Orie Sekimura

(関村オリエ)

Profile Information

Affiliation: Professor, School of Arts and Sciences, Division of Global Social Sciences, Department of Community Design, Tokyo Woman's Christian University

Degree: Ph.D.（Human Geography）(Ochanomizu University)

J-GLOBAL ID: 201901015988561374
researchmap Member ID: B000378619

Research Interests

Research Areas

Research History

Apr, 2024 - Present

Deputy Director, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Tokyo Woman's Christian University
Apr, 2022 - Present

Professor, School of Arts and Sciences, Tokyo Woman's Christian University
Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2022

Associate Professor, Faculty of Literature, Gunma Prefectural Women's University
Apr, 2010 - Mar, 2015

Lecturer, Faculty of Literature, Gunma Prefectural Women's University

Committee Memberships

Apr, 2026 - Present

Secretary, Kanto Branch of The Japan Association of Economic Geographers
Oct, 2024 - Present

Delegate of The Human Geographical Society of Japan
Apr, 2023 - Present

Member, Geographical Review of Japan Editorial Specialist Committee, The Association of Japanese Geographers
Apr, 2023 - Present

Representative, Research Group on Gender and Space/Place, The Association of Japanese Geographers
Apr, 2024 - Mar, 2026

Member of Gender Equality Promotion Council, Suginami City

Awards

Nov, 2009

9th The Human Geographical Society of Japan Appreciation, The Human Geographical Society of Japan (HGSJ)

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Papers

Suburbs as Planned Spaces: Toward s Space for Production and Reproduction

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Annals of the Japan Association of Economic Geographers, 70(1) 21-45, 2024 Peer-reviewed
For Open Urban Spaces: The Possibility of Community Development Incorporating Gender Perspectives（Special Issue: The Essence of Walkables）

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CEL（Culture, Energy and Life）, 134 20-25, 2024 Invited
The Silk Industry and the Heritages of Modernization in Gunma Prefecture: Focusing on the Registration of a Heritage Site in Kiryu City

The Monthly Bulletin of the Institute for Social Science Senshu University, 715・716 26-44, 2023 Invited
The Shrinking Domestic Silk Industry and the Industrial Heritages Returning to Silk: The Case Study of Kiryu City, Gunma Prefecture, Japan

The Monthly Bulletin of the Institute for Social Science Senshu University, 710・711 57-74, 2022 Invited
Gender and the Suburbs: Origin and Evolution of Planned Space in Post-War Japan

The Journal of history, 104(1) 226-262, 2021 Peer-reviewed

Misc.

Geography Reconsidered from Gender 25: Issues Surrounding Women's Mobility Part 2: Rural Areas

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Geography, 70(9) 12-13, 2025
Geography Reconsidered from Gender 22: Issues Surrounding Women's Mobility Part 1: Urban Areas

Sekimura Orie

Geography, 70(6) 8-9, 2025
Gender × Space - Where Women Are: Part 11 For the Space of Women and People

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We learn, 849 21, 2025
Gender × Space - Where Women Are: Part 10 The Space of the Automobiles

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We learn, 848 17, 2025
Gender × Space - Where Women Are: Part 9 Bodies as Spaces

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We learn, 847 17, 2025
Gender × Space - Where Women Are: Part 8 From household to “home” space

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We learn, 846 17, 2024
Special Issue :Gender and Geography

Yoko Yoshida,Mikoto Kukimoto,Keichi Kumagai,Minako Kuramitsu,Ai Sugie,Orie Sekimura

Geography, 69(12) 14-43, 2024
Geography Reconsidered from Gender 15 : My Memories of Prof. Dr. Yoko Ota

Orie Sekimura

Geography, 69(10) 8-9, 2024
Gender × Space - Where Women Are: Part 7 The Space of Women's Universities

Orie Sekimura

We learn, 845 17, 2024
Heterosexualized spaces and mother-to-mother “care”: The case of suburban New Towns in Japan

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Abstracts of the 35th International Geographical Congress, Dublin, 321-322, 2024
Gender × Space - Where Women Are: Part 6 ‘Bodyscapes’ and Public Spaces

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We learn, 844 17, 2024
Gender × Space - Where Women Are: Part 5 Restroom Spaces

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We learn, 843 17, 2024
Gender × Space - Where Women Are: Part 4 Women-only Carriages

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We learn, 842 17, 2024
Geography Reconsidered from Gender 13: The Potential of Geography Beyond "Women's Perspectives"

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Geography, 69(7) 8-9, 2024
Gender × Space - Where Women Are: Part 3 Suburban Space

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We learn, 841 17, 2024
Gender × Space - Where Women Are: Part 2 Space in the City

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We learn, 840 17, 2024
Gender × Space - Where Women Are: Part 1 Male-dominated Urban Space

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We learn, 839 17, 2024
Geography Reconsidered from Gender 5: Gender Perspectives and Geography

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Geography, 68(11) 8-9, 2023
New Relationships and Places of Public Housing Residents in Rikuzentakata: Reconstructing Places in Rikuzentakata, a Tsunami-Hit Area of the Great East Japan Disaster, and Geographies (2)

SEKIMURA Orie

Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, Autumn 2023, 82, 2023
Learning Switch - Gender Equality A to Z - Reading the SDGs through the Gender Lens: Vol. 7 For Planning City where we can continue to live

SEKIMURA Orie

834 14-15, 2023
Reading “Feminist City” (1): From the Perspective of Female Friendship

SEKIMURA Orie, KUMAGAI Keichi, KUKIMOTO Mikoto

Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, Spring 2023, 305, 2023
The participation of fathers in the reproductive sphere in Japan Focus on their masculinity in community activities

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Abstracts of the 34th International Geographical Congress, Istanbul, 150-150, 2021
Information from the society

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Japanese Journal of Human Geography, 72(1) 50-106, 2020
The Participation of Fathers in the Local Community

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Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, Spring 2019, 271, 2019
Fathers and the Community Activities:: Focusing on Their Masculinities

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ABSTRACTS of the Annual Meeting, The Human Geographical Society of Japan, 2019 46-47, 2019
Reconstruction of retirees’ masculine identity in Japanese suburban communities: an examination of their life stories

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Abstracts of the 33rd International Geographical Congress, Beijing, 78-80, 2016
Aging of Local Community and its Sustainability : A Case Study of Kiryu-city, Gunma

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Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, Spring 2016, 280, 2016
Who Will Mind the Children? Examining the Issue of Reproductive Labor through Lifestories from Suburban Communities

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ABSTRACTS of the Annual Meeting, The Human Geographical Society of Japan, 2015 82-83, 2015
New Town changing into Old Town: A case study of two major suburban New Towns in Tokyo and Osaka

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Abstracts of International Geographical Union Regional Conference, Kyoto, 51-52, 2013
Summary Records of the Study Group on Population Science

Summary Records of the Study Group on Population Science, 55 12-13, 2013
Childcare and employment of housewives in metropolitan suburb:A case of Senri New Town and the neighborhood area

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ABSTRACTS of the Annual Meeting, The Human Geographical Society of Japan, 2012 74-75, 2012
Restructuring Tokyo’s suburban space and housewives’ new entrepreneurship: a case study at Tama New Town

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Abstracts of International Geographical Union Regional Conference, Israel, 69-73, 2010
Reconstruction of retiree's masculinities in suburban community: Examination from their life stories

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ABSTRACTS of the Annual Meeting, The Human Geographical Society of Japan, 2009 71-71, 2009
Emerging entrepreneurship or underpaid volunteer? : Housewives’ Business in Restructuring Suburban Space at Tama New Town

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Proceedings of Tokyo International Sociological Association Research Committee 21 Tokyo Conference “Landscapes of Global Urbanism: Power, Marginality, and Creativity”, 19-21, 2008
Gender and Fieldwork

KIMURA Orie, KUMAGAI Keichi

F-GENS Journal, 10 160-163, 2008
Fieldwork methods (micro-ethnography methods)

KIMURA Orie, KUMAGAI Keichi

F-GENS Journal, 7 195-197, 2006
Local governance in Tama new town:Focusing on the roles of nonprofit sectors

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ABSTRACTS of the Annual Meeting, The Human Geographical Society of Japan, 2006 28-28, 2006
Residents’ volunteer activities in retirement community: A Case Study of Sun City, Arizona

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ABSTRACTS of the Annual Meeting, The Human Geographical Society of Japan, 2005 37-37, 2005
Formaition of social community by retired men:a case study of Sakuragaoka, Tama city

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Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, Spring 2004, 2004 228-228, 2004

Books and Other Publications

Understanding Gender and Urban Space from the Geographical Perspective

Edited by, Yoko Yoshida, Honami Kageyama

Kokon Shoin Publishers Ltd., 2024 (ISBN: 4772242376)
The Encyclopedia of Geography

Edited by, The Association of Japanese Geographers

Maruzen-publishing, 2023 (ISBN: 4621307932)
Doing Political Geographies

Edited by, Takashi Yamazaki

Nakanishiya Shuppan co.ltd., 2022 (ISBN: 4779516617)
Gender Geography and Changing Suburban Spaces

Orie Sekimura

Kokon Shoin Publishers Ltd., 2018 (ISBN: 4772253157)
Aging in the Metropolitan Area

Edited by, Takashi Inoue, Machiko Watanabe

Hara Shobo, 2014 (ISBN: 4562091940)

Professional Memberships

Research Projects

A Study on the Transformation of Regional Cities and Gender Restructuring: Focusing on Local Communities and Women

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2026 - Mar, 2030

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Local “Participation” of Male Residents in Transforming Suburban Spaces: Focusing on their Gender Reconstructions

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2025

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Reconstructing Places in Rikuzentakata, a Tsunami hit area of the Great East Japan Disaster: Highlighting a Geography of Emotion, Body, Gender and Fudo (milieu)

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2022
A Study on Transformation of Suburban Spaces and Reconstruction of "Masculinity"

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2020

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Gender Geography and Changing Suburban Spaces

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2018

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