Naomasa Yamasaki

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Naomasa Yamasaki (山崎直方,March 10, 1870July 26, 1929) was a Japanese geographer and regarded as the father of modern Japanese geography.

He was a professor at Tokyo Imperial University from 1911 to 1929. He created the department of geography and founded The Association of Japanese Geographers, the primary academic geographic society in Japan.

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