Members

Professor, Toyohashi University of Technology (TUT)
Director, Center for Collborative Area Risk Management, TUT

Visiting Research Staff, Building Research Institute
Visiting Lecturer, Chiba University

March 1985	Graduated from Tohoku University, Japan
April 1985	Student of doctoral program, Tohoku University, Japan
March 1990	Doctor of Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan
Ph.D, Tohoku University, Japan Title of thesis, “Seismic Reliability and Random Vibration of Structures”.

Seismic design procedure of buildings

Seismic safety evaluation and retrofitting techniques for buildings

Computer simulation of buildings under earthquakes

International cooperation for earthquake disaster mitigation

April 1990	Research Associate, Department of Architecture, Tohoku University
August 1992	Visiting Scholar, Department of Civil Engineering,University of Illinois, U.S.A
July 1996	Senior Research Engineer, Department of Structural Engineering, Building Research Institute, Ministry of Construction
March 2000	JICA Long-term expert in Romania
November 2002	Chief Research Engineer, Department of Structural Engineering, Building Research Institute
April 2004	Chief Research Engineer, International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Building Research Institute Visiting Lecturer, Tsukuba University
April 2010	Visiting Lecturer, Chiba University
April 2007	Visiting Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
July 2011	Visiting Professor, Nagoya University
November 2012	Visiting Research Staff, Building Research Institute
November 2012	Professor, Toyohashi University of Technology
April 2013	Director, Research Center for Collaborative Area Risk Management (CARM)