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Journal Editors

• Associate Editor, Island Arc, Wiley: 2012 - 2019
• Associate Editor, Journal of Geological Society of Japan: 2012 - 2015
• Associate Editor, Journal 'Structural Geology', Tectonics Research Group of Japan: 2005 - 2006

... and many more as guest editors

Board member / committee member

• Japan Formation Evaluation Society (JFES): Japan Chapter of SPWLA

  Director: 2022 - 2026

• Japanese Association of Petroleum Technology (JAPT)

  Board member; 2022 - 2026
  Chair, Award Selection Committee: 2024 - present
  Member, Committee of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS): 2023 - present
  Member, Committee of drilling technology: 2022 - present
  Manager, Subcommittee of new technology, Committee of exploration technology: 2001 - present

• Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU)

  Representative: 2022 - 2024
  Finance committee: 2012 - 2018

• Geological Society of Japan (GSJ)

  Board member: 2010 - 2018
  National representative: 2010 - 2026
  Regional representative: 2006 - 2010
  Secretary of general affairs, Dept of Structural Geology: 2008 - 2014

• International Continental Drilling Program (ICDP)

  Science Advisary Group (SAG) Member: 2023 - 2027
  Executive Committee (EC) Member: 2016 - 2022

• Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP)

  ECORD Facility Board (EFB) Science Member: 2019 - 2023
  Joides Resolution Facility Board (JRFB) Science Member: 2017
  Proposal Evaluation Panel (PEP): 2011 - 2013
  　Sub-Chair 'Earth-in-Motion' May 2012
  Industry-IODP Science Program Planning Group (IIS-PPG): 2005 - 2009
  Chair, Chikyu IODP Board (CIB) Nominations Committee: 2014 - 2017

• International Geoscience Programme (IGCP)

  Chair, International organizing committee, IGCP-585: 2010 - 2012
  post-IGCP585 international planning member: 2013 - 2014
  Co-Chair, IGCP640 S4LIDE: 2015 - 2020

• Japan Earth Science Drilling Consortium (J-DESC)

  Board member: 2007 - 2014, 2018 - 2019
  Committee member for future vision: 2013
  Executive member for IODP division: 2005 - 2009, 2013 - 2020
  Executive member for ICDP division: 2022 - 2026
  Executive member for onland-drilling division: 2010 - 2012
  Domestic member for INVEST organizing committee: 2008 - 2009
  Member of borehole measurements working group: 2004 - 2009

• Society of Exploration Geophysics Japan (SEGJ)

  Organizing member of international symposium, International committee: 2006 - 2008, 2010 - 2011
  Committee member of continental shelf determination study: 2004 - 2005

Organize International Conferences

• Offshore SW Taiwan IODP Workshop. @National Central Univ, Taiwan (2-3, Aug 2016)
• Taiwan-Japan Deep Drilling Science Symposium. @National Central Univ, Taiwan (1 Feb 2016)
• IGCP-585 International Symposium 'Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences', Shiran Kaikan, Kyoto Univ., Japan (23-28 Oct. 2011)
• International Symposium on Methane Hydrates and Fluid Flow in Upper Accretionary Prisms, Shiran Kaikan, Kyoto Univ., Japan (09 Mar.2004)

Session Organizer / Chair

• AGU Fall Meeting 2017, The Asahiko Taira International Scientific Ocean Drilling Research Prize (U21C)
• AGU Fall Meeting 2017, Naturally Occurring Gas Hydrates I (OS43B)
• JpGU meeting, Drilling Earth Science (MIS-16), 2016 - 2019
• ... and many more

Personal Memberships

International
• American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG, Active Member)
• Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG, Active Member)
• American Geophysical Union (AGU, Member)
• European Geoscience Union (EGU, Member)
• IGCP 585 (E-MARSHAL): Submarine Massmovements and Their Consequences (completed)
• IGCP 640 (S4SLIDE): Significance of modern and ancient submarine slope landslides (completed)
Domestic
• Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU, Member)
• Japanese Association of Petroleum Technology (JAPT) (Active Member)
• Geological Society of Japan (GSJ) (Active Member)
• Society of Exploration Geophysics Japan (SEGJ) (Active Member)
• Japan Society of Engeering Geology (Active Member)
• The Mining and Materials Processing Institute of Japan (MMIJ) (Active Member)
• Society of Form (former member)
• Tectonics Research Group of Japan (became a department of Geological Society of Japan, in March 2006)