Acknowledgments
In the preparation of this report, we received great help from Dr. Yoshitaka Morikawa of Mie University in arranging figures and tables. Without his help, the report would not have been completed. The authors thank Dr. Hiroshi Kusunoki and Dr. Masaomi Akagawa for their valuable advice and for checking the manuscript. Thanks also due to Dr. Mikhail A. Danchenkov of the FERHRI, Ms. Galina Y. Tarasova of the Foreign Language Department of the FEBRAS, Dr. Maria Lebedko of the Far Eastern State University (Vladivostok, Russia), Dr. Anatole V. Lyovin and Ms. Patricia Polansky of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and Dr. Anatoly M. Polomoshnov of the Sakhalin Oil & Gas Research Institute for their useful advice and for providing necessary documents. We thank POC chair, Dr. Paul H. LeBlond and POC members and PICES Secretariat for their various advice and encouragement.
This volume was published by the Marine Information Research Center of the Japan Hydrographic Association by using the fund provide by the Nippon Foundation. We heartily thank these organizations for their support.
