Committees and Organization

List of committees and board members (October, 2025)

President

Toshiyuki Sadanobu

Secretariat

Toru Minamimoto (Secretary-general), Ya Yun Cheng, Miwako Wakizaka

Standing Committee

Hirofumi Aoki, Yuki Hirose, Kaoru Horie, Ritsuko Kikusawa, Masato Kobayashi, Toshio Matsuura, Yoichi Miyamoto, Toshihide Nakayama, Masato Takiura, Syuntaro Tida, Ayumi Ueyama (Committee Member Horie is also the LSJ representative in GEAHSS; Committee Member Kobayashi is also the LSJ representative in UALS)

Board of Councilors

Hirofumi Aoki, Hiroshi Aoyagi, Naoyuki Akaso, Midori Amano, Isao Iori, Yosuke Igarashi, Satomi Ito, Masaru Inoue, Isao Ueda, Ayumi Ueyama, Asako Uchibori, Tadashi Eguchi, Fuyuki Ebata, David Yoshikazu Oshima, Yukio Otsu, Satoshi Oku, Masanori Odani, Masao Ochi, Hajime Ono, Shinjiro Kazama, Shigeki Kaji, Shigehiro Kato, Hideki Kishimoto, Hisatsugu Kitahara, Mafuyu Kitahara, Nobuko Kibe, Kazuyuki Kiryu, Satoshi Kinsui, Haruo Kubozono, Yusuke Kubota, Megumi Kurebito, Masatoshi Koizumi, Izumi Konishi, Masato Kobayashi, Mamoru Saito, Kan Sasaki, Osamu Sawada, Satoko Shirai, Li Shen, Koji Sugisaki, Masato Takiura, Yukinori Takubo, Koichi Takezawa, Shinichi Tanaka, Shin-ichi Tanaka, Syuntaro Tida, Hideki Tsukamoto, Hisao Tokizaki, Kentaro Nakatani, Naonori Nagaya, Kuniya Nasukawa, Hiroki Narita, Yoshiki Nishimura, Hisashi Noda, Tooru Hayasi, Norihiko Hayashi, Naomi Harada, Yuki Hirose, Naoki Fukui, Setsu Fujishiro, Hirofumi Hori, Kaoru Horie, Toshio Matsuura, Yo Matsumoto, Tomohiro Miyake, Yoichi Miyamoto, Yoko Yumoto, Kazuhiko Yoshida, Nobuko Yoneda, Ryuichi Washio

Gengo Kenkyu Editorial Committee

Shigehiro Kato (Editor-in-chief), Tomoko Ando, Fuyuki Ebata, Tomohiro Fujii, Tomohide Kinuhata, Keita Kurabe, Yoko Nakano, Kunio Nishiyama, Kentaro Suganuma, Chie Takagi, Yona Takahashi, Yuki-shige Tamura, Makiro Tanaka

Special editors: Lisa Cheng, Wesley Jacobsen, Juwon Kim, Terje Lohndal , Andrej Malchukov, Armin Mester, Satoshi Tomioka

Conference Organizing Committee

Masayuki Komachi (Chair), Yoshihiko Asao, Manami Hirayama, Masumi Kai, Shin-ichi Kitada, Ai Kubozono, Linjing Li, Yoko Nakano, Chikako Ono, Takumi Tagawa, Masataka Yano, Kenji Yoshida

Publicity Committee

Naomi Tsukida (Chair), Daisuke Ebina, Yukinori Kimoto, So Miyagawa, Koichi Otaki, Hisako Takahashi, Shin-ichi Tanigawa

Summer Institute Committee

Hirofumi Hori (Chair), Norihiko Hayashi, Koji Irie, Hiroaki Koga, Miki Obata, Tomoyo Otsuki

Awards Committee

Masato Takiura (Chair), Hirofumi Aoki, Yuki Hirose, Kaoru Horie, Shigehiro Kato, Tomohide Kinuhata, Masato Kobayashi, Masayuki Komachi, Ai Kubozono, Naonori Nagaya, Shinichi Tanaka, Syuntaro Tida, Ayumi Ueyama, Nobuko Yoneda

Ethics Committee

Masahiko Takahashi (Chair), Satomi Matayoshi, Asako Miyachi, Masao Ochi, Shinji Ogawa, Shigeki Taguchi, Yuki Takaya, Yuko Yoshinari

Advisers

Naoki Fukui, Teruhiro Hayata, Taro Kageyama, Shigeki Kaji, Haruo Kubozono, Masayoshi Shibatani, Yukinori Takubo, Zendo Uwano

Auditors

Setsuko Arita, Toru Ishii