Last updated : Jun. 1, 2022
| 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. -2020 Mar. |
Project Professor, Unit of the Synergetic Studies for Space, Kyoto
University |
| 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 Distingushed 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 Technology2019 |
| 2019 |
The Uda Prize of the Oceanographic Society of Japan |
| 2021 |
The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon |
| 2021 |
The 62nd Fujihara Award |
| 2021 |
The Jiangsu Friendship Award |
| 2021 |
The 1st ISAJ Distinguished Mentor Award |
