Awards, etc.

Last updated : April 27, 2012

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

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. -	Director, Application Laboratory, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

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

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
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