Preface for the Special Edition of Geographical Review of Japan Series B

The Japan-Korea-China Conference on Geography was created by a number of Japanese, Chinese and Korean geographers to encourage young scholars to give presentations in English in an international conference atmosphere.The first conference was successfully held in Beijing, China in 2006.The second conference was held in Kumamoto in 2007 and the third one in Cheongju, Korea in 2008, with increasing numbers of participants.When the organizing committee of the 5th joint conference was preparing the conference, a new idea of creating young geographer awards came about and that idea was realized during the conference.Young