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SAITO Kaoru

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Professor

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Sakuragaoka 1-1-1, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

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+81-3-5477-2435

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  • Ph.D. (Agriculture) ( 1994.02   The University of Tokyo )

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  • Tokyo University of Agriculture   Faculty of Regional Environment Science   Department of Landscape Architecture Science   Professor

    2021.04

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  • Tokyo University of Agriculture   Faculty of Regional Environment Science Department of Landscape Architecture Science   Professor

    2021.04

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  • 造園

  • 環境音

  • 植物成長モデル

  • 森林映像

  • 景観計画

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  • Changes in singing activity of birds at four forest sites of Japan based on long-term monitoring through Cyberforest live sound transmission

    UETA Mutsuyuki, KUROSAWA Reiko, SAITO Kaoru

    Bird Research   20 ( 0 )   A55 - A62   2024

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    Language:Japanese   Publisher:Japan Bird Research Association  

    <p>We recorded avifauna by listening to live sound broadcasts from Furano, Hokkaido; Chichibu, Saitama; Yamanakako, Yamanashi; and Shiga Kogen, Nagano Prefectures during three months of the breeding season from 2012 to 2024. Of the 81 major bird species, 65 showed no significant trend of increase or decrease. On the other hand, 11 species, such as Varied Tit <i>Sittiparus varius</i> and Eastern Crowned-warbler <i>Phylloscopus coronatus</i>, increased significantly, and five species, such as Japanese Tit <i>Parus cinereus</i>, decreased significantly. In Chichibu, the Community Temperature Index increased over the 12 years, indicating a change to the bird community of a warmer region, while other sites showed no significant changes. Other studies have also shown an increase in the species richness of mainly broad-leaved forests, such as Varied Tit and White-eye <i>Zosterops japonicus</i>, at study sites in central Honshu at elevations similar to Chichibu, suggesting that a significant change in avifauna is currently occurring at elevations about 1000 m in central Honshu.</p>

    DOI: 10.11211/birdresearch.20.a55

  • Development of a web application for flowering phenology observation and its applicability to climate-related learning in elementary schools

    Kazuhiko W. Nakamura, Kirie Miyajima, Akio Fujiwara, Kaoru Saito

    Cogent Education   10 ( 2 )   2023.11

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    Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher:Informa UK Limited  

    DOI: 10.1080/2331186x.2023.2277045

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  • Alleviating Surgeons' Stress through Listening to Natural Sounds in a Half-Encapsulated Rest Space after an Operation: A Pilot, Longitudinal Field Study. International journal

    Yasushi Suko, Tomoharu Shindo, Kaoru Saito, Norimasa Takayama, Shin'ichi Warisawa, Tetsuya Sakuma, Masaaki Ito, Pasi Kytölä, Tapio Nummi, Kalevi Korpela

    International journal of environmental research and public health   19 ( 19 )   2022.10

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    BACKGROUND: Natural sounds are reportedly restorative, but most research has used one-off experiments conducted in artificial conditions. Research based on field experiments is still in its infancy. This study aimed to generate hypotheses on the restorative effects of listening to natural sounds on surgeons, representing professionals working in stressful conditions. METHODS: Each of four surgeons (two experts and two residents) participated six times in an experiment where they took a 10-min break listening to natural sounds (four times) or without natural sounds (twice) after a surgical operation. We measured their skin conductance level, an indicator of sympathetic arousal, continuously during the break (measurement occasions N = 2520) and assessed their mood using two questionnaires before and after the break (N = 69 and N = 42). We also interviewed them after the break. RESULTS: Based on statistical Linear Mixed-Effects modeling, we developed two hypotheses for further, more detailed studies: (H1) Listening to natural sounds after an operation improves surgeons' mood. (H2) Inexperienced surgeons' tension persists so long that the effect of natural sounds on their sympathetic arousal is negligible. CONCLUSIONS: This risk-free, easy-to-use means of stress alleviation through natural sounds could benefit highly-stressed people working indoors.

    DOI: 10.3390/ijerph191912736

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  • The Potential of Sensuous Approach as Methodologies to Respin the Relationship between Forest and Human

    Nakamura Kazuhiko, Fujiwara Akio, Kobayashi Hiroki, Saito Kaoru

    The Japanese Forest Society Congress   132   265   2021.05

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    Language:Japanese   Publisher:THE JAPANESE FORESTRY SOCIETY  

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    DOI: 10.11519/jfsc.132.0_265

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  • Study of the Methodology to Continuously Reflect the Forest Experience Activities to the Classroom Learning:

    Nakamura Kazuhiko W., Saito Kaoru, Fujiwara Akio, Otsuka Keita, Okuyama Kenichi

    Journal of the Japanese Forest Society   102 ( 1 )   77 - 82   2020.02

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    Language:Japanese   Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher:THE JAPANESE FORESTRY SOCIETY  

    <p>To promote forest education in formal schooling, we studied the methodology to continuously reflect forest experience activities to in-class learning. This was done through forest learning units in an elementary school. We conducted surveys twice, once each in the fiscal years 2015 and 2016, for a fifth-grade unit that included forest experience activities. This unit consisted of five phases: 1) forest experience activities at the Fuji Iyashinomori Woodland Study Center, The University of Tokyo Forest; 2) a class using video learning tools to review the activities of the first phase; 3) advice about the children’s investigative learning from graduate students; 4) intermediate presentations of the children’s investigative learning; and 5) final presentations of their investigative learning. We then did co-occurrence network analysis and cluster analysis on words extracted by morphological analysis from sentences used by the children to describe what they had learned after phases 2) and 5). As a result, the validity to present the children with video learning tools for reviewing their forest experience activities through their five senses starting with smell and hearing was suggested.</p>

    DOI: 10.4005/jjfs.102.77

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Scientific Research Funds Acquisition Results 【 display / non-display

  • Effect of social interaction to optimal foraging behavior of central place foragers

    Grant number:22H00422  2022.04 - 2027.03

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

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    Grant amount:\41990000 ( Direct Cost: \32300000 、 Indirect Cost:\9690000 )

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  • Next-generation approaches for the conservation of natural landscapes

    Grant number:20H03013  2020.04 - 2023.03

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

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    Grant amount:\13910000 ( Direct Cost: \10700000 、 Indirect Cost:\3210000 )

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