Shirato Yasuhito
Position/Department/Division/Institution/Organization
Director, Climate Change research, Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, National
Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO)
CountryJapanCareer history
April 1995-September 1995: Researcher, Division of Research Planning, National Grassland
Research Institute,
October 1995-March 2001: Researcher, Division of Soil Science, National Institute of AgroEnvironmental Sciences,
April 2001-September 2005: Senior Researcher, Department of Global Resources, National
Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences,
October 2005-December 2007: Research Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries,
January 2008- March 2010: Senior Researcher, Natural Resources Inventory Center, National
Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences,
April 2010- March 2016: Leader, Research Project for Mitigation of Global Warming, National
Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences,
April 2016- March 2018: Head, Soil Biogeochemistry and Modeling Unit, National Agricultureand Food Research Organization, Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences
April 2018 – Present: Current position
Awards/Publications
Awards:Prize of Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 2018
Outstanding Young Scientist, Japanese Society of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 2006
Best paper Award of Journal, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 2005
Publication: (recent five years)
Yasuhito Shirato (2020) Use of models to evaluate carbon sequestration in agricultural soils, Soil
Science and Plant Nutrition, 66, 21-27
Cornelia Rumpel, Farshad Amiraslani, Claire Chenu, Magali Garcia Cardenas, Martin Kaonga,
Lydie-Stella Koutika, Jagdish Ladha, Beata Madari, Yasuhito Shirato, Peter Smith, BrahimInnovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF)
7th Annual Meeting － Virtual Forum ―Soudi, Jean-Francois Soussana, David Whitehead, Eva Wollenberg (2019) The 4p1000
initiative: opportunities, limitations and challenges for implementing soil organic carbon
sequestration as a sustainable development strategy, Ambio, doi. 10.1007/s13280-019-011652
Yasuhito Shirato and Akira Hasebe (Editors) (2019) Climate Smart Agriculture for the SmallScale Farmers in the Asian and Pacific Region, National Agriculture and Food Research
Organization (NARO) and Food and Fertilizer Technology Center (FFTC) for the Asian andPacific Region, 347 pp.
Kajiura, M., Minamikawa, K., Tokida, T., Shirato, Y. and Wagai, R. (2018) Methane and nitrous
oxide emissions from paddy fields in Japan: An assessment of controlling factor using an
intensive regional data set, Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 252, 51-60
Katayanagi, N., Fumoto, T., Hayano, M., Shirato, Y., Takata, Y., Leon, A., Yagi, K. (2017)
Estimation of total CH4 emission from Japanese rice paddies using a new estimation method
based on the DNDC-Rice simulation model, The Science of the total environment,601-602,346-355
Mishima, S, A. Leon, S. Eguchi, Y. Shirato (2017) Livestock waste, potential manure production
and its use in Japan in 1980 and 2010, Compost Science & Utilization 25 S43 - S52
M.A. Liebig, A.J. Franzluebbers, C. Alvarez, T.D. Chiesa, N. Lewczuk, G. Piñeiro, G. Posse, L.
Yahdjian, P. Grace, O. Machado Rodrigues Cabral, L. Martin-Neto, R. de Aragão Ribeiro
Rodrigues, B. Amiro, D. Angers, X. Hao, M. Oelbermann, M. Tenuta, L.J. Munkholm, K. Regina,
P. Cellier, F. Ehrhardt, G. Richard, R. Dechow, F. Agus, N. Widiarta, J. Spink, A. Berti, C.
Grignani, M. Mazzoncini, R. Orsini, P.P. Roggero, G. Seddaiu, F. Tei, D. Ventrella, G. Vitali, A.
Kishimoto-Mo, Y. Shirato, S. Sudo, J. Shin, L. Schipper, R. Savé, J. Leifeld, L. Spadavecchia, J.
Yeluripati, S. Del Grosso, C. Rice & J. Sawchik (2016) MAGGnet: An international network tofoster

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DOI:

10.1080/17583004.2016.1180586.
Katayanagi, N., Fumoto, T., Hayano, M., Takata, Y., Kuwagata, T., Shirato, Y., Sawano, S., Kajiura,M., Sudo, S., Ishigooka, Y. and Yagi, K. (2016) Development of a method for estimating total
CH4 emission from rice paddies in Japan using the DNDC-Rice model, Science of The Total
Environment,

547, 429-440

Areas of expertise
Soil science

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