Narumi Yoshikawa has a Ph.D. in agricultural economics specializing in agri-anthropology. She is the head of the Uehiro Research Center for Japan Environment Studies and specially appointed professor at RIHN. She is also a Professor at the Prefectural University of Hiroshima and a Visiting Professor at Waseda University. Her current research interests include environmental studies of Japan from a cultural perspective. Her research emphasizes social implementation, such as the establishment of Community Supported Agriculture projects, which became the foundation of Japan’s organic farming movement. Dr. Yoshikawa has gained extensive skills in education, program management, fieldwork design, and facilitation. She designed environmental education programs connecting universities in 10 Asian countries through the Asian Environmental Students’ Platform (ASEP) and served as the director of the International PEACE Management Institute at Prefectural University of Hiroshima. She has taught the “Nature and Culture” lecture series at Waseda University, connecting experiences of environmental degradation in SATOYAMA and SATOUMI with indigenous knowledge. Her notable publications include “Climate Change, Insight and Dialogue of New Environmental Ethics”, (2018), “Convivialism, Philosophy of the Art of Living Together” (2017), and “Chinese Reforestation: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism” (2016).