My favorite image You are visitor number times since January 11, 1999. I was born in Japan, and have lived there for about thirty years.
Japan is located in a subduction zone.
My interest in studying the earth was piqued by the volcanic eruptions and earthquakes in Japan. Because of that experience, I became interested in plate tectonics. Thus, I decided to study earth sciences and entered the Earth Sciences Department in Chiba University. During my final year, I wrote a thesis about the crustal structure in back arc basins using the seismic method. I combined data acquisition using ocean bottom seismometers with seismic refraction analysis.