Agricultural and Forestry Reconstruction After the Great East Japan Earthquake: Tsunami, Radioactive, and Reputational Damages
Agricultural and Forestry Reconstruction After the Great East Japan Earthquake: Tsunami, Radioactive, and Reputational Damages
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东日本大地震后的农林业重建：海啸、放射性和声誉损失
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10.1007/978-4-431-55558-2
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2015
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K. Ohsawa
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門間 敏幸;後藤 逸男;林 隆久;H. Tachiya;K. Ohsawa
东日本大地震已经过去了两年半，但受灾地区的农林水产业的复兴仍面临着一系列挑战，形势依然严峻。福岛县的这些工业的复苏尤其滞后，因为福岛核事故造成的海啸破坏和放射性污染，加上污染造成的声誉损害，使情况更加严重。我代表东京农业大学，在地震发生后立即前往福岛县的索马市，向市长立谷英清承诺，将与索马一起努力，恢复受灾严重的农林产业。从那时起，大学作为一个整体已经实施了广泛的举措，以帮助与索马的社区复兴。在东京农业大学，我们认为培养能够利用实用科学为农业，林业和渔业发展做出贡献的人才是我们的责任。东京农业大学是1868年明治维新后的日本政府中的重要人物本武昭先生于122年前创立的。作为日本最大的农业大学，该大学致力于培养有技能的年轻人，为整个农业行业提供稳定的高素质人才。该大学的教育理念植根于其第一任校长横井时吉所倡导的以实践科学为基础的精神。他坚信科学原理只有付诸实践才有意义，因此主张“向水稻植物询问水稻植物;向农民询问农业”。因此，横井一直认为，研究农业科学的关键是要明白，理论只有通过实际应用才存在，而实际应用只有与理论相结合才能发生。
Two and a half years have now passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake, but a range of challenges still hamper the revival of the agriculture, forestry, and fishery industries in the area affected, and circumstances remain difficult. The revival of these industries is particularly delayed in Fukushima Prefecture, where tsunami damage and radioactive contamination resulting from the Fukushima nuclear accident were compounded by reputational damage as a result of the contamination. On behalf of Tokyo University of Agriculture, I visited the city of Soma in Fukushima Prefecture immediately after the earthquake and ensuing disasters, and promised the mayor, Hidekiyo Tachiya, that the university would join forces with Soma to restore the city’s devastated agricultural and forestry industries. Since then, the university as a whole has implemented a wide range of initiatives to help with the revival of Soma’s community. Here at Tokyo University of Agriculture we consider it our duty to nurture talented individuals who can use practical science to contribute to the development of agriculture, forestry, and fisheries. It seemed only natural, therefore, that we should get involved in efforts to restore the disasterstricken region.Tokyo University of Agriculture was founded 122 years ago by Takeaki Enomoto, an influential figure in the government that ruled Japan after the Meiji Restoration in 1868. As Japan’s largest agricultural university, the university has dedicated itself to developing skilled young people, producing a steady flow of high-caliber individuals for employment across the farming industry. The university’s educational philosophy is rooted in the practical-science-based ethos espoused by its first president, Tokiyoshi Yokoi. Convinced that scientific principles are meaningful only when put into practice, he advocated the need to “Ask the rice plant about the rice plant; ask farmers about agriculture.” Thus, Yokoi always maintained that the key to researching agricultural science was to understand that theory exists only through practical application, and that practical application occurs only in conjunction with theory.