Daisuke Ishimura HP

Daisuke Ishimura

Associate professor

Department of Earth Science,

Chiba University

1‐33 Yayoi‐cho, Inage‐ku, Chiba 263‐8522, Japan

e-mail: ishimura<at>chiba-u.jp

Last update 23 Jan 2026

News

9 Oct. 2019 Ishimura & Yamada's paper was taken up in EOS news.

Academic & Professional Experience

2012.4- 2014.2 Department of Earth Sciences, Chiba University, Project researcher

2014.3- 2016.3 International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Assistant Professor

2016.4- present Department of Geography, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Assistant Professor

Education

2003.4- 2007.3 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, School of Science, Kyushu University

2007.4- 2009.3 Department of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University

2009.4- 2012.3 Department of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University

Research area

Tectonic geomorphology

Quaternary geology

Paleoseismology

Present works

Tsunami deposit research to reveal paleo-tsunami history and paleo-tsunami size (Pacific coast area in Tohoku region, Philippines)

Paleoseismology of the 2016 Kumamoto EQ focusing on the coincidence of paleo-events between primary and subsidiary faults

Fluvial/marine terrace chronology and their formation processes based on tephrochronology (Pacific coast area in Tohoku region)

Processes of transportation and deposition of sediment particle using image analysis (fluvial and beach sediments, tsunami deposits, drift pumice)

Peer-reviewed publications in the past 5 years (only English journal)

Malatesta, L.C., Sueoka, S., Weiß, N., Gailleton, B., Tsukamoto, S., Ishimura, D., Takahashi, N., Nishimura, T., Kataoka, K., Komatsu, T., Iwasa, Y. (2025) Landscape Signature of Seismogenic Faults in the Off and Onshore Domains of the Noto Peninsula in Japan's Back-Arc. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL116602. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL116602

Yamada, K., Ishimura, D., Chikasada, N., Baba, T. (2026) Novel mapping approach for coastal boulders using deep learning. Scientific Reports, 16, 144 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-29044-9

Watanabe, I. T., Suzuki, T. and Ishimura, D. (2025) Establishing a high-resolution late Pleistocene to Holocene tephrostratigraphic framework in central Japan using wetland deposit core records: An attempt to detect cryptotephra from terrestrial records in the productive volcanic arc. Quaternary Geochronology, 91, 101710. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2025.101710

Maehashi, K., Naruse, H., Ishimura, D., Nakanishi, R., Kiyozuka, Y. and Yamada, M. (2025) Constraining a high-slip offshore fault area during the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake using tsunami inundation data and numerical simulations. Coastal Engineering Journal, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/21664250.2025.2574169

Takahashi, N.O., Ishimura, D., Yamada, K., Ohta, R.J., Arai, Y. and Yamane, Y. (2025) Shape evolution of bulk sediment in headwater streams: effects of rock type and particle size. Earth Surface Dynamics, 13, 959-980. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-959-2025

Watanabe, M., Masselink, G., Ishimura, D., Yamada, M. and Switzer, A.D. (2025) Numerical modelling of gravel transportation by a tsunami with the extended XBeach-G. Applied Ocean Research, 164, 104765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apor.2025.104765

Yoshida, K., Hiramine, R., Ishimura, D., Sato, T. and Maruya, Y. (2025) White pumice raft drifted to the Ogasawara and Nansei Islands after the October 2023 earthquakes in the southern Izu Islands, Geochemical Journal, 59, 224-236. https://doi.org/10.2343/geochemj.GJ25013

Kaneda, H., Ishimura, D., Niwa, Y. (2025) Comment on “Surface exposure ages of middle–late Pleistocene marine and fluvial terraces along the northern and southern Sanriku coasts, Northeast Japan” by Wakasa et al. (2025). Geomorphology, 487, 15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2025.109921

Hiramine, R., Ishimura, D., Nagai, M., Miwa, T., Nishikawa, H., Kuwatani, T., Sato, T., Yoshida, K. (2025) Pumice Drifting from Ioto Volcano in the Izu–Bonin Arc to the Nansei Islands, Japan. Island Arc, e70020. https://doi.org/10.1111/iar.70020Ishimura, D., Hiramine, R. (2025) Dispersion, fragmentation, abrasion, and organism attachment of drift pumice from the 2021 Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba eruption in Japan. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science volume 12: 5. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-024-00678-z

Fukushima, Y., Ishimura, D., Takahashi, N., Iwasa, Y., Malatesta, L. C., Takahashi, T., Tang, C.-H., Yoshida, K., & Toda, S. (2024). Landscape changes caused by the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake in Japan. Science Advances, 10, eadp9193. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adp9193

Albert, P.G., McLean, D., Buckland, H.M., Suzuki, T., Jones, G., Staff, R.A., Vineberg, S., Kitaba, I., Yamada, K., Moriwaki, H., Ishimura, D., Ikehara, K., Manning, C.J.,SG14 Project Members, Nakagawa, T., Smith, V.C. (2024) Cryptotephra preserved in Lake Suigetsu (SG14 core) reveals the eruption timing and distribution of ash fall from Japanese volcanoes during the late-glacial to early Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews, 324, 108376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108376

Sato, K., Yamada, M., Ishimura, D., Ishizawa, T., and Baba, T. (2022) Numerical estimation of a tsunami source at the flexural area of Kuril and Japan Trenches in the fifteenth to seventeenth century based on paleotsunami deposit distributions in northern Japan. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 9: 72. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-022-00530-2

Ishimura, D., Ishizawa, T., Yamada, M., Aoki K., Sato, K. (2022) Washover deposits related to tsunami and storm surge along the north coast of the Shimokita Peninsula in northern Japan. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 9: 69. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40645-022-00529-9

Ishimura, D., Iwasa, Y., Takahashi, N., Tadokoro, R., Oda, R. (2022) Paleoseismic events and shallow subsurface structure of the central part of the Futagawa fault, which generated the 2016 Mw 7.0 Kumamoto earthquake. Geomorphology 414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108387

Claro, S.M.D., Ramos, N.T., Fernando, A.G.S., Ishimura, D., Switzer, A.D. (2021) Sedimentological evidence of washover deposits from extreme wave events in Zamboanga del Sur, Mindanao, southern Philippines. Marine Geology, 438, 106535. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2021.106535

Ishimura, D., Yamada, K. (2021) Integrated lateral correlation of tsunami deposits during the last 6000 years using multiple indicators at Koyadori, Sanriku Coast, northeast Japan. Quaternary Science Reviews, 256, 106834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106834

Ishimura, D., Tsutsumi, H., Toda, S., Fukushima, Y., Kumahara, Y., Takahashi, N., Ichihara, T., Takada, K. (2021) Repeated triggered ruptures on a distributed secondary fault system: an example from the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, southwest Japan. Earth, Planets and Space, 73, 39. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-021-01371-x

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