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	Hirotada Okumura

Research Group
Cultural History and Geoscience Research Group

E-MAIL: hirotada@lbm.go.jp

	Career

Graduated from Waseda University's Department of Science and Engineering, and in 1995 became a Shiga Prefecture staff member. In April 2010 joined the Lake Biwa Museum.

Specialty

Research regarding the construction of zero emission type regional models in the bamboo lumber industry in river channels.

Key Words of Research

Bamboo, zero emission, river environments.