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Terufumi Ohno studied paleontology in Kyoto and Bonn. During his undergraduate and master course studies, he described a brachiopod fauna of the Early Devonian age from a Japanese locality. He then studied at Bonn University in Germany on a scholarship, where he made an experimental study on periodicities of growth line formation in bivalve mollusk shells.
Later he carried out several field works in Okinawa and Iriomote Islands in order to elucidate the origin of symbiosis between cockles and unicellular algae.
He became a member of the Kyoto University Museum in 1997 where put emphasis on motivating people’s inquiry based learning. He actively developed learning programs for them and held many workshops. He was director of the museum between 2009 and 2015.
After he became director of Mie Prefectural Museum, he actively visited schools in Mie Prefecture, giving workshops for school pupils. He also tries to connect people interested in nurturing people’s life-long learning.

Abstract

People speak about globalism, which threatens existence of locals. However, the globe consists of mosaic of locals. Therefore, any local wisdom can not only help its community, but also can contribute in promoting other local communities. It is, therefore, of the foremost importance to dig out manifold local wisdom as well as to make platform where the local people bearing wisdom can meet together. Basing on my experience, I would like give some suggestions how we can make such platform.