Education
1971 - B.S Major in Science, The University of Tokyo
1973 - M.S Major in Geophysics, The University of Tokyo
1977 - D.S Major in Geophysics, The University of Tokyo
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Professional Experience
1975-1979 Research Associate, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University
1979-1991 Associate Professor, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University
1981 Sept.- 1983 Aug.,
1984 Jul.-Dec Visiting Research Scholar of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program, Princeton University
1991-1994 Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
1994 Apr. - 2012 Mar. Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
1997 Oct. - 2003 June Program Director, International Pacific Research Center (Honolulu)
1997 Oct. - 2009 Mar. Program Director, Frontier Research Center for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technollogy
1998 Head of the Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
1999, 2005 Head of the Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo
2007 Apr. - 2009 Mar. Vice Dean , Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
2009 Apr. - 2012 Mar. Head of Application Laboratory, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
2009 Apr. - 2012 Mar. Dean, School of Science, The University of Tokyo
2012 Apr. -2017 Mar. Director, Application Laboratory, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
2017 Apr. - Project Principal Scientist, Application Laboratory, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
2017 Apr. - Project Professor, Unit of the Synergetic Studies for Space, Kyoto University
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Further Professional Experiences
Visiting Lecturer of Department of Science, Tohoku University
Visiting Lecturer of Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Hokkaido University
Visiting Lecturer of Department of Earth and Planetary Science and Department of Physics, Kyushu University
Visiting Professor of Hydrographic Office, Maritime Safety Agency, 1994 - 2004
Official of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1992
Technical Official of Prime Minister's Office, 1998
Visiting Lecturer of the Saint Sophia University, 2000 - 2002 , 2005, 2006
Visiting Professor of Center for Marine Science and Development, Udayana University (Denpasar, Indonesia), 2005 Sep. - present
Awards and Honors
1976 Hidaka Marine Science Foundation Fellowship
1976 GFD Fellow of WHOI, U.S.A.
1981 Okada Memorial Prize of the Oceanographic Society of Japan
1984 Yoshida Science Foundation Fellowship
1986 Toray Science Foundation Fellowship
1987 Society Prize of the Meteorological Society of Japan
1989 Burr Steinbach Scholar of MIT/WHOI, U.S.A.
1997 Society Prize of the Oceanographic Society of Japan
2000 Best Poster Award for "Interannual variability in the subsurface tropical Indian Ocean" (PORSEC 2000, Dec. 8, Goa India)
2001 Mitsubishi Foundation Fellowship
2004 The Sverdrup Gold Medal of American Meteorological Society
2004 Fellow of the American Meteorological Society
2004 Thomson Scientific Research Front Award 2004 ( Leading 16 Japanese Scientists in Emerging Research Fronts )
2005 Medal with Purple Ribbon from the Emperor of Japan
2008 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
2008 Techno-Ocean Award
2010 Fellow of the Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics
2012 Emeritus Professor of the University of Tokyo
2012 Professor P.R. Pisharoty Distinguished Lecturer (Indian Meteorological Society, Pune Chapter / 16 November 2012)
2013 Foreign associate member of Académie de Marine, France
2014 Fellow of Japan Geoscience Union, 2014 April
2015 Prince Albert I Medal
2016 Honorary Professor of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
2018 Honorary Member, The Oceanographic Society of Japan
2019 Foreign Academician, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology