Achievements and awards

■Asian monsoon variability during the past 120 years
(FY 2014-2018 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(S)) [HP]

Award of the Certificate of Merit for the Cause of Natural Resources and Environment in Vietnam (2013)
Science Steering Group (SSG) member, Global Energy and Water Exchanges Project (GEWEX), World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) (2006-2011)
Chair, MAHASRI (Monsoon Asian Hydro-Atmospheric Scientific Research and prediction Initiative), GEWEX, WCRP (2006-2016)
Co-Chair, AMY (Asian Monsoon Years) 2007-2012, WCRP (2007-2012)
Member, Science Council of Japan (2011-2017)
Director, Japan Geoscience Union (2008-2014)
Association of Japanese Geographers (2008-2012, 2016-2020)
Chief Editor, Human-Geoscience Section, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, Japan Geoscience Union (2013-2020)
Visiting Principal Scientist, Department of Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Land Processes Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (2005-)

The Award of the Meteorological Society of Japan, Meteorological Society of Japan (2010)
Okada Award, Japan Weather Association (2011)
Director, Meteorological Society of Japan (1996-2018)
Chief Editor of“Tenki”, Meteorological Society of Japan (2007-2018)
Awarded the SOLA Award in 2020 of the Meteorological Society of Japan