAI Yutaro; KOIKE Norimitsu; NISHIMURA Yuichiro, The Tokai Nederland Storm Surge- Big Flood Regional Authority was established to scrutinise large scale pre-storm evacuation for super typhoons with regard to the downstream Kiso-Sansen and Ise Bay lowland areas. Therefore, six public elementary schools were chosen from Nakagawa, Minato and Minami wards within Nagoya city, which had been damaged during the Ise Bay typhoon. Parents of fifth and sixth year students were asked to participate in a survey. The results of the survey raised several concerns. We cannot anticipate smooth evacuation due to limited awareness of large scale pre-storm evacuation itself. Traffic congestion and parking counter-measures must be considered as we predict most families will end up travelling by car to nearby shelters which are in danger of flooding. Furthermore, the timing of the announcement is important, as the start time of the evacuation may differ due to the typhoon landing time., 2012, 68, 2, I_66, I_73, 10.2208/jscejsp.68.I_66
- Not Refereed, 2012, 6, 2, 224, 226, 10.4157/ejgeo.6.224
- Refereed, Geographical Review of Japan, The Association of Japanese Geographers, Notes on the Issues of "GIS and Society": Critical GIS as an Alternative Geographic Information Science, 若林 芳樹; 西村 雄一郎, With the dissemination of GIS and geospatial technologies, the influence of them on not only geographical research but also society has been discussed in English-speaking countries since 1990s. Further, in Japan, as the production of geospatial data and diffusion of GIS have remarkably progressed, geospatial technologies are penetrating into business and daily life. The aim of this paper is to summarize the argument about the issues of GIS and society in English-speaking countries and consider their implications for the GIS studies in Japan.To begin with, we examined the tone and background of the argument about the issues of GIS and society before 2000 mainly on the basis of the work of Schuurman who called this subject "Critical GIS" dividing the progress of the argument into three periods. As a result, it was found that the controversy between GIS scholars and social theorists in the early 1990s changed to cooperation between two groups around the mid 1990s owing to the dialog meeting held by NCGIA in the USA. This movement led to the establishment of Geographic Information Science that embraces the issues of GIS and society as a research subject.Then, we traced the development of the argument since 2000, especially in North America, and found that the following themes concerning GIS and society have been discussed: the practice of PPGIS, qualitative GIS raised by feminist geographers, social construction of GIS based on the perspective of STS (Science, Technology, and Society), and ethical or legal issues of surveillance and privacy.While these arguments are suggestive of GIS studies in Japan, Japanese scholars do not fully understand the point of the argument. This seems to be reflected in the partial understanding of PPGIS that has been led on the initiative of the Japanese government. Recently, however, interest in the social impact of the sophistication of geospatial technologies has grown in Japan because of the increasing popularity of LBS (Location-Based Services) provided using mobile phones and the Internet. In addition, it is expected that enactment of Japanese NSDI (National Spatial Data Infrastructure) Law in 2007 will promote the prevalence of geospatial information and related technologies. Hence, Japanese scholars are now coming to grips with the issues related to GIS and society. While tackling these issues, we ought to grasp the meaning of critical GIS accurately, considering the characteristics of the technological development and institutional/social context of GIS in Japan., 2010, 83, 1, 60, 79, 10.4157/grj.83.60
- Refereed, Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Time-geographic Analysis on Natural Resource Use in a Village of the Vientiane Plain, Nishimura Yuichiro; Okamoto Kohei; Boulidam Somkhit, This study aims to describe the spatio-temporal aspects of rural daily lives based on natural resource use. We developed new research methodologies using GPS and GIS to collect person-trip data in regions where it is difficult to use questionnaires. By applying the methodology to research conducted in the Vientiane plain, Laos, we have found that this new methodology makes it possible to obtain detailed information about people's daily activities, specifically: what activities were carried out, at what time, where, and with whom. The research site was Dongkhuwaai Village, Xaithany District, located about 30 km by road from Vientiane. The villagers live traditionally, depending on rice crops in the rainy season and use various natural resources. We analyzed their daily activities both in the rainy season and in the dry season. As a result, we found that the daily activities of the villagers had nature-related constraints. They spent all their time in the settlements and there were no modern forms of time discipline (synchronized activity by household members).
We also investigated the influence of urbanization on rural lives. In recent years, a growing number of foreign companies have begun investing in Vientiane and the vicinity, hoping to take advantage of low labor costs. Commuting to such factories has started from Dongkhuwaai Village. However, the number of commuters is not increasing because villagers already have other sources of income from selling natural resources such as aquatic products, mushroom, bamboo shoots, insects, firewood and so on., 2010, 47, 4, 426, 450, 10.20495/tak.47.4_426 - Refereed, Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi), Tokyo Geographical Society, Daily Activity Survey in Lao Suburban Village Using GPS and GIS, NISHIMURA Yuichiro; OKAMOTO Kohei; BOULIDAM Somkhit, Many time-allocation studies have adopted questionnaires (activity diaries) or direct observation of informants. However, it is difficult to use questionnaires in rural areas of developing countries due to problems such as illiteracy, the fact that few people possess a watch, and the lack of place names in many rural and wild areas. Direct observation also has limitations because it is not possible to obtain information from many informants simultaneously. We developed a new survey method combining interviews with the use of GPS and GIS. The procedures are as follows. (1) Each informant is asked to carry a wristband GPS receiver for an entire day. The GPS unit records information related to the spatio-temporal aspects of the informant's activities. (2) After 24 hours of GPS, recording is completed; then the data are stored and represented visually using GIS software (ArcView 9.1). The investigator works out the shape of the spatio-temporal path of each informant by mapping tracking points with time information. (3) Subsequently, as GPS data reveals almost nothing about the content of activities, the investigator interviews each informant to clarify details of activities: what activity was carried out, at what time, where, and with whom.
We conducted the survey in Dongkhuwaai Village, which is located about 30km from Vientiane, the capital of Laos. The daily activities of villagers consist mainly of a combination of subsistence agriculture, fishing, hunting, and gathering. By carrying out this survey, in which 138 villagers participated, it was verified that the new survey method has the following merits. (1) Using GPS improves the accuracy of spatio-temporal data. (2) GPS data can be easily correlated with satellite images and map data, which enables us to consider people's daily activities in combination with various geographical phenomena. (3) Investigators can obtain information outlining an informant's activities from GPS data before conducting interviews, thereby improving the efficiency of interviews., 25 Apr. 2008, 117, 2, 568, 581, 10.5026/jgeography.117.568 - Not Refereed, 30 Sep. 2007, 45, 3, 29, 29
- Not Refereed, 2007, 58, 66
- Not Refereed, 2006, 58, 3, 36, 37, 10.4200/jjhg.58.3_253
- Not Refereed, 2006, 52, 3, 207, 207, 10.20592/jaeg.52.3_207_1
- Not Refereed, 2004, 4, 191, 195
- Not Refereed, 東京大学人文地理学研究, 東京大学大学院総合文化研究科・教養学部人文地理学教室,Department of Human Geography, The University of Tokyo,総合地球環境学研究所,Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Gender Role in the Workplace and the Home in Chinese Cities : A Time-Budget Analysis, 西村 雄一郎, This paper discusses the gender role in the workplace and the home by using the time-budget analysis of Chinese household. Nowadays, Chinese daily lives are changing by the effects of open economic structure. The author argues these changes by reviewing the some of recent studies and analyzing the time-budget data from activity diary survey of several Chinese cities. In the construction of socialistic China, the state intended to make the equal position of female and male in the family. By modernizing the family form, women could work outside of home, and they supplied the need for the industrial and agricultural workforces. The danwei (work unit) is the basic unit of daily activities, in the building the socialistic Chinese cities. The workplace, accommodation units, shopping stores, schools and hospitals in the same danwei are closely located. The danwei operates the facilities like nursery home, living support station or day-care center for socialization of the domestic work. The workplace and the home is not spatially isolated, women's role are not fixed in the private sphere. Though most of household matters have remained on the female role and occupational segregation by sex has existed, separation of gender role has not clear than that of the capitalist society. However, recent economic change to open policies affects the position of female labor. Equal pay between both sexes is declined and many firms avoid the female working in terms of cost inefficiency because they need additional welfare supports in their maternity or child rearing. Some service facilities for supporting women working are restructured. The gender gap in the workplace can enlarge. Next, I analyzed the time-budget data from activity diary survey of several Chinese cities (Tianjin, Dalian, Shenzhen) to realize the relation between everyday working life and domestic life. Allocations of time for classified daily activities (work, household matter, shopping, other private matter, sleep, leisure) are measured, and I discussed the gender division in household by using these data. Allocation of time is varied by these three cities. Working time of Shenzhen 's husband is longer than that of Tianjin's and Dalian's. Because difference of wives'working time by these three cities is relatively short, large gender difference would be seen in Shenzhen's household. Sleeping time in these cities is longer than that of Japanese. Gender difference of sleeping time is very small, which is unlike Japanese household (in Japanese household, wives'sleeping time is shorter than husbands'sleeping time). Sleeping time has areal difference between three cities. Sleeping time of Shenzhen is longer than that of Dalian (about one hour), because natural time could affect to sleeping time. Shenzhen's husbands have shortest time for household matter. In Shenzhen, wives practice most of household matters. This gender division is not so much marked in other two cities. The gender role, which locate male to workplace and female to home is well observed in Shenzhen household. By the analysis of relation between occupational status of husband/wife and time for household matter, the difference in occupational status between husband and wife affects the balance of household matter between husband and wife. If the wife has high occupational status (like management position), husband would tend to do a household matter as compared with other household type. By this analysis, gender role in household could be seen in Chinese household. I would like to point out the gender difference in home and workplace will accelerate as the capitalistic system expanded., 01 Oct. 2003, 16, 16, 105, 119
- Not Refereed, Jun. 2003, 48, 6, 70, 73
- Refereed, Geographical Review of Japan, The Association of Japanese Geographers, Geography of Gender in the Workplace:Toward a More Comprehensive Approach to Gender Studies in Japan, NISHIMURA Yuichiro, This paper reviews the geographic perspectives on gender and the workplace in Japan and discusses these developments in a Japanese geographic context. Although some geographic studies have been conducted in Japan on the gendered workplace, they have taken a limited viewpoint of gender perspectives. The author critically examines several papers on the spatial division of labor and time-geography, because these studies neglected gender relations in the workplace.
Reviewing studies by feminist geographers on the new gender order emerging with post-Fordism (McDowell 1991) and the microgeographies of the workplace constructed based on gender relations, this paper attempts to recognize the changing gender order and everyday gender relations in workplaces in Japan. In the Toyotism period (since the 1970s-80s), it was likely that occupational segregation and gender division of labor were different from these in Western countries. However, the situation changed in the 1990s. Restructuring in the 1990s affected gender relations in the workplace, but it also affected the boundary between the home and the workplace. A new space, where boundaries between the home and workplace are unclear, is emerging.
When examining how the new gender order in Japan is constructed, microgeographies in the workplace, economic/social/cultural/political factors, and networks must all be taken into account., 2002, 75, 9, 571, 590, 10.4157/grj.75.571 - Not Refereed, The journal of the Faculty of Literature, Nagoya University. History, Nagoya University, Location of Japanese Automobile Firms in the U.S., Ito Kenji; Nishimura Yuichiro; Okamoto Kohei; Nagao Kenkichi, 2000, 46, 46, 67, 82, 10.18999/jouflh.46.67
- Not Refereed, 空間・社会・地理思想, Reconceptualizing the links between home and work in urban geography, ハンソン スーザン; プラット ジェラルディン; 西村 雄一郎, 1999, 4, 4, 74, 93
- Not Refereed, Dec. 1998, 43, 12, 60, 66
- Refereed, Japanese Journal of Human Geography, The Human Geographical Society of Japan, The Time-Space Transformation of Automobile Manufacturing Workers:An Analysis Based on the Concepts of Production Project and Family Project, NISHIMURA Yuichiro, In this article, I discuss how the family activities of automobile manufacturing workers from Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) are influenced by the transformation of production projects. Because of the poor economic situation of the 1990s in Japan, the automobile manufacturing section at Toyota put a system of time management into force as a part of its restructuring programme. After the time management system had been enforced, the family activities and gender divisions in households of the manufacturing workers in this section changed to a certain extent. Here, for the methodology, I use the project concept from‘time geography’based on time-space budgeted data, and try to examine the relations between the production project and family projects.
In the second section of this paper, I explain the production project by Toyota and its transformation. The production project strongly influences the activities of the workers. During working hours, the workers are constrained by severe coupling with the production line. Moreover, the daily paths of the workers are determined by the persistence of holiday working, shift changes, and overtime work as an aspect of human resource flexibility within the Toyota production system. During the period of Japanese high-growth, Toyota centrally determined the workers day and night shift system (day shift 8:00∼17:00, night shift 21:00∼6:00) and overtime work. In recent years, the need for cost reduction and improvements in employment efficiency were required due to the change of economic trends in the international market and to changes in Japanese society. This situation caused the appearance of another working pattern, such as the sequential two shift system (1st shift 6:30∼15:15, 2nd shift 16:15∼1:00).
In the third section of this paper, I clarify the sharing activities of the workers in the family project. For the sharing activities, I chose the meal activities and going-out activities of family members. The activity patterns of wife and husband match in the day shift and reverses in the night shift. This pattern changes week by week. It is thought of as continuous activity, most of the worker's families take their meal together in the evening despite this weekly cycle. It remains, however, that the going-out activities are rarely done by them together. It seems that the production project is a significant factor of constraint for the husband doing any activities other than working. Because of the transformation to the sequential two shift system, the activity patterns of wife and husband do not match anymore and so they have a difficulty even in sharing the meal together. However, the husbands have joined shopping activities with their families.
In the fourth section of this article, I discuss the division of household activities of the workers in the family project. For instance, I chose some pickup and send-off activities for their children and I tried to explain the change of gender division of household activities. When the day and night shift system was in place it was impossible the for wife and husband to share the household activities and childcare. Therefore, the wife had to do all the household activities. However, after the sequential two shift system was introduced, husbands began to do household activities such as pickup and send-off activities for their children. Thus, the changes of gender division of household activities became evident. As a consequence, the flexibility of the production project was weakened in daily scale but that of the family project was increased., 1998, 50, 3, 232, 255, 10.4200/jjhg1948.50.232 - Refereed
MISC
- Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, The Association of Japanese Geographers, The rise of crowdsourced webmapping and mapping communities, Nishimura Yuichiro; Seto Toshikazu, 2020, 2020, 0, 345, 345, 10.14866/ajg.2020s.0_345
- Not Refereed, 日本地理学会発表要旨集, オープンデータ活動とネオ地理学, 西村雄一郎, 10 Mar. 2016, 89, 34
- Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, The Association of Japanese Geographers, Open data activity and Neo-geography in Japan, NISHIMURA Yuichiro, 2016, 2016, 0, 100305, 100305, 10.14866/ajg.2016s.0_100305
- Not Refereed, 日本地球惑星科学連合大会予稿集(Web), ジオ系ソーシャルストリーミング番組「友引Night!!」の復活, 近藤康久; 西村雄一郎, 2016, 2016, ROMBUNNO.MTT29‐03 (WEB ONLY)
- Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, The Association of Japanese Geographers, Imprementation Situation of Disaster Risk Reduction Ecucation on Saijo city, Ehime Prefecture and Development for Integrated DRR Education Program, TAKEUCHI YUKIKO; HIROUCHI DAISUKE; NISHIMURA YUICHIRO, 2015, 2015, 0, 100303, 100303, 10.14866/ajg.2015s.0_100303
- Not Refereed, 日本地理学会発表要旨集, NHKアーカイブス災害映像に基づく2000年東海豪雨の報道マッピングの試み, NISHIMURA YUICHIRO; MORITA MASATOSHI; ONISHI KOJI; HIROUCHI DAISUKE, 10 Mar. 2014, 85, 321
- Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, The Association of Japanese Geographers, Mapping heavy rainfall disaster information of NHK television news in Tokai district in September 2000, NISHIMURA Yuichiro; MORITA Masatoshi; OHNISHI Koji; HIROUCHI Daisuke, This Presentation is about mapping heavy rainfall disaster information of NHK television news in Tokai district in September 2000. The maps make use of NHK Archive images of heavy rainfall disaster in Tokai district in September 2000 and each image are geo-referenced manually. We examined the possibility and limitation of these images for making disaster fact data and the gaps between these images and the disaster data by fieldwork.
, 2014, 2014, 0, 100321, 100321, 10.14866/ajg.2014s.0_100321 - Not Refereed, 日本地理学会発表要旨集, カウンターマッピングと参加―東日本大震災後の事例から―, NISHIMURA YUICHIRO, 10 Mar. 2013, 83, 47
- Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, The Association of Japanese Geographers, Counter-mapping and the participation:Some Case Studies After The Great East Japan Earthquake, NISHIMURA Yuichiro, 2013, 2013, 0, 329, 329, 10.14866/ajg.2013s.0_329
- Not Refereed, 日本地理学会発表要旨集, クリティカルGISと日本の『空間情報社会』, NISHIMURA YUICHIRO, 10 Sep. 2010, 78, 29
- Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, The Association of Japanese Geographers, Critical GIS and Geospatial Information Society in Japan, Nishimura Yuichiro, 2010, 2010, 0, 153, 153, 10.14866/ajg.2010f.0.153.0
- Not Refereed, 日本建設情報総合センター研究助成事業成果報告会資料集(CD-ROM), 位置情報を利用した発災時建設現場のための災害情報システムの開発・実証実験, MASAKI KAZUAKI; KOIKE NORIMITSU; NAITO KATSUMI; NISHIMURA YUICHIRO, Nov. 2008, 6th, ROMBUNNO.2007-06
- Not Refereed, ABSTRACTS of the Annual Meeting, The Human Geographical Society of Japan, The Human Geographical Society of Japan, Time-geographic analysis on natural resource use in a village of the Vientiane plain, NISHIMURA Yuichiro; OKAMOTO Kohei; BOULIDAM Somkhit, 2006年雨季・2008年乾季のラオスヴィエンチャン近郊農村ドンクワイ村住民のGPS・活動日誌調査に基づく生活行動データを用い、住民と自然との関わりを、雨季と乾季の違い、都市化の影響による2年間の変化などをふまえ、時間地理学的に明らかにする．, 2008, 2008, 0, 509, 509, 10.11518/hgeog.2008.0.509.0
- Not Refereed, 日本地震学会秋季大会講演予稿集, 阿寺断層帯中部,中津川市加子母地区における古地震調査(速報), HIROUCHI DAISUKE; YASUE KEN'ICHI; DOKE RYOSUKE; SATO YOSHIKI; TANIGUCHI KAORU; SUGITO NOBUHIKO; UCHIDA CHIKARA; HIRAMATSU TAKAKUNI; KITAGAWA SAHOKO; SAKAMOTO TSUTOMU; NISHIMURA YUICHIRO; KURAHASHI SUSUMU, 01 Oct. 2007, 2007, 223
- Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, The Association of Japanese Geographers, Family labor composition and living resource use in the Vientiane Plain, Laos, IKEGUCHI Akiko; NISHIMURA Yuichiro, 2007, 2007, 0, 129, 129, 10.14866/ajg.2007f.0.129.0
- Not Refereed, Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, The Association of Japanese Geographers, The Beginning of Commuting to the Factory and Change in Rural Daily Lives in Vientiane Suburban Village, NISHIMURA Yuichiro; OKAMOTO Kohei, 2007, 2007, 0, 128, 128, 10.14866/ajg.2007f.0.128.0
- Not Refereed, Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, The Association of Japanese Geographers, The development of time-spatial allocation survey using GPS and GIS in Vientiane Suburban Village, Laos, Nishimura Yuichiro, 2006, 2006, 0, 214, 214, 10.14866/ajg.2006s.0.214.0
- Not Refereed, Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, The Association of Japanese Geographers, Time-spatial allocation of the Daily Lives in Vientiane Suburban Area, Laos, Nishimura Yuichiro; Okamoto Kohei, 2005, 2005, 0, 91, 91, 10.14866/ajg.2005f.0.91.0
- Not Refereed, 日本地理学会予稿集, Life time space of the automobile industry assembly line workers in Toyota City., NISHIMURA YUICHIRO, 01 Mar. 1996, 49, 49, 116, 117
Books etc
- Jan. 2023, xxii, 818p, 9784621307939
- Apr. 2022, 4, viii, 251, 7p, 9784812221150
- Mar. 2022, 159p, 9784780312133
- 100 regional problems in the world, Dec. 2021, iv, 219p, 9784779516139
- Nov. 2021, x, 510, 7p, 9784254163582
- Mar. 2021, 227p, 9784780311440
- Mar. 2021
- Mar. 2017, iii, 168p, 9784772242004
- Japan after 3/11: Global Perspectives on the Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Meltdown (Asian In The New Millennium), The University Press of Kentucky, Toshikazu Seto; Yuichiro Nishimura, Crisis Mapping Project and Counter Mapping by Neo-geographers, 2016, 288-304, Not Refereed
- 2013, 314-315, Not Refereed
- Dec. 2012, 196-218, Not Refereed
- Sep. 2008, 48-49, Not Refereed, 9784796702843
- May 2008, Not Refereed, 9784779502217
- Apr. 2008, Not Refereed, 9784335520136
- Apr. 2008, Not Refereed, 9784839602147
- Sep. 2006, xi, 304p, Not Refereed, 9784623046805
- 福祉の世界 (大学の地理学), 古今書院, スティーヴン ピンチ, Sep. 2001, 194, Not Refereed, 4772260021
- Mar. 2001, 277p, 4885010918
- Japan in the bluegrass, Yuichiro Nishimura; Kohei Okamoto, Yesterday and Today –Changes in Workers, 2001, Not Refereed, 9780813121970
Presentations
- 20 Mar. 2025
- Toshikazu Seto; Yuichiro Nishimura, 35th International Geographical Congress 2024, Spatio-temporal Editing Trends Validation of Volunteered Geographic Information with Manual and AI-assisted Mapping, 28 Aug. 2024, 24 Aug. 2024 - 29 Aug. 2024
- Yuichiro Nishimura, 5th International Time Geography Conference, Is Toyama actually Japan's Sweden? Time-geography in the local context, 02 Aug. 2024, 02 Aug. 2024 - 04 Aug. 2024
- 18 Jun. 2024
- 30 Mar. 2024
- 20 Mar. 2024
- 26 Mar. 2023, 2023s_235.pdf, Published, False
- Nominated symposium, 13 Feb. 2022, 13 Feb. 2022 - 13 Feb. 2022
- Public discourse, 28 Jun. 2021, 28 Jun. 2021 - 28 Jun. 2021
- Public discourse, 20 Apr. 2021, 20 Apr. 2021
- Oct. 2020
- Ismail Arai; Yuichiro Nishimura; Samy El-tawab; Ahmad Salman; Kyoko Tamaizumi; Yasushi Ishizuka, Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, Utilizing tablet as a digital camera for K-2 grade mapping workshop in the network restricted environment, Apr. 2020
- Mar. 2020
- Toshikazu Seto, Hiroshi Kanasugi, Daisuke Yoshida and Yuichiro Nishimura, State of The Map 2019, mapcompare.jp launched, Sep. 2019
- Toshikazu Seto, Hiroshi Kanasugi and Yuichiro Nishimura, State of The Map 2019, Analysis of OSM data through OSM-Notes user posting, Sep. 2019
- Jun Yamashita, Toshikazu Seto, Yuichiro Nishimura, Nobusuke Iwasaki, International Cartographic Conference 2019 Tokyo, VGI contributors’awareness of geographic information quality and its effect on data quality: a case study from Japan., Jul. 2019
- Oct. 2018
- Yuichiro Nishimura, International Conference on Spatial Analysis and Modeling, New Trend of Geography Education and Acceptance of OpenStreetMap by Undergraduate in Japan, 09 Sep. 2018, University of tokyo, Japan., True
- 2017
- 2017
- Dec. 2016, Dec. 2016 - Dec. 2016
- 2016
- 2016
- 2015
- 西村雄一郎, State of the Map Japan 2015., オープンデータのインポートプロセス-ガイドラインを守って楽しいインポートを-, 2015, イノベーションセンター浜松
- 2014
- 西村雄一郎, State of the Map Japan 2014., マッパーは荒野を目指すか−日本国内におけるOSMフォーカスエリアについて−, 2014, 東京大学．
- 西村雄一郎, ＧＩＳ学会セキュリティ分科会．, OpenStreetMapの利用とライセンス−オープンデータの地図作成プロジェクト−, 2014, 大阪
- 西村雄一郎, ジオメディアサミット in FOSS4G Hokkaido 2014., FOSS4Gを活用して行う自治体オープンデータのOpenStreetMapへの投入, 2014, 北海道大学．
- NISHIMURA Yuichiro, Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, Counter-mapping and the participation, 2013, １．はじめに東日本大震災以降，日本におけるGISを利用した災害支援・復興活動として，ネオジオグラファー（NeoGeographer）とVGI（Volunteered Geographic Information）による活動が注目されている．従来，GISは専門家や研究者が地理情報を分析するためのツールとして位置づけられてきたが，GeoWebと呼ばれるインターネットを通じたデジタル地図・Web-GISサービス・アプリケーションの利用が急速に拡大し，スマートフォンなどによる位置情報サービスが普及するにつれて，専門的なGISの教育や技術を受けていない人々が広くGISを利用するようになった．こうした人々はネオジオグラファーと呼ばれるようになった．また，ネオジオグラファーを含むさまざまな人々によって大量・主意的に蓄積・共有された地理情報はVGI（Volunteered Geographic Information：ボランタリーな地理情報）（Goodchild 2007）と呼ばれている（瀬戸2010）．東日本大震災においては，安否情報の確認や災害情報の共有がTwitterなどのソーシャルメディア・携帯電話などを通じて行われ，こうした情報をGIS上で視覚化し共有するために，ネオジオグラファーによる活動が活発に行われた．また，2010年のハイチ地震や2011年のクライストチャーチ地震などで世界的な災害支援活動を継続的に行ってきたOpenStreetMapなどの共有型の地図作成活動が東日本大震災においても行われ，被災状況の地図の作成・公開がボランタリーになされた．こういったボランタリーな活動が広がっている基礎として，FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial)などの自由に利用可能な地理情報ソフトウェアの開発の進展・普及拡大によって，地理情報のハンドリングを行うための障壁が小さくなっていることが挙げられる．２．カウンターマッピングとは こうしたGISの普及や一般の人々の利用はこれまでになかった新たなGISと社会の結びつきをもたらしうる．英語圏におけるGISと社会に関するテーマのひとつとなっている参加型GIS（Participatory GIS （PGIS））（若林・西村2010）は，周縁化された人々のためのエンパワメントをその主要な目的のひとつに掲げている．すなわち，政府や大企業など，データを占有し，自らの利益に向けた計画をGISに基づき『客観的』な地図として表象しようとする動きに対して，ローカルコミュニティ，土着の人々，エスニック・マイノリティがカウンターマッピング（counter-mapping）（Peluso 1995）を行うことで，ローカルな課題解決に向けた意思決定過程での合意形成を行う手段として参加型GISを位置づけるものである．３．日本におけるカウンターマッピング 「カウンターマッピング」は従来途上国の農村を中心とする実践において主に用いられてきたが，この概念を東日本大震災後のさまざまなマッピング活動に適用することを試みたい．日本の市民参加GISは行政主導で行われてきたこともあって（西村2010），カウンターマッピングは日本において表面化してこなかった．しかし，東日本大震災以降にその状況は一変した．地震・津波による被害が広範囲にわたり，また原子力発電所の事故も発生したことで，行政からの情報公開の遅れや提供された情報の内容が住民の必要とする日常生活レベルの空間スケールと大きく離れていたなどの問題が頻発した．また，行政がGISで読み込み可能なデータを公開しない，地理情報の処理に関するノウハウが不足しているなどの問題も明らかになった．東日本大震災を契機として作成されるようになったネオジオグラファーによる個々人の被災状況・救援物資の過不足などの支援状況に関するマッピングの事例や福島県や関東で行われている放射線量マッピングの事例を取り上げ，日本におけるカウンターマッピングの現状と今後の課題を示したい．
- 2011
- 2011
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- 2010
- 2009
- Time-geographic analysis on natural resource use in a village of the Vientiane plain, 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada.
- 西村雄一郎; 倉橋奨; 落合鋭充; 谷弘之; 正木和明, 日本災害情報学会第11回学会大会．静岡大学．, 東海地域におけるＧＩＳマッピングを用いた緊急地震速報の高度利用方法の提案, 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada.
- 小池則満; 正木和明; 西村雄一郎; 村松佑規; 山村良太, ３大学連携国際ワークショップ, 愛知工業大学における緊急地震速報を用いた避難訓練について, 2008, 愛知工業大学本山キャンパス．
- 2008
- IKEGUCHI AKIKO; NISHIMURA YUICHIRO, 日本地理学会発表要旨集, 家族労働の世代差と資源利用活動, 10 Sep. 2007
- 2007
- 2007
- 2007
- 2007
- NISHIMURA Yuichiro, 日本地理学会発表要旨集 = Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, The development of time-spatial allocation survey using GPS and GIS in Vientiane Suburban Village, Laos, 10 Mar. 2006
- 2006
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- NISHIMURA Yuichiro; OKAMOTO Kohei, 日本地理学会発表要旨集 = Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, Time-spatial allocation of the Daily Lives in Vientiane Suburban Area, Laos, 10 Sep. 2005
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Research Projects
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 01 Apr. 2024 - 31 Mar. 2027, 24K15662, Development of activity assessment in volunteerd geographic information, 瀬戸 寿一; 西村 雄一郎; 金杉 洋; 新井 亜弓, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Komazawa University, 4550000, 3500000, 1050000, kaken
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 01 Apr. 2022 - 31 Mar. 2026, 22H00760, time-geographical study about the change of Japanese people during the covid-19 pandemic, 西村 雄一郎; 瀬戸 寿一; 岡本 耕平; 大西 宏治; 久木元 美琴, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Nara Women's University, 17160000, 13200000, 3960000, kaken
- 挑戦的研究(萌芽), 30 Jun. 2023 - 31 Mar. 2025, 23K17533, 洪水時の避難行動への時間地理学の応用, 岡本 耕平; 廣内 大助; 西村 雄一郎; 森田 匡俊; 内山 琴絵, 日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, 愛知大学, 6500000, 5000000, 1500000, ・令和元年東日本台風アーカイブ資料の収集
千曲川流域市町村の水害被災者，事業者，学校，行政等から，令和元年東日本台風被災当時から復旧，復興に至る写真や動画を収集し，体験談インタビューを収録した．それらデータをアーカイブにコンテンツとして「猪の満水プロジェクト」のホームページに掲載した．また，収集した写真の展示会を長野市役所で開催した．そのほか，地域住民を対象に，アーカイブに掲載された体験談から避難所開設時の教訓を学習，アーカイブ地図に掲載された災害発生写真を参考に防災マップ作成などを行った.
・第５回時間地理学国際会議の開催準備
The 5th International Time Geography Conferenceを2024年8月2日から4日まで富山市で開催することを決定し，Keynote speakerを人選して彼らに連絡した．8月4日には砺波平野の巡検を行うことにした. 一般参加者の参加登録の締め切りを4月15日，アブストラクトの締め切りを６月15日に設定し，ホームページを作成，時間地理学の国際的メーリングリストによって情報を公開した．登録締め切り時におけるKeynote speakerを除く登録者数は44名,うち外国人が39名であった．, kaken - Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory), 30 Jun. 2022 - 31 Mar. 2025, 22K18505, The study about trusts of 3 dimension webmaps, 西村 雄一郎; 瀬戸 寿一; 吉田 大介; 金杉 洋, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory), Nara Women's University, 6500000, 5000000, 1500000, kaken
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 01 Apr. 2022 - 31 Mar. 2025, 22H00764, Reformulating the map literacy in a digital age, 若林 芳樹; 森田 喬; 伊藤 香織; 瀬戸 寿一; 新垣 紀子; 石川 徹; 有川 正俊; 矢野 桂司; 西村 雄一郎; 田中 雅大; 大西 宏治; 村越 真, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Tokyo Metropolitan University, 17290000, 13300000, 3990000, kaken
- 基盤研究(B), Jul. 2018 - Mar. 2024, 18KT0049, クラウドソース型地理情報のトラスト：網羅性と正確性，ダイバーシティに着目して, 西村 雄一郎; 瀬戸 寿一; 金杉 洋; 吉田 大介, 日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, 奈良女子大学, 17940000, 13800000, 4140000, 本研究は，近年活発化しているクラウドソーシングと呼ばれる一般市民からの情報によって，インターネット上の地図を編集するプロジェクトに着目し，そのようなクラウドソース型地理情報のトラストに関して，多角的な視点による研究を行う．
2022年度は研究期間を延長し、主に以下の４つを中心に研究を実施する計画であったが、特に新型コロナウィルス拡散の影響により現地調査を実施することが難しかったことから、研究の進展はわずかであった．
（２）日本におけるクラウドソース型地理情報の進展に関する研究（西村・瀬戸・金杉）：クラウドソース型地理情報の進展ならびにその現状に関する，インタビュー調査・メールやソーシャルメディアなどを用いた調査，現地調査などを行う．クラウドソース型地理情報の参加者の数やそれらの参加者の作成する地理情報の正確性や網羅性の地理的差異を分析する．
（３）日本におけるクラウドソース型地理情報の正確性や網羅性に関する分析（西村・瀬戸・吉田）：日本におけるクラウドソース型地理情報に対して，公的な組織が測量によって作成した地理情報や，商用の地理情報とその正確性や網羅性を比較する．
（４）日本におけるクラウドソース型地理情報のダイバーシティに関する分析（西村・瀬戸・金杉）：クラウドソース型地理情報の一つであるOpenStreetMapではユーザ自身が自由に編集できるというプロジェクトの性質を利用して，障害者や民族・ジェンダー，セクシュアリティに関連するような多様なマイノリティが必要とする地理データを作成する活動が活発に行われており，これらが日本においてどのように収集・蓄積されているのかについて，データの分析を行う．
（５）クラウドソース型地理情報の社会的意義に関する研究（全員）：研究フェイズの（１）～（４）での分析を元にクラウドソース型地理情報の特徴やその社会的意義について議論を行う．, kaken - Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), 01 Apr. 2017 - 31 Mar. 2021, 17H00839, Evaluation of new technologies in mapmaking and geospatial information from human/society aspects, Wakabayashi Yoshiki, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Tokyo Metropolitan University, 41080000, 31600000, 9480000, The aim of this research project is to examine possibilities and problems of new technologies that affect map making and its representation from the viewpoint of technology as well as human cognition and society. This study targeted new technologies including participatory mapping, geovisualization, VR (virtual reality) / AR (augmented reality), online maps, and auditory maps. To this end, we examined the following topics by dividing the members into four groups: (1) cooperation with overseas researchers by summarizing the research products, (2) technological evaluation of the process and representation of new maps, (3) cognitive scientific evaluation of new types of maps, (4) social scientific evaluation of new technologies of map making., kaken
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 01 Apr. 2015 - 31 Mar. 2018, 15K03008, Principal investigator, Geographical study on open data and counter-mapping, Nishimura Yuichiro, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Nara Women's University, 4550000, 3500000, 1050000, This study investigates the relationship between the changes for "open data society" and the counter-mapping. The open data means that the data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. The open data is now to be the important issues among developed countries. On the other hand, the counter-mapping activities (the mapping by ordinary people against authority mapping) has been apparent in Japan after 2011 great east japan earthquake situation partly because there were no detailed disaster information and the doubt about the information from the authorities. We investigated the counter-mapping plactices from the aspect of data collecting, sharing method of maps, and quality of maps. We analyzed the progress and limit of counter-mapping activities in Japanese society and effects to counter-mapping activities from Japanese open data movement by national/local government or citizens., Competitive research funding, url
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 01 Apr. 2014 - 31 Mar. 2018, 26300007, Comparative study on geography education at the secondary level in Asian countries, TAKADA Masashi; OBITANI HIROAKI, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Nara Women's University, 13650000, 10500000, 3150000, In this study we surveyed the present status of geography education at the secondary level (grade 7 - 12) in several Asian countries. Some countries do not have a stand-alone geography subject at the secondary level and stand-alone subjects of geography in many countries are not usually compulsory but elective at the higher secondary level (grade 11 - 12).
The characteristics in contents of geography education at the secondary level in the Asian countries are emphasizing of physical part of geography. In physical geography, terms of landform and climate are so much dealt but terms of soils and vegetation are not so much done in those countries without Singapore and Bhutan. In human geography the relationship between the phenomenon and own place (own country) are regarded as important., url - Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), 01 Apr. 2013 - 31 Mar. 2017, 25244042, Coinvestigator not use grants, Construction and application of public participation geographic information systems by collaboration with diverse entities, Wakabayashi Yoshiki, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Tokyo Metropolitan University, 39390000, 30300000, 9090000, This study examined the problems of practical applications and dissemination of public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS) in Japan and explore the solutions to the problems. To this end, this study was conducted by dividing the research theme into the following subthemes: (1) examination of theoretical and methodological framework of PPGIS, (2) development and evaluation of appropriate technologies for PPGIS, (3) application of the PPGIS activities suitable for the actual condition of the study area, and (4) examination of the teaching tools for human resources development in PPGIS., Competitive research funding, url
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 01 Apr. 2012 - 31 Mar. 2015, 24501287, Coinvestigator not use grants, Improving flood hazard maps and developing DIG with flooding time information, OHNISHI KOJI; HIROUCHI Daisuke; NISHIMURA Yuichiro; MASATOSHI Morita, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), University of Toyama, 5070000, 3900000, 1170000, The aim of this study is to develop Hazard map with the flooding depth changing according to passing time information and Disaster Imagination Game (DIG) for safe way to make evacuation. We picked up Tokai heavy rain in 2000 and Fukui flood in 2004 for our research. We use NHK archives’ video pictures to gather the data of flooding depth. We discuss the hazard map which has information of the flood depth changing according to time on Fukui Flood research. On Tokai heavy rain, we found that the reporter of the news program could not broadcast the effective information of the disaster. The person did not understand the whole situation of the disaster because of a lack of knowledge of geomorphological characteristics. We should develop adequate materials of the DIG., Competitive research funding, url
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 01 Apr. 2012 - 31 Mar. 2015, 24520890, Principal investigator, Geographic study about counter-mapping related greateast japan earthquake, NISHIMURA Yuichiro; SETO Toshikazu, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Nara Women's University, 4940000, 3800000, 1140000, The study is about the counter-mapping related greateast japan earthquake from geographic viewpoint. Such counter-mapping activities has been apparent in the situation after the disaster because there were no detailed disaster information and the doubt about the information from the authorities.
We investigated some examples of counter-mapping and discussed the counter-mapping related greateast japan earthquake from the aspect of the activity itself, data collecting methods, dharing method of maps, and accessibility to the political channels. We analyzed the possibilities and limits of the GIS in Japanese society., Competitive research funding, url - Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 01 Apr. 2011 - 31 Mar. 2014, 23320183, Coinvestigator not use grants, A human geography study of the Lost Decade : through a gender analysis of regional economics, YOSHIDA Yoko; KAGEYAMA Honami; KANDA Koji; NISHIMURA Yuichiro; MURATA Yohei, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Nara Women's University, 7670000, 5900000, 1770000, Amidst the continued economic downturn (the Lost Two Decades) since the Heisei Recession following the bubble-economy's collapse (the Lost Decade), this analysis focused on regions of significant local economic decline in Hokkaido with a particular emphasis on the three following points and investigated regional regeneration: 1) change to the regional economy and society in industrial areas which formerly saw a thriving trade in their collieries, iron and steel, and shipbuilding, 2) regional regeneration potential based on immigration policies promoted primarily by the Local Government of Hokkaido focusing on emigration to Hokkaido from outside, and 3) recent changes in Hokkaido's former tourist areas that stimulated the local economy., Competitive research funding, url
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 2010 - 2012, 22520792, Coinvestigator not use grants, Relationship between the globalization and the conservation of regional landscape and environment during the modern and present time in the Kii Peninsula, western Japan., MATSUMOTO Hiroyuki; UCHIDA Tadayoshi; TAKADA Masashi; YOSHIDA Yoko; OBITANI Hiroaki; NISHIMURA Yuichiro; SOHMA Hidehiro, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Nara Women's University, 4420000, 3400000, 1020000, This project analyses the modern changes of regional landscape and environment in the KII peninsula, Japan. It provides the following results:
(1) the secondary growth of the deciduous and broadleaf trees is remarkable in the basin of the Totsugawa river because of not making artificial reforestation affected by the timber import from foreign countries after the World war II.
(2) the recent socio-cultural movements of globalization (the international exchanges) are brought about on the bases of emigrations to foreign countries from Meiji era to the world war II.
(3) everyday lives and life histories of old generations are subject to the regional differentiations under the globalization., Competitive research funding, url - Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 2010 - 2012, 22300315, Coinvestigator not use grants, A study of the theory and applications of public participation geographic information systems, WAKABAYASHI Yoshiki; OKAMOTO Kohei; IMAI Osamu; YAMASHITA Jun; OHNISHI Koji; NISHIMURA Yuichiro; IKEGUCHI Akiko, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Tokyo Metropolitan University, 18200000, 14000000, 4200000, This study examined the practical applications of public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS) and its suitability for the actual conditions of Japan. Practical examples of PPGIS from around the world were examined to establish the methodological basis for applying PPGIS. This study was conducted by dividing the theme into the following subthemes:
(1) theoretical and methodological framework of PPGIS
(2) technological development of PPGIS
(3) follow-up survey of the PPGIS activities, and
(4) practical application of PPGIS., Competitive research funding, url - Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), 2010 - 2011, 22720319, Principal investigator, The study about the changes of living environment in Lao suburban village by using the participatory GIS., NISHIMURA Yuichiro, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Nara Women's University, 3900000, 3000000, 900000, This study have developed the new methods for collecting the data about living/natural environment by using participatory GIS in suburban village near Vientiane, Laos. These methods include that framework that getting long-term data of daily activities of villagers and living/natural environment. By applying such framework, the residents, researchers in Laos and the Japan can get the data and analyze the changes of villager's activities under the effects of the daily/weekly/monthly/seasonal changes of natural environment and the linear economic/social changes like urbanization., Competitive research funding, url
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 2008 - 2010, 20520697, Coinvestigator not use grants, Study on Analyses of Daily-life Activity Spaces of Ethnic Groups and their Applications, KATAOKA Hiromi; OKAMOTO Kohei; NISHIMURA Yuichiro, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Kinki University, 4420000, 3400000, 1020000, In this study, ethnicities were elucidated by using a geographical technique referred to as "analysis of daily-life activity space" to show the differences in daily-life activity spaces arising from the attributes of the members of ethnic groups and the restrictions which give rise to the differences.
At the same time, the various measures and services carried out by governments and citizens organizations were considered in the aspect of, particularly, the conveyance of information to residents of foreign nationalities, and workshops were held in coordination with government-related organizations in order to provide occasions to rebuild channels of information conveyance which include residents of foreign nationalities., Competitive research funding, url - Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), 2008 - 2009, 20720230, Principal investigator, time-geographic study about everyday lives of the households in the industrial city by probe person, NISHIMURA Yuichiro, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Aichi Institute of Technology, 4030000, 3100000, 930000, The study aims to develop the spatio-temporal data of daily human lives in the industrial city. The research developed new research methodologies using GPS phone to collect person-trip data and activity diary. By applying the methodology to research conducted in Toyota city, Japan, we have found that the methodology makes it possible to get detailed information about people' s daily activities. The collected data are analyzed from the time-geographic aspect and the research method is helpful for the progress of the daily activity research in the geographic study., Competitive research funding, url
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), 2006 - 2009, 18251012, Coinvestigator not use grants, Resource use complex and its sustainable development in Southeast Asian Plains, NOMA Haruo; SIVILAY Sendeaune; SOULIDETH DR.MR., Khamamany; BOURIDAM MS., Somkhith; ONSY Salika; CHAIJAROEN Sumalee; YANATAN Isara, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Kansai University, 35360000, 27200000, 8160000, In the Southeast Asia continent plain zone, self-sustaining farm villages which cultivate paddy agriculture spread out. As villager's subsistence strategy in this unstable natural environment, they depend on rain-fed cultivation, collection, and sale of various animals-and-plants resources, such as rice, wild plant, fish, shellfish and various a kind of insect. Economically, this complex resource use guarantees food security, and can be evaluated as a continuous lifestyle which is in the opposite poles of the large monochrome culture-agriculture of an environmental impact ecologically. In recent years, phenomena had strong influence of manufacturing industry, population growth, an increase in household off-farm job opportunities. The aim of this joint study is to analyze complex animals-and-plants resources use and their mode of change. These resources comply a various kind of rice, other crops, wild plant, fresh water fish and shellfish, insect, which are cultivated, domesticated, collected, or sold. Main study sites are 1) a rain-fed village on Korat plateau, Northeast Thailand, 2) a rain-fed village in Vientiane plain which occupies bush/forest partly, Laos. We try to clarify and examine the common feature of these two areas and its sustainability under the influence of the global market economy by cooperation with interdisciplinary academic research teams. Furthermore, we tried to construct to the new theoretical framework which analyzes the correlation of different exploitation of biomass, and the mutual complement relation of the employment., Competitive research funding, url
- Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), 2005 - 2006, 17720222, Principal investigator, GPS・GISを利用したラオス農村部の複合的生業活動に関する時間地理学的研究, 西村 雄一郎, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Aichi Institute of Technology, 2900000, 2900000, 0, <ラオスにおける現地調査>
2006年8月にラオスの首都ヴィエンチャンの近郊農村であるドンクアーイ村において,GPSによる生活活動データの収集・GISによって作成された時空間地図を用いた生活行動に対するインタビューを組み合わせた調査を行った.調査対象者は村落内から抽出された40世帯154名(乳児を除く世帯の全員)である.
世帯内や農村内部での複数人の分業や時空間的な資源の共有がどのように行われているかを実際に知るために,現地では同時間にある程度まとまった人数のデータを取得する必要がある.このため,25台のGPSを用いて,複数人の活動時間・場所に関するデータを取得した.次に,GISソフトウェア・ノート型コンピュータ・プリンタを用いて,取得したGPSデータを調査直後に現地で分析し,調査カルテの作成を行った.次にそのカルテをもとに活動場所や内容に関するインタビューを行い,個人の時空間収支データの作成を行った.
<学会発表・論文>
経済地理学会中部支部2006年4月例会にて,生活活動データを用いて農村の日常生活の変化とラオスの近代化に関する発表を行った.2006年7月にオーストラリア・ブリズベンで行われた国際地理学連合地域大会において,昨年度のパイロット調査データに基づくラオスの日常生活の時空間と生業複合に関する研究発表を行った.また,2007年4月に行われたアメリカ地理学会サンフランシスコ大会において,生活活動データの分析を中心としたラオスの日常生活に関する研究発表を行った.
また,時間地理学の方法論に関わる著書の分担執筆,時間地理学と関連する認知・行動地理学の学界展望論文は発行された.また.現地のカウンターパートであるラオス国立農林業研究所が発行する専門学術誌への生活活動データの分析に関する論文が掲載予定である。, Competitive research funding, url
■Ⅲ．社会連携活動実績
１．公的団体の委員等（審議会、国家試験委員、他大学評価委員，科研費審査委員等）
- 十津川村, 村史編纂委員, Apr. 2017 - Present, Autonomy
- 人文地理学会, 理事, Nov. 2022 - Nov. 2024, Society
- 奈良県, IoTによるデータ活用先進地域推進研究会 アドバイザー, Apr. 2016 - Mar. 2024, Autonomy
- 長野県, 実践的防災教育総合支援事業 防災アドバイザー, Apr. 2012 - Mar. 2019, Autonomy
- 日本学術振興会, 科学研究費委員会審査専門委員, 2018 - 2018, Society
- 十津川村, 村史準備委員, Apr. 2016 - Mar. 2017
- 大学入試センター, 教科科目第一委員会委員, Apr. 2014 - Mar. 2015, Government
- 大学入試センター, 教科科目第一委員会委員, Apr. 2011 - Mar. 2013, Government
- 社会福祉法人ＡＪＵ自立の家, 厚生労働省平成２０年度社会福祉推進費補助金「ＧＩＳを使った災害時要援護者避難支援システムのモデル整備事業」災害時要援護者の避難支援検討委員会委員, Sep. 2008 - Mar. 2009, Others
