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Scientific Information

Area of Interest

  • Climate change
  • Nonlinear wave dynamics
  • Atmospheric science
    • Air-sea interface physics
    • Typhoon dynamics
  • Disaster Research
    • Dynamics of wind waves, long waves, and tsunamis
    • Tropical cyclones and related disasters

Professional Publications


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Current major affiliation

Professional Experience

Full time

Part-time

  • 1996
  • 1998-2003
  • 2001
  • 2008
    • Served as a part-time lecturer at the Department of Environmental Urban Engineering, Osaka City University, Japan
  • 2010
    • Served as a part-time lecturer at the Department of Environmental Energy Engineering, Gifu University, Japan
  • 2013-2015
    • Served as a part-time lecturer at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Setsunan University, Japan
  • 2014
    • Served as a part-time lecturer at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kumamoto University, Japan
  • 2020-Present
    • Technical advisor to Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan
  • 2020-2026
    • Honorary Professor, Swansea University, UK
  • 2021-2024
  • 2022
    • Visiting Professor, Hiroshima University, JP

Award

Paper awards

Other Awards

  • 2012 Prizes for Science and Technology in the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
  • 2020 Director award, Kinki Regional Development Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT)
  • 2020 Director award, Kinki Regional Development Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT)
  • 2022 JSCE Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award, Kansai Airport Reconnaissance Project after Typhoon Jebi 2018.

Educational Experience

  • 1987-1991
    • Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Gifu University
    • Awarded the degree of Bachelor of Civil Engineering
  • 1991-1993
    • Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Gifu University
    • Awarded the degree of ME in coastal engineering for a thesis entitled "Wave Height Distribution of Nonlinear Random Waves", supervised by Professor Takashi Yasuda
  • 1993-1996
    • Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Gifu University
    • Received Ph.D. for a thesis entitled "Effects of High-Order Nonlinear Wave-Wave Interactions on Ocean Waves", supervised by Professor Takashi Yasuda

Academic Activities

Membership

Committee Member

  • Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE)
    • Secretary, Professional Engineer Certification Division (2010/6-2013/3)
    • Editorial committee member, JSCE Journal Editorial Division (2011/6-2013/5)
    • Editorial board member, JSCE Journal Editorial Division (2015/6-2017/5)
    • Committee member, National Resilience Committee, Special WG of JSCE (2017/6-2018/5)
  • Coastal Engineering Division, Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE)
    • Committee member, Coastal Engineering Division (2007/7-)
      • Vice-Chair (2021/6-2023/5)
      • Chair (2023/6-2025/5)
    • Committee member, Editorial Board, Coastal Engineering Division (2003/7-2020/10)
      • Chair (2014/11-2020/10)
    • Committee member, Public Relations, Coastal Engineering Division (2003/7-2014/11)
      • Chair (2011/6-2014/11), Vice-Chair (2007/7-2011/6)
    • Chair, Future concept committee, Coastal Engineering Division (2010/1-2011/5)
    • Vice-chair, Adaptation of climate change on coastal problems (2017-2019)
  • Other Divisions, Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE)
    • Committee member, Editorial Board, Ocean Engineering Division (2003/1-2009/12)
    • Committee member, Intelligent Infrastructure, Structural Engineering Division (2003/7-2005/6)
    • Secretary, Global Environment Division (2013-2015)
    • Committee member, Adaptation of climate change, Committee on Hydroscience and Hydraulic Engineering (2015-2017)
    • Committee member, River colloquium, Committee on Hydroscience and Hydraulic Engineering (2021-)
  • The Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics
    • Council member (2014/2-2016/1)
  • American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

Editor

Editorial board member

Special issue

Organized Conferences

Reviewer (the last few years)

I served as a reviewer for the above journals in the last several years.

Social Services

Central government in Japan

  • Committee member, Damage analysis and countermeasure for TC Jebi committee, Kinki Regional Development Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), 2018.
  • Committee member, Japan support committee for IPCC WG1, 2018-present.
  • Committee member, Adaptation for climate change in Japanese coasts, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), 2019-2020.
  • Committee member, Measure for storm surge in Osaka bay area, Kinki Regional Development Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), 2019-2020.
  • Committee member, Climate change and extreme hazard committee, Ministry of the Environment, 2020-present.
  • Committee member, Kumano river development committee, Kinki Regional Development Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), 2020-2022.
  • Committee chair, Climate Change Consortium for coastal protection, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), 2021-present.
  • Committee member, Committee for protection and flooding countermeasures of port facilities against storms, Kinki Regional Development Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), 2021.
  • Committee member, Committee for Shimo-Niikawa coastal protection, Hokuriku Regional Development Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), 2021-present.
  • Committee member, Committee for Disaster-weather information, Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), 2022-present.
  • Committee member, Committee for Volcanic tsunami warning, Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), 2022
  • Committee member, Committee for River Erosion Control Technical Standard Review, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), 2021-present.
  • Committee Member, Technical Review Committee for Implementation of Climate Change Adaptation Measures in Ports and Harbors, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), 2022-present
  • Committee Member, Working Group on Climate Change Impacts (Natural disasters and Coastal region), Ministry of the Environment, 2022-Present
  • Committee member, Technical Development Study Group on Climate Change
  • Expert Member, Council on Social Infrastructure Development, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), 2023-present
  • Committee member, Advisory Committee on Climate Change, Evaluation and Review Subcommittee, Japan Meteorological Agency,2023-present

Regional and other public sectors in Japan

  • Committee member, Future earthquake damage investigation committee, Shiga Prefecture, 2013.
  • Committee member, Climate change risk management committee, The Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), 2013-present
  • Committee member, Future earthquake and tsunami damage investigation committee, Shimane Prefecture, 2015-2017.
  • Committee member, Water Hazard Research Committee, General Insurance Rating Organization of Japan, 2015-2017.
  • Committee member, Council of River Structure Osaka Prefecture, 2019-2020.
  • Committee member, Evacuation from storm surge, Hyogo Prefecture, 2019-present.
  • Committee chair, Weather-related natural disasters, General Insurance Rating Organization of Japan, 2019-
  • Committee member, Climate change impact on Hokkaido coasts, Hokkaido Regional Development Bureau, 2020-2022.
  • Committee member, Development of storm surge prediction system, Hyogo Prefecture, 2020.
  • Committee member, Adaptation Measures, Hokkaido Prefecture, 2022-2023.
  • Committee member, Advisory committee for coastal plan considering climate change, Shimane Prefecture, 2022-present
  • Council member, Council of Coastal Plan, Osaka Prefecture, 2022-present
  • Chair, Coastal Conservation Basic Plan Revision Committee, Hyogo Prefecture, 2024-present

Universities, research organizations, and international agencies

Private sectors

  • Advisor, H3 Inc., Japan, 2014-present
  • Committee member, Wave modeling committee, Coastal Development Institute of Technology, Japan,2015-2017.
  • Committee member, Damaged analysis for TC Jebi committee, Kansai Airport, 2018-2019.
  • Technical Advisor, OneConcern, USA/Japan, 2020-present
  • Technical Advisor, Sompo Japan Digital Ventures, Japan, 2020-present
  • Committee member, Coastal Technology Strategy Committee, Japan Institute of Country-ology and Engineering (JICE), Japan, 2021-present
  • Committee member, Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai disaster Committee, JICA, Japan, 2022