Report 2017

It took awhile to reach Iriomote. From Tokyo, our flight to Ishigaki came with a transit in Naha. A few long bus rides through sugar plantations and we finally caught a ferry to Iriomote after a night over at an Ishigaki hotel. There isn’t…

Final Report of a 6-month journey by HOW, Yu Wen Vanessa (Singapore) Before everything Slightly more than 2 years ago, a girl from a cosmopolitan city packed her bags, took a plane, and landed on the shores of Japan. The girl had…

The main field trip for this course was the trip to Iriomote Island, Okinawa second largest island. I have never been to Okinawa before, but my image of Okinawa is clean and beautiful beaches with a very different type of food from the…

Achieving Coexistence Between People and Nature by Anisa Shafiyya Harnantyari - Indonesia Environmental problems are complex to solve, and various efforts have been carried out in order to minimize and ultimately solve the…

北海道レポート

final report Yuki Yamashita-ilovepdf-compressed はじめに 私がこの授業を受講したきっかけは、本講義の講師である吉川成美先生が担当しているASEPというプログラムに参加していたことです。ASEP(Asian Student Environmental…

MUI Cheryl Kah Yee (Singapore) Meeting Nature Face to Face in a Cultural Context In this class, “Think of the Environment through Culture”, we did exactly what the course title stated. Through fieldwork, research and extensive discussion,…

Introduction Human beings were able to increase their population and sustain different types of environmental surroundings due to utilizing their unique capabilities which distinguishes them from other animals, their intellectual…

Manatsu Kosaka 1M151074-8 Fieldwork in Okinawa: Iriomote Island Last year, my dear friend Ingrid often excitedly told me her class about Environment and Culture in which she had the opportunity to go all the…