Major Publications in Japanese

Shigeharu Aoyama (President, Director for Social Sciences)

  • TOKYO CONFIDENTIAL REPORT (weekly publication on current international and domestic issues for registered clients)
  • Nihon Kokumin ga Ketsudan suru hi, Fusosha publication, June 2004.
  • Sekai Seifu Amerika no "uso" to "seigi", Asuka-shinsha, March 2003.
  • Heisei, Bungeishunju, August 2002.
  • Nihon no boueisenryaku terotaisakukimitujoho, Asuka-shinsha, October 2001.
  • Writes for monthly/weekly journals(Shokun, Yomiuri Weekly, AERA etc)

Major Publications in English

Dr Chiharu Aoyama (Director for Natural Sciences)

  • Near Range Errors in Sound Scattering Measurements of Fish (Masahiko Furusawa, Mitsutosi Hamada, Chiharu Aoyama), January 1999, Japan Fisheries Science65(1).
  • Designing Acoustic Transmitting- Receiving System for Volume Back- scattering Measurement of Zooplankton(Liu Xuezhen, Masahiko Furusawa, Etsuyuki Hamada, Chiharu Aoyama), January 1999, Japan Fisheries Science65(3).
  • Characteristics of Environment and Tidal Current in Ariake Sea(Kiyoshi Takikawa,Kenji Tanaka, Chiharu Aoyama), March 2003, Asian and Pacific Coasts 2003,pp1-10.
  • Long-term variation of Water Quality variables in the Ariake Sea over 25 years,(Kiyoshi Takikawa,Kenji Tanaka, Chiharu Aoyama), October 2003, International Water Association Asian Waterqual 2003,pp1-8.
  • Acoustical Survey of Methane Plumes Using the Quantitative Echo Sounder in the Eastern Margin of the Sea of Japan,(C.Aoyama,R.Matsumoto,et all) November 2004, Oceans Techno Ocean 2004 Journal, pp1001-1004.
  • Characteristic Environment in Yatsushiro Sea,(Kiyoshi Takikawa,Chiharu Aoyama,Kenji Tanaka,Kentaro Morimoto), September 2005, Asian and Pacific Coasts 2004,pp555-558.
  • Acoustical Survey of Methane Plumes Using the Quantitative Echo Sounder in the Eastern Margin of the Sea of Japan,(C.Aoyama,R.Matsumoto,et all), November 2004, Oceans Techno Ocean 2004.
  • Acoustical Surveys of Methane Plumes Using the Quantitative Echo Sounder in the Eastern Margin of the Sea of Japan,(C.Aoyama,R.Matsumoto,et all), December 2004, AGU Fall Meeting 2004. Poster presentation.
Dr Lesley Connors (Senior Advisor)
  • "Japan: An Examination of Capability" (RUSI Journal, forthcoming)