Course title
動物衛生管理学特論   [Advanced Animal Hygiene and Management Science]
Course category   Requirement   Credit 0.5 
Department   Year   Semester Fall 
Course type Fall  Course code 96124
Instructor(s)
上塚 浩司(茨)   []
Facility affiliation United Graduate School Agricultural Science Office   Email address

Course description
“Practical management of the animal hygiene in Japan”

The animal hygiene management plays very important role for healthy life and disease prophylaxis of not only animal but also human. To explain the animal hygiene management, animal should be divided into five major groups, that is, companion animal, domestic animal, experimental animal, zoo animal and wild animal. The relevant government ministry is different among the animal major groups, and many laws for animal hygiene management have been established under the relevant government ministry holding the jurisdiction. In this lecture, at first, general outline of these situation in the animal hygiene management would be introduced. Next, based on the laws relating animal hygiene management, the specific topic would be introduced on companion animal, domestic animal and wild animal. Then, animal hygiene management has some important effect on ecological preservation and also has some relationship with the life’s diversity from the perspective of environmental hygiene. These relationship between animal hygiene and environmental hygiene would be explained in this lecture.
Expected Learning
Understanding of current status in the animal hygiene management in Japan. And also, Understanding of the effect on ecological preservation and the relationship with the life’s diversity from the perspective of environmental hygienic aspect of animal hygiene management.

Course schedule
1. animal hygiene management in Japan
- the Japanese law for the protection and management of animals -
2. hygiene management for companion animal
- Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Infectious disease law, public hygiene -
3. hygiene management for domestic animal
- Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Act on domestic animal infectious diseases control, livestock hygiene service center -
4. hygiene management for wild animal
- Ministry of the Environment, the Japanese law for the protection and management of wild birds and animals, The life’s diversity -
5. animal hygiene management for ecological preservation
- environmental impact assessment, drug resistance bacterium, safety of food -

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Assessment/Grading
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Today, animals have various relationship with humans in many various situations. Therefore, in this lecture, I would like to introduce current status of animal hygiene management in Japan.
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3/28/2018 2:03:58 PM