Month: March 2025

March 2025 Shigeru Yanaka Condolences

On March 20, Shigeru Yanaka, a SATREPS Malawi Project member, passed away.
I was speechless to receive the sudden news even though I had heard from him that he was recuperating from an illness by email correspondence last year.
Starting at Nagano University, he cooperated as a co-researcher in our projects and also joined our projects at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature and Ehime University.
In 2022, he joined the research work at Malawi, Yakushima, and Aya. He also accompanied the Malawian researchers at Chizu during their research in Japan.
I have met many different researchers in my long career.
Among them, he was an extensive, knowledgeable, and multiple-talented professor who was always curious about information and eager to try new things.
I posted one memorial photo at Nagano where we went together for research among the many photos we had taken.
Yanaka-sensei, thanks for all that you’ve done. I have a lot of pleasant memories with you. I am very grateful for you.

(Text/photo by Atsuko Fukushima)

March 2025　Visit Malawi　Hiromu Okazawa・Hiroko Gono

From March 4^th to March 18^th , 2025, Hiromu Okazawa and Hiroko Gono visited Malawi.
Conducted a vegetation survey of farmland and maintenance of installed equipment. Able to collect information on resource management methods through dialogue with farmers and obtain images of farmland using a UAV.
Held a research meeting with Lameck Fiwa and Chisomo Haswell of Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Resource Sciences to discuss our research plans for the 2025 fiscal year (5th term) and their visit to Japan.