If you are interested in the issues of food and energy (especially their connections), please see some of my writng here....

English versions --Japanese--

January 2007: Land Use and Sustainability in the Hills of Northern Thailand - Problems facing the Traditional Agricultural System of the Pgaz K'Nyau (Karen) in Northern Thailand - in pdf format (450 kb)

January 2005: Energy and Agriculture update (264 kb)

Japan and the End of Cheap Oil (New Internationalist Japan, July 2001) **[ENGLISH PDF FILE] ** (34 kb)

Food and Energy in Japan -- How will Japan feed itself in the 21st century? (About the coming world food and energy crisis and Japan's dependence on imports for food and energy.) ** [PDF (700 kb) DOWNLOAD PAGE] **

Causes and Lessons of the "North Korean Food Crisis" (Lessons especially for Japan!) [ENGLISH PDF FILE (360 kb)] [Nov. 2004 Updated Version pdf (260 kb)]

A brief overview of Energy and Agriculture in Japan -- 2000 to 2050

Information on World & Japanese Population in the 21st Century

A "New Millennium"? Where the hell are we going: "Prosperity" or "Collapse"? (A slightly edited version of a presentation given at the International Green Forum in Aoyama, Tokyo on 24 March 2001) in pdf format (190 kb)

AN HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE WORLD ECOLOGICAL CRISIS [ENGLISH PDF FILE] (200 kb)

A personal opinion on why I'm not eating genetically engineered food