Furusawa, Takuro
takuro-f@adm.u-tokyo.ac.jp
University of Tokyo, JP (human ecology)
Anthropology, human ecology – Roviana
SOC
Current affiliation, academic qualifications and contact details
Takuro FURUSAWA
Assistant Professor/Lecturer
Division for International Relations, The University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan
E-mail: takuro-f@adm.u-tokyo.ac.jp
TEL: +81-3-5841-1682
FAX: +81-3-5689-7344
http://www.asnet.dir.u-tokyo.ac.jp/personal/furusawa/index_e.html
Sex:
Male
Date of Birth:
24 October 1977
Ph.D. Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo (Health Science)
2005
M.A. Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo (Health Science)
2002
B.A.
Faculty of Medicine, the University of Tokyo (Health Science)
2000
Research record and ongoing work
I have stayed for 2 years in total in the Roviana Lagoon, speaking the Roviana
language. My research interests include ‘human ecology,’ ‘international health/public
health,’ ‘human-environment interactions,’ and ‘folkecology.’
My field experiences in the Western Province are as follows:
May, July 2007, November 2006, July - September 2005, September 2004, July 2003February 2004, May-July 2002, January-October 2001.
The projects that I participated in are as follows
“Harmonization of resource protection and community welfare in the Solomon
Islands (2006 April – 2008 March, Leader: Takuro Furusawa, by The Japan Society
for Promotion of Sciences),” “Health Research of Solomon Islanders under Lifestyle
Modernization and Epidemiological Transition, focusing on chronic degenerative
disease in relation to their lifestyle (2002 April – 2005 March, Leader: Ryutaro
Ohtsuka),” “Harmonization of rural development and community welfare (2002 April
– 2005 March, Leader: Ryutaro Ohtsuka)”
Since I was trained as a health scientist, I would like to support the province from the
view point of health promotion; it should be noted that ‘health promotion’ here does
not necessarily mean provision of medicine or equipments but includes hygienic
conditions, dietary nutrient intakes, child growth, and prevention of infectious
diseases.
Key publications/reports/materials
*Furusawa, T., Maki, N., and Suzuki, S. (2008) Bacterical contamination of drinking
water and nutritional quality of diet in the April 2, 2007, earthquake/tsunami
devastated areas of the Western Solomon Islands. Tropical Medicine and Health, in
press.
Fujimoto, A., Kimura, R., Ohashi, J., Omi, K., Yuliwulandari, R., Batubara, R.,
Mustofa, M.S., Samakkarn, U., Settheetham-Ishida, W., Ishida, T., Morishita, Y.,
Furusawa, T., Nakazawa, M., Ohtsuka, R., and Tokunaga, K. (2008) A scan for
genetic determinants of human hair morphology: EDAR is associated with Asian hair
thickness. Human Molecular Genetics, in press
Aswani, S., Albert, S., Sabatian, A., and Furusawa, T. (2007) Customary management
as precautionary and adaptive principles for protecting coral reefs in Oceania. Coral
Reefs 26:1009-1021.
Aswani, S. and Furusawa, T. (2007) Do marine protected areas affect human nutrition
and health?: A comparison between villages in Roviana, Solomon Islands. Coastal
Management 35(5): 545-565.
Ohashi, J., Naka, I., Kimura, R., Natsuhara, K., Yamauchi, T., Furusawa, T.,
Nakazawa, M., Ataka, Y., Patarapotikul, J., Nuchnoi, P., Tokunaga, K., Ishida, T.,
Inaoka, T., Matsumura, Y., and Ohtsuka, R. (2007) FTO polymorphisms in Oceanic
populations. Journal of Human Genetics 52:1031-1035.
*Suzuki, S., Maki, N., Furusawa, T., Hayashi, H., and Kawata, Y. (2007) Social
Responses and Recovery Processes in the April 2, 2007 Earthquake Tsunami Disaster
of theSolomon Islands. Journal of Japanese Society for Natural Disaster Science
26(2): 203-214. <In Japanese>
Furusawa, T. (2006) The Roles of Western biomedicine and folk medicine in rural
Solomon Islands: A quantitative analysis of villagers' response to illness. Tropical
Medicine and Health 34(2):83-91
Furusawa, T. and Ohtsuka, R. (2006) Inter-household variations in subsistence
strategies within a rural society of Roviana, Solomon Islands: An analysis of
agricultural production and cash income in relation to socio-demographic factors.
Tropics 15 (1):29-38.
Ohashi, J., Naka, I., Kimura, R., Tokunaga, K., Yamauchi, T., Natsuhara, K.,
Furusawa, T., Yamamoto, R., Nakazawa, M., Ishida, T. and Ohtsuka, R. (2006)
Polymorphisms in the ABO blood group gene in three populations in New Georgia
Islands, Solomon Islands. Journal of Human Genetics 51(5):407-411
Furusawa, T., K., Ogawa, and D. Ishimori 2006 The Honiara Riot in Solomon Islands.
Japan Society for Oceanic Studies Newsletter 85: 13-25. <In Japanese>
Furusawa, T. (2005). Effects of Population Increase and Cash Economy on
Subsistence and Dietary Intake of Roviana-speaking Communities in Solomon
Islands. Ph.D. Thesis School of International Health, Graduate School of Medicine,
The University of Tokyo 2005.
Furusawa, T. (2004) Interrelations among humans, plants and animals based on folk
knowledge. In Ohtsuka, R. (ed.) The Solomon Islands: Tropical Forest as the Last
Frontier. University of Tokyo Press Tokyo pp. 55-81. <In Japanese>
Furusawa, T., Pahari, K., Umezaki, M. and Ohtsuka, R. (2004) Impacts of selective
logging on New Georgia Island, Solomon Islands evaluated using very-highresolution-satellite (IKONOS) data. Environmental Conservation 31(4):349-355
Nakazawa, M., Yamauchi, T., Tanaka, M., Ishimori, D., Furusawa, T., Midorikawa,
T. and Ohtsuka, R. 2002 Community Health Assessment by Urine Dipstick Screening
in Relation to the Variety of Lifestyles in the Solomon Islands. People and Culture in
Oceania 18:35-44.
(*: article especially relevant to the earthquake/tsunami)
Further ideas and reflections
A. Since I know many articles, including some of mine, have been published in
Japanese language, I will translate the abstracts of those papers for the database.
B. In addition to online ‘Open Access,’ we should provide the local people with the
opportunity to real access to the data in the villages.
C. I have been engaged in establishment of other databases, I may also be able to help
the system development and program.
MATERIALS
Furusawa – CV.doc
Furusawa – statement of willingness.pdf