Mika AbeMika Abe, PhD, holds a JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists at Kyoto Prefectural University. She was born in Milan, Italy. Aft er completing the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, sh was a visitingscholar at the University of Leicester, UK, worked as an associate professor at Senshū University in Japan, and then became a part-time lecturer at Doshisha University, and later a researcher at Kyoto University. She specializes in historical/cultural geography and landscape theory. Read More Read Less