education and research encompassing all aspects of “Horticulture, Food and Landscape” with interdisciplinary and international perspectives. With this aim, The Graduate School of Horticulture's teaching and research programs consists not only of natural sciences but also of social sciences and humanities, such as: cultivation, plant breeding, biotechnology of bio-resources, landscape design and engineering, human health and welfare, environmental science for sustainable cities and nature conservation, food system studies, and environmental and development economics. The research fields of the Graduate School of Horticulture are as follows: Bioresource Science: Horticultural Plant Production and Breeding Environmental Science for Bioproduction Applied Biological Chemistry Environmental Science and Landscape Architecture: Landscape Architecture Landscape Science Environment and Human Health Sciences Food and Resource Economics Food System Analysis Resource and Environmental Economics Graduate schools Humanities and Social Sciences Education Nursing Social Sciences and Humanities Science and Technology Medicine Pharmaceutical Sciences Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences Law School Notable alumni Ai Aoki, Politician (Education) Nobuyoshi Araki, photographer (Technology of Photograph and Printing, 1963) Masanobu Endō, video game designer (Engineering) Katsuichi Honda, Journalist (Pharmaceutical Sciences) Junichiro Ito, director of the Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, National Institute of Mental Health Tomisaku Kawasaki, pediatrician, Kawasaki disease named after him Taku Kishimoto, anime screenwriter Naoshi Mizuta, video game composer (Law & Economics) Kayoko Okubo, Comedian (Letters) Norihisa Tamura, Politician (Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare) Takashi Yanase, Cartoonist (Engineering) Notes External links Chiba University Chiba University Japanese national universities 1949 establishments in Japan Educational institutions established in 1949 Buildings and structures in Chiba (city)