Jan 26

• Part1 : Overall Summary of the project
• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The result of the integration of arts and sciences and the course of project for 9　years.
• ・　SANO Masaki ：The result of paleoclimatology
• ・　ITO Keisuke - the result of history
• ・　HIGAMI Noboru – the result of archaeology
• Part 2 ： Evaluation by inside of the project (1st section)
• ・　Comments by members (＊） and discussion
• ＊commentators　KIKUCHI Isao, TAMURA Noriyoshi, KAMATANI Kaoru, YOSHIMURA Kei,UEMURA Ryu
• Part 3 ： Evening Meeting

Jan 27

• Part 4 : Evaluation by outside of the project
• ・ Comments by non-member commentators（＊） and questions.
• ＊commentators　YUMOTO Takakazu（Primate research Institute Kyoto university ・former PL of RIHN/comments in writing）, YOSHIDA Takehito（current PL of RIHN）, NAKAMURA Shinichiro（Graduate school of Engineering, Nagoya University）
• Part 5 ：Evaluation by inside of the project (2nd section)
• ・　Comments by members (1＊） and discussions.
• ＊commentators　KAWAHATA Hodaka、MATSUGI Takehiko、HAKOZAKI Masataka, INOUE Tomohiro
• Part 6 ：Prospectus after the project
• A. Final check of a compilation of the outcomes of the research
• B. Sharing information for the development of research.
• C. Discussion
• Part 7 ：Overall of the general meeting

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: 　Aims for Nakatsuka’s Fundamental Research S. Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research achievement so far and future issueas based on tree ring oxygen isotope
• ・　KOBAYASHI Kenichi : Situations and perspectives of the chronological dating of earthenware typologically in the Jomon era.
• ・　FUJIO Shinichiro: Situations and perspectives of the chronological dating of earthenware typologically in the Yayoi era.
• ・　NAKAKUBO Tatsuo: Situations and perspectives of the chronological dating of earthenware typologically in the Tumulus period.
• ・Offer of topics of the situation of one`s research related to Nakatsuka’s Fundamental Research S. Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research.
• ・　Plenary Discussion

Aug 7

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Explanation of aims, cautionary note for the publication for an international audience Opening remarks
• ・Introduction and discussion of the draft of each chapter.
• ・　Chapter 1> Japanese history: An overview（Batten）
• ・　Chapter 2> Climate change and its relationship to historical events and trends in Japan: The potential for a rewriting of history（Nakatsuka）
• ・　Chapter 3> Theoretical perspectives: Resilience（Brown）
• ・　Chapter 4> Climate in the 10th-5th c. BCE and introduction of wet-rice agriculture （Fujio）
• ・　Chapter 5> Climate in the 2nd c. and the Yayoi-Kofun transition（Wakabayashi）
• ・　Chapter 6> Climate in the 6th c. and the emergence of a centralized state（Imazu）
• ・　Chapter 7> Climate in the 10th-12th c. and decline of a centralized state（Tamura）

Aug 8

• ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: 〝Review of background, aims, and plan″ and 〝The main issue in 2017″for Fundamental Research S. Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research.
• ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Establishment of new chronological basis by tree-ring oxygen isotope, and dating in sites in Western Japan.
• ・ HAKOZAKI Masataka: Establishment of new chronological basis by tree-ring oxygen isotope, and dating in sites in Eastern Japan.
• ・ HAKOZAKI Masataka: Establishment of new chronological basis by tree-ring oxygen isotope, and dating in sites in Korea.
• ・Tasks going forwardⅠ: Prospects for collecting the excavated woods（Samples）
• 1. Samples for Establishment of new chronological basis.
• 2. Samples for replacement from pottery chronology to chronological age.
• 3. Samples for archaeologically important chronological dating .
• ・Tasks going forwardⅡ: Analysis – Various approach in analysis in order to improve the number of success and success rate of dating.
• ・Tasks going forwardⅢ: Toward building the systems.
• 1. Expand the users’ base.
• 2. Establish more than 1 or even many base laboratories.
• 3. Technology transfer to local governments, or private sectors.
• ・Plenary Discussion.

January 13

• ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Activities of Historical Climate Adaptation Project and the situation toward publishing the books.
• ・ MURAKAMI Mayuko: Relationship between ancient coin circulation and climate variations.
• ・ YAMADA Masahisa: Geomortphology and human habitats in southwest Kanto region since late Yayoi related to climate variations.
• ・Plenary Discussion 1 : Final situation of paleoclimatological data.

January 14

January 6

• ・ NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Activities of Historical Climate Adaptation Project so far and the aim of this General meeting.
• ・ KAMATANI Kaoru :　The relationship between Menjo, tax account to villages, precipitation, and temperature.
• ・TAKATSUKI Yasuo, SHIBAMOTO Masahiko : The relationship between rice price in Osaka, precipitation, and temperature.
• ・YAMADA Kosei : The relationship between Development and trends in Ryukyu in Kasei period, precipitation, and temperature.
• ・SASOU Mamoru : The relationship between long term transition of landscape, and precipitation.
• ・TAMURA Noriyoshi : Handling with temperature and precipitation in Medieval history.
• ・Plenary Discussion 1 : Roles of each in humanities and sciences in terms of research in history.

January 7

• ・ITO Keisuke: Contrast between Kamakura Ibun and precipitation, temperature.
• ・IMAZU Katsunori: Contrast between Rikkokushi, the six ancient Japanese historical collections complied between Nara and Heian periods, and precipitation, temperature.
• ・HIGAMI Noboru: Contrast between the change in woodenware and precipitation.
• ・FUJIO Shinichiro: Contrast between rice farming in the Yayoi period and precipitation, temperature.
• ・Plenary Discussion 2 : What data would you like to receive and/or provide each other between researchers in humanities and sciences?
• ・Plenary Discussion 3 : Tasks and the prospects toward summarizing the project’s results.

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Opening remarks
• ・　ITO Toshikazu: Change in agricultural production of the manor system in 14^th and 15^th centuries in Yano-sho, Harimanokuni
• ・　TAKAGI Tokuro: Climate change in 11^th and 12^th centuries and its effects on the formation of the manorial system
• ・　Plenary Discussion

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Explanation of the aims
• ・　FUJIO Shinichiro: Spread of rice-paddy cultivation / people’s migration, and climate change In earlier, middle, and end Yayoi period
• ・　IKUTA Atsushi: Change in the weather and problems related to grains in 6^th and 7^th centuries
• ・　Plenary Discussion

September 9

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Opening remarks
• ・　KORIYAMA Shiho: Biko chochiku seido (emergency reserve system) and climate change
• ・　TAKAHASHI Miyuki: Population, households, and natural environment in early modern Japan
• ・　SATO Daisuke: Sendai Domain administration, weather and climate

September 10

• ・　WATANABE Koichi: State and private responses to the complex succession of disasters in Edo during the 1780s
• ・　KAMATANI Kaoru: Agronomic performance and climate change in early modern Japan
• ・　Plenary　Discussion

• ・SANO Masaki :Opening Remarks
• ・NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Progress and prospects in oxygen isotopic dendrochronology in Japan
• ・SEO Jeong-Wook: Summary of dendrochronology in Korea
• ・SANO Masaki : Significance of joint research by Japan and Korea seen through the pre analysis of trees in Korea
• ・Lim Seon-mi: Outline of Toerae-Ri site.
• ・HAKOZAKI Masataka: The result of dendro oxygen isotope data of excavated woods at the site in wetland in south Korea
• ・KIMURA Katsuhiko: Analysis in oxygen isotope in excavated woods from the sites on Japan Sea coast, and its application of archaeology
• ・HAKOZAKI Masataka: Veryfing the dating based on the dendro oxygen isotope and SD775 14C-spike by the eruption of Baekdu Mountain in 10th century
• ・FUJIO Shinichiro: The expanding of the cultural complex from south Korean peninsula to north-western Kyushu, Japan in the first millennium B.C.
• ・KOBAYASHI Kenichi: Chronological studies at the Radiocarbon dating of the Neolithic pottery, between the Jomon period at Japan and the Neolithic of Korea.
• ・Plenary Discussion

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Current situation of the whole project
• ・　SASOU Mamoru: Transition and background of the landscape of villages and arable land in ancient and medieval era – Focusing on microgeomophologic analysis and land use transformation eastern coast of Tokyo bay
• ・　KIKUCHI Isao: Variety of rice and treatment in the cold weather – rice producing in early modern Tohoku area
• ・　NISHIYACHI Seibi: Dealings in real estate and climatic disasters in the medieval era
• ・　Plenary Discussion: Schedule and guide for writing the book
• The present state of writing and brainstorming for "How will the viewpoint of medieval history change? Or not?" chapter 3 in Volume 1

Aug 7

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Explanation of aims
• ・　Bruce L. BATTEN: The present state of discussion with the publisher and the future plan
• ・　Suggestion for the detailed plan of each chapter (Ch1,2,3)
• Chapter 1> Japanese history: An overview (BATTEN)
• Chapter 2> Climate change and its relationship to historical events and trends in Japan: The potential for a rewriting of history (NAKATSUKA)
• Chapter 3> Theoretical perspectives: Resilience (BROWN & BATTEN)
• ・　Suggestion for the detailed plan of each chapter (Ch4,5,9)
• Chapter 4> Climate in the 10th-5th c. BCE and introduction of wet-rice agriculture (FUJIO)
• Chapter 5> Climate in the 2nd c. and the Yayoi-Kofun transition (WAKABAYASHI)
• Chapter 9> Climate in the 17th c. and agricultural expansion during the Little Ice Age (TAKEI)
• ・　Plenary Discussion1: Plan of the publication and the theory of resilience

Aug 8

• ・　Suggestion for the detailed plan of each chapter (Ch7,8)
• Chapter 7> Climate in the 10th-12th c. and decline of a centralized state (TAMURA)
• Chapter 8> Climate in the 14th-16th c. and warrior society (ITO T)
• ・　Suggestion for the detailed plan of each chapter (Ch10,6)
• Chapter 10> Climate in the 18th-19th c. and the development of a market economy (TAKATSUKI)
• Chapter 6> Climate in the 6th c. and the emergence of a centralized state (IMAZU: data only)
• ・　Plenary Discussion2: What type of book can be published with comprehensive thoughts?

July 29

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Confirmation of paleoclimate data which can be provided, the progress of the publication of the project result
• ・　HIGAMI Noboru: Village transition and climate change from Yayoi to the early tumulus period in Owari plain
• ・　INOUE Tomohiro: The management of paddy field and change in precipitation in Yayoi era
• ・　Providing the overview of manuscripts for the publication for an international audience(1)

July 30

• ・　MATSUGI Takehiko: Population pattern and Environmental change from Yayoi to the tumulus period
• ・　Providing the overview of manuscripts for the publication for an international audience(2)
• ・　Plenary　Discussion

July 1

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Final perspective of paleoclimate reconstruction data
• ・　SANO Masaki: The goal on paleoclimate reconstruction in Japan and the world
• ・　ENDO Takahiro: The Kabu-ido system –from perspective of climate change
• ・　HIRANO Tetsuya: Climate change and Social reaction in northern Kanto region in late modern era -from Bunka, Bunsei era to Tenpo era
• ・　TAKEI Koichi: Climate in Bunkaki era and the politics in Kaga Domain
• ・　SATO Hiroyuki: Climate change and community in south Kyushu area
• ・　WATANABE Koichi: Review the early modern history from the angle of climate change – quantity, system, technology -putting history of study in order for prologue

July 2

• ・　YAMADA Kosei: Disasters and the Ryukyu society in Kasei era –from "putting the village back on the track by the top" to spontaneous relieve
• ・　TAKATSUKI Yasuo, MURA Kazuaki: Climate change and the central market in early modern era
• ・　NAKAYAMA Tomihiro: Disasters and famines in the Tenmei and Tempou periods, and the social reaction of Hiroshima-han (Hiroshima Domain)
• ・　Plenary　Discussion

June 15

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Features of climate in Japan and tasks for paleoclimate reconstruction
• ・　SANO Masaki: The goal on paleoclimate reconstruction in Japan and the world
• ・　SANO Masaki, NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Precipitation -Dendro oxygen isotope data
• ・　SHO Kenjiro: Possibility of dating using intra annual analysis of oxygen isotopes
• ・　HIRANO Jumpei, ZAIKI Masumi, ICHINO Mika: Precipitation and Temperature –historical documents Paleoclimate reconstruction based on historical paleoclimate record - temperature, precipitation, intensity of solar radiation extracted, and typhoons
• ・　KAWAHATA Hodaka: Water temperature, temperature -sediments(ancient society in Japan produced by the events occurred by cold climate)
• ・　ABE Osamu, MORIMOTO Maki: Water temperature, Salinity-Coral(Reconstruction of ocean environment in the past using)
• ・　SAKAMOTO Minoru: To realize the precise dating by carbon-14 analysis
• ・　Plenary　Discussion 1

June 16

• ・　YASUE Koh: Temperature –width and density of tree ring, Reconstruction of temperature using tree-ring in northern Japan
• ・　ITO Keisuke: Climate disasters Komonjo, ancient documents
• ・　TSUSHIMA Akane: The integration of paleoclimate data by statistic approach
• ・　YOSHIMURA Kei: The integration of paleoclimate data based on circulation Model of data assimilation
• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Development and upgrading in dating system by tree ring oxygen isotope data
• ・　KIMURA Katsuhiko, HAKOZAKI Masataka: The space-time expansion and the application of the oxygen isotope chronology
• ・　Plenary　Discussion 2

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The present state of research in the project. The latest paleoclimate data. Plan of publication
• ・　TSUCHIYAMA Yushi: Basic consideration on disasters in KamiShimoKuzenosho, Toji-owned Yamashironokuni
• ・　TAMURA Noriyoshi: Preliminary consideration in change precipitation and prayer for rain
• ・　TAMURA Noriyoshi: Chapter 3 “How will they look at medieval history in Japan in a different light?” in Part 1
• ・　Plenary Discussion

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Updates on recent progress in publishing the project results, and the introduction of the latest paleoclimate data
• ・　WAKABAYASHI Kunihiko: The settlements pattern from early agricultural society to the establishing of ancient state in central Japan: in the context of climate change
• ・　IMADU Katsunori: Observations about population dynamics and environment in ancient Japan – 3 tasks
• 1.The formation of kings by succession and a sense of disaster – structure fluctuation of archipelagic society in 6^th century
• 2.Population dynamics in ancient Japan and reproduction system under the Ritsuryo Code
• 3.General crisis in latter half of 9^th century – tectonic disasters and climate problems
• ・　BATTEN Bruce: Work progress for publishing for an international audience
• ・　Plenary discussion: Editing and writing for vol.3 (by Pre History/Ancient history group) of a set of project’s results in Japanese version

February 21

• ・　WATANABE Koichi: State and private responses to the complex succession of disasters in Edo during the 1780s
• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Explanation of the aim
• ・　Report of conception of the monograph for the book by each group member

February 22

• ・　Discussion about vol.5 & 6 of a set of project’s results in 6 volumes in Japanese version
• ・　Plenary discussion for publication

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Updates on recent progress and the plan in the project as a whole
• ・　KOBAYASHI Kenichi: Change in settlements in south-west Kanto and the possibility from mid to mid-late Jomon-era and the possibility of the influence by climate change
• ・　YAMADA Masahisa: Geomorphological formation and formation, extinction, and moving of residential area and arable land in Kanto region from late Jomon era to medieval era
• ・　Discussion

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Present research situation of the project
• ・　TAKAHASHI Miyuki: Population Data in Tokugawa Japan
• ・　SATO Hiroyuki: Climate Change in Tanegashima Island in the Early Modern Period
• ・　HIRANO Junpei: Perspective and current situation of climate reconstruction based on historical record of climate
• ・　Plenary discussion

September 24

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Updating the project research and toward the publishing the series of the project’s result
• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Progress in the analysis and dating of archaeological woods done at RIHN
• ・　KIMURA Katsuhiko: Progress in the analysis and dating of archaeological woods done at Fukushima university
• ・　INOUE Tomohiro: Tree-ring dating of excavated woods from Ikeshima- Fukumannji Site and its archaeological interpretation
• ・　WAKABAYASHI Kunihiko: Updating the data collecting of ruins of settlements
• ・　Plenary Discussion1: Direction of the research by the Prehistory and ancient group

September 25

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Long-term research plan of oxygen isotopic dendrochronology
• ・　Plenary discussion2: Requests for dating based on tree ring oxygen isotope measurement and plans for publishing

September 23

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Updating the recent progress and toward the publishing the series of the project’s result
• ・　ZAIKI Masumi and HIRANO Junpei: Results in Historical climatology in the early modern era (Seasonal variations of the fine weather rate in Edo Tenpo and Tenmei periods)
• ・　ICHINO Mika: Reconstructed intensity of solar radiation based on historical documents
• ・　SHO Kenjiro: Seasonal variations of hydroclimate in the Kyoho period as reconstructed from intra-annual analysis of oxygen isotopes
• ・　TSUSHIMA Akane: Climate reconstruction for Miyagi using tree-ring oxygen isotopes
• ・　YOSHIMURA Kei: Data Assimilation of paleoclimatological data
• ・　Discussion1: How far are we going to work on the reconstruction of paleoclimate in this project?

September 24

• ・　YASUE Koh: Temperature reconstruction for central Japan based on tree-ring density
• ・　KUBOTA Yuichi: Temperature reconstruction for Tohoku based on tree-ring density of archaeological woods
• ・　HAKOZAKI Masataka: Updates on recent progress in analysis of archaeological woods and trees in Tohoku area
• ・　Discussion2: Let's talk where we left off yesterday. Plan for publishing

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The present state of the project as a whole, the publishing plan, results of the workshop: Towards Mutual Understanding: Issues Related to Publishing for an International Audience, and the Meeting of the Categorization and Synthesis Group
• ・　TAMURA Noriyoshi: Climate change in 10^th to 12^th centuries and the formation of medieval Japan
• ・　MIZUNO Shoji: agricultural disaster in 11^th and 12^th centuries and the establishment of medieval society
• ・　TAKAGI Tokuro: Climate change in 11^th to 12^th centuries and the influence to the Manor system
• ・　SASOU Mamoru: Change in the environment the history of villages and arable lands
• ITO Keisuke: Quantitative analysis of the number of documents using the CD-ROM version of Kamakura Ibun and climate change
• NISHIYACHI Seibi: Change of the number of land deeds in Izuminokuni in late medieval era and climate data
• ITO Toshikazu: (interim report) Change in agricultural production in manor In 14th to 16th centuries – in Yamashironokuni, Kuze-kamishimonosho, Kamikatsuranosho, and Yanosho in Harimanokuni
• TSUCHIYAMA Yushi: An essay of drought damages in the Muromachi era in Kami-Kuze-no-sho estate in Yamashiro province
• ・　Discussion

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Why should we synthesize project research result?–Purpose and subjects of categorization and integration-
• ・　ITO Keisuke: The analysis of quantitative relationship between the number of documents searched Kamakuraibun by keywords and climate change
• ・　KAMATANI Kaoru: Research and data analysis in Menjo (tax accounts to villages) and Shumon-aratamechou (religious inquisition registration)
• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: A trial toward "categorization" of spatio-temporal distribution of societal climate adaptation using the "Comprehensive Chronological table of peasant rebellion" and "National Census by Tokugawa Shogunate"
• ・　Plenary discussion: How to proceed quantitative analyses of project data comparable among prehistorical, ancient, medieval, and early modern periods?

August 8

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Explanation of aims and overview of results to be publicized for an international audience: Based on the results of the questionnaire
• ・　Bruce L. BATTEN, Philip C. BROWN: Review of recent literature on climate history and environmental history in the English speaking world: From the point of view of history and archaeology
• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Review of recent literature on climate history and environmental history in the English speaking world: From the point of view of paleoclimatology and paleoenvironmental studies
• ・　Bruce L. BATTEN, Philip C. BROWN: Review of representative literature on Japanese climatology and environmental history in the Anglosphere
• ・　Bruce L. BATTEN: Flow of academic publishing in the Anglosphere
• ・　Philip C. BROWN: Proposal for themes and content that each member should work on to publicize project results overseas
• ・　Plenary Discussion 1: What issues need to be addressed in order to publicize project results for an international audience?

August 9

• Outline of each group’s findings based on the results of questionnaire
• ・　Prospects for results from the Paleoclimatology group
• ・　Prospects for results from the Climatology group
• ・　Prospects for results from the Prehistory/Ancient History group
• ・　Prospects for results from the Medieval History group
• ・　Prospects for results from the Early Modern History group
• ・　Plenary Discussion 2: Specific procedures: How and what are we going to publish for an international audience?

July 2

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The present state of research in the project
• ・　ENDO Takahiro: The Kabu-ido system in the Fukuzuka ring-levee area
• ・　NAKAYAMA Tomihiro: Weather in summer in the Tenmei and Tenpo periods and society in Hiroshima-han (Hiroshima Domain)
• ・　Plenary discussion

July 3

• ・　HIRANO Junpei: Comparison of the distribution of climate in the Tenmei and Tenpo periods based on paleoclimate data reconstructed from historical documents
• ・　Joint discussion by the Early Modern History group and the Paleoclimatology group

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The present state of the project as a whole
• ・　ITO Keisuke: Review of responses to climate during the Kamakura era using the CD-ROM version of Kamakura Ibun
• ・　TSUCHIYAMA Yushi: Research achievements and issues regarding Kamishimo Kuze-no-sho estate: Through the application of paleoclimatological data
• ・　Plenary discussion

• ・　HAKOZAKI Masataka: Toward temperature reconstruction for the ancient period using tree ring maximum density data from northern Japan
• ・　SANO Masaki: Recent progress in producing tree ring oxygen isotope data from highly degraded archaeological wood
• ・　INOUE Tomohiro: Intensive analysis of tree ring dating for excavated wooden artifacts and its implications
• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Toward the overall compilation of excavation data (reports) on habitation and burial sites
• ・　Plenary discussion

• Speaker: Raymond S. BRADLEY
• Norse settlers in the North Atlantic: History, archaeology, and paleoclimate

• ・　TAKATSUKI Yasuo, MURA Kazuaki: Climate records and the rice market in Osaka: Focusing on times of famine in the mid- to late early modern era
• ・　KORIYAMA Shiho: Biko chochiku seido (emergency reserve system) and climate change: Focusing on the Chugoku and Tohoku regions in the early modern era

January 10

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Update on recent progress and issues faced in the project as a whole
• ・　SANO Masaki: Update on recent progress and issues faced in the Climatology and Paleoclimatology groups
• ・　KAMATANI Kaoru: Update on recent progress and issues faced in the Early Modern History group
• ・　ITO Keisuke: Update on recent progress and issues faced in the Medieval History group
• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Update on recent progress and issues faced in the Prehistory/Ancient History group
• ・　KAWAHATA Hodaka: Temperature reconstruction based on alkenone data from sediment cores
• ・　SASOU Mamoru: Change in villages and arable land and environmental change along the east coast: Focusing on the Yayoi era to the medieval era
• ・　YAMADA Kosei: Disasters in the modern Ryukyu and Amami region and societal reactions in the 1780s
• ・　Plenary discussion

January 11

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Starting work in the Categorization and Synthesis group: One future direction in integrating research results
• ・　HAKOZAKI Masataka, KIMURA Katsuhiko: Prospects for temperature and precipitation reconstructions based on tree rings for the ancient and medieval periods in Japan
• ・　ITO Keisuke: A data analysis manual for documentary historiography, with examples
• ・　MATSUGI Takehiko: Prospects for overall compilation of data on societal reactions and comparison with climate variation during the prehistoric and ancient eras
• ・　Plenary discussion

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The present state of the project as a whole
• ・　ITO Toshikazu: Transition and redevelopment of arable lands in Kami Katsura-no-sho estate in Yamashiro province
• ・　SASOU Mamoru: Jike ruins in Ishikawa prefecture
• ・　Status report and plenary discussion

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Updates on recent progress in the project as a whole
• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi, SANO Masaki: Newly developed methods for producing tree ring oxygen isotope data from degraded wood held at RIHN
• ・　KIMURA Katsuhiko: Case studies of analysis of excavated wooden artifacts from eastern Japan
• ・　OKADA Kenichi: Case study of paddy fields and forests submerged by floods at the end of the first half of the Yayoi era: Nakanishi site and Akitsu site in Nara prefecture
• ・　MATSUGI Takehiko: On the environmental basis of warfare and state formation (core research at National Museum of Japanese History, 2015-17)
• ・　IKUTA Atsushi: Records in Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan) and climate change
• ・　Plenary discussion: Procedures for continuing the research; suggestions for sessions in WAC-8 in Kyoto; prospects for holding sessions with the Japanese archaeological association

October 31

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The present state of the project as a whole
• ・　WATANABE Koichi: Disaster relief in the case of flood damage by the private sector in the Edo era in 1742, 1786, and 1846
• ・　Update on recent progress / plenary discussion

November 1

• ・　OGI Shinichiro: Grasshopper damage and societal response in Tosa and its connection with the subsequent production of Chinese sweet potatoes
• ・　KAMATANI Kaoru: Climate change and the environment in villages in Kyoto, Osaka, and Nara

October 10

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Progress of the Climatology and Paleoclimatology groups and collaboration with other groups
• ・　ZAIKI Masumi, HIRANO Junpei: Climate reconstruction using newly acquired historical data
• ・　YOSHIMURA Kei: Toward the assimilation of paleoclimate data
• ・　OKAZAKI Atsushi: What climate factors can be extracted from oxygen isotope records in tree ring cellulose?
• ・　KAMATANI Kaoru: Collaboration with the Early Modern History group and hoped-for results
• ・　Plenary discussion

October 11

• ・　KAWAHATA Hodaka: Temperature variations for Hiroshima and Osaka as reconstructed from alkenone in marine sediments
• ・　ABE Osamu: Oceanic environmental history for Ishigaki Island reconstructed from coral rings
• ・　Plenary discussion

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The present state of the project as a whole
• ・　ITO Keisuke: The relationship among data from Chronological Table of Climate Disasters in Medieval Japan by Fujiki H., climate change, and famines
• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi, ITOU Keisuke: Training in statistical data analysis using Chronological Table of Climate Disasters in Medieval Japan by Fujiki H. and reconstructed paleoclimate data
• ・　TAKAGI Tokuro: Instability in estate proprietorship from the end of 10^th through 11^thcenturies and climate change
• ・　Plenary discussion

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Explanation of the aims of the Categorization and Synthesis group
• ・　SANO Masaki: Updates on recent progress in developing tree-ring records from Japan
• ・　ZAIKI Masumi, HIRANO Junpei: Updates on recent progress in reconstructed paleoclimate data using historical documents
• ・　TAKAHASHI Miyuki: Updates on recent progress in historical population data
• ・　TAKATSUKI Yasuo, SHIBAMOTO Masahiko: Updates on recent progress in price data from the early modern period
• ・　KAMATANI Kaoru: Updates on recent progress regarding menjo (village tax account) related data
• ・　Plenary discussion

• Speaker: Philip C. BROWN
• "Institutions, ownership rights and natural resource maintenance: Resilience lessons from the Japanese Past"
　　

June 27

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The present state of the project as a whole and of each group
• ・　TAKEI Koichi: Climate change and communities in the modern Hokuriku Region: The present state of research and issues to be addressed
• ・　HIRANO Tetsuya: The experience of famine and societal reactions to poor harvests in the Tenpo era in Shimotsuke province
• ・　Updates on the recent research progress of each member

June 28

• ・　SATO Hiroyuki: Climate change and communities in modern southern Kyushu
• ・　SATO Daisuke: Disaster response in Sendai-han (Sendai Domain): The relationship between feudal domains and society

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Explanation of aims
• ・　INOUE Tomohiro: Geomorphological change and development of cultivation from the 10^th through the 13^th century
• ・　MIYAJIMA Yoshikazu: Recovery from the severe floods of the late 9^th century: In the Koshoku jori and Yashiro site groups
• ・　Plenary discussion

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Progress in paleoclimate reconstruction and tree ring dating in prehistoric and ancient times
• ・　SANO Masaki: Potential for precise dating of intra-annual analysis of tree ring cellulose oxygen isotopes
• ・　MURAKAMI Yumiko: Sampling and dating of excavated wood from ruins
• ・　FUJIO Shinichiro: The Toro site and floods
• ・　ONBE Shin: A study centering on the Tokai region in the first half of Jomon era using radiocarbon (¹⁴C) dating
• ・　KOBAYASHI Kenichi: Community dynamics in the Jomon era based on carbon-14 analysis
• ・　KIMURA Katsuhiko: Recent progress in the construction of a tree ring chronology for coastal regions along the Sea of Japan
• ・　Plenary discussion (chaired by WAKABAYASHI Kunihiko)

May 8

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Opening remarks
• ・　YASUE Koh: Summer temperatures reconstructed from tree ring density data
• ・　SANO Masaki, HAKOZAKI Masataka, KIMURA Katsuhiko: Can atmospheric circulation patterns be reconstructed by analyzing spatially distributed tree ring oxygen isotope data?
• ・　HAKOZAKI, Masataka: The potential for tree ring ¹⁴C-based reconstruction of atmospheric circulation patterns
• ・　KAGAWA Satoshi: Oxygen isotopes of tree rings as a tool to pinpoint the geographic origin of Japanese timber
• ・　Plenary discussion

May 9

• ・　SHO Kenjiro: Application of intra-annual tree ring oxygen isotope data
• ・　UEMURA Ryu: Climate reconstruction for Okinawa based on tree ring δ¹⁸O of Ryukyu pines
• ・　SANO Masaki: Intra-annual variations in tree ring δ¹⁸O records obtained from several species of trees growing in the same forest
• ・　Plenary discussion

• ・　Opening Remarks: Explanation of the program; introduction of the speakers
• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Prospects for new historical research using data from high resolution paleoclimatology
• ・　TAMURA Noriyoshi: The study of Japanese medieval history and reconstruction using high resolution paleoclimatology
• ・　KAMATANI Kaoru: Payment of the land tax and climate change in the early modern era
• ・　Discussion

• ・　MIZUNO Shoji: Climate change and the formation of medieval society in the 12^th century
• ・　SASOU Mamoru: Topographical change of rivers and migration of villages and irrigation systems in the Kanto region: Centering on the Koitogawa river and all of its tributaries in Chiba prefecture
• ・　INOUE Tomohiro: Geomorphological change and the development of cultivation during the 10^th through 13^th centuries
• ・　Plenary discussion

March 19

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Opening remarks
• ・　Lucien von GUNTEN: The PAGES 2k network Phase 2
• ・　Xuemei SHAO, representing Quansheng GE: Purpose of this workshop
• ・　OKAZAKI Atsushi: Poster section/Database of climate disasters from AD 601 to AD 1200.
• ・　OKAZAKI Atsushi: Poster section/Quasi-twentieth century reanalysis with stable water isotopes and comparison with observations and proxies
• Chair, Jonathan Palmer／Modelling & Statistics
• ・　Edward COOK: The monsoon Asia drought atlas-Version 2
• ・　Huan ZHANG: Long-term memory in tree-ring proxies and its influence on climate reconstructions
• ・　Jianghao WANG: Asia 2k in a broader context: A comparison between regional and global surface temperature reconstructions
• ・　Feng SHI: Tree ring reconstruction of the South Asian summer monsoon index over the past millennium
• Chair, NAKATSUKA Takeshi／Lake and ocean sediments
• ・　Philipp MUNZ: Decadal-scale record of Indian Ocean winter monsoon intensity over the past two millennia
• ・　Min-Te CHEN: A new window for probing tropical ocean climate during the LIA and MWP: Mud drift sediments in the East China Sea
• ・　KAWAHATA Hodaka: Alkenone SST and atmospheric temperature during the last 3000 years in western Japan
• Chair, Hemant Borgaonkar／Cave deposits
• ・　Naveen GHANDI: Past rainfall reconstruction using speleothems from Nakarallu cave, Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, India
• Document based paleoclimate reconstruction
• ・　HIRANO Junpei: Japanese early modern document-based paleoclimate reconstruction
• ・　YOSHIMURA Kei: Data assimilation GCM to incorporate diary weather records in Early Modern Japan
• ・　Zhixin HAO: High-resolution temperature reconstruction from historical documents in China
• ・　Poorna YAHAMPATH: Paleoclimate change recordings of Sri Lanka in the last two millennia with reference to key historical records
• Chair, SANO Masaki
• Tree ring
• ・　Muhammad WAHAB: Hydrological signals in tree ring width chronologies of pine tree species in northern Pakistan
• ・　Binod DAWADI: Pre-monsoon precipitation signal in tree rings of timberline Betula utilis in the Central Himalayas
• ・　Udya Kumar THAPA: Spring temperatures in the far-western Nepal Himalayas since A.D. 1640 reconstructed from Picea smithiana tree ring widths
• ・　Narayan Prasad GAIRE: Premonsoon climate reconstruction using ring width chronologies of conifer species from the western Nepal Himalayas
• ・　Shreyas MANAGAVE: Oxygen isotopic composition of teak from Peninsular India
• Glacier
• ・　Olga SOLOMINA: Glaciers fluctuations in Asia in the last 2ka

March 20

• Chair, Juerg LUTERBACHER
• New results of paleoclimate reconstruction using new data sets
• ・　Huan ZHANG
• ・　Jianghao WANG
• Chair, Edward COOK
• Discussion on needed data (type of proxies, location of data, resolution of data, etc.) for improving the reconstruction performance
• Chair, Chenxi XU
• Data management and data quality control
• Chair, Xuemei SHAO
• New goals (hydro-climate reconstruction), timeline and tasks: Final synthesis of this workshop

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The present state of the project as a whole and plans for the next fiscal year
• ・　ENDO Takahiro: On the Kabu-ido system
• ・　YAMADA Kosei: Disasters and societal reactions in the Ryukyu and Amami region: Focusing on the 1780s

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The present state of the project as a whole and prospects for the next fiscal year
• ・　TSUCHIYAMA Yushi: Self-introduction; Present research issues relating to Noto and Iwaigawa-yosui and climate change
• ・　TAMURA Noriyoshi: Report on climate disasters and seasonality of food transportation
• ・　ITO Keisuke: Graphic display of the data in Chronological Table of Climate Disasters in Medieval Japan by Fujiki H. (2009)
• ・　Discussion

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The present state of the project as a whole
• ・　ENDO Takahiro: A study of the Kabu-ido system: An innovative institution for groundwater management in ring-levee areas
• ・　KORIYAMA Shiho: The reformation of domain duties and climate change: Confirming the remaining problems and progress in addressing issues
• ・　KIKUCHI Isao: The nago system and the kariwake kosaku system (the tenancy system and customs between landlords and tenant farmers) in Morioka and Sendai domains in times of famine and poor harvests
• ・　Discussion

December 23

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Opening address; report on RIHN annual research presentations
• ・　SANO Masaki: Recent activities of the Climatology and Paleoclimatology groups
• ・　KAMATANI Kaoru: Recent activities of the Early Modern history group
• ・　ITO Keisuke: Recent activities of the Medieval History group
• ・　MURAKAMI Yumiko: Recent activities of the Prehistoric/Ancient History group
• ・　Toward a true integration of the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities (Part I): “Let me ask only this to researchers working in other disciplines!”

December 24

• ・　Toward a true integration of the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities (Part II): “Let me ask only this to researchers working in other disciplines!”
• ・　HIRANO Junpei: Climate change information from historical records
• ・　TAMURA Noriyoshi: Hopes regarding paleoclimatology from the perspective of documentary historiography
• ・　WAKABAYASHI Kunihiko: Insights from dendrochronology to earthenware dating
• ・　MASUDA Koichi: Toward an integration of descriptive and physical approaches to paleoclimate
• ・　Discussion and notifications

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Opening remarks
• ・　KANEDA Akihiro: The future of dating by archaeological methods for ancient Japan
• ・　MURAKAMI Mayuko: The relationship between climate change and coins
• ・　MURAKAMI Yumiko: Recent progress in Oxygen isotope analysis and research plans
• ・　INOUE Tomohiro: Transition of land utilization at the Ikeshima-Fukumanji site
• ・　KAWASUMI Tatsunori: Location and changes in topographical circumstances at the Ikeshima-Fukumanji site
• ・　WAKABAYASHI Kunihiko: The Ikeshima-Fukumanji site and research plans
• ・　Discussion followed by other participant’s research plans

October 6

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Issues regarding collaboration with other groups
• ・　YOSHIMURA Kei: Pre-research for assimilation of paleoclimatological data
• ・　HIRANO Junpei: The effort to construct a historical climate database
• ・　HAKOZAKI Masataka: The challenges of Yamase (cold onshore wind) reconstruction by high resolution tree ring ¹⁴C analyses in northern Japan
• ・　SUZUKI Katsuaki, TADA Ryuji: Comparison between the flux of clastic material in surface varved sediments of Lake Suigetsu and the meteorological and disaster records
• ・　Discussion

October 7

• ・　YASUE Koh: Report of the survey of Tateyama Cedar, recent progress in tree-ring analysis, and research plans
• ・　ABE Osamu: Recent progress in coral ring analysis, and research plans
• ・　TAGAMI Takahiro: Recent progress in paleoclimatological research using speleothems in the Taga region
• ・　KURITA Naoyuki: Variation in tree ring oxygen isotope ratios due to change in atmospheric circulation: An analysis of the climate isotopic response process
• ・　SHO Kenjiro: Forward modeling of Ryukyu Pine δ¹⁸O in Okinawa using precipitation δ¹⁸O and meteorological observational data
• ・　KIMURA Katsuhiko: The present state of constructing a master chronology for tree ring oxygen isotope ratios for the period back to 2300 BC in the middle Jomon era
• ・　Discussion

September 6

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The present state of the project as a whole
• ・　ITO Toshikazu: Presentation as a new member
• ・　Status Report: TAMURA Noriyoshi, KAWASUMI Tatsunori, ITO Keisuke
• ・　ITO Keisuke: Reconstruction of climate around the time of the Kanki famine: Based on the method described in the paper by Maejima and Tagami
• ・　Discussion

September 7

• ・　TAKAGI Tokuro: Interim report on the investigation of historical data from Kami Kuze-no-sho estate
• ・　NISHIYACHI Seibi: Status report on investigation of the 10^th and 11^th centuries
• ・　Discussion

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: The present state of the project as a whole
• ・　MURA Kazuaki: The process of establishment of the ruling system in Kamigata, Kyoto, an economic and political center and the foothold for the Bakufu’s rule of western Japan
• ・　TAKATSUKI Yasuo: Economic change in early modern Japan as seen from research on commodity price history
• ・　KAMATANI Kaoru: The relation between land tax payments and climate change: The example of Omi province (present Shiga prefecture)
• ・　Report and research plans
• ・　Discussion

July 24

• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Explanation of aims
• ・　Current state of the Paleoclimatology group, the Early Modern History group, the Medieval History group, and issues to be addressed by the Prehistory/Ancient History group
• ・　WAKABAYASHI Kunihiko: What to compare with climate change?: Events relating to change in ancient villages
• ・　AKATSUKA Jiro: Report
• ・　YAMADA Masahisa: Report
• ・　HIGAMI Noboru: Report from the results of studies at the Isshikiaokai site
• ・　Discussion

July 25

• ・　FUJIO Shinichiro: Report
• ・　MATSUGI Takehiko: Toward the identification of historical events in the prehistoric era
• ・　Discussion

June 21

• ・　SATO Daisuke, HIRANO Junpei: Report on investigations of historical data
• ・　NAKATSUKA Takeshi: Features of climate change in the early modern era in Japan
• ・　Discussion: Comparative study of disaster chronologies

June 22

• Presentations by new group members
• ・　YAMADA Kosei, TAKEI Koichi, OGI Shinichiro, TAKAHASHI Miyuki, TAKATSUKI Yasuo
• ・　Discussion: Research plans of the Early Modern History group for fiscal 2014

May 24

• ・　Discussion: Collection of articles spanning different islands in the same period

May 25

• ・　TAMURA Noriyoshi: Reconstruction of changes in precipitation in the 14^th and 15^th centuries and historical data related to Kami Katsura-no-sho estate
• ・　TAKAGI Tokuro: Collecting historical data on Kuze-no-sho estate