About ISJ

Board, Council and Committees

Board Members

President: Kei’ichiro Iguchi
Vice-President, President-Elect: Hisashi Imamura
Director: Kazumi Hosoya
Inspector: Seishi Kimura
Secretaries: Taiga Yodo, Yuki Kimura, Hidetoshi Wada
Treasurers: Taiga Kunishima, Mayu Nakano

Representatives

Satoshi Awata (Kinki District)
Keiichiro Iguchi (Kyushu, Okinawa District)
Hiromitsu Endo (Chugoku, Shikoku District)
Norio Onikura (Kyushu, Okinawa District)
Kouki Kanou (Kanto District)
Toshio Kawai (Hokkaido District)
Mari Kawaguchi (Kanto District)
Ryota Kawanishi (Hokkaido District)
Takeshi Kikko (Kinki District)
Seishi Kimura (Chubu District)
Keita Koeda (Kyushu, Okinawa District)
Tomoyuki Kokita (Kyushu, Okinawa District)
Kenji Saitoh (Tohoku District)
Gento Shinohara (Kanto District)
Tamaki Shimose (Tohoku District)
Hiroshi Senou (Kanto District)
Hiroshi Takahashi (Chugoku, Shikoku District)
Fumihito Tashiro (Hokkaido District)
Masanori Nakae (Kanto District)
Jun Nakajima (Kyushu, Okinawa District)
Kouji Nakayama (Kinki District)
Yusuke Hibino (Kyushu, Okinawa District)
Shotaro Hirase (Chubu District)
Shoko Matsui (Kinki District)
Yusuke Miyazaki (Kinki District)
Takahiko Mukai (Chubu District)
Hiroyuki Motomura (Kyushu, Okinawa District)
Atsuko Yamaguchi (Kyushu, Okinawa District)
Taiga Yodo (Chubu District)
Katsutoshi Watanabe (Kinki District)

Editorial Board

Yohei Nakamura (Editor-in-Chief), Hiroki Hata and Yoshiaki Kai (Managing editor, Journal in English), Nozomu Muto and Hiroshi Takahashi (Managing editor, Journal in Japanese), Terry J. Donaldson, Leanne Faulks, Yasuyuki Hashiguchi, Yusuke Hibino, Mari Kawaguchi, Toshio Kawai, Itsuro Koizumi, Tomoyuki Kokita, Gen Kume, Manabu Kume, Makoto Kusakabe, B. Mabel Manjaji-Matsumoto, Atsushi Maruyama, Mizuki Matsunuma, Ryo Misawa, Naohide Nakayama, Makoto Okamoto, Yoshitaka Sakakura, Aya Sato, Tamaki Shimose, Munehiro Takami, Hirohiko Takeshima, Tomohiro Takeyama, Yoshinori Taniguchi, Fumihito Tashiro, Thomas Trnski, Hidetoshi Wada, Naoki Yagishita

Nature Conservation Committee

Seiichi Mori (Chairperson), Norio Onikura, Katsutoshi Watanabe(Vice-Chairperson)

Investigation Committee of Foreign Fish Species

Katsuki Nakai (Chairperson), Yasufumi Fujimoto, Shinichiro Matsuzaki, Takahiko Mukai, Motoi Takeuchi, Yoshinori Taniguchi, Taiga Yodo

Investigation Committee of Rare Freshwater Fish

Itsuro Koizumi (Chairperson), Tsukasa Abe, Keiichiro Iguchi, Shigefumi Kanao, Tadao Kitagawa, Katsunori Tachihara, Jun Nakajima, Takaharu Natsumeda, Haruhiko Fujimoto, Kazumi Hosoya, Toshihiko Yonezawa

Investigation Committee of Rare Marine Fish

Atsuko Yamaguchi (Chairperson), Kazunori Arayama, Yusuke Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Munehara, Hiroshi Senou, Toshiyuki Suzuki, Tetsuo Yoshino

Awards Committee

Shotaro Hirase, Keita Koeda, Shun Sato, Jun Nakajima (the term during 2023–2024)
Atsuko Yamaguchi*, Mizuki Matsunuma, Shoko Matsui (the term during 2024–2025)

* Chairperson

History Committee of the Ichthyological Society of Japan

Masayoshi Hayashi (Chairperson), Seishi Kimura (Vice-Chairperson), Kazuo Sakamoto, Hiromitsu Endo, Shota Mitsui, Keiichi Matsuura (adviser)

Investigation Committee of Standard Japanese Common Names

Hiroshi Senou (Chairperson), Youichi Sato (Vice-Chairperson), Kazuo Sakamoto, Kunio Sasaki, Hiroyuki Motomura, Yusuke Hibino

Committee of Electric Information

Kouji Nakayama (Chairperson), Taiga Yodo (Vice-Chairperson), Ryota Kawanishi, Toshiaki Shitamitsu

Committee for Promoting Equal Participation of Men and Woman

Mayu Nakano (Chairperson), Yuka Iguchi, Yusuke Koseki

Public Relations Committee

Gento Shinohara (Chairperson), Satoshi Awata, Hiromitsu Endo, Ryota Kawanishi, Yuko Takigawa

Representative for the Union of the Japanese Societies for Systematic Biology

Keiichiro Iguchi, Kiyoshi Hagiwara

Representative for the Union of the Japanese Societies for Natural History

Hiroshi Senou

Representative for Japan Inter-Society Liaison Association Committee for Promoting Equal Participation of Men and Women in Science and Engineering

Mayu Nakano

Representative for Liaison Council of Fisheries and Marine Sciences

Keiichiro Iguchi