Aki Koichi

Background

Aki Koichi was born in Niigata Prefecture.

Education

In 1926 graduated from Tokyo University.

Career

He entered the Home Affairs Ministry soon after graduating from Tokyo University (1926). During the Sino-Japanese Incident, he toured various parts of Continental China, studied such Chinese rivers as the Yangtze and Yellow River, and wrote his thesis on the shape of rivers on the basis of these studies. He won a doctorate (1943). Was nominated (1944) to the professorship at Tokyo University. He became chief of the Civil Engineering Experimentation Station of the Home Affairs Ministry (1946), first director of the Secretariate of the Natural Resources Research Council (1948), and Vice-President of the Council(1951). He was the conference president at the second United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East subcommittee on multi-purpose river development.

Works

• book

  • On the Shape of Rivers

  • Outline of Riparian Civil Engineering

  • The Resources in Japan

  • Flood-ridden Japan