Junko Hasegawa
Biographic Data
| ID | 166526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Junko Hasegawa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Junko |
| FAMILY NAME | Hasegawa |
| SIGNATURE | HASEGAWA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keio University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1948-2543 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tokyo Gubernatorial Election
This paper discusses the 2024 Tokyo gubernatorial election in the context of past contests. It shows how this election manifested the trends since the 1990s: an increasing distrust of the existing political parties, including those created in that decade and the growing support for independent candidates. Such candidates follow their own line of thinking, free from party ties, and appeal to voters in ways that resonate with public skepticism towa…
Transforming a Central Tokyo Park Into a Cutting‐Edge Commercial Complex: Miyashita Park, Shibuya
This study examines a case of urban renewal in Shibuya, one of Tokyo’s most prominent downtown areas, featuring Miyashita Park, a dilapidated 10,000‐square‐meter park that transformed into a modern commercial complex consisting of a multistory commercial building with a roof park and an 18‐story hotel. Shibuya Ward, the park’s administrator, selected private companies—initially Nike Japan and subsequently Mitsui Fudosan—as the redevelopment agenc…
Redeveloping Tokyo's Meiji Jingu Gaien Area: The Metropolitan Government's City Planning Runs Amok
The landscape of the Meiji Jingu Gaien area of Tokyo is famous; it has a gingko-lined avenue and various sports facilities, including national stadiums and facilities used by ordinary citizens. The large-scale redevelopment of this area has been planned and implemented on the basis of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's district plan in 2013 in the wake of Tokyo's bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games. This paper examines the Tokyo Metropolitan Gove…
The plans for Tokyo Bay: The challenge of urban policy, 1950s–1990s
At the conclusion of the 1950s in Japan, plans to reclaim and develop Tokyo Bay were proposed by the Japan Housing Corporation's president and a private think tank on economic affairs. The vision was incompatible with dispersion, the basic direction of the state's policy, so it was quickly rejected, but its legacy lived on as the trans-Tokyo Bay highway in 1997. This article argues that the lack of an effective national policy led to contradictor…
The Infilling and Reclamation of Inland Waterways in Tokyo, 1945-1962
As part of their reconstruction of the city following Allied bombing during World War II, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government infilled medium to small inland waterways (namely, canals and moats constructed during the 17th century) and utilised the resultant terrestrial strips for new purposes. Wartime damage reconstruction was conducted as part of the official city planning of Tokyo. During the 1940s, various waterways in Tokyo were infilled primar…
Precedent, Progress, and Missed Opportunities: Conflict and Debates over Legislating Climate Change Emissions Reductions in Japan
This article considers the negotiations and historical context of Japan's two major climate change bills. We find that the political approach to emissions reductions has resulted in non-specific, iterative reduction commitments from 1998, while attempts to introduce reduction schemes or taxes and define specific long-term targets, as in 2010, largely failed due to stalwart opposition from the energy and heavy industry sectors. Negotiations were f…
Developments of the Perception of Climate Change and Abnormal Weather in Postwar Japan
Climate research has been presented as a largely Anglophone and European affair, while other regional contributions and concerns have been left largely unexamined. An investigation of the Japan Meteorological Agency's 'Abnormal Weather Reports' and related literature instead reveals the concerns of an island nation anxious about immediate weather abnormalities, causes of climate variability, and predicting the consequences of global warming withi…
Late-night noise hazards and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's countermeasures in the 1960s
In 1960s Tokyo, late-night noise became a source of annoyance for urban-dwellers in residential areas. The problem was primarily due to young people who congregated around small food establishments eating and drinking. The situation led to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to attempt to remove such small businesses through the 1969 Environmental Pollution Prevention Ordinance. However, the section of the ordinance dealing with late-night noise ha…
The political motivations for the reform of urban policy during the rapid economic growth period in Japan: A closer look
Urban policy in Japan gained greater significance in the late 1960s. In 1968, a new City Planning Law was enacted, and urban policy was a prominent issue in that year's House of Councillors election. Scholars have regarded the ruling conservative party's fear of a threat to its hegemony as the primary force driving this increased attention to urban policy. This article examines the political factors surrounding the reforms enacted, concluding tha…
Tokyo's Elevated Expressway in the 1950s: Protest and Politics
The Tokyo Expressway, opened to traffic in 1959, was constructed by a private company which has managed it ever since. It leases floor space underneath the road to shops and offices. Without concern for heritage, the motorway was built on land created by filling in sections of centuries-old canals. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government was responsible for this infilling; its prime concern about motorway construction seemed to be about profiteering. L…
Urban planning by obliteration of both waterways and opponents: The infilling of canals during the 1950s reconstruction of central Tokyo
This article examines the infilling of canals constructed in early modern times and subsequent development on newly created land in central Tokyo in the 1950s, following the curtailment of official war-damage reconstruction after World War II. New developments included a high-rise central station building, a four-storey amusement complex, an underground entertainment street and an elevated motorway. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Japanese …
The reconstruction of bombed cities in Japan after the Second World War
The reconstruction of bombed cities in Japan after the Second World War has recently attracted much attention and has given rise to important research in English on exceptional cases, such as Tokyo, Osaka and Hiroshima. This research shows that these cities were forced to retreat from the initial idealistic planning for reconstruction owing to pressure from central government, and that local authorities were not able to incorporate the views of o…
The reconstruction of Portsmouth in the 1940s
This article explores some important political issues and local difficulties facing planners during the 1940s in Portsmouth, a city which suffered considerable bomb damage. It is a local study which deals with some of the general points raised in Nick Tiratsoo's article in this volume, and which emphasises the contextual constraints which operated firmly against, or in modification of, the Portsmouth plan
The Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction in 1940s Britain
German air-raids during the early days of the Second World War destroyed a number of cities in Britain. At the same time, some contemporaries regarded such destruction as an opportunity not only for the reconstruction of the built environment but also for the creation of a fairer society. The replanning of the blitzed areas became a symbol of the aspiration to build a New Jerusalem. This article examines the fate of radical town planning ideas in…
The political motivations for the reform of urban policy during the rapid economic growth period in Japan: A closer look
Urban policy in Japan gained greater significance in the late 1960s. In 1968, a new City Planning Law was enacted, and urban policy was a prominent issue in that year's House of Councillors election. Scholars have regarded the ruling conservative party's fear of a threat to its hegemony as the primary force driving this increased attention to urban policy. This article examines the political factors surrounding the reforms enacted, concluding tha…
The Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction in 1940s Britain
German air-raids during the early days of the Second World War destroyed a number of cities in Britain. At the same time, some contemporaries regarded such destruction as an opportunity not only for the reconstruction of the built environment but also for the creation of a fairer society. The replanning of the blitzed areas became a symbol of the aspiration to build a New Jerusalem. This article examines the fate of radical town planning ideas in…
Urban planning by obliteration of both waterways and opponents: The infilling of canals during the 1950s reconstruction of central Tokyo
This article examines the infilling of canals constructed in early modern times and subsequent development on newly created land in central Tokyo in the 1950s, following the curtailment of official war-damage reconstruction after World War II. New developments included a high-rise central station building, a four-storey amusement complex, an underground entertainment street and an elevated motorway. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Japanese …
The Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction in 1940s Britain
German air-raids during the early days of the Second World War destroyed a number of cities in Britain. At the same time, some contemporaries regarded such destruction as an opportunity not only for the reconstruction of the built environment but also for the creation of a fairer society. The replanning of the blitzed areas became a symbol of the aspiration to build a New Jerusalem. This article examines the fate of radical town planning ideas in…
The reconstruction of Portsmouth in the 1940s
This article explores some important political issues and local difficulties facing planners during the 1940s in Portsmouth, a city which suffered considerable bomb damage. It is a local study which deals with some of the general points raised in Nick Tiratsoo's article in this volume, and which emphasises the contextual constraints which operated firmly against, or in modification of, the Portsmouth plan
The reconstruction of bombed cities in Japan after the Second World War
The reconstruction of bombed cities in Japan after the Second World War has recently attracted much attention and has given rise to important research in English on exceptional cases, such as Tokyo, Osaka and Hiroshima. This research shows that these cities were forced to retreat from the initial idealistic planning for reconstruction owing to pressure from central government, and that local authorities were not able to incorporate the views of o…
Urban planning by obliteration of both waterways and opponents: The infilling of canals during the 1950s reconstruction of central Tokyo
This article examines the infilling of canals constructed in early modern times and subsequent development on newly created land in central Tokyo in the 1950s, following the curtailment of official war-damage reconstruction after World War II. New developments included a high-rise central station building, a four-storey amusement complex, an underground entertainment street and an elevated motorway. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Japanese …
Tokyo's Elevated Expressway in the 1950s: Protest and Politics
The Tokyo Expressway, opened to traffic in 1959, was constructed by a private company which has managed it ever since. It leases floor space underneath the road to shops and offices. Without concern for heritage, the motorway was built on land created by filling in sections of centuries-old canals. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government was responsible for this infilling; its prime concern about motorway construction seemed to be about profiteering. L…
The political motivations for the reform of urban policy during the rapid economic growth period in Japan: A closer look
Urban policy in Japan gained greater significance in the late 1960s. In 1968, a new City Planning Law was enacted, and urban policy was a prominent issue in that year's House of Councillors election. Scholars have regarded the ruling conservative party's fear of a threat to its hegemony as the primary force driving this increased attention to urban policy. This article examines the political factors surrounding the reforms enacted, concluding tha…
Late-night noise hazards and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's countermeasures in the 1960s
In 1960s Tokyo, late-night noise became a source of annoyance for urban-dwellers in residential areas. The problem was primarily due to young people who congregated around small food establishments eating and drinking. The situation led to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to attempt to remove such small businesses through the 1969 Environmental Pollution Prevention Ordinance. However, the section of the ordinance dealing with late-night noise ha…
Developments of the Perception of Climate Change and Abnormal Weather in Postwar Japan
Climate research has been presented as a largely Anglophone and European affair, while other regional contributions and concerns have been left largely unexamined. An investigation of the Japan Meteorological Agency's 'Abnormal Weather Reports' and related literature instead reveals the concerns of an island nation anxious about immediate weather abnormalities, causes of climate variability, and predicting the consequences of global warming withi…
The plans for Tokyo Bay: The challenge of urban policy, 1950s–1990s
At the conclusion of the 1950s in Japan, plans to reclaim and develop Tokyo Bay were proposed by the Japan Housing Corporation's president and a private think tank on economic affairs. The vision was incompatible with dispersion, the basic direction of the state's policy, so it was quickly rejected, but its legacy lived on as the trans-Tokyo Bay highway in 1997. This article argues that the lack of an effective national policy led to contradictor…
The Infilling and Reclamation of Inland Waterways in Tokyo, 1945-1962
As part of their reconstruction of the city following Allied bombing during World War II, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government infilled medium to small inland waterways (namely, canals and moats constructed during the 17th century) and utilised the resultant terrestrial strips for new purposes. Wartime damage reconstruction was conducted as part of the official city planning of Tokyo. During the 1940s, various waterways in Tokyo were infilled primar…
Precedent, Progress, and Missed Opportunities: Conflict and Debates over Legislating Climate Change Emissions Reductions in Japan
This article considers the negotiations and historical context of Japan's two major climate change bills. We find that the political approach to emissions reductions has resulted in non-specific, iterative reduction commitments from 1998, while attempts to introduce reduction schemes or taxes and define specific long-term targets, as in 2010, largely failed due to stalwart opposition from the energy and heavy industry sectors. Negotiations were f…
Transforming a Central Tokyo Park Into a Cutting‐Edge Commercial Complex: Miyashita Park, Shibuya
This study examines a case of urban renewal in Shibuya, one of Tokyo’s most prominent downtown areas, featuring Miyashita Park, a dilapidated 10,000‐square‐meter park that transformed into a modern commercial complex consisting of a multistory commercial building with a roof park and an 18‐story hotel. Shibuya Ward, the park’s administrator, selected private companies—initially Nike Japan and subsequently Mitsui Fudosan—as the redevelopment agenc…
Redeveloping Tokyo's Meiji Jingu Gaien Area: The Metropolitan Government's City Planning Runs Amok
The landscape of the Meiji Jingu Gaien area of Tokyo is famous; it has a gingko-lined avenue and various sports facilities, including national stadiums and facilities used by ordinary citizens. The large-scale redevelopment of this area has been planned and implemented on the basis of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's district plan in 2013 in the wake of Tokyo's bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games. This paper examines the Tokyo Metropolitan Gove…
Tokyo Gubernatorial Election
This paper discusses the 2024 Tokyo gubernatorial election in the context of past contests. It shows how this election manifested the trends since the 1990s: an increasing distrust of the existing political parties, including those created in that decade and the growing support for independent candidates. Such candidates follow their own line of thinking, free from party ties, and appeal to voters in ways that resonate with public skepticism towa…
Political science (11 works) · Politics (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Japanese History and Culture (5 works) · Metropolitan area (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works)