vol 6. Geomorphology of Kinki, Chugoku and Shikoku. University
of Tokyo Press. Tokyo, pp 232–239. (in Japanese)
Hyogo Prefecture (1987) The varieties and characteristics of paddy
soils in Hyogo. (in Japanese)
Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO (2017) Japan Soil
Inventory, 1/200000 Soil Map, Tsukuba. http://soil-inventory.dc.
affrc.go.jp/download20.php
Ishibashi E (2004) Agriculture and soil management in Okayama
prefecture. J Soil Sci Plant Nutr 75:623–624 (in Japanese)
Ito J (2005) Agriculture and soil management in Shimane prefecture.
J Soil Sci Plant Nutr 76:931–932 (in Japanese)
Japanese Society of Pedology (ed) (2007) Japanese soils (Dojo o aishi
dojo o mamoru-Nihon no dojo-). Hakuyusya, Tokyo, p 256. (in
Japanese)
Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition (1991) Toxic
metal contamination of soil-situation measure and prospects.
Hakuyusha Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Kanazawa K (1998) Estimation of carbon dioxide evolution as the
global warming gas evolved from agricultural lands in Japan. Jpn J
Farm Work Res 33:155–169 (in Japanese)
Kanda T, Takata Y et al (2017) Development of the 1:50000 digital soil
map of cultivated soil in Japan according to the comprehensive soil
classification system of Japan-first approximation. Jpn J Soil Sci
Plant Nutr 88:29–34 (in Japanese)
Kitagawa T (2012) Actual status of cultivated soil in Shiga prefecture.
In: Soil guidebook for arable land in Japan (Zenkoku noukouti
dojou gaidobukku). Japan Soil Association, Tokyo, pp 70–71. (in
Japanese)
Kobayashi T, Komori N, Tokuda Y (2005) Improved fertilizer
application and optimized water management for reducing outflow
load of nutrient salts etc. from Gley paddy fields soils. Bull. Shiga
Pref. Agric Res Cent Exp Stn 45:13–36 (in Japanese with English
summary)
Kuroda Y (2006) Agriculture and soil management in Tokushima
prefecture. Jpn J Soil Sci Plant Nutr 77:239–240 (in Japanese)
Machida H, Arai F (1992) Atlas of Tephra in and around Japan.
University of Tokyo Press. Tokyo, pp 109–112. (in Japanese)
Machida H (2004) Volcanoes in Chugoku mountains. In: Ota Y, Nause T,
Tanaka S, and Okada A (eds) Regional geomorphology of the
Japanese islands, vol 6. Geomorphology of Kinki, Chugoku and
Shikoku. University of Tokyo Press. Tokyo, pp 153–164. (in Japanese)
Makino S, Tokuchi N et al (2017) Nitrogen dynamics of
nitrogen-saturated and unsaturated deciduous forest ecosystems on
Toyama Plain. Japan J For Res 99:120–128
Masunaga T (2007) Physico-chemical properties and management of
soil at Nakaumi polder. In: Japanese Society of Pedology (ed) Love
our soil and save our soil. Hakuyusha, Tokyo, pp 237–242. (in
Japanese)
Matsuura S, Sasaki H, Kohyama K (2012) Organic carbon stocks in
grassland soils and their spatial distribution in Japan. Grassland Sci
58:79–93. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-697X.2012.00245.x
Matsuyama N, Saigusa M (1994) Distribution of allophanic andosols
and non-allophanic andosols in Western Japan. Pedologist 38:2–9
(in Japanese with English abstract)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2008a) Current
situation and problems of agricultural soil. 9. http://www.maff.go.
jp/j/study/dozyo_kanri/01/pdf/ref_data1.pdf. (in Japanese)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2008b) Current
situation and problems of agricultural soil. 10. http://www.maff.
go.jp/j/study/dozyo_kanri/01/pdf/ref_data1.pdfw. (in Japanese)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2008c) Current
situation and problems of agricultural soil. 11. http://www.maff.
go.jp/j/study/dozyo_kanri/01/pdf/ref_data1.pdf. (in Japanese)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2015) Fruit tree
agriculture promotion basic policy. 26. (in Japanese)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2017a) Area of
agricultural land in Japan in 2017 (July 15). http://www.maff.go.jp/
j/tokei/kouhyou/sakumotu/menseki/index.html. (in Japanese)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (2017b) Agricultural
gross production and Productional Agricultural Income (National)
in 2015. (in Japanese)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (2017c) Forestry
production in 2015. (in Japanese)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (2017d) Recognized as
a globally important agricultural heritage systems. (in Japanese)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2017e) Present
situation of agricultural land improvement in Japan (March,
2015). http://www.maff.go.jp/j/council/seisaku/nousin/bukai/h28_
5/attach/pdf/index-13.pdf. (in Japanese)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2017f) Report on
results of 2005 census of agriculture and forestry in Japan. http://
www.e-stat.go.jp/SG1/estat/List.do?bid=000001011999&cycode=0
. (in Japanese)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2017g) Area of
cultivated land in 2017. www.maff.go.jp/j/tokei/kouhyou/sakumotu/
menseki/index.html
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2017h) Statistics of
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. (in Japanese)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2017i) Fruit trees and
tea cultivation area in 2017. Statistics of agriculture. 4–8. (in
Japanese)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2017j) The farmland
area in 2017. Statistics of agriculture. 4–8. (in Japanese)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Agricultural Production
Bureau (2008) Summary on the national soil survey programs in
Japanese agricultural land from 1979 to 2003. Agricultural
Production Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
(in Japanese)
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Department of
Statistics (2016) Population estimates. www.stat.go.jp/data/jinsui/
2016np/index.htm (October 1, 2016)
Ministry of the Environment (2016a) Investigation result of groundwater quality. http://www.env.go.jp/water/report/h28-03/h28-03_
full.pdf. (in Japanese)
Ministry of the Environment (2016b) Enforcement of act to prevent soil
contamination on agricultural land in 2015
Miyata I (2007) Agriculture and soil management in Tottori Prefecture.
J Soil Sci Plant Nutr 87:103–104 (in Japanese)
Morita Y, Oosumi Y, Natume D (1986) Genesis and classification of
dark red soil derived from Serpentinite 1. Bul1 For For Prod Res
Inst 341:27–46. (in Japanese with English summary)
Moritsugu S, Washio T (2016) Studies on the soil fertilization
management of black soybean in the upland field converted from
paddy field (1) current condition of soil fertility and analysis of
yield decrease factor in black soybean fields. Bull Res Inst Agric
Okayama Prefectural Technol Center Agric For Fish 7:7–17 (in
Japanese)
Nakajima H (2007) Agriculture, soil science and plant nutrition in Kyoto
Prefecture. Jpn J Soil Sci. Plant Nutr 78:545–546. (in Japanese)
NARO
WARC
(2013)
Diagrams
of
agricultures
in
Kinki-Chugoku-Shikoku Region, 2012, pp 2, 5, 22, 24–25, 31,
38. (in Japanese)
Naruse T (2004) Plains of Sanyo rigion. In: Ota Y, Nause T, Tanaka S,
Okada A (eds) Regional geomorphology of the Japanese Islands,
vol 6. Geomorphology of Kinki, Chugoku and Shikoku. University
of Tokyo Press. Tokyo, pp 220–232. (in Japanese)
Obara H, Takata Y, et al (2016) A new soil map based on
comprehensive soil classification system of Japan fiest approximation. Bull Natl Inst Agro-Environ Sci 37:133–148. (in Japanese with
English summary)
9 Kinki, Chugoku, and Shikoku Regions
325
of Tokyo Press. Tokyo, pp 232–239. (in Japanese)
Hyogo Prefecture (1987) The varieties and characteristics of paddy
soils in Hyogo. (in Japanese)
Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO (2017) Japan Soil
Inventory, 1/200000 Soil Map, Tsukuba. http://soil-inventory.dc.
affrc.go.jp/download20.php
Ishibashi E (2004) Agriculture and soil management in Okayama
prefecture. J Soil Sci Plant Nutr 75:623–624 (in Japanese)
Ito J (2005) Agriculture and soil management in Shimane prefecture.
J Soil Sci Plant Nutr 76:931–932 (in Japanese)
Japanese Society of Pedology (ed) (2007) Japanese soils (Dojo o aishi
dojo o mamoru-Nihon no dojo-). Hakuyusya, Tokyo, p 256. (in
Japanese)
Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition (1991) Toxic
metal contamination of soil-situation measure and prospects.
Hakuyusha Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Kanazawa K (1998) Estimation of carbon dioxide evolution as the
global warming gas evolved from agricultural lands in Japan. Jpn J
Farm Work Res 33:155–169 (in Japanese)
Kanda T, Takata Y et al (2017) Development of the 1:50000 digital soil
map of cultivated soil in Japan according to the comprehensive soil
classification system of Japan-first approximation. Jpn J Soil Sci
Plant Nutr 88:29–34 (in Japanese)
Kitagawa T (2012) Actual status of cultivated soil in Shiga prefecture.
In: Soil guidebook for arable land in Japan (Zenkoku noukouti
dojou gaidobukku). Japan Soil Association, Tokyo, pp 70–71. (in
Japanese)
Kobayashi T, Komori N, Tokuda Y (2005) Improved fertilizer
application and optimized water management for reducing outflow
load of nutrient salts etc. from Gley paddy fields soils. Bull. Shiga
Pref. Agric Res Cent Exp Stn 45:13–36 (in Japanese with English
summary)
Kuroda Y (2006) Agriculture and soil management in Tokushima
prefecture. Jpn J Soil Sci Plant Nutr 77:239–240 (in Japanese)
Machida H, Arai F (1992) Atlas of Tephra in and around Japan.
University of Tokyo Press. Tokyo, pp 109–112. (in Japanese)
Machida H (2004) Volcanoes in Chugoku mountains. In: Ota Y, Nause T,
Tanaka S, and Okada A (eds) Regional geomorphology of the
Japanese islands, vol 6. Geomorphology of Kinki, Chugoku and
Shikoku. University of Tokyo Press. Tokyo, pp 153–164. (in Japanese)
Makino S, Tokuchi N et al (2017) Nitrogen dynamics of
nitrogen-saturated and unsaturated deciduous forest ecosystems on
Toyama Plain. Japan J For Res 99:120–128
Masunaga T (2007) Physico-chemical properties and management of
soil at Nakaumi polder. In: Japanese Society of Pedology (ed) Love
our soil and save our soil. Hakuyusha, Tokyo, pp 237–242. (in
Japanese)
Matsuura S, Sasaki H, Kohyama K (2012) Organic carbon stocks in
grassland soils and their spatial distribution in Japan. Grassland Sci
58:79–93. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-697X.2012.00245.x
Matsuyama N, Saigusa M (1994) Distribution of allophanic andosols
and non-allophanic andosols in Western Japan. Pedologist 38:2–9
(in Japanese with English abstract)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2008a) Current
situation and problems of agricultural soil. 9. http://www.maff.go.
jp/j/study/dozyo_kanri/01/pdf/ref_data1.pdf. (in Japanese)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2008b) Current
situation and problems of agricultural soil. 10. http://www.maff.
go.jp/j/study/dozyo_kanri/01/pdf/ref_data1.pdfw. (in Japanese)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2008c) Current
situation and problems of agricultural soil. 11. http://www.maff.
go.jp/j/study/dozyo_kanri/01/pdf/ref_data1.pdf. (in Japanese)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2015) Fruit tree
agriculture promotion basic policy. 26. (in Japanese)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2017a) Area of
agricultural land in Japan in 2017 (July 15). http://www.maff.go.jp/
j/tokei/kouhyou/sakumotu/menseki/index.html. (in Japanese)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (2017b) Agricultural
gross production and Productional Agricultural Income (National)
in 2015. (in Japanese)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (2017c) Forestry
production in 2015. (in Japanese)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (2017d) Recognized as
a globally important agricultural heritage systems. (in Japanese)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2017e) Present
situation of agricultural land improvement in Japan (March,
2015). http://www.maff.go.jp/j/council/seisaku/nousin/bukai/h28_
5/attach/pdf/index-13.pdf. (in Japanese)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2017f) Report on
results of 2005 census of agriculture and forestry in Japan. http://
www.e-stat.go.jp/SG1/estat/List.do?bid=000001011999&cycode=0
. (in Japanese)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2017g) Area of
cultivated land in 2017. www.maff.go.jp/j/tokei/kouhyou/sakumotu/
menseki/index.html
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2017h) Statistics of
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. (in Japanese)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2017i) Fruit trees and
tea cultivation area in 2017. Statistics of agriculture. 4–8. (in
Japanese)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2017j) The farmland
area in 2017. Statistics of agriculture. 4–8. (in Japanese)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Agricultural Production
Bureau (2008) Summary on the national soil survey programs in
Japanese agricultural land from 1979 to 2003. Agricultural
Production Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
(in Japanese)
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Department of
Statistics (2016) Population estimates. www.stat.go.jp/data/jinsui/
2016np/index.htm (October 1, 2016)
Ministry of the Environment (2016a) Investigation result of groundwater quality. http://www.env.go.jp/water/report/h28-03/h28-03_
full.pdf. (in Japanese)
Ministry of the Environment (2016b) Enforcement of act to prevent soil
contamination on agricultural land in 2015
Miyata I (2007) Agriculture and soil management in Tottori Prefecture.
J Soil Sci Plant Nutr 87:103–104 (in Japanese)
Morita Y, Oosumi Y, Natume D (1986) Genesis and classification of
dark red soil derived from Serpentinite 1. Bul1 For For Prod Res
Inst 341:27–46. (in Japanese with English summary)
Moritsugu S, Washio T (2016) Studies on the soil fertilization
management of black soybean in the upland field converted from
paddy field (1) current condition of soil fertility and analysis of
yield decrease factor in black soybean fields. Bull Res Inst Agric
Okayama Prefectural Technol Center Agric For Fish 7:7–17 (in
Japanese)
Nakajima H (2007) Agriculture, soil science and plant nutrition in Kyoto
Prefecture. Jpn J Soil Sci. Plant Nutr 78:545–546. (in Japanese)
NARO
WARC
(2013)
Diagrams
of
agricultures
in
Kinki-Chugoku-Shikoku Region, 2012, pp 2, 5, 22, 24–25, 31,
38. (in Japanese)
Naruse T (2004) Plains of Sanyo rigion. In: Ota Y, Nause T, Tanaka S,
Okada A (eds) Regional geomorphology of the Japanese Islands,
vol 6. Geomorphology of Kinki, Chugoku and Shikoku. University
of Tokyo Press. Tokyo, pp 220–232. (in Japanese)
Obara H, Takata Y, et al (2016) A new soil map based on
comprehensive soil classification system of Japan fiest approximation. Bull Natl Inst Agro-Environ Sci 37:133–148. (in Japanese with
English summary)
9 Kinki, Chugoku, and Shikoku Regions
325