2006

●No.153 December 20, 2006
	Memories of a Tsunami Lingers as a Myth Akira Goto Professor, Doshisha Women's College Pacific Canoe Culture in Full Play Osamu Monden Auteur / President, Studio Umi,Inc. A Clean, Safe, and Bountiful Sea Shota Miura Office Umimori, Japan Coast Guard Association
●No.152 December 5, 2006
	Issues on Ocean Policy, Resource, and Energy Tsutomu Toichi Senior Managing Director, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan Argo Project ~System to Monitor the Seas of the World~ Kimio Hanawa Professor, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University Chinese Mitten Crab, a Famous Delicacy in Shanghai Cuisine Masatsune Takeda Professor, Faculty of Modern Life, Teikyo Heisei University
●No.151 November 20, 2006
	Restoring Seaweed Beds from Barren Grounds into Rich Ecosystem Akira Watanuki Alpha Hydraulic Engineering Consultants Co. Ltd East African Mountain Biodiversity and the Indian Ocean Driver Rob Marchant York Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Dynamic, University of York, UK The Ocean and Countermeasures against CO2 Makoto Nakamura Emeritus Professor, Fukui Prefectural University / Former Director General, National Research Institute of Fisheries Engineering, Fisheries Agency
●No.150 November 5, 2006
	On Becoming A World Leader in Seabed Resources Development Kensaku Tamaki Professor, Department of Geosystem Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo The Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biodiversity Norio Tanaka Professor, School of Law, Ryukoku University A Highly-Functional Marine Float Hideo Okamura Executive Director, The Floating Structures Association of Japan
●No.149 October 20, 2006
	Overseas Shipping Business Aiming to Enter the Integrated Logistic Industry - Who is the Ideal Leader of International Logistics? - Yuji Hirano Adviser to the President, NYK Logistics and Megacarrier Simulated Experience of a Coastal Disaster and Ocean Monitoring and Survey - Appropriate Next-Generation Coastal Disaster Preparation in the 21st Century - Shigeo Takahashi Executive Researcher and Director, Tsunami Research Center, Port and Airport Research Institute Reconsidering natural use from the perspectives of fish- and meat-eating Yukichika Kawata Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University
●No.148 October 5, 2006
	EEZ Long-distance Monitoring by Use of the Ocean Acoustic Technique Arata Kaneko Professor, Ocean-Atmosphere Environment Laboratory, Social and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University Challenged to Jump Price of Fuel Oil by Application of Satellite Information for Fisheries Hideo Tameishi(Ph. D.) Director, Japan Fisheries Information Service Center Barren Ground - Destructing Marine Forest Kazuya Taniguchi Professor, Division of Biological Resource Science, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University
●No.147 September 20, 2006
	Academic Exchanges with Southeast Asia in Marine Science Makoto Terazaki Professor, Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo Development of an Underwater Security Sonar System as a Counterterrorism Measure Akira Asada Professor, Underwater Acoustic System Engineering, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Visiting China's New Port, the Yangshan Deep Water Port Masahiro Kunimi Adviser, Ocean Policy Research Foundation
●No.146 September 5, 2006
	Japan - A Nation of Rich Marine Resources Tetsuro Urabe Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo Toward the Establishment of a Guideline for the Improvement of the Barren of Rocky Shore Hiroshi Umezu Construction Division, Fisheries Infrastructure Department, Fisheries Agency See the Nostalgic Future upon Reexamining the Forest, River, and Ocean Koichiro Shimotsu Representative Director, NPO Eco Link Association
●No.145 August 20, 2006
	Caspian Sea's Environmental Issues Daisuke Kitazawa Associate Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Toward an Era of Farmed Caviar Masayuki Kaneda Director of Fisheries Research Institute-Branch Facility Miyazaki Prefectural Government Consumer Participation in Resource Management through Fishing Ecolabeling Norie Tamura Analyst, Amita Institute for Sustainable Economies
●No.144 August 5, 2006
	The Case of the Shiretoko Sea Birds Shin Ohnuki Principal Researcher, The Japan Association of Marine Safety IWC Saint Kitts Declaration - Unbeheld Path to the Resumption of Commercial Whaling - Ayako Okubo Research Fellow, Ocean Policy Research Foundation Conversion to a Fishing Port with a Warm and Welcoming Atmosphere Koichi Kuwana Ocean Journalist Executive Director, NPO New Public Management Association
●No.143 July 20, 2006
	Towards the Enactment of a Basic Ocean Law Keizo Takemi Member, House of Councillors / Chairman, Special Committee on Ocean Policy, Liberal Democratic Party / Organizer, Study Group on the Basic Law on the Oceans The Third Basic Plan for Science and Technology Policy and the Implementation Strategy for the Ship & Ocean Ayao Tsuge Executive Member, Council for Science and Technology Policy, Cabinet Office of Japan Member, Science Council of Japan Promotion of Ocean and Coastal Policies — A Brief Overview of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport's Ocean and Coastal Policy Outline — Makoto Taketoshi Former Director-General, Policy Bureau Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport
●No.142 July 5, 2006
	Unlocking the Mystery of the Eel Katsumi Tsukamoto Professor, Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo Development of the Techniques for Artificial Seed Production of Eels Hideki Tanaka Head of Reproduction Research Group, Aquaculture Biology Division, National Research Institute of Aquaculture, Fisheries Research Agency Izumo Eel to Osaka Ryosuke Sakai Library, Central Wholesale Markets, Osaka Municipal Central Wholesale Markets
●No.141 June 20, 2006
	Co-existence of Ecosystems with Diverse and Sustainable Fisheries in Shiretoko, a World Natural Heritage Site Yasunori Sakurai Professor, Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University / Chairman, Shiretoko World Natural Heritage Scientific Committee Sea Area Working Group To Know is the First Step to Protect — Everlasting nature can be felt from the sea — Emi Kumagai Conservation and Management Section, Shiretoko Nature Foundation A Diversified Environmental Learning Sprawling from Eelgrass Keiko Aioi Adviser, Wetlands International Japan
●No.140 June 5, 2006
	Threading Alliances through the Ocean - The Building of The University of Tokyo's Ocean Alliance - Tamaki Ura Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Expectations on Wind Generation on the Ocean Masayuki Hori Professor, Division of University Corporate Relations, The University of Tokyo The Development of a Float of a Depth of 4,000 Meters Masahiro Yoshida ARGO Group, Institute of Observational Research for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
●No.139 May 20, 2006
	Recurrent Collision between Whales and Ships Seiji Ohsumi Adviser, The Institute of Cetacean Research Watch the Ocean Mihoko Sato Accountant, Japan Seabird Group/Former Secretariat, Friends of the Hokkaido Seabird Center The Meanings of Science and Industry of Fisheries in the 21st Century Hisashi Kurokura Professor, Department of Global Agricultural Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
●No.138 May 5, 2006
	Contributions of Marine Science to a True Maritime Nation Akira Taniguchi National Committee for SCOR, Science Council of Japan The Time to Establish a National Ocean Food Policy is Now Yuriko Shiraishi Head, Women's Forum for Fish （WFF） An Approach to Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering Education Shoji Fukushima Vice President, The Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers
●No.137 April 20, 2006
	Protection, Preservation, and Restoration of the Marine Environment Makoto Omori Director, Akajima Marine Science Laboratory Relations of Okinawa and Australia Discovered through Roseate Tern Migration Kiyoaki Ozaki Director, Bird Migration Research Center, Yamashina Institute for Ornithology Recovery of Maritime Kobe through the Recovery of Maritime Cluster Jong-Kil Han Research Fellow, Ocean Policy Research Foundation
●No.136 April 5, 2006
	The Deep Sea is a Cornucopia of Microbial Resources Takeshi Naganuma Associate Professor, Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University Ise Bay is "Home" Yuji Kawaguchi Essayist Global Warming and Material Cycle in the Sea of Okhotsk and the Surrounding Environment Masaaki Wakatsuchi Director, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University
●No.135 March 20, 2006
	China's Energy Strategy and Maritime Security Hideshi Ueno Former Senior Researcher, The National Institute for Defense Studies International Container Transport Security Morinobu Sato ISO/TC8 Security Sub-Committee Chairman in Japan Toward the Establishment of a Monitoring System for the Waters off Okinawa Naoyuki Takatsu Manager, Engineering Division Initial Department, Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation
●No.134 March 5, 2006
	A Small Town's Future Challenges — A Legacy of the National Marine Festival — Mitsuo Yamazaki Mayor, Otsuchi Town, Iwate Prefecture The International Pacific Research Center: A Japan-United States Collaboration for Climate Research Julian P. McCreary, Jr. Director, International Pacific Research Center Effort toward the Improvement of the Qualification and Qualities of Seafarers and the World Maritime University Network- Participate in a Seminar on the Improvement of the Qualification and Qualities of Asian Seafarers - Naoki Saito Associate professor, Navigation, National Institute for Sea Training
●No.133 February 20, 2006
	An Outbreak of Giant Jellyfish and the Sustainability of the East Asian Marginal Seas Shin-ichi Uye Professor, Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University Comprehensive Measures against the Giant Jellyfish by the Fisheries Agency of Japan Tokio Wada Counselor, Resources Enhancement Promotion Department, Fisheries Agency of Japan Prediction and Control of the Invasion of the Giant Jellyfish Hitoshi Iizumi Japan Sea National Fisheries Research Institute, Fisheries Research Agency
●No.132 February 5, 2006
	Hoping for Sustainable Ecotourism in Islands where Monitor Lizards Live Eri Ota Graduate School, Sophia University People Living with the Ocean — Zamami Village, Okinawa Prefecture: Find a Way to Live through New Ways to Use the Ocean — Takashi Torii COE postdoctoral researcher, Kinki University Raise Children who Love Kashiwazaki through Learning about the Ocean Hiroyuki Nakano Supervisor, Kashiwazaki City Education Center, Niigata Prefecture
●No.131 January 20, 2006
	A New Energy Resource in Japan Sea: Exploration for Methane Hydrate Ryo Matsumoto Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo What would Happen? Maritime Education and Training (MET) in Japan Takeshi Nakazawa Professor, World Maritime University Will FADs Save Tropical Coastal Fisheries? Shinichiro Kakuma Research Coordinator, Research Institute for Subtropics
●No.130 January 05, 2006
	Further Recommendations for a Japanese Ocean Policy Tadao Kuribayashi Professor, Toyo Eiwa Women's University / Professor Emeritus, Keio University On Becoming a True Ocean State Hiroshi Terashima Executive Director, Ocean Policy Research Foundation A New National and Regional Planning System, the Ocean and Littoral Region Taiji Kawabata Senior Deputy Director, Ocean Affairs Office, National and Regional Planning Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Developed Coastal State Tsuneo Nakamura Ocean Photographer