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The Asian Rural Institute (ARI<\/a>) trains\u00a0grassroots leaders from Asia, Africa, and the Pacific via the\u00a0study of rural development and organic farming. \u00a0ARI focuses on the interconnectivity between life and food, and sustainable living. We have two partnership projects that engage students in the work of ARI, a summer community development internship at ARI for St. Olaf students, and January term\u00a0courses on environmental sustainability in Japan and environmental research.<\/p>\n Beginning in January 2015 students investigated community-based approaches to environmental sustainability and explored how ARI builds on local Japanese resources to support its mission of training rural leaders from developing countries in organic agricultural practices. Activities included field trips in Tokyo and Nagano prefecture, discussions,and symposia with Japanese students, as well as hands-on participation in the daily food life at ARI.\u00a0 In January 2016 the AS\/ES 277 and AS\/ES 396 courses were based here.\u00a0 Many joint seminars on sustainability and organic food production were held.\u00a0 ARI Director Tomoko Arakawa arranged for more of the international staff to stay on campus during our stay, so our interactions were even richer and more varied than the prior year. The courses operated again in 2018 and 2019. To read the blogs and see photos, click the year 2015<\/a>, 2016<\/a>, 2018<\/a> and 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_slide][et_pb_slide image=”https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/453\/2015\/03\/DSC00306.jpg” use_bg_overlay=”off” use_text_overlay=”off” admin_title=”Chuo” _builder_version=”3.16″ header_font=”||||” body_font=”||||” background_color=”#494949″ button_icon_placement=”right” button_on_hover=”on” sticky_transition=”on” button_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off”]<\/p>\n Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan<\/strong><\/p>\n Chuo University and St. Olaf students have connected on several occasions through Chuo Professor of Economics, Hiroshige Tanaka and the St. Olaf Asian Studies Department. In January 2015 Professor Tanaka, and his students hosted the Asian Conversations program at Chuo University. See more photos\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0 Again in January 2016, students spent a day at Chuo University hearing student reports on Japanese food and the environment as well as discussed their work together.<\/p>\n Shanghai, China The Chinese language cohort of the Asian Conversations group was based at East China Normal University during January, 2015. \u00a0As part of their coursework they read about food and the environment, and heard a talk by Professor Yue Che on “Environmental governance in Shanghai, China: Achievements and Challenges.” \u00a0\u00a0After the talk the St Olaf students engaged in a lengthy dialogue with graduate students from ECNU related to environmental science and ecology and their research in China.\u00a0 In 2016, the full Asian Conversations group heard lectures by Prof. York Che and his graduate students on air quality research and water improvement techniques in Shanghai. Sapporo, Hokkaid\u014d, Japan<\/strong><\/p>\n In October 2014, environmental economist Professor Katsuhiko, and two of his economics students from Hokusei Gakuen University visited campus to learn about the St. Olaf community\u2019s environmental and sustainability initiative. During October 2015, two staff from Hokusei Gakuen visited St. Olaf to plan a return visit to the campus by Prof. H. Nohara and three of his students and to\u00a0begin planning a summer visit from St. Olaf faculty and students in Japan. In February 2016, St. Olaf hosted Prof. Nohara\u2019s second visit, which included having Nohara and three students visit more than eight different courses at St. Olaf, enjoy field trips to our cafeteria and other environmentally-friendly facilities and to meet with students socially. During the CURI project, Hokusei hosted the two St. Olaf faculty and five students for five days at their campus in Sapporo, Japan. 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Eight Hokusei students and Prof. Nohara also traveled to Fukushima to join the St. Olaf team during its research work there.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_slide][et_pb_slide image=”https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/453\/2015\/03\/ICUFarmersAC2015.jpg” use_bg_overlay=”off” use_text_overlay=”off” admin_title=”Intl Christian U” _builder_version=”3.16″ header_font=”||||” body_font=”||||” background_color=”#494949″ button_icon_placement=”right” button_on_hover=”on” sticky_transition=”on” button_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off”]<\/p>\n Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan<\/strong><\/p>\n The Japanese language cohort of the Asian Conversations group was based at International Christian University during January, 2015.\u00a0 As part of their coursework they read about food and the environment, met with an ICU class studying agriculture, and visited the vegetable gardens of the ICU student farmers club. In 2016-2019, students were again based at ICU for the two weeks they were in Tokyo.\u00a0 This year they heard a lecture by a visiting Greenpeace research associate on Japanese environmental activism.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_slide][et_pb_slide use_bg_overlay=”off” use_text_overlay=”off” admin_title=”Kitakata” _builder_version=”3.16″ header_font=”||||” body_font=”||||” background_color=”#494949″ button_icon_placement=”right” button_on_hover=”on” sticky_transition=”on” button_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off”]<\/p>\n Government & Citizen groups Organic farmer and activist Akihiro Asami seeks to increase tourism to his small city in western Fukushima prefecture and so arranged for two-days of exchange between the 2016 St. Olaf CURI group and three local tourist officials, who planned a sample itinerary that included a tour of local artisans\u2019 shops, a hike in a national park and basket-making experience.\u00a0 The St. Olaf group also met with students from NUIS and HGU while in Kitakata for a local history lecture, shared meals, a hike along irrigation canals, and a workshop on our shared theme of rural revitalization.\u00a0 With Asami, the group transplanted rice seedlings and made soy sauce and miso.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_slide][et_pb_slide image=”https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/453\/2015\/03\/LanzhouProjectInFieldStevensSmall.png” use_bg_overlay=”off” use_text_overlay=”off” admin_title=”Lanzhou U” _builder_version=”3.16″ header_font=”||||” body_font=”||||” background_color=”#494949″ button_icon_placement=”right” button_on_hover=”on” sticky_transition=”on” button_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off”]<\/p>\n In the summer of 2015, St. Olaf Professor Xun Pomponio and two St. Olaf students will research sustainable development in Pingliang, Lanzhou Province, studying how local farmers try to achieve sustainable growth in their agricultural output and income while combating the loss of topsoil and water in the high plateau region. They will focus on farmers\u2019 crop yields, crop diversity, water and nitrogen use, and their income as the result of sustainable practices.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to visit their site.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_slide][et_pb_slide use_bg_overlay=”off” use_text_overlay=”off” admin_title=”NUIS” _builder_version=”3.16″ header_font=”||||” body_font=”||||” background_color=”#494949″ button_icon_placement=”right” button_on_hover=”on” sticky_transition=”on” button_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off”]<\/p>\n Professor Toshio Ochi and twelve of his seminar students joined the CURI team from St. Olaf and the Hokusei Gakuen team during a two-day on-site workshop, focus group and field trips in Kitakata, Fukushima in the summer of 2016.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_slide][et_pb_slide image=”https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/453\/2015\/03\/MochiMakingJackson.jpg” use_bg_overlay=”off” use_text_overlay=”off” admin_title=”Nodai” _builder_version=”3.16″ header_font=”||||” body_font=”||||” background_color=”#494949″ button_icon_placement=”right” button_on_hover=”on” sticky_transition=”on” button_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off”]<\/p>\n Students in the Environmental Sustainability in Japan class deepened their understanding of rural Japan by joining Tokyo University of Agriculture (Nodai) students in their annual field trip to the Otaya Festival in Nagawa-machi, Nagano. \u00a0Nodai has a long-standing community research and engagement project with the people in this mountain farming town. \u00a0They introduced us to their friends and colleagues there through a field trip organized around traditional cultural products, like rice paper, and winter celebrations including mochi making.\u00a0 In 2016, the AS\/ES277 and AS\/ES 396 courses again joined with N\u014ddai students to attend the Otaya winter festival and to discuss problems of depopulation and traditional knowledge loss in rural Japan.\u00a0 They met the Nagawamachi mayor and new city officials this year, and also enjoyed meeting with faculty and students from another N\u014ddai partner university from Taiwan.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to visit their site and their Nagawa Project Facebook page<\/a>. Asian Rural Institute\u00a0\u30a2\u30b8\u30a2\u5b66\u9662 Nasushiobara, Japan The Asian Rural Institute (ARI) trains\u00a0grassroots leaders from Asia, Africa, and the Pacific via the\u00a0study of rural development and organic farming. \u00a0ARI focuses on the interconnectivity between life and food, and sustainable living. 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\u5317\u661f\u5b66\u5712\u5927\u5b66<\/strong><\/h2>\n
International Christian University <\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Kitakata, Fukushima
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Niigata University of Information and International Studies <\/b><\/h2>\n
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Tokyo University of Agriculture <\/b><\/h2>\n
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