Hiroshi Tanabe

• Doctor of Sciences
• Keio University

This paper introduces the contents of the report "Challenges for the national standardisation of geographical names in Japan", prepared by the Toponymy Subcommittee under IGU Working Group of the Planetary Science Committee, Science Council of Japan. The report suggests the establishment of a national geographical names board in Japan. It first ind...

The main theme of this paper is which relations exist actually or should exist in the future between the actors in the city and its citizens, who have the right to control the city. In other words, the actors themselves are not always the “masters of the city”, because of the separation between the daytime and the nighttime population in urban muni...

Municipal territories and boundaries exist in Japan as if they are a gift from the ancient ancestors. Since they were established before the modern juristic system delimited Japanese territory, the principal process to resolve a boundary dispute is to find out and identify lost boundaries rather than to create a new one. The boundary dispute betwee...

Cette étude a pour objet d'analyser la distribution régionale des grandeurs communales au Japon et de constater son arrière-plan historique. Du point de vue génétique, c'est le groupement politique des hommes qui forme le territoire administratif par le fait de la possession exclusive d'une partie de la terre. Une fois que le territoire administrat...