2005

●No.129 December 20, 2005
	Osaka Bay Regeneration - Efforts made through cooperation and public-private partnership toward the environment improvement of the Osaka Bay Daiji Nishimura The office of Meeting that promotes Osaka Bay regeneration / Kinki Regional Development Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Tsunami-Caused Damage and Restoration —referencing to the cases of Okushiri Island, hit by the 1993 Hokkaido SW tsunami and Banda Aceh, Sumatra, by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami— Fumihiko Imamura Professor, Disaster Control Research Center, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University Cetacean Strandings and Japan's Response Hajime Ishikawa Survey Division, The Institute of Cetacean Research
●No.128 December 05, 2005
	An Aquarium with a View of the River - Chitose Salmon Aquarium Activities - Motohiro Kikuchi Curator, Chitose Salmon Aquarium New Possibilities and Challenges of Harbors as a Sightseeing Spot Koji Hada Professor, Trade/Tourism Department, Faculty of Commerce, Yokohama College of Commerce Investigating the Past and Future of Marine Pollution Employing Preserved Samples Shinsuke Tanabe Professor, Center for Marine Environmental Studies, Ehime University
●No.127 November 20, 2005
	Burden of Expense of Sports Fisherman Masakazu Sakurai Specialist for Recreational Fishing, Fisheries Coordination Division, Fisheries Agency Joining the School of Marine Studies at the University of the South Pacific Motoyasu Miyata Visiting Professor, USP Negotiation Table with No Negotiations - The International Whaling Commission's (IWC) Annual Meeting in Ulsan, Republic of Korea 2005 Ayako Okubo Research Fellow, Ocean Policy Research Foundation
●No.126 November 05, 2005
	Toward the Realization of Real-Time Seafloor Environment Research Junzo Kasahara Emeritus Professor, the University of Tokyo / Adviser, Japan Continental Survey Co. Ltd. Approach to Skill Succession in the Shipbuilding Industry Manabu Tateishi Director, The Cooperative Association of Japan Shipbuilders "Japan's Role in the International Maritime Organization(IMO)" Nobuyuki Utsumi Chief Manager, Maritime Technology Team, Maritime Affairs Department, The Nippon Foundation
●No.125 October 20, 2005
	Folk Culture along the Sea of Japan Side and the Pacific Side of the Archipelago Tomiko Kojima Emeritus Professor, National Museum of Japanese History Maritime Distribution of Goods and Logistics Strategy Hiroshi Takumi President, The Office of Marine Study & Sports Sustainable Fisheries with Horseshoe Crabs Mitsuhiro Yoshida Journalist
●No.124 October 05, 2005
	How did Okushiri Island Recover from a Devastating Tsunami? Takayoshi Kimura Assistant Director for Administrative Division, Town Office, Okushiricho, Hokkaido Koshien in the Ocean - All Japan Fisheries Highschools and Maritime Polytechnical Schools Cutter Race - Kiyoshi Yoshizaki Japan Fisheries Information Service Center Lessons in a Passenger Ship Nagiko Ito Director, Fukuoka Culinary Academy, Ito Bunka Gakuen
●No.123 September 20, 2005
	Learn an Earth-Friendly Lifestyle from Tuvalu Shuichi Endo Photographer/Representative, Tuvalu Overview From an Ocean and Island Standpoint Ainosuke Kojima Former Director, Remote Islands Development Division, The City and Regional Development Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport What is the Volume of Japan's 200-nm Exclusive Economic Zone? Takatoshi Matsuzawa Researcher, National Maritime Research Institute/Former Research Fellow, Ocean Policy Research Foundation
●No.122 September 05, 2005
	Jewel of the Sea - Precious Coral - Its Appeal as a Research Subject Nozomu Iwasaki Usa Marine Biological Institute, Kochi University Recovery of the Wild Stock of Ayu Isao Takahashi Representative, Takahashi Research Office of Freshwater Biology European Shipbuilders Who Use Ship Safety as an Industrial Strategy Yoshiho Ikeda Professor, Department of Marine System Engineering, College and Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University
●No.121 August 20, 2005
	Comprehensive Research on Ocean Policy Isoroku Nishimoto Producer, Nagasaki Nature-School Aiming at an Improvement in Quality of the "Period of Integrated Study" Manabu Tamura Senior Subject Specialist, Elementary and Secondary Education Bureau,Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology The Green Turtle as a Subject of the Development of an Environment Education Project Toshimi Yamazaki Chairman of the Commission on Managerial Evaluatin,Organization of Ecology-Cafe
●No.120 August 05, 2005
	Ocean Travels Masahiro Akiyama Chairman, Ocean Policy Research Foundation (OPRF) Pantropical Plants with Sea-drifted Seeds Koji Takayama Graduate Student, Botanical Gardens, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo Open the Way for a Resurgence of a Green Tokyo Bay through the Regeneration of the Eelgrass Meadows Shinji Hayashi Representative, Amamo Revival Collaboration in Kanazawa-Hakkei-Tokyo Bay Professor, Yokohama City University
●No.119 July 20, 2005
	Two Policy Proposals to IMO Council Members Yohei Sasakawa Chairman, The Nippon Foundation Subduction-Thrust Earthquake Preparedness - Role of the Deep Sea Drilling Vessel Chikyu - Asahiko Taira Director-General, Center for Deep Earth Exploration (CDEX), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology A Network over the Celebes Sea Area Takashi Shiraishi Vice President and Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
●No.118 July 05, 2005
	The Modern Undersea Highway: Communications Cables Mitsuhiro Takase CEO & President, NTT World Engineering Marine Corporation Dredging and Beach Erosion Takaaki Uda Executive Director, Public Works Research Center The Mystery behind an Angel Visit of a Gray Whale to Tokyo Bay and Abnormalities in the Sea Masataka Hishida Advisor, Ocean Policy Research Foundation
●No.117 June 20, 2005
	Toward the Establishment of the Regional Cooperation of Maritime Forces Taking the Form of Multi-lateral and Multi-organizational Coalition of the Willing for the Maintenance of Maritime Security and Order Hideaki Kaneda Director/Special Advisor, The Okazaki Institute Solving Regional Garbage Problems Utilizing Environmental Tickets Eiichi Morino Representative, Gesell Research Society Japan Recollections of Kujukuri Beach's Vanishing Beach Erosion Map Yoshiro Koseki Photographer
●No.116 June 5, 2005
	The Second Wave - New Developments in US Ocean Policy Yasuhiko Kagami Research Fellow Ocean Policy Research Foundation Environmental Awareness in Americans as seen in US Presidential Election Masako Konishi John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University The Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue Project Sydney Levitus Director, World Data Center for Oceanography NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center, Silver Spring, Maryland
●No.115 May 20, 2005
	The Third Science and Technology Basic Plan and Marine Science and Technology Tateo Arimoto Director-General, Science and Technology Policy Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology A Slump in the Fisheries Industry in Ariake Sea Toru Takita Professor Emeritus, Nagasaki University Reader's Contribution 1 Necessity of a National Strategy to Encourage Megafloats Takashi Nagayasu Member, House of Representative Reader's Contribution 2 Shipbuilders as Marine Contractors - Toward the Realization of a Mega Floating Airport - Touhachirou Tanaka Shibuya Diving Company
●No.114 May 5, 2005
	Floating Marine Debris Masahisa Kubota Professor, School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokai University Beach Clean-up Campaign in Minamitorishima (Marcus Island) Nobuo Saito Chiba Loran Navigational System Center, Japan Coast Guard (JCG) An Effective Approach toward Marine Debris - South Korea's System for Purchase of Marine Debris - Jong-Deog Kim Head, Coastal Management Team Marine Environment & Coastal Management Research Division, Korea Maritime Institute
●No.113 April 20, 2005
	Piracy Problems in the Straits of Malacca Yoshihiko Yamada Team Leader, Maritime Education, Maritime Group, The Nippon Foundation The Earth Observation Summit and Building Global Earth Observation System of Systems Hiroshi Fukai Former Director, Office for Earth and Environmental Science and Technology, Research and Development Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Planting a Forest into the Ocean - A mountain-river-ocean circulation model with children at the core - Masaru Kanda Center Chief, Kuroshio Zikkan Center
●No.112 April 5, 2005
	Freak Waves Exist Takuji Waseda Associate Professor, Department of Environmental & Ocean Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo Oceanic Whitecaps and Global Warming Prediction Yoshiaki Toba Professor Emeritus of Tohoku University Reconsidering Marine Disasters - Disaster strikes when people lose their memory of the previous one - Hisashi Mitsuyasu Emeritus Professor, Kyushu University
●No.111 March 20, 2005
	NaGISA Project Yoshihisa Shirayama Field Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto University The Reality of Inappropriate Navigation in Tokyo Bay Masanao Saka President, The Tokyo Association for Marine Safety Today's Silk Road as Seen from Traversing the Eurasian Continent Tomoko Suzuki Executive Director, Institute of Physical and Mental Science
●No.110 March 5, 2005
	Global Movement for Coastal Protection by Surfriders Masuo Ueda International Preparatory Committee, Surf Rider Foundation Ships Built in Dalian, as Products Produced by a Constitutional State Shuichi Teramae Advisor, Institute for Ocean Policy, SOF The Present Situation of the Chittagong Ship Dismantling Yard Makoto Yamada Photographer
●No.109 February 20, 2005
	Thoughts about Marine Education at Elementary and Junior High Schools Michio Kishi Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University / Co-chair of Outreach and Education WG, The Oceanographic Society of Japan Who Owns the Sea? - Practical knowledge and the right to an environment - Daisuke Takekawa Associate Professor, Department of Human Relations, Faculty of Humanities, The University of Kitakyushu New Concept of Maritime Security: Securing the Oceans Kazumine Akimoto Senior Researcher, Institute for Ocean Policy, SOF
●No.108 February 5, 2005
	The Whaling Dispute from the Viewpoint of Environmental Ecology Hiroyuki Matsuda Professor, Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University Environmental Education and Development of Regional Human Society through Tideland Restoration Toshio Furota Professor, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Toho University Thoughts about the Multifaceted Functions of Fisheries and Fishing Villages Noriyuki Sudo Formery Director of Policy Planning Division, Fisheries Policy Planning Department, Fisheries Agency
●No.107 January 20, 2005
	The Country that Produced the Internationally Used Word, "Tsunami" What Japan should do Nobuo Shuto Professor, Faculty of Policy Studies, Iwate Prefectural University Expectations for the Establishment of an International Research Institute Related to Marine Contamination under Japan's Leadership Nobuyuki Miyazaki Professor, Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo Concept of "Satoumi" Based on Fishery on Tidelands Norio Kinman Representative, Banzu Satoumi-no-kai
●No.106 January 5, 2005
	The Global Warming Issue from a Geological Viewpoint S. George Philander Princeton University Changes in Sea Levels in the Near Future: What paleoceanography suggests to us Michiko Toyoda Ocean Floor Geoscience, Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo Naohiko Ohkouchi Institute for Research on Earth Revolution, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology Oceanic Cycles Hold the Key to Drastic Climate Change - Coral samples below sea level provide important information on the paleoclimate - Yusuke Yokoyama Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo