Faculty Information - YOTSUMOTO Yukio

（Last updated : 2025-03-14 11:09:30）

YOTSUMOTO Yukio
Department Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University College of Sustainability and Tourism

Position Professor

■ Education

1.	1995/01～2002/12	〔Doctorial Course〕, The University of Kentucky Graduate School, Completed,
2.	1992/04～1994/03	〔Master Course〕, The University of Georgia Graduate School, Completed
3.	1985/04～1989/03	Soka University, Graduated

■ Academic and professional experience

2023/04～

Professor

■ Message

Message to undergraduate students: If you have clear goals for what you want to achieve in your student life, you will be able to greatly increase your abilities and potential. As the focus of international society shifts towards the Asia Pacific, the skills and abilities you develop at APU will be highly valued in these times of change. Message to graduate school students: With its diverse student body of students from all around the world, the likes of which you’d be hard pressed to find at any other graduate school in Japan or the US, the APU graduate school presents you with an opportunity to debate and learn alongside outstanding students and develop your future network of connections. If you make the most of this, APU’s most unique feature, then you will take a great step towards realizing your dreams.

■ Current specialized field

Sociology

■ Books and theses

1.	2025/02	Article	Determinants of resilience in local food systems: insights from world agriculture heritage sites British Food Journal 127(3),pp.950-970 (Collaboration)
2.	2025/01	Book	Agriheritage Tourism Encyclopedia of Tourism, edited by J. Jafari and Honggen Xiao (Collaboration)
3.	2025/01	Article	Assessing the multi-dimensional vulnerability of tourism system in Ethiopia Ritsumeikan Journal of Asia Pacific Studies 42,pp.1-39 (Collaboration)
4.	2024/11/01	Book	Conserving Agricultural Heritage and Revitalizing Communities in the Asia Pacific Region (Collaboration)
5.	2024/10/30	Article	The Interplay Between Tourism Development, Quality of Life, and Local Support for Tourism Growth African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure 13(3),pp.615-623 (Collaboration)
6.	2023/11/01	Article	Tourism Development in Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System Areas in Japan: Making Stories and Experience-based Products Journal of Resources and Ecology 14(6),pp.1302-1313 (Collaboration)
7.	2021/09	Article	The Decentralized Hands-on Program Exhibition(D-HOPE) Approach: An Overview of Community-based Tourism and Importance of Local Participation D-HOPE Discussion Paper Series D-HOPE DPS-2 (Single)
8.	2021/09	Article	The Decentralized Hands-on Program Exhibition(D-HOPE) Approach: Understanding Community Design by Reviewing Community Theories and Development D-HOPE Discussion Paper Series D-HOPE DPS-3 (Single)
9.	2021/03	Article	A Comparative Study on Rural Development through Tourism in the Areas of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) in Japan AY 2017-AY2020 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) Report (Collaboration)
10.	2020/05	Article	Comparing cultural world heritage sites and globally important agricultural heritage systems and their potential for tourism Journal of Heritage Tourism 16(1),pp.43-61 (Collaboration)
11.	2020/04	Book	(1 chapter) Modernity, globalisation, and development in the Philippines: Implications for the cultural landscape, authenticity, and tourism of Ifugao Province Tourism and Development in Southeast Asia pp.147-160 (Single)
12.	2019/02	Book	(1 chapter) Place Names and Natural Disasters in Japan Handbook of the Changing World Language Map pp.2157-2172 (Single)
13.	2019/02	Book	(1 chapter) Revitalization of the Ainu Language: Japanese Government Efforts Handbook of the Changing World Language Map pp.1711-1727 (Single)
14.	2018/08	Article	Conflict in tourism development in rural China Tourism Management 70,pp.188-200 (Collaboration)
15.	2018/07	Article	A different interpretation from Cornet's on tourism development in an ethnic minority village in China Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research 23(9),pp.847-861 (Collaboration)
16.	2016/10	Book	(1 chapter) The Social Structures of Victimization of Fukushima Residents due to Radioactive Contamination from the 2011 Nuclear Disaster Japan after 3/11: Global Perspectives on the Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Meltdown pp.251-268 (Collaboration)
17.	2016/07	Book	(1 chapter) An Overview of Japanese Tourism-Based Community Development: Definitions and Successes Urban and Rural Developments: Perspectives, Strategies and Challenges pp.1-15 (Collaboration)
18.	2015/12	Article	A description of tourism businesses emerging through ethnic tourism development: The case of Lao Chai Commune in Northern Vietnam Asia Pacific World 6(2),pp.103-123 (Collaboration)
19.	2015/02	Book	(1 chapter) Japanese Buddhism and Its Responses to Natural Disasters: Past and Present The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices and Politics pp.255-272 (Single)
20.	2014/03	Article	Competitiveness as an Indicator of Sustainable Development of Tourism: Applying Destination Competitiveness Indicators to Ethiopia Journal of Sustainable Development Studies 6(1),pp.71-95 (Collaboration)
21.	2012/12	Article	A Case Study of CBT in the Philippines Implementation Manuals of Community Based Tourism & One Village One Product. Ritsumeikan Trust, JICA SL-P86, JICA Funded Tourism Resources Improvement Project, Human Resources Development Program at the Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management. pp.148-166 (Single)
22.	2012/12	Article	CBT Business Initiatives in Asia (Issues on Government Initiated Community Based Tourism for the Poor) Implementation Manuals of Community Based Tourism & One Village One Product. Ritsumeikan Trust, JICA SL-P86, JICA Funded Tourism Resources Improvement Project, Human Resources Development Program at the Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management. pp.74-84 (Single)
23.	2012/12	Article	Formalization of Urban Poor Vendors and Their Contribution to Tourism Development in Manila, Philippines International Journal of Japanese Sociology Vol.22,pp.128-142 (Single)
24.	2012/07	Article	Ecotour Providers in the Kyushu Region: The Characteristics of Japanese Ecotourism and Its Relationship with Global Warming Contemporary Japan Vol. 24,pp.243-265 (Single)
25.	2011/11	Article	Profiles of Hawkers Working in Rizal Park, Manila, Philippines: Socio-Economic Status, Migration Motivations, and the Sale of Goods Ritsumeikan International Affairs 10,pp.303-320 (Single)
26.	2010/05	Book	Americanizing Japanese Firms: The Institutionalization of Corporate Philanthropy and Volunteerism in American Communities pp.146pages (Single)
27.	2010/04	Article	The Trends Regarding Foreign Tourists to Beppu, Oita Prefecture in Japan Journal of Ritsumeikan Social Sciences and Humanities 2,pp.61-72 (Collaboration)
28.	2009/05	Article	Why Did Japan Fail to Achieve a Full-Fledged Democracy Before World War II? - An Analysis of Class Relations and Forces Using Marxian Class Theories Japan Studies Review (13),pp.91-110 (Single)
29.	2009/04	Article	The Conception of Rice among Japanese Expatriates in Kentucky Journal of Social Sciences 19(1),pp.19-26 (Collaboration)
30.	2009/03	Article	Political and Economic Influences on the Social Construction of Japanese Paddy Fields: Sacred and Moral, an Asset and Production, and Beauty 立命館大学人文科学研究所紀要 (93),pp.1-24 (Single)
31.	2008/03	Article	Preliminary Assessment of Philippine Tourism’s Effects on the Growth of the Middle Class and Poverty Alleviation 立命館大学人文科学研究所紀要 (91),pp.5-29 (Single)
32.	2008/03	Article	Toward a Better Understanding of Impacts of In-Migration in Small Communities in America 西日本社会学会年報 (6),pp.47-61 (Single)
33.	2007/03	Article	Does Tourism Help to Alleviate Poverty? - A Case of Vendors in Rizal Park in Manila, Philippines - 立命館大学人文科学研究所紀要 (89),pp.5-36 (Single)
34.	2006/03	Article	Corporate Attitudes toward Philanthropy among Japanese, American and British Manufacturing Firms in a Kentucky Community 経営と制度 (4),pp.13-29 (Collaboration)
35.	2005/10	Article	Firm Size and Corporate Giving: An Exploratory Study of Japanese and American Manufacturing Firms in an American Rural Community 経営と制度 (3),pp.1-18 (Collaboration)
36.	2005/05	Article	Do ASEAN Countries Really Need to Fear the Surge of Foreign Direct Investment in China? An Analysis from the Questionnaire Surveys on Japanese Transnational Corporations 政経研究 (84),pp.106-121 (Collaboration)
37.	2002/04	Article	Comment” for an article, “Economic Growth vs. Environmental Conservation in Okinawa: The Case of the Ishigaki Island Airport Construction”by Unryu Suganuma Regional Development Dialogue 23(1),pp.80-82 (Single)
38.	2002/04	Article	Comment” for an article,“ Environmental Security and Industrial Hog Farming in Kentucky”by Mary Curran Regional Development Dialogue 23(1),pp.66-68 (Single)
39.	2001/04	Book	(1 chapter) Social Impacts of Japanese Businesses in Small Communities of Kentucky Japan in the Bluegrass pp.167-200 (Single)
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■ Conference presentations

1.	2024/12/01	Utilization of local resources for development of rural tourism: Comparison of two Japanese communities (Asia Pacific Conference (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan))
2.	2023/02/14	Tourism Development in Japanese Communities designated as Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS): A Case of Oita Prefecture (Smart Community Webinar Series, Satellite V17, Sustaining Globally Important Agriculture Heritage Systems through Tourism)
3.	2019/11/30	Stories to sell products in tourism destinations of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (The 17th Asia Pacific Conference (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan))
4.	2019/05/21	A Survey Result on Rural Development through Tourism in GIAHS area municipalities (The 6th Conference of East Asia Research Association for Agricultural Heritage Systems (ERAHS))
5.	2019/01/12	Regional examples of community development & revitalization efforts through tourism (UNWTO, JICA and APU, Future Tourism Leaders Workshop “Community development and revitalization through tourism (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan))
6.	2018/12/02	Tourism and Revival of Agricultural Heritage Landscapes: The Case of Kunisaki Peninsula in Oita Prefecture, Japan (The 16th Asia Pacific Conference (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan))
7.	2018/09/05	Revitalizing the Languages in Danger: A Case of the Ainu Language in Japan (OREGON - VIETNAM - JAPAN EXCHANGE AND COLLABORATION PROJECT Symposium on “Pedagogy, Curriculum, and Research in Japan Studies” (Hanoi University - Hanoi, Vietnam))
8.	2018/08/08	The prospects of the Ifugao heritage tourism in the Philippines: A sociological analysis (International Conference on Future of the Past: Tourism and Cultural Heritage in Asia (Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan))
9.	2017/12/20	Activities and Issues of Tourism-Based Community Development (TBCD) in Japan: Cases of Oshima, Tokyo and Fukaura, Aomori (OREGON - VIETNAM - JAPAN EXCHANGE AND COLLABORATION PROJECT Symposium: “What is Japan Studies?” (University of Education - Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam))
10.	2017/11/12	A Comparison of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) and World Cultural Heritage: Implications for Rural Development through Tourism (The 15th Asia Pacific Conference (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan))
11.	2017/04/09	The Social Aspects of Fukushima Residents' Sufferings after the 3.11 Nuclear Disaster (2017 Annual Meeting of The American Association of Geographers (Boston, USA))
12.	2017/02/14	Ecotourism in the Kyushu Region of Japan: Does it help to reduce carbon dioxide? (The International Workshop on “Scientific Tourism and Ecotourism” (The University of Yazd, Iran))
13.	2016/11/05	The Importance of Local Knowledge in Disaster Prevention: Knowledge on Place-names related to Natural Disasters in Japan (The 14th Asia Pacific Conference (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan))
14.	2015/11/07	A survey result of the tourism-based community development administered to municipalities in Japan: What are their perceptions of its success? (13th Asia Pacific Conference(Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan))
15.	2013/11/03	Ethnic majority's strategies for starting tourism business in ethnic minority areas: the case of Lao Chai village in Northern Vietnam (11th Asia Pacific Conference(Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan))
16.	2013/08/04	Rice terrace expansion, productivity, and the roles of tourism in Sapa, Vietnam (IGU 2013 Kyoto Regional Conference, 2013, Kyoto International Conference Center (Kyoto, Japan))
17.	2013/04/08	Rice terrace expansion and their productivity in Sapa, Vietnam (LEGATO Conference, Army Hotel (Hanoi, Vietnam))
18.	2012/12/20	How Does Religion Fight Against Natural Disasters?: A Case of Japanese Buddhism (RCAPS Seminar (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University))
19.	2012/10/18	The Social Structures of Victimization of Fukushima Residents: Consequences of Radioactive Contamination due to the 2011 Nuclear Disaster (2012 International Symposium: The 2011 Japanese Tsunami: Disaster, Response, and Recovery (Oberlin University))
20.	2012/08/27	Terraced Paddy Expansion by Ethnic Minorities in Sapa, Vietnam: Identifying Locations and Measuring Productivity (International Geographical Congress (IGC), University of Cologne, Cologne,Germany)
21.	2011/07/23	The Characteristics of Hawkers in Rizal Park, Manila, Philippines: Findings Obtained from the 2007 Interview Survey and the 2008 Follow-up Study (立命館大学人文科学研究所プロジェクト研究『グローバリぜーションとアジアの観光』研究会 (立命館大学))
22.	2009/11/07	The Trends of Foreign Tourists to Beppu, Oita Prefecture, Japan (International Workshop on Production Process of Tourism Space and Interface among Local People, Foreign Tourists and Foreign Workers: Comparative Studies on Asian Countries (Campus Plaza Kyoto))
23.	2003/03	The Level of Corporate Giving among Japanese Manufacturing Companies in a Kentucky Community (The 99th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA)
24.	2002/09	Class Relations and Democracy in the Pre World War II Japan (The 51st Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Springfield, Ohio, USA)
25.	1999/04	Social Impacts of Japanese Businesses in Small Communities of Kentucky (Japan in the Bluegrass Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, USA)
26.	1998/08	Social Construction of Japanese Rice and Paddy Field (The 61st Annual Meeting of Rural Sociological Society, Portland, Oregon, USA)
27.	1997/07	Impacts of In-Migration in American Rural Communities (The 29th Annual International Conference of Community Development Society, Athens, Georgia, USA)
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■ Research topic, funded research and KAKENHI

1.	2002～2003	Social (Re) Construction of Rice and Japanese Identity among Japanese Immigrants in Kentucky (Key Word : )
2.	1998～1999	Japan in the Bluegrass: The regional and local impact of the globalization of Japanese businesses in the United States (Key Word : )