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Sakuragaoka 1-1-1, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan |
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SAITO Kaoru Professor |
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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
Research Interests 【 display / non-display 】
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造園
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環境音
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植物成長モデル
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森林映像
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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
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>
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Kazuhiko W. Nakamura, Kirie Miyajima, Akio Fujiwara, Kaoru Saito
Cogent Education 10 ( 2 ) 2023.11
Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：Informa UK Limited
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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
Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)
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.
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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
Language：Japanese Publisher：THE JAPANESE FORESTRY SOCIETY
[in Japanese]
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Nakamura Kazuhiko W., Saito Kaoru, Fujiwara Akio, Otsuka Keita, Okuyama Kenichi
Journal of the Japanese Forest Society 102 ( 1 ) 77 - 82 2020.02
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
Scientific Research Funds Acquisition Results 【 display / non-display 】
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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)
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)
Grant amount：\13910000 （ Direct Cost: \10700000 、 Indirect Cost：\3210000 ）