内容説明
全国学校図書館協議会選定優良図書。
全編英語で執筆された，東京の地理の入門書。〔内容〕Landforms/Climate/Animals and Plants in Tokyo/Waters and Seas/History and Culture/Living in Tokyo/Economy/Tourism
目次
Introduction
Discover Tokyo 東京を見る (Hiroshi Matsuyama)
1. Discover Tokyo from different spatial scales
2. Tokyos population and the Kanto Plain nourishing it
3. Tokyos water and history
Chapter 1
Tokyos Landforms 東京の地形 (Takehiko Suzuki)
1.1 Kantos landforms
1.2 From mountains to lowlands
Close-up
Kanda River and its flow (Hiroshi Matsuyama)
Tokyos underground (Takehiko Suzuki)
Earthquakes and countermeasures (Takehiko Suzuki)
Mt. Fuji and Tokyo (Takehiko Suzuki)
Chapter 2
Tokyos Climate 東京の気候 (Hideo Takahashi)
2.1 Geographical factors which influence Tokyos climate
2.2 Seasonal variation in Tokyos precipitation and temperature
2.3 Distribution of temperatures in Tokyo
2.4 Sea breeze/land breeze alternation
Close-up
Why summer in Tokyo is not only “hot” but also “humid”? (Hiroshi Takahashi)
Snow in Tokyo (Hiroshi Takahashi)
Cumulus clouds along the Kampachi (ring road no. 8) (Hiroshi Takahashi)
“Guerilla” torrential rains (Hideo Takahashi)
Chapter 3
Vegetation and Wildlife in Tokyo 東京の動植物 (Sadao Takaoka)
3.1 Diversity of forest vegetation
3.2 Tokyos subtropical zone
3.3 Wild birds in Tokyo
3.4 Protagonists of Tokyos nights: mammals
3.5 Nature along Tama River
3.6 Changing wildlife
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Jingus forest (Tatsuhiro Isogai)
Satoyama (Sadao Takaoka)
Tokyos raccoon dogs (Sadao Takaoka)
Chapter 4
Tokyos Waters and Seas 東京の水と海 (Hiroshi Matsuyama)
4.1 Tokyos waters
4.2 Tokyos seas
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Water buses on Sumida River (Kei Ota)
Natural springs and tofu production (Kazuki Ishikawa)
Edos waterworks (Daichi Nakayama)
Tokyos hot springs (Hiroshi Matsuyama)
Chapter 5
Tokyos History and Culture 東京の歴史と文化 (Toshio Kikuchi)
5.1 Edo Castle, the origins of Tokyo
5.2 Edos popular culture
5.3 Western-style town planning and birth of modern Tokyo
5.4 Disaster recovery and changes in Tokyo
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Edos spatial range (Myungjin Hong)
Edos public holidays (Myungjin Hong)
Tokyos place names (Myungjin Hong)
Edos food culture (Ryo Iizuka)
Chater 6
Living in Tokyo 東京に住む (Yoshiki Wakabayashi)
6.1 Tokyoites
6.2 Urban expansion and formation of residential suburbs
6.3 Residential mobility and tendency for living in the city
6.4 Changes in population composition and distribution
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Tokyos historic Shitamachi and Yamanote (Ryo Koizumi)
Revival of Tokyos new towns (Hitoshi Miyazawa)
Tokyos islands (Kantaro Takahashi)
Tokyos subway system (Hitoshi Yagai)
Chater 7
Tokyos Economy 東京の経済 (Naoto Yabe)
7.1 Land use changes in the Tokyo metropolitan area since the 1990s
7.2 Location of IT industries in the Tokyo metropolitan area
7.3 Changes in industrial structure 111
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Ginza in Tokyo (Ryo Iizuka)
Urban farming in Tokyo (Ryo Iizuka)
Harajuku backstreets and fashion (Naoto Yabe)
Machi-koba in Tokyo (Ryo Iizuka)
Chater 8
Tourism in Tokyo 東京の観光 (Koun Sugimoto)
8.1 Tokyos inbound tourism boom
8.2 Tourism resources and tourism industries
8.3 Expansion of MICE business in Tokyo
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Two Tokyo Olympics (Kei Ota)
Tower-based tourism in Tokyo (Kei Ota)
Mt. Takao: Tokyos most popular mountain (Akira Nakayama)
Ueno shopping streets and inbound tourism (Kei Ota)
Conclusion
Tokyos Future: Sustainable Tokyo 東京の未来 (Toshio Kikuchi)
1 Tokyo as a primate city
2 Enhancing and expanding the centrality of Tokyo
3 Realizing a symbiotic city
4 Tokyo as a disaster-mitigation city and disaster-conquering city
Afterword
Glossary
References
Index
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