Board, Council and Committees
Board Members
President: Hisashi Imamura
Vice-President, President-Elect: Katsutoshi Watanabe
Director (Awards Committee): Satoshi Awata
Inspector: Kazumi Hosoya
Chief Secretary: Hidetoshi Wada
Secretary (Annual Meeting): Takayuki Sonoyama
Treasurers: Taiga Kunishima, Kaori Muguruma
Representatives
Satoshi Awata (Kinki District)
Hiromitsu Endo (Chugoku, Shikoku District)
Harutaka Hata (Kyushu, Okinawa District)
Shotaro Hirase (Kanto District)
Kazumi Hosoya (Kinki District)
Kei’ichiro Iguchi (Kyushu, Okinawa District)
Midori Iida (Hokkaido District)
Ryutei Inui (Kyushu, Okinawa District)
Toshiro Kawai (Hokkaido District)
Seigo Kawase (Kinki District)
Seishi Kimura (Chubu District)
Yuki Kimura (Kinki District)
Tadao Kitagawa (Kinki District)
Tomoyuki Kokita (Kyushu, Okinawa District)
Manabu Kume (Tohoku District)
Taiga Kunishima (Kinki District)
Mari Kuroki (Kanto District)
Ken Maeda (Kyushu, Okinawa District)
Shoko Matsui (Kinki District)
Hiroyuki Motomura (Kyushu, Okinawa District)
Takahiko Mukai (Chubu District)
Nozomu Muto (Kanto District)
Masanori Nakae (Kanto District)
Norio Onikura (Kyushu, Okinawa District)
Kenji Saitoh (Tohoku District)
Hiroshi Senou (Kanto District)
Tamaki Shimose (Tohoku District)
Gento Shinohara (Kanto District)
Katsutoshi Watanabe (Kinki District)
Taiga Yodo (Chubu District)
Editorial Board
Hiroshi Takahashi (Editor-in-Chief), Ryo Misawa and Tamaki Shimose (Managing editor, Journal in English), Yusuke Hibino and Atsushi Maruyama (Managing editor, Journal in Japanese), Terry J. Donaldson, Leanne Faulks, Yasuyuki Hashiguchi, Harutaka Hata, Hiroki Hata, Taiki Ito, Yoshiaki Kai, Mari Kawaguchi, Toshio Kawai, Itsuro Koizumi, Tomoyuki Kokita, Manabu Kume, Makoto Kusakabe, B. Mabel Manjaji-Matsumoto, Mizuki Matsunuma, Nozomu Muto, Yohei Nakamura, Naohide Nakayama, Makoto Okamoto, Yoshitaka Sakakura, Aya Sato, Masaaki Sato, Munehiro Takami, Hirohiko Takeshima, Tomohiro Takeyama, Yoshinori Taniguchi, Fumihito Tashiro, Hidetoshi Wada
Nature Conservation Committee
Norio Onikura (Chairperson), Sin-ichiro Matsuzaki (Vice-Chairperson)
Investigation Committee of Foreign Fish Species
Katsuki Nakai (Chairperson), Yasufumi Fujimoto, Takahiko Mukai, Motoi Takeuchi, Yoshinori Taniguchi, Taiga Yodo
Investigation Committee of Rare Freshwater Fish
Itsuro Koizumi (Chairperson), Tsukasa Abe, Haruhiko Fujimoto, Kazumi Hosoya, Kei’ichiro Iguchi, Shigefumi Kanao, Tadao Kitagawa, Seiichi Mori, Jun Nakajima, Takaharu Natsumeda, Katsunori Tachihara, Toshihiko Yonezawa, Katsutoshi Watanabe
Investigation Committee of Rare Marine Fish
Atsuko Yamaguchi (Chairperson), Kazunori Arayama, Yusuke Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Munehara, Hiroshi Senou, Toshiyuki Suzuki
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), Hiromitsu Endo, Keita Koeda, Shota Mitsui, Keiichi Matsuura (Adviser)
Investigation Committee of Standard Japanese Common Names
Hiroshi Senou (Chairperson), Hiroyuki Motomura (Vice-Chairperson), Yusuke Hibino, Keita Koeda, Kazuo Sakamoto
Committee of Electric Information
Taiga Yodo (Chairperson), Kouji Nakayama (Vice-Chairperson), Yuki Kimura, Toshiaki Shitamitsu
Committee for the Promotion of Gender Equality
Mayu Nakano (Chairperson), Yuka Iguchi, Yusuke Koseki
Public Relations Committee
Hiromitsu Endo (Chairperson), Ryota Kawanishi, Kento Kawasaka, Gento Shinohara, Yuko Takigawa
Access and Benefit-Sharing Advisory Team
Masanori Nakae (Chairperson), Satoru Chiba, Ken Maeda, Hiroyuki Motomura
Representative for the Union of the Japanese Societies for Systematic Biology
Hisashi Imamura, Kiyoshi Hagiwara
Representative for the Union of the Japanese Societies for Natural History
Hitomi Yamano
Committee for the Promotion of Gender Equality
Mayu Nakano
Representative for Liaison Council of Fisheries and Marine Sciences
Hisashi Imamura