Health Science
This research group aims to develop the results of another research group that focuses on basic research (“Research Group2”, please take a look at it) into social applications. In this research group, we will cooperate with various corporations, local governments, civic organizations, and other research group projects in the field of English education, IT, poThis lab practices regional development of health and welfare through trial and error in the field, aiming for the longevity of individual health and the formation of a healthy community. We promote the practices on a lot of results of another group’s basic research on health science.
Japan is at the forefront of the rapid aging of the world's population, with an estimated 30% of the population over 65 years old by 2030 and over 40% by 2055. As we move toward the world's most super-aged society, how can we build a society where the Japanese people can live happily? This critical situation, in which Japan is the first country in the world to experience a super-aging society, is also an opportunity to create solutions that will change the world.
In the midst of these international issues, the "regional development" is not something that can be completed in a single area, but is made up of a complex and multilayered intertwining of diverse human relationships and issues within a region. At the present on January 2022, we have such research topics below:
1. Online medical system with Shonan Kei’iku Hospital; organizing basic smartphone lessons and further applied lessons promoting online rehabilitation and telemedicine for the elderly people, making walking courses and building a system for health checkups for participants by a doctor in orthopedic surgeons and physical therapists in charge of online rehabilitation.
2. Inclusive education in the Kenko Forest; promoting medical research and social systems research, in cooperation with Miura Dolphins and Shinshu University, that create a place where people with disabilities can experience the "excitement of nature" together with their families and friends.
3. Shonandai art square project; planning and operating programs to make Shonandai a town full of art and music in the basement of Shonandai Station, where a street piano has been installed.
4. Horse school project; uncovering a history of local horse race in Endo & Goshomi area and creating with horse owners and horse clubs its modern culture which holds leisure experiences of draft horses, caring for horses, etc.
5. “Wa herb project; learning, collecting, harvesting, processing and using “Wa Herb” which is traditional and native plants in Japan with medical healthy effects but was seldom taken recently as healthy foods.
6. Gombachi Project; inventing a new high-quality brand of Fujisawa through cropping, harvesting and cooking many kind of agricultural products, and planning a new style of firm stay for rural development.
7. “Green Lifestyle Business” with Tokyu Fudosan HD; making a new lifestyle in the era of “With COVID-19” as well as global issues like SDGs or Global Warming with the urban users of Tokyu brands which now face challenges of creating innovative and intercultural business in suburban and resort areas in Japan.
8. Our urban design of “Bloom City”; Combining all topics above and planning and promoting the central works of “Kei’iku Festival” in the wide cooperation over the residents, civil organizations, local industries and global companies, universities, hospitals, municipality in and around Fujisawa city.
A variety of researchers, policy maker, corporate executives and practitioners of regional development in Health Science Lab, SFC Research Institutes, support your researches. One of our professionals is Gouta Miura who is a former Olympic skier, the son of Yuichiro Miura and a researcher on antiaging and Research Topic 2, and is Shonan Kei’iku Hospital which many doctors and specialists in all Japan come and collaboratively study at its laboratory and which creates environment with our lab for policy advocacy to municipality, prefectural and government administration offices.
Students are expected to participate in one or some of the research topic above, or to propose their own original research themes. Students need to discover new concepts that will form the basis of original and effective social action proposals based on research and practice focusing on the propagation of healthy welfare among people, the individual physical and mental health, and the state of a “healthy city”. This lab and the another lab of fundamental research on health science work in tandem and open up an innovative path for regional development of health and welfare. We are sincerely looking forward to the students who are willing to break through conventional common sense and social conventions, to find a way out of difficult times, and to work from Fujisawa toward the realization of a better Japan and world.
licy, and community development to achieve a society where people can live happily.