Rakuyukai (Division of Natural Resource Economics)

The Rakuyukai of the Faculty of Agriculture at Kyoto University is an alumni association. It consists of graduates, faculty members, and others with a connection to the Department of Economics of Agriculture and Forestry, the Bioresource Economics Course, the Department of Food and Environmental Economics, as well as the Division of Economics of Agriculture and Forestry and the Division of Natural Resource Economics (formerly the Department of Agricultural and Forestry Economics) of the Graduate School of Agriculture at Kyoto University.

[Year of founding]
1928

[Chairperson]
Yoshio Kono (graduated in 1972)

[Number of members]
About 1,300

[Secretariat]
Lead Coordinator: Masanobu Kagamishima (graduated in 1977), Secretariat: Atsushi Kuriyama

[Main events]
General meeting, commemorative lecture, social gathering once a year in November (Kyoto University Homecoming Day). Member magazine Rakuyukai News published once a year. “Rakuyukai Email News” sent out every other month.