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become a member of the National Committee for the Pro-motion of Environmentally Sound Agricultural Practices. It appeared that my book was resonating with the Japanese who had begun to seek the wisdom of previous generations after the bursting of the bubble economy.The new appointment to this committee afforded me the opportunity between 1994 and 2014 to continue my travels around Japan’s farming communities to help discuss with farmers and policymakers new policies aimed at new envi-ronmentally sound agriculture. From Hokkaido in the north to Kyushu in the south, the fieldwork allowed me to revisit with farmers the histories of Japanese agricultural commu-nities and elicit ecological methods of farming using less pesticide and chemical fertilizer.Later, the Fisheries Agency contracted with me to go into Japanese fishing communities to write about Japan’s fishing culture, how the people lived and fished and their views on fisheries. Through visits and stays with families, accompa-nying and working alongside them on boats while they har-vested and at seafood processing facilities, the experiential learning and observations became a basis for a reportage ti-tled “Umibito Kaleidoscope (Kaleidoscope of Ocean People),” a compilation of stories about life in fishing communities both in Japan and overseas. Having before only focused on studying farming communities, I found a growing interest in fisheries and the people who went to work at sea by boat and then came home to the land, and wondered what viewpoints on nature were generated by these people living on the bor-der between land and sea. Both the fish living in the sea and people of the sea living on land take on different appearances when viewed from a slightly different perspective, so I chose the word “kaleidoscope” to express that implication.From 1994 to 2014 (IPCC), I was involved with the Na-tional Committee for the Promotion of Environmentally Sound Agricultural Practices. In that period, I also served on committees established by MAFF, Ministry of the Environ-ment (MOE). In 1999, I became a member of the Ministry of the Environment IPCC government review team. I learned a lot from leading Japanese scientists and government offi-cials, as well as from international experts during the course of this work. While working on UN Intergovernmental Panel on Cli-mate Change, government-related work, I was afforded the opportunity to attend IPCC plenaries as a member of the Japanese government delegation. This was truly an honor for me, a non-Japanese national being given the chance to be a member of an official government delegation to UN meet-ings. Another honor I’ve enjoyed has been working with the UN Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat and the Japanese government, specifically MOE and MAFF. As a legacy of COP10 Nagoya, we worked together to establish the Sustainable Ocean Initiative (SOI), an initiative that has since grown to work with countries to achieve the coastal and marine biodiversity related Aichi Targets 6, 10 and 11. A large focus of the initiative has been to work with developing countries towards building capacity in marine environmen-tal policy and sustainable fisheries, the foundations of which grew from work that I had been doing with the marine sec-Originally from Canada and graduate of University of British Columbia, Asian Stud-ies Department. Joined Sophia University in 2009 as part-time lecturer, Environmen-tal History. Became professor at Sophia University, fall 2011. Previously served as Director of United Nations University Insti-tute for Advanced Studies of Sustainability, Operating Unit Ishikawa/Kanazawa, and other posts. Author of “Days Past–Body and Soul: Japan’s countryside story,” “Japanese Farming & Fishing Communities and I,” “EN-VIRONMENTAL HISTORY Anne McDonald Graduate Seminar Notes,” “Kaleidoscope of Ocean People,” among others.1. Sunset at Hamada port, Shimane Prefecture. Interviewing sherwomen about changing land-scapes, increasing concrete and the disappearance of natural shorelines. 2. Suzu, Noto pen-insula at one of the oldest artisanal salt making elds in Japan. 3. 81-year-old Ama diver on Hegura Island, Japan Sea. They maintain the traditional resource management and conserva-tion practices passed down through females generations over time. 4. Experiential observation eld work on a pollock shing boat in Rausu, Shiretoko peninsula in mid-February, -19C.13248Approach

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