On 11 March 2011, a catastrophic earthquake (Mw 9.0) took place along the Japan Trench
off the Pacific coast of northeast Japan and about 20 thousands people were lost mainly by …

Cicadas tend to be affected by vicariance reflecting poor mobility of nymphs underground
and weak flying ability of adults. However, modern collection records of invasive cicada …

Deep‐seated geothermal reservoirs beneath calderas have high potential as sources of
renewable energy. In this study, we used an analysis of melt inclusions to estimate the …

Abstract (U–Th)/He thermochronometric analyses were performed across the southern part
of the Northeast Japan Arc for reconstructing the long-term uplift and denudation history in …

Abstract Eocene to Lower Miocene coal‐bearing formations in northern and western
Kyushu, northern Ryukyu arc, are folded, and the horizontal compression has been …

A new Miocene phidoloporid, Iodictyum akaishiensis sp. nov., was collected from the
Moniwa Formation (Langhian) near the Akaishi Bridge, Sendai City, Japan. It is the first fossil …

Significant advances were made in the last century in the investigations of the Neogene
stress history of the NE Japan arc. However, previous studies have failed to fully resolve …

We developed a new time-calibrated tree incorporating primarily endemic along with some
cryptic Ryukyu islands cicada data, following the recent publication of global cicada data by …

Located off the Pacific coast of central Tohoku (NE Japan), the Ishinomaki slope channel
(ISC) provides an excellent opportunity to study a structure‐controlled intraslope channel …

A large volume of middle Miocene basaltic rocks is widely distributed across the back‐arc
region of Northeast Japan, including around the Dewa Mountains. Petrological research has …