Toshio Mizuuchi
Updated:
22 March, 2014
Call for paper: the 7th EARCAG
AFFIIIATIOIN:
Urban Research Plaza
(Global
COE Program), and
Department of Geography,
Sugimoto,
Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka-shi, 558-8585,
81+(6) 6605-2070
(office: tel & fax 2069)
Contact mail address:
mizuuchi at ur-plaza.osaka-cu.ac.jp
PERSONAL:
Date
of birth:
Place
of birth: Wakayama prefecture, Japan
Nationality: Japanese
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Geography,
M.S. Geography,
B.A. Geography,
B.A. Seismology,
EMPLOYMENT:
2007- Vice
Director, Urban
Research Plaza,
2006- Professor,
Urban Research Plaza
(concurrently Department of Geography),
2004-2006 Advisory
Executive of Presidential Committee,
2003- Professor, Department of Geography,
1995-2003 Associate
Professor,
Department of Geography,
1990-1995 Associate Professor,
Department of Geography,
1988-1990 Senior
Lecturer,
Department of Geography,
1985-1988 Research
Assistant,
Department of Geography,
SUBJECTS OF RESEARCH:
# Historical analysis of
urban development and planning (both in
# Studies of modern urban
history in
# Critical Studies on the
development of public works in
# Historical critical
inquiries about geopolitics and geographical thought in
# Interview research for the
people who experienced the drastic transformation of their region by the W.W.II
and related military invasion
# Studies of urban housing,
squatter settlement and homeless issue (In Japan,
# Advisory activity to urban rejuvenation
projects (with Japanese metropolitan governments, and their residents)
# Advisory activity to
minority group movement (Japanese former outcaste people, Okinawan, day-laborers, underprivileged
people)
# Field research conducted in
# Development of Assisting
Program for Self-Independent of the Ex-Rough Sleepers
# Comparative survey of urban
housing-poor, homeless people (rough sleepers) and its counter-measures in Hong
Kong,
LANGUAGES:
Native fluency in
Japanese, competent spoken, reading and writing abilities in English, some
reading abilities in French.
HONORS
AND AWARDS:
None
PUBLICATIONS:
(Listed ONLY papers written in English, or written in
Japanese with English summary)
Books, Monographs and Special Issue in Journals: in English
Geographical
Viewpoints in the Middle Eastern Cities IV, Migration and
(co-editor,
Nation, Region, and the Politics
of Geography in East Asia
(editor,
Representing Local
Places and Raising Voices from
Below
(editor,
Critical and Radical Geographies of the
Social, the Spatial and the Political
(editor,
Current
Status of Assistance Policies for
the Homeless in Seoul,
Hong Kong, and Taipei
(editor,
Special issue on gHousing poverty, homelessness,
and the transformation of urban governance in East Asian Citiesh
(Guest editor, City,
Culture and Society, Volume 1, Issue 3, September 2010, pp109-174)
Referred
Articles: in English
Patterns in public service
provision and urban development in prewar Japan before 1945,
Geographical
Review of
The Critical heritage of Japanese geography: Its tortured trajectory for eight decades,
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 23(2005), pp.453-473
The
new mode of urban renewal for the former outcaste minority people and areas in
Japan, with Jeon Hong Gyu, Cities, 27, Supplement 1, pp.T25-T34, Elsevier, June 2010.
(Written in Japanese
with English abstract)
Formation and
development of inner-city in modern industrialization in
Jinbun-Chiri
(Human Geography)
34, 385-409, 1982.
Residential
atmosphere of low-income peoples and their residential renewal projects through
the Poor Housing Renewal Act of 1927,
Jinbun-Chiri
(Human Geography)
36, 299-321, 1984.
Urban development
of
Jinbun-Chiri
(Human Geography)
37, 438-455, 1985.
The past of
Japanese inner-city and labourers movement in the pre-war days
Keizai
Chirigaku Nenpo (Annals of economic Geography) 32, 293-312, 1986.
Studies of urban
history and geography,
Keizai
Chirigaku Nenpo (Annals of Economic Geography) 40, 1-19, 1994.
Historical development
of suburban residential estate in pre-war days,
Chiri Kagaku
(Geographical Science)
51, 34-54, 1996.
Arising Homeless
Issues and Urban Rejuvenation Project in Inner-city of the Contemporary
Metropolis
: In The Case of
Yoseba, Buraku and Japanese -Foreigners in
Jusoken Nenpo, No.29, 2002 (Annual Report
of Housing Research Institute, 2002), 369-380, 2003.@
Book
Chapters: in English
Development
policies and spatial integration in Japan from 1868 to 1941
In T. Mizuuchi ed.,
Nation, Region, and the Politics of Geography in
East Asia, Osaka City University, 30-42,
1999.
Chap.VI,
Aspects of Urban Problems in
Chap
VII, Preference of Residential
Districts and the Urban Spatial Structure in
In
Akinobu Terasaka and Toshio Mizuuchi eds.,
Geographical
Viewpoints in the Middle Eastern Cities IV, Immigration and
Ryutsu
Keizai University, 88-98, 99-108, 1999,
Public service provisions and
urban finance in
In Terasaka, A. ed., Geographical viewpoints in the Middle Eastern cities
III,
In T. Mizuuchi ed., Representing
Local Places and Raising Voices from Below,
In
Shin Nakagawa & Bussakorn Sumrongthong eds., Whatfs Happening on the
Street?, UCRC Bangkok Office,
Postwar Transformation of Space and Urban
Politics in the Inner-ring of Osaka
In T. Mizuuchi ed., Critical
and Radical Geographies of the Social, the Spatial and the Political,
Non-Referred Major
Articles: in English
Awareness of spatial
inequality in the living environment of the modern Japanese city,
in Nozawa, H. ed., Cosmology
epistemology and the history of geographical thought,
Private
struggles, public supports: Rehabilitating Japanese minority community, Buraku,
Dowa
Mondai Kenkyu 20, 29-43, 1998.
Housing Aid for the
Homeless in Japan and South Korea
Toshio MIZUUCHI, Hong-Gyu JEON, URP GCOE Working Paper 4, April 2009
Urban
Reinventing
Public Service Provision for the Socially-Excluded in the City: The Recent Transformation
of Homelessness Support and Different Paths toward Self-dependence for the
Homeless in Japan
Toshio MIZUUCHI, Geerhardt KORNATOWSKIAURP
GCOE Working Paper 6, May 2009
Urban
Other Scholarly Publications: in English
Characteristics of urban
development and urban
planning in pre-war
in Flüchter, W. ed.,
The
Information
Bulletin of The Union of National Economic Association in
Changing
urban governance for socially
discriminated people: A case of
Osaka City, Japan,
in Proceedings of 2nd.International Critical Geography Conference,
Korean Association of Spatial Environment Research,
181-188, 2000.
Translation Work:
None
into English
(Translated
Editorial
Work:
Editor
in chief of the Journal (two times per year), Homeless and Society (in
Japanese)
Editor
in chief of the bi-monthly Journal, Jinbun Chiri: Japanese
Journal f Human Geography (in Japanese)
Editor
in chief of the annual Journal, Space, Society and
Geographical Thought (in Japanese)
Associate
editor of the Quarterly Journal, City,
Culture & Society , Elsevier
Editorial
board member of
the Quarterly
Journal, Antipode,
Wiley & Blackwell
Teaching
Publications:
None
in English
Book
Reviews:
None
in English
CONFERENCE
PAPERS: in English
(Listed
ONLY papers that presented in English)
Urban planning and urban
development in
prewar
Japan-German
Geographers Conference.
International tourism and
urban development in
International
Geographical Union Conference,
Struggle for better life:
some evidences from
the urban social movement and urban politics in
Private struggles, public
supports: Rehabilitating Japanese minority ghetto, Buraku,
Japan-German
Geographers Conference,
The Geographical Agenda of
the Urban and Regional Development: A Case of
East
Asian Regional Conference of Alternative Geography,
Development Policies and
Spatial Integration in
Workshop
for the Frontier of Asian Geographers,
Visible Homeless and New
Urban Governance of the Underprivileged: A Case of
Conference
for the Asia-Pacific Economy in1997 and into the 21th century,
Changing urban governance for socially discriminated
people: A case of
Conference
for International Critical Geographers,
Geographersf geopolitical commitments for field survey and
regional geography in the war time,
International
Symposium: Asian Modernization in Maps
and Geographical Knowledge,
Why
are Japanese geographers so uncritical?: Recent trend of critical human
geography in Japan
The
Second East Asian Regional Conference of Alternative Geography,
Developing
an activity uniting homeless support and grass-rooted community organization.
The
Third International Conference for Critical Geographers,
The
growth in the number of people sleeping rough in the city of Osaka, Japan
The
First International Forum between
Forum on What's happening on the street?, Bangkok, Thailand, April 2003.
A new
stage in the policy and NGO activities for rough sleepers in
The Third East Asian Regional Conference of
Alternative Geography, Tokyo, Japan, August, 2003
Present
conditions of Airin districts and actual supportive actions,
The Third East Asian Regional Conference of
Alternative Geography, Osaka, Japan, August, 2003
Evolution of Urban
Redevelopment and Slum Clearance in Japanese Metropolis, Round table on the Joint Project
for the Survey with the Institute of Social Sciences, UCRC Shanghai Office,
East China Normal University, China, Oct.2003.
International Conference on Urban Changes in the 21st Century,
East China Normal Univ.
Shanghai, June 2004.
The Reality of
Policy and Social Movement for Housing Poor and Homeless People in the East Asian
Metropolises; The Case of Hong
Kong, Seoul, Osaka and Taipei
The
9th Japanese-German Geographical Conference; Shaping the Future of Metropolitan
Regions in
Post-war Japanese Urban Policy for the Socially
Excluded and Concealed,
Joint
Workshop on Urbanity, Urban Change and Governance in Shanghai, Hong Kong and
OsakaCOsaka City
University, August, 2005
Action and Policy for Urban Housing Poor
and Homeless People in the East Asian Metropolises,
APNHR Conference 2005, Housing
and Globalization,
Society and
Space of the Minority in Post-war Osaka, Symposium:
gTransnational Urban History: The Local-Global Nexush, Los
Angeles-Osaka Comparative Urban Studies Project,
University
of Southern California, USA, October, 2005
Opposition and Adjustment Problems
Involving Recent Homeless Aid Measures in Japan
The Fourth Meeting of
East Asian Regional Conferences in Alternative Geography (EARCAG)
June 24-30, 2006,
Taipei, TAIWAN, June, 2006
The Impact of Homeless Issues on the Mode of Urban
Governance: the Situations in
CELEBRATE!
Opening of Takahara Hall, Urban Research Plaza Week.
Hong Kong -
Theme: Shedding Light on
Reinventing
Public Service Provision for the Socially-Excluded in the City: The Recent
Transformation of Homelessness Support and Different Paths Toward Self-reliance
for the Homeless in
The
Struggle Against Loss of Living Space: Squatter Resident Practices and Local
Politics in Postwar Japan <Proceedings
pp82-92>, with Takuya Motooka. In International Forum:
The Transforming Asian City: Innovative Urban and Planning Practices Hong
Kong, May 3-5, 2007
Pursuing new mode of urban governance for the socially
disadvantaged area and people,
Kamagasaki
Regeneration Forum /Osaka City University, Japan, The Lives of eOcchanf (older men) in the
Airin District (Kamagasaki)
With@Sen ARIMURA, Takayuki OTIRA, The
2nd ANAH 2008 in Gwangju Korea May
15th -18th 2008, (ANAH: Asian Network for Adequate Housing, By Citizens
for Decent Housing)
Does the Adoption of a Spatial
Perspective Contribute to the Current Regeneration of ethe Study of Povertyf in
Does
the Adoption of a Spatial Perspective Contribute to the Study of Poverty? 2008
KOCERIURP
Symposium,gPoverty
and Communityh, 16 Dec. 2008,
Pursuing
New Mode of Urban Governance for the Socially Disadvantaged Area and People, ISA-RC21
Tokyo Conference 2008,Landscapes of Global Urbanism: Power,
Marginality, and Creativity, International
House of
Roundtable on Social Inclusion in
Attempt
of Socio-Cultural Community Regeneration in the Disadvantageous Inner-City Area
in
Transformation of the Management of Urban Poverty in
Japan: From Slum Clearance to Assistance for the Homeless, 14th International
Conference of Historical Geographers, 23–27 August 2009, Kyoto, Japan
Historical Development of Urban Renewal for the Former
Outcast Minority People and Areas in Japan
Comparative
Approaches to Urban Regeneration and Social Exclusion in Western-Europe and
East-Asia.
A joint workshop by K.U. Leuven (Belgium) and OCU URP (Japan), September 4th 2009, at K.U.Leuven
Moderator: OCU-URP Seoul Sub-center Opening
Commemorative Symposium:"Poverty and Renewal"
2009/09/18
OCU-URP Seoul Sub-center Opening Commemorative Symposium
Conquering the Failure of Urban Planning in the
Socially Disadvantaged Areas in Japan; Coordination of Orthodox Skill of
Technocrat with Flexible Art of NGO, International Conference on CULTURAL CITIES, Creativity and Social
Inclusion in Osaka and Copenhagen, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies,
University of Copenhagen, and Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University,
9-11, February, 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark
2011OCU International Academic Symposium Proceedings
The 1st
International Roundtable Meeting: Towards the Century of Cities
International
Symposium; Urban Regeneration through Cultural Creativeness and Social
Inclusion
Urgent Needs for Constructing Inclusive Society; Facing the Calamity of Earthquake and Tsunami in March 11, Urban Research Plaza Yogyakarta Sub-center, The 9th Academic Form on the Arts and Cultural Management
Support
for Vulnerable People and an Alternative Form of Regeneration for the Inner
City,
FUNDED
RESEARCH:
(After 1995-2000)
Social theory in geography and thought on
space,
Research fund of Min. of Education, Science and
Culture (MESC), 1995-1997.
Colonialism, geopolitics and historical
geography of the formation of nation state in and colonial
Research fund of MESC, 1998-2000.
Socio-political geographical studies on housing
renewal projects of outcaste people district,
Research fund of Japan Academy for the
Promotion of Science, 1999-2000.
How the intellectuals act and respond to the
rise of
through the collaboration of geographers and
researchers of spatial studies?
Fukutake Science and Cultural Foundation,
Research Program of 1997.
(After
2001- )
Investigation and proposing practical measure
for the solution of homeless problem in the contemporary modern Metropolitan
districts,
Research fund of MESC, 2000-2001.
Urban rehabilitation projects in inner-city,
especially for underprivileged people districts in
Research fund of Housing Research Foundation,
2000-2001.
Comparative research on
homeless and squatter problems in Japan, Korea, Hong-Kong and Taiwan,
Overseas Research fund of Japan Academy for
the Promotion of Science, 2001-2006.
The
LA-Osaka Comparative Urban Studies Program is a joint project between the
University of Southern California (USC) and Osaka City University (OCU) to
conduct research and provide useful comparative knowledge about the greater LA
and Osaka metropolises, and also about their interaction as global cities on
the Pacific Rim.@2002-
Director in Shanghai Subcenter, in Urban-Culture Research
Center,
Research fund of JSPS, 2002-2006.
Interview Research
for those who get public assistance in Nishinari Ward,
Funded program by the bureau of Public Health,
Development of Assisting
Program for Self-Independent of the Ex-Rough Sleepers
Funded program on Urban Issue, in OCU, 2005-
Managing
Field Satellite of Urban Research Plaza by the
The chief of
In the cities of
Global
Vice Director of
this program
Research fund of JSPS, 2007-2011
GLobal-COEfs
theme; eReinventing
Cities for Cultural Creativity and Social Inclusionf
Moving from Social
Exclusion to Inclusion: Homeless Transitory Housing and the Creation of a
Community Aid System in which Former Aid Recipients Can Become Permanent
Residents
Director of this
program
Research fund of JSPS, 2007-2009
which Former Aid
Recipients Can Become Permanent Residents
Director of this
program
Research fund of JSPS, 2010-2012
INVITED
LECTURES:
From
2000 onward
Department of Liberal
Arts,
Department of Geography,
Faculty
of Economics,
Department of Geography,
Department
of History,
Department
of Geography,
Department
of Geography, Kwansei Gakuin University (2000, 2003, 2005, 2007-2009)
Department
of Geography,
Department
of Geography, Osaka Prefecture University (2005-2011)
WORK
IN PROGRESS:
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE:
(in
preparation)
Other Teaching Experience
PhD
THESES SUPERVISED:
Shimazu
Toshiyuki (Degree Confirmed in 2009)
Kanda
Koji (Degree Confirmed in 2006)
Motooka
Takuya (Degree Confirmed in 2009)
Yamaguchi
Susumu (Degree Confirmed in 2009)
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICE:
Editor in
chief, Homuresu
to Shakai (Homeless and Society), 2009-
Editor
in chief, Jinbun-Chiri (Human Geography), 2006-2008
Editorial Board, Jinbun-Chiri (Human Geography), 1984-85, 1996-98, 1999-2000
Editorial Board, Shelter-less, 2005-
Editorial
Board, Street paper, Naniwa Rojo, 2003-2006
Editorial Board, Antipode, 2001-
Editorial Board, Chiri-Kagaku (Geographical Science),
1997-
Editorial Board, Toshi-Jutaku (Urban Housing)
1997-2002
Editorial Board, Chirigaku Hyoron (Geographical Review) 1994-1996
Executive Board Members, NPO
National Homeless Assistance Network