Japan is considered a global hot spot of biodiversity. With regard to species diversity, insects
are no exception. To date, more than 32,000 insect species have been identified in Japan …

The apparent incompatibility of the classical" bar door" opening model of the Japan Sea
based on paleomagnetic studies and the pull-apart geometry based on the observation of …

The respective tectonic effects of back arc spreading and continental collision in Asia are
considered either as two independent processes or as closely interrelated. Extrusion …

The regional tectonic stress field, basin development, and crustal deformation of the NE
Japan arc in the interval between 32 Ma to the Quaternary can be synthesized based on …

Multidisciplinary studies on nearly continuous hemipelagic sequences recovered from the
deeper parts of the Japan Sea during ODP Leg 127/128 in 1989 yielded new information on …

The major element, trace element, and radiogenic isotope compositions of volcanic rocks in
the back-arc area of the eastern Eurasian continental margin provide insight into the nature …

Crangonyctidae is a speciose and almost exclusively freshwater Holarctic family of
amphipod crustaceans. Its members inhabit groundwater as well as epigean biotopes with …

In this paper we investigate the biogeography of the temperate woody bamboos
(Arundinarieae) using a densely-sampled phylogenetic tree of Bambusoideae based on six …

We investigated the roles of climate, geography, and geology in plant diversity and
endemicity on the east Asian continental islands, by testing predictions from contrasting …

Previous studies showed that the evolution of the Japan Sea paleoceanography since the
Miocene has been influenced by the regional tectonism (eg, opening/closing of the …