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Scientific Information †

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Area of Interest †

  • Air-sea interface physics
  • Bubble dynamics
  • Climate change
  • Dynamics of wind waves, long waves, and tsunamis
  • Geophysical and environmental fluid mechanics
  • Tropical cyclone and related disasters
  • Nonlinear wave dynamics
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Professional Publications †


Please ask me directly, if you need a reprint(s).

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Current affiliation †

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Professional Experience †

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Full time †

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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
  • 2020-2022
    • Technical advisor to Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan
  • 2020-2023
    • Honorary Professor, Swansea University, UK
  • 2021-
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Award †

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Paper awards †

  • 2012 The Best Paper Award, Coastal Engineering Award, JSCE.
  • 2014 The Best Paper Award, The Port and Horbour Association of Japan.
  • 2015 Highest Impact Article Award, Hydrological Research Letters
    • Nobuhito Mori, Tomohiro Yasuda, Hajime Mase, Tracey Tom and Yuichiro Oku (2010) Projection of Extreme Wave Climate Change under Global Warming, Hydrological Research Letters, Vol.4, pp.15-19.
  • CEJ Citation Award (2015)
  • Best Paper Award (2018) Korean Society of Civil Engineers (KSCE) 2018 Convention 2018
  • 2018 The Best Paper Award, Coastal Engineering Award, JSCE.
  • 2018 The Best Paper Award, Coastal Engineering Award, JSCE.
  • 2021 Gambo-Tatehira Award, The Meteorological Society of Japan.
  • 2021 The Best Paper Award, The Japanese Geotechnical Society.
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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)
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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
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Academic Activities †

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Membership †

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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)
    • 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)
    • Committee member, Turbulence Committee, Engineering Mechanics Division (2004/6-2008/5)
    • Member of COPRI Scientific Committee, ASCE (2017-)
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Editor †

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Editorial board member †

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Special issue †

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Organized Conferences †

  • Local organizing committee, The 8th International Symposium on Flow Modeling and Turbulence Measurements 2001 (FMTM2001), IAHR.
  • Local organizing committee, Asian and Pacific Coasts 2003 (APAC 2003), Second International Conference on Asian and Pacific Coasts, Coastal Engineering Committee, Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Chinese Ocean Engineering Society and Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers.
  • Local organizing committee, Coastal Dynamics 2009, Tokyo.
  • Secretary, The 6th International Symposium on Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces 2010 Kyoto.
  • Local organizing committee, Coastal Structures 2011, Yokohama.
  • Local organizing committee, International Symposium on Earth-Science Challenges (ISEC) 2013, Kyoto.
  • Scientific committee, Coastlab16, 2016, Ottawa.
  • Technical abstract review committee, Coastal Dynamics 2017, Helsingør, Denmark
  • Scientific Committee, ICCE2018, 2018, Baltimore.
  • International Scientific Committee, The 8th International Conference on Water Resources and Environment Research (ICWRER2019), June 14-18, 2019, Nanjin, China.
  • Scientific Committee, Coastlab2020, 2020, Zhejiang, China.
  • Local Organizing Committee, 2020, International Workshop Convection-Permitting Modeling for Climate Research,Japan.
  • Organizing, Committee, 2020, vICCE
  • Scientific Committee and Local Organizing Committee, 2021, International Workshop Convection-Permitting Modeling for Climate Research 2021,Japan.
  • Technical abstract review committee, Coastal Dynamics 2021, Delft, Netherlands
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Reviewer (the last few years) †

I served as a reviewer above journals last several years.

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Social Services †

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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, 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, River structure council, 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 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-present.
  • Committee member, Climate change impact on Hokkaido coasts, Regional Development Bureau, 2020-present.
  • Committee member, Development of storm surge prediction system, Hyogo Prefecture, 2020.
  • 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-present.
  • 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 (JM), 2022-present.
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Universities, research organizations and international agencies †

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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.
  • Advisor, OneConcern, USA/Japan, 2020-present
  • Advisor, Sompo Japan Digital Ventures, Japan, 2020-present
  • Committee member, Coastal Technology Strategy Committee, Japan Institute of Country-ology and Engineering, Japan, 2021-present