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Dr.RANA P. B. SINGH
Professor, Dept. ofﾊ Geography,ﾊ Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP 221005. INDIA.

Web site: http://ecoclub.com/experts/singh.html
Banaras Hindu University, Web site: www.bhu.ac.in

The IJFAB is founded in 1984 by the initiatives of those scholars who at different stages researched in and collaborated with Japanese scholars.

The IJFAB is recognised as an affiliate of the Indo-Japanese Association (Tokyo, Japan) and the Cultural Information Centre, Embassy of Japan in New Delhi.

The IJFAB is a NGO/Voluntary organisation of people who love Japan and help Japanese friends to study and collaborate with their Indian counterparts.

Every year many Japanese visitors, coming to Varanasi, contact the IJFAB and seek its help and support at various levels, like field research, contacting persons, academic collaboration, tourism, etc.

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Dr. Rana P. B. Singh (b. 1950), has been a Japan Foundation Fellow Scientist at Okayama National University, 1980, and worked with Prof. Shogo Yuihama, Professor of human Geography and a distinguished scholar of agricultural changes in Japan.

Based on the active Japanese collaboration the following research works are published:
Singh, Rana P. B. and Yuihama, Shogo:
1980, Eds. Changing Scene of Rural Habitat in Developing Countries. Proceedings, 24th IGC Okayama University (Japan) Symposium, Dept. of Geography and IGU-WG: TRHDC.
1981. Changing Japanese Rural Habitat. The Agricultural Dimension.. NGSI, Varanasi, Pub. 26. ISBN: 81-86187-25-1.
1983. Growth and perspectives of Japanese agricultural cooperative, Nokyo: case of Takamatsu-Nokyo, Okayama-ken. National Geographer (Allahabad Geogr. Soc.), 28 (1-2): 235-244.
1984 a. Recent agricultural changes in Niiike-buraku, Japan. National Geogr. Jl. of India (Varanasi), 30 (3): pp. 139-152.
1984 b. Structural transformation of Japanese agriculture: the National-Prefectural view. Environmental Appraisal and Rural Habitat Transformation, Singh & Singh, N.G.S.I., Varanasi, Pub. 32: pp. 203-227.
1985 Changing agricultural indicators, and agricultural regions of Japan.. National Geogr. Jl. of India (Varanasi), 31 (3): pp. 173-184.

Dr. R. S. Dubey, is a Senior Reader (Assoc. Professor), Dept. of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP 221005. He was a Fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science.

Dr. M. D. Dharmdasani
Coordinator: Centre for the Study of Nepal, Japanese Studies, Faculty of Soc. Sc., Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP 221005.

Prof. Kamal Sheel, Dept. of Chinese Studies, Faculty of Arts, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP 221005, INDIA.

Dr. Masaaki FUKUNAGA (b. 1955), is Professor, Centre for South Asian Studies, Gifu Womenﾕs University, Gifu (Japan); & Director, Asian Region, of the Society of Heritage Planning & Environmental Health. During 1981-1989 he has been student at the Banaras Hindu University and was awarded PhD from BHU in 1989. He is specialised in village studies in India, heritage ecology, and Indo-Japanese inter-cultural studies. His book, Factional Dynamics in India (1995) has received a wide acclaim. For his contributions in this context, he was awarded FISEC (1998).
email: fukunaga@gijodai.ac.jp