Koki Kanahama

摘要

Tell us a bit about yourself (hometown, current locale, family, hobbies, community involvement).I was born in 1949 in a small village located on the northeastern coast of Japan, where I lived until I entered Tohoku University at the age of 19. Tohoku University is located in Sendai city and faces the Pacific Ocean (Figure 1). This city is 400 km tothe north of Tokyo, the capital of Japan, and has a population of almost one million. Sendai city is famous for tourist attractions such as the star festival in summer (Figure 2). When I was a young researcher, I lived in Thailand for six months as a member of an expert group in horticultural science, supported by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). This experience gave me an understanding of the importance of international cooperation. I was a professor at the Laboratory of Horticultural Science for 20 years (Figure 3). The primary scientific theme of the work done in this laboratory was research on the morphological and physiological mechanisms offlower initiation and fruit growth in horticultural plants.