Shimoyamada, Sho

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Affiliation

Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering ( Yagami )

Position

Senior Assistant Professor (Non-tenured)/Assistant Professor (Non-tenured)

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Telephone No.

045-566-1522

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  • In today’s highly interconnected world, the internationalisation of higher education is a top priority—and STEM education is no exception. Dr Shimoyamada is committed to implementing international education programmes at the Faculty of Science and Technology, evaluating their outcomes, and continuously improving them based on stakeholder feedback.

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Message from the Faculty Member 【 Display / hide 】

  • Why should you engage in international exchange during your time at university? Late adolescence is a critical period for the formation of one’s identity and values. To truly understand yourself, it is essential to actively interact with people from backgrounds different from your own. The experience of finding that your ‘common sense’ no longer applies is inherently rewarding and will undoubtedly enrich your life. I encourage you to take advantage of a wide range of international exchange opportunities on campus, as well as various study abroad programmes.

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  • International Centre: https://www.ic.keio.ac.jp/en/

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Profile Summary 【 Display / hide 】

  • My primary duties include designing international education programmes for STEM students and evaluating their learning outcomes. In addition, I engage in educational and research activities in leisure and tourism studies.

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Career 【 Display / hide 】

  • 2015.09
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    2016.03

    The University of Edinburgh, School of Languages and Cultures, Teaching Assistant

  • 2016.09
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    2016.11

    The University of Edinburgh, Moray House School of Education and Sport, Tutor

  • 2017.05
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    2020.03

    The University of Tokyo, Centre for Research and Development of Higher Education, Project Researcher

  • 2020.04
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    2023.03

    The University of Tokyo, Graduate School / College of Arts and Sciences, Project Assistant Professor

  • 2023.04
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    2026.03

    The University of Tokyo, Centre for Global Education, Project Lecturer

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Academic Background 【 Display / hide 】

  • 2012.09
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    2017.07

    The University of Edinburgh, Moray House School of Education

    United Kingdom

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Research Areas 【 Display / hide 】

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Human geography

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Education (Global Education)

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Tourism studies (Sustainable Tourism)

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Research Keywords 【 Display / hide 】

  • Overtourism / Undertourism

  • Global Education

  • Leisure

  • Gardens

  • Sustainable Tourism

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Books 【 Display / hide 】

  • Cultural Studies on Hobbies: A Serious Leisure Perspective

    Nakanishiya Publisher, 2021.04

    Scope: Appendix 1 An Interview with Robert Stebbins

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Papers 【 Display / hide 】

  • Perceived learning outcomes of a short-term collaborative learning program: Toward developing intercultural competence and equitable Global North‒South partnerships

    Sho Shimoyamada

    Journal of International Students (STAR Scholars Network)  16 ( 2 ) 1 - 24 2026.01

    Research paper (scientific journal), Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author, Accepted,  ISSN  2162-3104

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    This study investigated Japanese students’ perceived learning outcomes from a short-term program jointly conducted by the University of Tokyo and Asian University for Women in Bangladesh through the lens of intercultural competence and the contact hypothesis. Qualitative data were derived primarily from Japanese students’ essays. Inductive analysis revealed that intergroup interactions enhanced Japanese students’ awareness of social inequalities, diverse ethnic identities, prevailing stereotypes against the Global South, their own privilege, and Japan’s colonial legacy. This study makes theoretical contributions by illuminating the potential for inappropriate and ineffective interactions with outgroup peers. These findings suggest that educators should create environments where learners feel safe in making communicative mistakes and avoid hastily developing learners’ intercultural competence.

  • Horticultural Overtourism in Tokyo: Coopetition for Successful Enticement of Visitors from Over- to Less Crowded Gardens

    Sho Shimoyamada

    Sustainability (MDPI AG)  16 ( 21 ) 9444 - 9444 2024.10

    Research paper (scientific journal), Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author, Accepted

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    Garden managers face the dilemma of promoting and preserving their gardens. Overtourism in popular gardens can be solved by cooperating to entice visitors to alternative, less popular gardens. However, such an enticement strategy may not be successful because garden managers not only cooperate with but also compete against each other (i.e., coopetition). How can garden management practitioners forge a coopetitive relationship to encourage visitors to move from over- to less crowded gardens? Addressing this question, this study aimed to propose a successful coopetitive strategy to redistribute visitors. This study was drawn primarily from semi-structured interviews with garden staff of an overcrowded national garden and multiple less crowded metropolitan gardens. A thematic analysis of qualitative data revealed a lack of cooperation between national and metropolitan gardens and highlighted the former’s aspirations for further growth despite perceived overtourism. This study proposes using the ambiguous cultural status of national and metropolitan gardens as a catalyst for coopetition between them, and contributes to the discourse on sustainable cultural tourism by broadening its scope and redressing the scholarly imbalance between an overemphasis on visitors’ behaviour and a dearth of attention on practitioners of (horti)cultural tourism. Theoretical contributions are detailed at the end of this article.

  • Reciprocal Altruism in a Charity-Fundraising Event: Reconceptualizing the Cost of Volunteering

    Sho Shimoyamada

    Leisure Sciences (Informa UK Limited)  47 ( 6 ) 1311 - 1332 2023.05

    Research paper (scientific journal), Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author, Accepted,  ISSN  0149-0400

  • Perception of overtourism and undertourism in a garden tourism project in suburban Tokyo

    Sho Shimoyamada

    The 10th International Conference on Tourism Management and Related Issues  2022.09

    Research paper (scientific journal), Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author, Accepted

  • Production of Scottish Open Gardens: privacy and power

    Sho Shimoyamada

    Leisure Studies (Informa UK Limited)  40 ( 3 ) 424 - 437 2020.12

    Research paper (scientific journal), Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author, Accepted,  ISSN  0261-4367

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Presentations 【 Display / hide 】

  • Creative Resistance to Horticultural Overtourism in Tokyo: Using Mixed Reality to Entice Visitors from Overcrowded to Less Crowded Gardens

    Sho Shimoyamada

    [International presentation]  Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference, 

    2025.08
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    Oral presentation (general)

  • The Disparity in Japanese Garden Tourism: From the Perspective of Overtourism and Undertourism

    Sho Shimoyamada

    [International presentation]  2023 7th International Conference on Sustainable Tourism Management, 

    2023.08
    , 

    Oral presentation (general)

  • Perception of overtourism and undertourism in a garden tourism project in suburban Tokyo

    Sho Shimoyamada

    [International presentation]  The 10th International Conference on Tourism Management and Related Issues, 

    2022.09
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    Oral presentation (general)

  • Development of an online course on EMI: implications from the review of a peer-evaluation system

    Sho Shimoyamada, Akiko Nakazawa, Toru Fujimoto, Nicola Galloway

    [International presentation]  Annual Conference of Japan Society for Educational Technology, 

    2020.02
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    2020.03
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    Oral presentation (general)

  • A MOOC as a virtual community for glocalisation:a case report on teacher-training in English Medium Instruction

    Sho Shimoyamada, Akiko Nakazawa, Toru Fujimoto, Nicola Galloway

    [International presentation]  Annual Conference of Association for Learning Technologies, 

    2019.09
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    Oral presentation (general)

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Research Projects of Competitive Funds, etc. 【 Display / hide 】

  • Towards designing effective visitor dispersal: The role of cultural and natural proximities in gardens

    2025.04
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    2028.03

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Sho Shimoyamada, Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Principal investigator

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    本研究では都内文化財庭園の指定管理団体職員にインタビューをし、庭園の文化的・自然的特徴と、それを活用した庭園間協力への見解を明らかにする。マスツーリズムが文化と自然に与える影響はこれまで別々に調査される傾向にあったが、庭園を調査することで併せて考察することができる。本研究は個別の庭園で保有されてきた文化的・自然的特徴についての知識を結び付けていくことができるため、その研究成果は庭園間を橋渡しするための知的基盤となり、協力関係構築に寄与するとともに、回復の最中にある国内観光においてオーバーツーリズム防止に有効な知見を提供する。

  • An Awareness of Over/Undertourism: A Case Study on a Newly Launched Garden Tourism Scheme in Suburban Tokyo

    2022.04
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    2024.03

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI), Sho Shimoyamada, Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Principal investigator

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    本研究では、東京都内の庭園観光計画の実施主体が、オーバー／アンダーツーリズムのリスクをどの程度認識しているのかを明らかにする。東京都郊外部の庭園観光計画の実施主体を対象に、計画構成庭園の観光客誘致状況、構成庭園の観光キャリング・キャパシティーに関する認識、構成庭園間、ならびに構成庭園と都心部の人気観光地の間で観光客を分散させる必要性に関する認識を、フィールドワークを通じて調査する。庭園観光計画を初期段階から調査することで現状を把握し、オーバー／アンダーツーリズムの対策を講じることができる。ひいては、ポストコロナ禍に観光客数の再増加が予想される東京都内の観光地格差是正に寄与することができる。
    令和6年度は研究成果をまとめ、オープンアクセス誌「Sustainability」より1本の査読付き論文「Horticultural Overtourism in Tokyo: Coopetition for Successful Enticement of Visitors from Over- to Less Crowded Gardens」を発表することができた。この論文では、「普段は競合関係にある観光地が協働し、オーバーツーリズム解消のために観光客を分散していくにはどうすればよいか」をリサーチクエスチョンとして掲げ、東京都心部の庭園観光という文脈に焦点を当てて調査した。庭園管理運営団体職員へのインタビューを実施し、質的データを分析した結果、大規模な庭園ではオーバーツーリズムが確認できたにもかかわらず、更に来園者数の増加を目指していることが明らかになった。そのため、人気庭園の成長戦略を妨げることなく、他庭園へ来園者を誘導していく方略を考察した。文化観光の先行研究から着想を得て、庭園間の歴史的な接点に着目したプロモーションを実施することを提案することができた。この観光モデルが実現できれば、従来は庭園に関心を持たなかった歴史愛好家が来園するようになることで庭園観光市場を拡大できるのみならず、人気庭園を始点にストーリー展開をすることで他庭園にも足を運んでもらえるようになる。オーバーツーリズムの研究は問題の報告に留まる論文が多いなかで、具体的な解決策を提案することができたのみならず、文化研究の知見を組み込むことで新規性を提示することができた。
    本研究プロジェクトでは2本の査読付き論文を発表することを目標としているが、発表済み論文は1本に留まっている。もう1本はすでに複数の論文誌に投稿したが、すべてリジェクトされている。予想以上に査読に時間がかかったため、当初予定していた令和6年度末までに課題を終了させることができなかった。
    更に1本の査読付き論文を発表するために、新規投稿先を検討する。早期に必要な修正を行い、できる限り令和7年度中にアクセプトさせる。

  • Heterogeneous power relations between human and non-human agents in Scottish Open Gardens: An Actor-Network perspective

    2017.01
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    2018.03

    Leisure Studies Association, Research Development Fund, Sho Shimoyamada, Principal investigator

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Works 【 Display / hide 】

  • UTokyo English Academia (https://www.he.u-tokyo.ac.jp/englishacademia/en/)

    Sho Shimoyamada

    2018
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    2020
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    Educational material

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Courses Previously Taught 【 Display / hide 】

  • Sustainability and Tourism: Experiential Learning in Hokkaido

    The University of Tokyo

    2026.06
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    Present

  • Contemporary Japan and Society

    Gakushuin University

    2025.04
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    2025.09

  • Tourism and Justice

    The University of Tokyo

    2024.10
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    2026.03

  • Introduction to Sustainable Tourism

    The University of Tokyo

    2024.04
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    2026.03

  • Cultural Studies (Popular Culture)

    Tokai University

    2021.09
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    2022.03

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Social Activities 【 Display / hide 】

  • Commissioned survey (Nippon Junior High School Physical Culture Association)

    2017.04
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    2017.08
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Media Coverage 【 Display / hide 】

  • 東大、コロナ禍における東京都郊外部庭園観光の実態を調査

    NIKKEI, NIKKEI (https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZRSP640977_Y2A920C2000000/) , 2022.09

  • Incentive Programmes for English Proficiency Tests (incl. IELTS)

    Eiken Foundation of Japan, Interviews with Educational Institutions (https://www.eiken.or.jp/ielts/group/report/detail_post_16.html) , 2021.06

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Academic Activities 【 Display / hide 】

  • Peer-review of a manuscript submitted to Cities

    2025.07
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    2025.08

  • Peer-review of a manuscript submitted to Journal of International Students

    2025.05
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    2025.06

  • Chair: Sympogium with Asian University for Women (Summer 2024)

    2024.08

  • Chair: Sympogium with Asian University for Women (Summer 2023)

    2023.08

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Memberships in Academic Societies 【 Display / hide 】

  • European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, 

    2022.04
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    Present

  • Japan Society for Educational Technology, 

    2017.09
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    2020.03

  • Japan Institute for Tourism Research, 

    2017.04
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    2018.03

  • Leisure Studies Association, 

    2017.03
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    2018.02
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