KENJI HOSONO
Last Updated :2021/01/05
- Affiliations, Positions
- Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Professor
- E-mail
- kjhosono
hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Basic Information
Educational Backgrounds
- Osaka Prefecture University, Graduate School, Division of Agriculture, Department of Horticultura, Japan, 1990/04, 1992/03
- Osaka Prefecture University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Horticulture, Japan, 1986/04, 1990/03
Academic Degrees
- Ph.D. in Agriculture, Osaka Prefecture University
- Master of Agriculture, Osaka Prefecture University
- Bachelor of Agriculture, Osaka Prefecture University
Educational Activity
- 【Bachelor Degree Program】School of Applied Biological Science : Department of Applied Biological Science
- 【Master's Program】Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life : Division of Integrated Sciences for Life : Program of Food and AgriLife Science
- 【Doctoral Program】Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life : Division of Integrated Sciences for Life : Program of Food and AgriLife Science
In Charge of Primary Major Programs
Research Fields
- Agricultural sciences;Agricultural science in society and economy;Agricultural science in management and economy
- Agricultural sciences;Agricultural science in society and economy;Agricultural science in rural society and development
Research Keywords
- Food, Agriculture and Rural Areas of Japan
- marketing
- people engaged in agriculture
- agrociltural cooperative
- vegetables and fruit
- mandarin
- wholesale market
- Locally Producing and Locally Consuming
- Thailand
- tropical fruit
Affiliated Academic Societies
- The Agricultural Marketing Society of Japan, 1994/04
- The Food, Agriculturel and Resource Economics Society of Japan, 1995/08
- The Agricultural Economics Society of Japan, 1995/04
- The Association for Regional and Forestry Economics, 2003/.8
- Nippon Academy of Management, 2006/04
Educational Activity
Course in Charge
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 2Term, Introduction to Hiroshima Peace Initiative Leader Program
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 3Term, Food safety and health science
- 2020, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Intensive, Regional development seminar from the viewpoint of the SDGs
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Introductory Seminar for First-Year Students
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Introductory Seminar for First-Year Students
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Introductory Seminar for First-Year Students
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Introductory Seminar for First-Year Students
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Introductory Seminar for First-Year Students
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Introductory Seminar for First-Year Students
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Introductory Seminar for First-Year Students
- 2020, Liberal Arts Education Program1, 1Term, Introductory Seminar for First-Year Students
- 2020, Undergraduate Education, 4Term, Agricultural Production Resources
- 2020, Undergraduate Education, 2Term, Reading of Foreign Literature
- 2020, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, Food Production Management
- 2020, Undergraduate Education, Academic Year, Graduation Thesis
- 2020, Undergraduate Education, Intensive, Distribution of Agricultural Products
- 2020, Undergraduate Education, 1Term, Seminar on Socio-economics of Food Production
- 2020, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, System of Regional Agriculture
- 2020, Undergraduate Education, Intensive, Food and Environmental Economics
- 2020, Undergraduate Education, Intensive, Cooperative internship in mountainous and island areas
- 2020, Undergraduate Education, 3Term, Special lecture for collaboration with mountainous and island areas
- 2020, Undergraduate Education, Intensive, Fieldwork in mountainous and island areas
- 2020, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , First Semester, Exercises in Food and Resource Economics(B)
- 2020, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Second Semester, Exercises in Food and Resource Economics(B)
- 2020, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Economics of Food Production
- 2020, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, System of Regional Food Production
- 2020, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 4Term, societal implementation of life science
- 2020, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 1Term, Exercises in Food andAgriLife Science A
- 2020, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 2Term, Exercises in Food andAgriLife Science A
- 2020, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Exercises in Food andAgriLife Science B
- 2020, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 4Term, Exercises in Food andAgriLife Science B
- 2020, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Academic Year, Research for Academic Degree Dissertation in Food andAgriLife Science
- 2020, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Academic Year, Research for Academic Degree Dissertation in Food andAgriLife Science
- 2020, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , 3Term, Food Resource Economics
- 2020, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Academic Year, Research for Academic Degree Dissertation in Integrated Life Sciences
- 2020, Graduate Education (Doctoral Program) , Academic Year, Research for Academic Degree Dissertation in Integrated Life Sciences
Research Activities
Academic Papers
- ★, Competitive Advantage Factors in Vertically Diversified Brand Chicken Business: A Partial Value Chain Analysis of a Japanese Poultry Wholesaler, Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly, 54(4), 327-333, 2020,10,01
- ★, Existing Conditions of Rural Community Business : Evaluation from the Viewpoint of the Demand Side of the Relationship between Regional Distribution Constructed by Magoyasai, a Distributor of Vegetables via Internet Sales, and Rural Society, Journal of Rural Economics, 91(1), 23-28, 2019,06,25
- ★, Constructing the Value Chain for Promotion of Lemon Production in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, Agricultural Marketing Journal of Japan, 27(1), 46-53, 2018,06,30
- Significances of Establishing Market of Non-High-Marbling Meat and Effects of Structuring its Value Chain: A case study of Meat Matured Artificially by the Company N, Meat Processor, Agricultural Marketing Journal og Japan, 26(2), 12-19, 2017,09,27
- Japanese rice contract farming in Wiang Pa Pao district, Chiang Rai province, Thailand: With focusing on cost and earning, Agricultural Marketing Journal of Japan, 25(1), 46-53, 2016,06,30
- The Meanings and Effects of Workshops by Diverse Actors for Rural Activation; A Case of "Workshop for Agricultura-Related Activities" in Hiroshima Prefecture, Agricultural Marketing Journal of Japan, 22(1), 45-51, 2013,06,01
- The Relationships between Japanese Agricultural Impediments and Rural Strategy in Japanese Mountainous Country Regions: -A Case Study of SERA and AKIOTA Towns-, 11-18, 2012,03,01
- A Position of "Locally producing and locally consuming" in the Business by Wholesalers: A Case of Fukuoka Prefecture, Agricultural and Fisheries Economics of Hiroshima Univ., 33-54, 2012,03,01
- A Relation between Various Channels of Shipment and Farmer's Management Strategies in Suburban Vegetable Producing Area: A Case of SHIRAKI town, Hiroshima City, Agricultural Marketing Journal of Japan, 21(2), 37-43, 2012,09,01
- A study on the management strategies of green-tourism facilities in China -The SWOT analysis of guest farms districts in Beijing and Chengdu-, 2010,03,01
- A Study of Agro-tourism in Thailand -A case of public facility in Chanthaburi and a case of private facility in Chonburi-, 115, 73-89, 2009,01,20
- The Significance and Development of "Locally Producing and Locally Consuming" Measures by Wholesale Market -A Case of KURUME City Central Wholesale Market-, 27, 12-23, 2008,12,10
- Changes of environment that surrounds tropical fruit and tendency of tropical fruit producing area in Thailand -A case of tropical fruit producing area in Chanthaburi province-, 107, 11-25, 2007,01,31
- ★, Problems of Mandarin-marketing in the Period of Distribution Restructuring by Retailers -A Case of WAKAYAMA Prefecture (ARIDA Area) -, Review of Agricultural Economics, 55(2), 37-49, 2005,01,01
- ★, Marketing by Small-scale Mandarin Shippers and Problems of Mandarin-producing Area, Agricultural Marketing Journal of Japan, 14(1), 83-86, 2005,06,01
- ★, Maintenance condition of mandarin orange farmers in term of internationalization, Journal of Rural Problem, 119-124, 2004,06,01
- Development and Problems of Researches about Mandarin Farming, 25, 25-35, 2003,12,22
- Probrems of an Agricultural Policy of "UNSHU" Mandarin for Processing and Beverages Production, 24, 71-87, 2002,11,20
- The Specific Charactor and Problems of Each Orange Shipping Form in ARIDA Area, WAKAYAMA Prefecture, 23, 39-54, 2001,04,27
- Traits of Agricultural Production in Shanghai, China, 22, 23-43, 2000,04,24
- Changing Circumsttance of Vegatables and Fruit Circulation in SAGA Prefecture, 123-125, 1998,11,30
- Changing Retail Structure of Vegetable and Fruit in Horticulturak Producing Area, and the Interaction of Local Wholesale Markets, 21, 17-27, 1998,12,25
- Current state and the view of measure of making to regional information in Chikuho region, 68, 223-237, 1997,03,25
- A Consideration about Possibility for Duration of Urban Agriculture -A case of Regional Intercahnges Between Citizens and Farmers by ASAICHI (Morning Fair) at East Neyagawa Area-, 20, 63-73, 1997,03,27
- A Present Condition fo Marketing by Agricultural Cooperatives in Fukuoka, 69, 49-59, 1997,07,05
- ★, Problems of Marketing by New Horticultural Producing Area: A case of Agricultural Cooperatives in SAGA Prefecture, Review of Agricultural Economics, 48(2), 1-11, 1997,11,15
- Role and the view of developing regional information technology in Chikuho regional promotion, 22, 137-141, 1996,03,10
- A Consideration to Policy for Market Designation of Agricultural Cooperatives, Review of Agricultural Economics, 47(1), 87-98, 1996,06,15
- A Consideration about Possibility for Retention of Urban Agriculture - A case of Neyagawa City, Osaka Pref.-, 34, 81-87, 1996,11,30
- The Amendment of the Urban Agricultural Land Act and Correspondences of Farmers in Cities -A case of Neyagawa City in Osaka Prefecture-, 21, 97-125, 1995,03,05
- A Fact of Core Area Producing Mikan (Japanese Orange) at a Stage of an Excess of Agricultural Productd-, 62, 43-68, 1995,06,15
Publications such as books
- 2009/12/01, Practice. Strategy of making regional brand of farm products, 2009, 12, Scholarly Book, Joint work, 日本語, 978-4-8119-0356-9, 142, 76-97,114-123
- 2009/08/18, The Formation and Development of Chief Producing District sbout Mikan Farming, 2009, 8, Scholarly Book, Single work, 日本語, HOSONO, K., 978-4-89732-174-5, 171
Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation
- A Study of the Promotion for Japan’s Lemon Producing with constructing its Value Chain; A Case of Hiroshima Lemon, HOSONO, Kenji, 2017/07/02, Without Invitation, Japanese, The Agricultural Marketing Society of Japan, Iwate University