Published Papers - SHIMAZU Toshiyuki

日本における地誌学の研究

島津俊之, 中澤高志 （Part： Lead author )

日本地理学会百年史編集委員会編『日本の地理学の百年』古今書院 ( 古今書院 )    236 - 246   2025.05  [Refereed]  [Invited]

Reconsidering Geoscience History in Twentieth-Century Japan by Deciphering the Diary: The Geoscientist Mochizuki Katsumi's Life and Work, 1914-1963

Toshihiro YAMADA, Michiko YAJIMA, Toshihiko SUGAI, Toshiyuki SHIMAZU

Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi) ( Tokyo Geographical Society )  132 ( 3 ) 217 - 230   2023.06  [Refereed]

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Archiving the landscapes of the nineteenth century world: Marianne North and more-than-botanical art

Shimazu Toshiyuki （Part： Lead author )

Dell’Agnese, E., Pollice, F. (eds.) Heritage Geographies: Politics, uses and governance of the past ( Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy )    261 - 263   2021.05  [Refereed]

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Personified continents in public places: Internationalism, art, and geography in late nineteenth century Paris

Shimazu Toshiyuki （Part： Last author )

Schelhaas, B., Ferretti, F., Reyes Novaes, A., Schmidt di Friedberg, M. (eds.) Decolonising and internationalising geography: Essays in the history of contested science. Springer ( Springer International Publishing )    81 - 95   2020.08  [Refereed]

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Trends of Geosciences after the Pacific War in Japan, 1945 to 1965 Part 6

Tokyo Geographical Society Editorial Committee of History of Geosciences in Japan, Kazuo Kuroda, Shigeo Kato, Shigeru Kato, Toshiyuki Shimazu, Toshihiko Sugai, Tsutomu Tanimoto, Michiko Yajima, Toshihiro Yamada, Toshifumi Yatsumimi （Part： Corresponding author )

Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi) ( Tokyo Geographical Society )  127 ( 6 ) 835 - 860   2018.12  [Refereed]

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The development of geomorphology, human geography, history and methodology of geography, regional geography, and geographic education in Japan from 1945 to 1965 are described. Research objectives and methodologies of geomorphology diversified during this period. A series of natural disasters triggered by earthquakes and typhoons raised social demands for disaster prevention and national land-use management. Full-scale geomorphic studies, fused with geology and engineering, started. Historical geomorphology of lowland plains and process geomorphology began to develop, adding to traditional descriptive geomorphology. The Research Institute for Natural Resources and the Geographical Survey Institute contributed to the postwar reconstruction of geomorphology. Aerial photo interpretation and quantitative land surface analyses developed. A hierarchical landform classification for lowland plains was established and applied to many plains in Japan and developing countries, in order to predict areas subject to flooding and land use planning. The postwar education system increased the number of physical geographers. They contributed to the land classification of Japan as a whole and increased interest in Quaternary environmental changes such as climate and sea level changes, as well as crustal movements, which have produced landform diversity. In 1956, they established the Japan Association for Quaternary Research in cooperation with geologists, anthropologists, and archaeologists. Human geographical research in postwar Japan was far more active and diverse than in the prewar years. This was partly the result of an increase in academic posts devoted to human geography in relation to curriculum reforms in secondary and higher education. Initially, settlement geography was a major field of study. Subsequently, historical geography and economic geography were gradually popularized with the establishment of specialized academic societies, which were dedicated to both fields of study. Among the newly emerging fields were urban, social, and cultural geography. The history and methodology of geography were viewed as overarching fields connected to both physical and human geography. Despite ongoing diversification within geographical research, various topics in these fields were addressed by Japanese geographers. This reflected long-lasting debates concerning the disciplinary identity of geography itself. Regional geography and geographic education concerned both physical and human geography. These research fields were invigorated because of the relative importance of geography in Japan's secondary and higher education systems up to the early 1960s.

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The modern atlas as diplomatic gift: Vandermaelen’s Atlas de l’Europe and Dutch-Japanese relations in the mid-nineteenth century

Shimazu Toshiyuki

Maps in History   ( 54 ) 12 - 14   2016.01  [Refereed]

War, peace and a geographical internationalism: The 1871 Antwerp International Geographical Congress

Shimazu Toshiyuki

Geographical Reports of Tokyo Metropolitan University ( Department of Geography, Tokyo Metropolitan University )  50 ( 50 ) 97 - 105   2015.03  [Refereed]

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This paper aims to contribute to the emerging field of the geographies of conferences by discussing the multiple meanings of the first International Geographical Congress held in Antwerp in 1871. While it has generally been said that the agenda of the Antwerp congress was largely in harmony with the rise of colonialism and expansionism, my attention here is paid mainly to the peace aspect of the congress after the termination of the Franco-Prussian War. The Antwerp congress was intended to function as a peace-oriented international assembly of geographers and related scholars, though it was postponed for one year because of the outbreak of the war. One of the most important European port cities, Antwerp was located on the northern fringe of Belgium, a neutral country during the war. The congress was organized mainly by Belgian scholars, the leader of whom was Charles Ruelens, a broad-minded intellectual whose concerns included geography. Some members of the Société de Géographie in Paris were also actively engaged in the overall management of the congress. British and French delegates celebrated the congress as a festival of peace and friendship, although underlying social and political tensions overshadowed the apparent success of the congress. In addition, almost all of the congress participants came from European countries. Therefore, peace as imagined by the congress attendees was not of a global nature, but a geographically limited one.

Installing geography in the open air: The statues of geographers in late nineteenth century Belgium

Shimazu Toshiyuki

Shimazu Toshiyuki (ed.) Languages, materiality, and the construction of geographical modernities (Japanese contributions to the history of geographical thought [10]), Department of Geography, Wakayama University     97 - 117   2014.03

Rethinking Tayama Katai’s discourses on travel writing

Shimazu Toshiyuki

Space, Society and Geographical Thought ( 和歌山大学教育学部地理学教室 )  ( 16 ) 47 - 66   2013.03

Imported scholarship or indigenous development?: Japanese contributions to the history of geographical thought and social and cultural geography since the late 1970s

Shimazu Toshiyuki, Fukuda Tamami, Oshiro Naoki （Part： Lead author )

Japanese Journal of Human Geography   64 ( 6 ) 474 - 496   2012.12  [Refereed]  [Invited]

Takashima Hokkai as geographer

Shimazu Toshiyuki

Space, Society and Geographical Thought ( 九州大学大学院人文科学研究院地理学講座 )  ( 15 ) 51 - 75   2012.03

Wakanoura between experience and fantasy: A multi-contextual reading of Tayama Kataiʼs “Getsuya no Wakanoura”

Shimazu Toshiyuki

Space, Society and Geographical Thought ( 九州大学大学院人文科学研究院地理学講座 )  ( 14 ) 41 - 67   2011.03

『挿絵でみるベルギー』と「ボタニックの丘からの眺め」ー19世紀後半の地理書と挿絵をめぐる学史的考察ー

島津俊之

和歌山地理 ( 和歌山地理学会 )  ( 29 ) 6 - 42   2010.12  [Refereed]

The contingent articulation between the term kyodo and elementary geography education: Notes on the 1886 act of elementary school curriculum

Shimazu Toshiyuki

Space, Society and Geographical Thought ( 九州大学大学院人文科学研究院地理学講座 )  ( 13 ) 19 - 37   2010.03

地理思想としての「郷土」―ローカルな範域をめぐる諸実践―

大城 直樹, 荒山 正彦, 島津 俊之, 関戸 明子, 福田 珠己, 森 正人, 遠城 明雄

E-journal GEO ( The Association of Japanese Geographers )  4 ( 2 ) 134 - 137   2010

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明治近代地理学誌研究

島津俊之

大阪市立大学大学院文学研究科博士論文     1 - 224   2009.06

Ogawa Takuji and Kishu: Reflections on the spaces of knowledge

Shimazu Toshiyuki

Geographical Review of Japan   80 ( 14 ) 887 - 906   2007.12  [Refereed]

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A local photo studio and the production of landscapes in Shingu, Wakayama

Shimazu Toshiyuki

Japanese Journal of Human Geography ( The Human Geographical Society of Japan )  59 ( 1 ) 7 - 26   2007.02  [Refereed]

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Kurataro Kawai and the incomplete project of Dainippon Fuken Shi (Geography of Greater Japan’s Prefectures)

Shimazu Toshiyuki

Space, Society and Geographical Thought ( 大阪市立大学大学院文学研究科地理学専修 )  ( 10 ) 37 - 56   2006.06

明治前期の郷土概念と郷土地理教育

島津俊之

和歌山地理 ( 和歌山地理学会 )  ( 25 ) 30 - 63   2005.12  [Refereed]