Akane Minohara is a Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences. She has been involved in the rebuilding and revitalization of small-scale fishing communities in Japan affected by the March 2011 tsunami. She previously worked for the Secretariat of the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative at the United Nations University, where she was also heavily involved in promoting the post-tsunami recovery of satoyama/satoumi communities.