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Research topics of this team are:
- The massive repatriation to North Korea by the Korean minority in Japan (Zainichi)
- The issue of Japanese wives residing in North Korea
- Japanese-North Korean relations and parliamentary diplomacy
- The attitude of Japanese and Zainichi intellectuals towards the Korean peninsula
- The concepts tenkō 転 向 ("ideological conversion") and parrhesia παρρησία ("truth")

Overall, the research carried out in this laboratory focuses on the spatial and quantitative assessment of biological and man-induced patterns and processes at the landscape and habitat level both in rural, urban and natural settings. We aim at coupling traditional research on forestry, landscape elements, land use, and biotic communities with earth observation, spatial data sciences, the statistical modeling environment, and planning tools. ...