Researcher Profile and Settings

researchmap

https://researchmap.jp/taro_futamura

Research funding number

50580817

Research Interests

• Local food movement
• Regional studies of the United States
• Geography

Research Areas

• Humanities & social sciences / Local studies / American Studies
• Humanities & social sciences / Human geography / Human Geography
• Humanities & social sciences / Geography / Geography

Research Experience

• Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts, Faculty of Contemporary Social Studies Department of Social System Studies, Part-time Lecturer, 2022/04 - Today
• Doshisha University, Faculty of Global and Regional Studies, Associate Professor, 2016/04 - Today
• Aichi University of Education, Faculty of Education, 非常勤講師, 2014/10 - Today
• Kansai University, Part-time Instructor, Faculty of Letters General Department of Humanities Department of Geography and Regional Environment, 2020/04 - 2025/03
• Nagoya University, School of Letters Department of Humanities, Part-time Lecturer, 2022/04 - 2022/09
• Amherst College (Amherst, MA USA), Visiting Professor, 2017/08 - 2018/08
• Doshisha University, Faculty of Global and Regional Culture, Assistant Professor, 2014/04 - 2016/03
• Osaka City University, Geography Course, Faculty of Letters, Part-time Lecturer, 2015/04 - 2015/09
• Kwansei Gakuin University, School of International Studies, Part-time Lecturer, 2011/09 - 2015/03
• Doshisha University, International Institute of American Studies, Research Associate, 2010/04 - 2014/03
• Mie University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities, Law and Economics, Part-time Instructor, 2009/09 - 2011/03
• Japan Women's University, Department of English, Faculty of Humanities, Part-time Instructor, 2009/04 - 2010/09
• Tokyo International University, Japan Studies Program, Part-time Lecturer, 2008/09 - 2010/03
• Komazawa University, Department of Geography, Faculty of Letters, Part-time Lecturer, 2008/04 - 2010/03
• Rikkyo University, Department of History, College of Arts, Part-time Instructor, 2008/04 - 2010/03
• Sophia University, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Part-time Lecturer, 2008/04 - 2010/03
• University of Kentucky, Department of Geography, College of Arts and Sciences, Graduate Instructor, 2003/08 - 2007/12

Education

• University of Kentucky, Ph.D Program, Department of Geography, 2001/08 - 2008/01
• University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Geoscience, Geography and Hydrology, 1998/04 - 2001/07
• Yokohama National University, College of Education, Geography Program, Social Studies Course, 1994/04 - 1998/03

Degree

• Ph.D., University of Kentucky

Association Memberships

• The Japanese Association for American Studies, 2003, 9999
• American Association of Geographers, 2001, 9999
• The Human Geographical Society of Japan, 1999, 9999
• Association of Japanese Geographers, 1998, 9999

Committee Memberships

• Election Committee (2009-2010), Representative (2020-2022, 2022-2024, 2024-2026), 2020/04 - Today, Association of Japanese Geographers, Society, 日本地理学会
• Planning Committee (2011-13), Conference Committee (2014-16), Councilor (2014-16, 2018-20), Board Member (2020-22, 2022-24), Chair of Election Committee (2024), 2011/11 - Today, The Human Geographical Society of Japan, Society, 人文地理学会
• Editor, Japanese Journal of American Studies, 2024/06 - 2026/06, Japanese Association of American Studies, Society
• Council Member, 2020/06 - 2023/05, The Doshisha, Others

Awards

• Honorary Kentucky Colonel
  Apr. 2007, Commonwealth of Kentucky (signed by Governor Ernie Fletcher)
• Outstanding Graduate Instructor Award (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008) (Department of Geography, University of Kentucky)
  2004以降2005, 2006, 2007, 2008に5年連続で受賞, Apr. 2004, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, Others

Published Papers

• 2022 Annual Review Political Geography
  Taro Futamura
  Japanese Journal of Human Geography, The Human Geographical Society of Japan, 75(3) 263 - 268, Oct. 2023, Scientific journal
  

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• Growth and Challenges of Urban Agriculture in the United States
  Taro Futamura
  The Japanese Journal of Real Estate Sciences, 34(1) 32 - 37, Jun. 2020, Scientific journal
  

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• The dark side of the nightscape: The growth of izakaya chains and the changing landscapes of evening eateries in Japanese cities
  Taro Futamura; Kazuaki Sugiyama
  Food, Culture & Society An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 21(1) 101 - 117, Jan. 2018, Scientific journal
  

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• Research Trends of “Alcohol, Drinking, and Drunkenness” in Anglophone Human Geography: Towards Future Case Studies in Japan
  Kazuaki Sugiyama; Taro Futamura
  Space, Society and Geographical Thought, 九州大学大学院人文科学研究院, 20(20) 97 - 108, 2017, Scientific journal
• Introduction
  Futamura Taro
  同志社アメリカ研究 = Doshisha American studies, Alternative:International Institute of American Studies, Doshisha University, (51) 45 - 46, 17 Mar. 2015
  

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• Growth of Urban Agriculture in Detroit, Michigan and Its Future Challenges
  Futamura Taro
  Doshisha American Studies, 同志社大学アメリカ研究所, (51) 47 - 65, 2015, Research institution
  

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• How Does Japanese Geography Discuss Guns, Germs, and Steel? Comparative Analysis of Its Acceptance Processes between Anglophone and Japanese Publications
  Taro Futamura; Miyou Aramata; Atsushi Naruse; Kazuaki Sugiyama
  E-journal GEO, The Association of Japanese Geographers, 7(2) 225 - 249, 2012, Scientific journal
  

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• Made in Kentucky: The Meanings of "Local" Food Products in Kentucky's Farmers' Markets
  Taro Futamura
  Japanese Journal of American Studies, 18 209 - 227, 2007, Scientific journal
• Southeast Asian Refugees and the Local Host Society of Garden City in the American High Plains
  YAGASAKI Noritaka; FUTAMURA Taro
  The New Geography (Shin-Chiri), The Geographic Education Society of Japan, 53(2) 33 - 51, 2005
  

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• Development of grain elevators and their vertical integration in Kansas
  Isao Saito; Takaaki Nihei; Taro Futamura
  Geographical Review of Japan, Association of Japanese Geographers, 74(12) 661 - 684, Dec. 2001, Scientific journal
  

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• Development of Life Supporting Activities for Foreign Residents Matsumoto
  Futamura Taro
  地域調査報告, 筑波大学, 23 31 - 42, Mar. 2001
• Development of Grain Farming and Tenant Farmers in Haskell County, Southwest Kansas.
  Saito Isao; Nihei Takaaki; Futamura Taro
  Tsukuba Studies in Human Geography, 筑波大学, 24 99 - 129, Mar. 2000, Research institution
• Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) for Agro-environmental Development in the Kansas High Plains--A Case Study of Kearny Country
  NIHEI Takaaki; NIMURA Tarou; SAITO Isamu
  Quarterly journal of geography, The Tohoku Geographical Association, 52(4) 251 - 271, 2000, Scientific journal
  

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• Changes of Crop Combination Regions and Land Use in the Kansas High Plains
  Isao Saito; Noritaka Yagasaki; Takaaki Nihei; Makoto Hirai; Taro Futamura
  Science Reports, Institute of Geoscience, the University of Tsukuba, section A, 21 107 - 129, 2000, Research institution
• 茨城県ひたちなか市におけるサツマイモ生産・流通の地域的性格
  仁平尊明; 藤永豪; 二村太郎; 大森祐美; 森本健弘
  地域調査報告, 筑波大学, 22 133 - 169, 2000, Research institution
• 筑後川下流クリーク地帯における農村景観と農業活動の変容―福岡県大川市中八院地区を事例として―
  美谷 薫; 二村太郎; 美濃部 篤; 手塚 章
  地域調査報告, 筑波大学地球科学系人文地理学研究グループ, 21(21) 13 - 26, Mar. 1999, Research institution
• Transformation of Landownership and Land Use in the Sandhills of Southwest Kansas
  SAITO Isao; YAGASAKI Noritaka; FUTAMURA Taro
  Japanese Journal of Human Geography, 人文地理学会, 51(5) 457 - 476, 1999, Scientific journal
  

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MISC

• アメリカス研究と地理学の様々なつながりを考える：私的雑感
  二村 太郎
  天理大学アメリカス学会ニューズレター, 91 1 - 3, Nov. 2024, Others
• 帝国書院編『新詳 地理探究』（担当：「北アメリカ」「ラテンアメリカ」pp. 296-315.）
  Sep. 2022
• Book Review: "Introduction to Fieldwork of Food and Agricultural Studies," edited by Hitoshi Araki and Kiyomi Hayashi.
  Taro Futamura
  立命館アジア・日本研究学術年報, (1) 99 - 102, Jun. 2020, Book review
• To Launch a Direct-Sale Produce Market in Cities:Selection of Market Sites for Marche Japon Project in Tokyo and Its Politics of Place
  Futamura Taro
  ABSTRACTS of the Annual Meeting, The Human Geographical Society of Japan, The Human Geographical Society of Japan, 2013(0) 70 - 71, 2013
  

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• Reading Issues on Agriculture and Food in the United States: Review Essay of Four Recently Published Books
  Futamura Taro
  Doshisha American studies, 同志社大学, 47 135 - 143, Mar. 2011, Book review
  

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• Understanding Geography of the United States through Farmers' Markets
  Taro Futamura
  The New Geography, 日本地理教育学会, 58(3) 50 - 55, Dec. 2010
• Book Review: Noritaka Yagasaki. Regional Geography of the Agriculture and Food in the United States [Koganei City, Japan: Tokyo Gakugei University Press]
  二村 太郎
  Geographical space, 地理空間学会, 3(2) 139 - 142, 2010, Book review
• Book reviews: P. Gould and F. Pitts. eds.: Geographical voices: fourteen autobiographical essays (translation supervised by Sugiura, Y.)
  二村 太郎
  Geographical Review of Japan, The Association of Japanese Geographers, 82(5) 495 - 498, 2009, Book review
  

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• Toward the Construction of "Kentucky Food" in the Twenty-first Century: Food Localism and Commodification of Place Identity under Post-Tobacco Agricultural Restructuring, 1990-2006.
  Taro Futamura
  Ph. D. Dissertation, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky., May 2008
• Ehtnic Segregation and Settlement in Southwest San Francisco Bay Area:A case study applied to language acquisition by minority students
  FUTAMURA Taro
  日本地理学会発表要旨集 = Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, 57 404 - 405, 2000

Books etc

• New Era of Urban Agriculture
  Taro Futamura
  実生社, Sep. 2023, Contributor, 第８章：世界で広がりつつある都市農業（p. 111-120）
• The Encyclopedia of Geography
  Association of; Japanese Geographers
  Maruzen Publishing Co., Jan. 2023, Contributor, North American Studies (pp. 102-103)
• Doing Political Geographies
  Takashi Yamazaki
  Nakanishiya Publishers, Mar. 2022, Contributor, Chapter 10 "Agricultural Products: Politics and Growth of 'Local Food' in the United States"
• "100 Regional Problems in the World"
  漆原和子、藤塚吉浩、松山 洋、大西宏治
  Nakanishiya Publishers., Dec. 2021, Contributor, 「14 トウモロコシと大豆生産の空間的集中をめぐる課題」（p. 28-29）、「36 アメリカ合衆国とメキシコの国境問題」（p. 72-73）、「37 オガララ帯水層と農業の持続性をめぐる課題」（p. 74-75）
• World Countries: North America
  帝国書院編
  Teikoku Shoin Publishers, Mar. 2020, Joint work, 二村担当：北アメリカ（p. 8-13）、アメリカ合衆国（p. 14-37）
• The Encyclopedia of New Geopolitics
  現代地政学事典編集委員会(編)、高木彰彦(編集委員長)山崎孝史(編集副委員長)岩下明裕(編集副委員長)古川浩司、香川雄一、川久保文紀、北川眞也、野間晴雄、山野正彦(編集委員)
  Maruzen Publishing Co., Jan. 2020, Contributor, "Food Safety" (pp. 8-9), "Agricultural Land Use in Urban Area" (pp. 216-217)
• Translation of "Alcohol, Drinking, Drunkenness: (Dis)orderly Spaces"
  Kazuaki Sugiyama; Taro Futamura; Miyo Aramata; Atsushi Naruse
  Akashi Shoten, Jul. 2019, Joint translation
• Encyclopedia of American Culture
  Japanese Association of American Studies
  Maruzen Publishing, 2018, Contributor, "Landforms and Climate," "Regions," "Settlements" pp. 4-7, 10-11.
• Scribner New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  Horowitz, Maryanne Cline; スクリブナー思想史大事典翻訳編集委員会; 野家, 啓一
  Maruzen Publishers, Jan. 2016, Others, "Maps and the Idea They Express" (Vol. 6, pp. 2271-2283), "Geography" (Vol. 6, pp. 2299-2305)
• Enclopedia of Human Geography
  FUTAMURA Taro
  Maruzen Publishers, 2013, Contributor, 「地理学と環境論」 p. 26-29.
• Global Justice: Invitation to New Theories of Justice
  FUTAMURA Taro
  Minerva Shobo, 2013, Contributor, Globalization and Right to Food
• Geographies of Resources and Livelihoods
  FUTAMURA Taro
  Kaiseisha Press, 2013, Contributor, In Search of 'Local' Resources: Rise of Local Food Movements in Kentucky, USA
• Inequality and Poverty in the United States (Chapter 9 of "World Regional Geography Series 4, United States of America")
  二村 太郎
  Asakura Shoten, 2011, Contributor, 第9章 豊かな国の不平等と貧困
• Why do Americans hate their teenagers? : US adolescence in comparative perspective
  Zuckerman Michael; 二村 太郎; 同志社新島基金運営委員会
  同志社, 2011
• アメリカ大平原 : 食糧基地の形成と持続性
  矢ケ崎 典隆; 斎藤 功; 菅野 峰明; 田瀬 則雄; 仁平 尊明; 二村 太郎; White Stephen E; 平井 誠; Kromm David E; Nellis M. Duane; 高橋 重雄
  古今書院, 2003

Presentations

• Development of Urban Agriculture in Detroit after COVID-19
  Taro Futamura
  Japanese Association of Geographers Meeting (Fall 2024), 15 Sep. 2024, Oral presentation

Research Projects

• New Local Food Movements Through Urban Gradens and Farmers Markets in the United States
  Taro Futamura
  Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS), Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi), 2024/04 -2027/03, Principal investigator, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Doshisha University
• The Transformation of Political Space and Prospects for New Governance in the Contemporary Phase of Globalization
  Yamazaki Takashi; IWASHITA Akihiro; SAKIHAMA Yasushi; FUKUMOTO Taku
  Upon a 'new' stage of globalization, this research project has grasped the transformation of political spaces, explored various movements and practices to reconstruct political subjects, and attempted to establish political geographies for the prospect of new governance models. On the basis of activities of the Political Geography Research Group of the Human Geographical Society of Japan, this project has hold eleven sponsored/co-sponsored public meetings (including two lectures given by an international guest speaker) and three international meetings in China and Korea. Some of the research outcomes have been published in Masashi Sato and Yosuke Maeda eds. "Local Governance and Region" (Nakanishiya, 2017) and will be published in "The Dictionary of New Geopolitics" (Maruzen, scheduled in 2019). Through the above-mentioned activities so that this project has contributed to the spread of theories, methodologies, and practicability of new political geography to the public., Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 2015/04 -2018/03, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Osaka City University
• Spaces That Link Agriculture, Food, and Region: Sustainability of Farmers Markets in the United States
  Futamura Taro
  This study explored how farmers' markets in the United States are being operated and adapted in various communities, with special attention to relationships between federal government, state, and cities (counties). Farmers' markets are important sites that provide diverse locally-produced fresh produce and food products, and this is especially evident in cities. They are also frequently mentioned in media with positive evaluation. Rise of farmers' markets have established what Japanese call "Chisan Chisho" (Produce locally, consume locally), and they are likely to continue contributing to supplying fresh food products in the United States., Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 2013 -2015, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), Doshisha University

Teaching Experience

• Reading Literature of Anglophone Geography Research
  Kansai University
• Geographies of Japan
  Doshisha University
• アメリカ地誌
  駒澤大学, 日本女子大学, 三重大学, 愛知教育大学, 同志社大学
• Regional Culture of Latin America
  Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts
• American Society
  Kwansei Gakuin University
• Japanese Economic Development
  Tokyo International University
• Environment, Society, and Economy of Japan
  University of Kentucky
• Introduction to Geography
  Sophia University
• Introduction to Human Geography
  Sophia University
• 地理学概論（地理学史）
  大阪市立大学
• 人文地理学
  同志社大学, Sophia University