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Kano Lab
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The lab reads old documents to study past earthquakes and disasters.
AboutAbout the lab
Learning about past earthquakes from old records
The Kano Lab studies earthquakes and natural disasters, especially phenomena that occurred in historical times.
The lab investigates past earthquakes based on what is written in historical sources such as old documents.
It collaborates with historians of Japan at the Historiographical Institute and carries out joint research across the humanities and sciences, under the banner of "history × earth and planetary science."
The lab also takes part in running Minna de Honkoku, a citizen-participation project for transcribing historical documents.
Key terms
- Historical sources
- Records such as old documents, diaries, and illustrated maps that provide clues about events of the past
- Transcription (honkoku)
- Rewriting old documents written in cursive kuzushiji script or similar styles into modern printed characters
- Citizen science
- A framework in which members of the general public who are not researchers take part in research, for example by collecting data or deciphering documents
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies earthquakes and natural disasters, especially phenomena that occurred in historical times. Its work ranges from research on past earthquakes using descriptions in historical sources, to the mechanisms behind groundwater changes, to citizen-participation projects for transcribing historical documents.
*Illustrative imageInvestigating past earthquakes from historical sources
The lab investigates earthquakes that occurred in the past, based on descriptions in historical sources such as old documents.
*Illustrative imageGroundwater changes before and after large earthquakes
The lab is interested in the mechanisms behind the groundwater changes observed before and after large earthquakes, and studies how they occur.
*Illustrative imageMinna de Honkoku and citizen science
The lab is involved in Minna de Honkoku, an online citizen-participation project for transcribing historical documents, and is interested in open science and citizen science.
*Illustrative imageEarthquake and volcano research with historians
Lab members hold concurrent positions at the Research Organization for Collaboration on Historical Records of Earthquakes and Volcanoes, and work with historians of Japan at the Historiographical Institute to study past earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorYasuyuki KanoPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Kawaraban-of-1855-Ansei-Edo-earthquake” A news broadsheet “Kawaraban”, 1855 / Public domain (cropped)
- Investigating past earthquakes from historical sources: “Namazu 1” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Groundwater changes before and after large earthquakes: “Mud tank and shakers during groundwater well drilling” Nicole Fenton, USGS. Public domain. / Public domain (cropped)
- Minna de Honkoku and citizen science: “Victims who lost their homes in the Ansei Edo Earthquake, sleeping in the open, woodblock print, 1855 AD - Edo-Tokyo Museum - Sumida, Tokyo, Japan - DSC06718” Daderot / Public domain (cropped)
- Earthquake and volcano research with historians: “Night view of the great eruption of Mount Asama in the Tenmei era” 内閣府 (防災担当) , Cabinet Office of Japan, disaster prevention charge. / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Watada Lab (Earth and Planetary Dynamics)): “SWOT Satellite Measures Pacific Tsunami (PIA26652)” NASA/JPL-Caltech / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Miyake Lab (Earthquake Research Institute, Division of Earthquake and Volcano Disaster Research)): “Aso house damaged by the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake 2” hanonimas / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Ishiyama Lab): “Arakura Fault of the Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line” Sakaori (talk) / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Furumura Lab): “Skyscrapers of Nishi Shinjuku over Kanda River from Nakano, Tokyo, Japan, 2024 May” Ximonic (Simo Räsänen) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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