Kazuma Takeda

Advisor of Park & Health Network; Board member of World Urban Parks; Director, Oizumi Park Administration Office, Japan

Kazuma Takeda is a Director of Oizumi Park Administration Office. He is currently engaged in making better use of parks for citizens as a planner and practitioner of park use in a private non-profit organization. Before this, he worked for the National Government on region and town development, park construction and management for twelve years.

Kazuma has a particular interest in the benefit of parks for health, and has been working on a park and health project “Keep fit in the park” that was launched in 2013. The project aims to make better use of parks for preventing and improving citizens health. He is also an Advisor of the Park & Health Network in Japan.