about JGU

About us

JGU (Japanese Geomorphological Union) is an academic society providing a platform for scientific meetings, seminars, and publications on geomorphology. About 400 individuals hold the JGU memberships, who are researchers, engineers, students, and persons in general public with particular interest in landforms and relating earth-surface processes. We publish a peer-reviewed scientific journal, Transactions, Japanese Geomorphological Union (TJGU).

Our mission

JGU contributes to advance in science and technology regarding geomorphology by providing opportunities of academic discussion and communications. We believe that understanding of landforms and their formation processes, prediction and mitigation of natural disasters attribute to the deepening and widening of knowledge in landscape evolution. JGU fulfills a leadership in scientific researches and technical development in the field of geomorphology and also in education and social implementation of outcomes.

Publications

Transactions, Japanese Geomophological Union (Chikei – 地形)

TJGU is a journal recognized by the International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG) and is included in the interdisciplinary abstract and citation database Scopus (Elsevier).

CiteScore 2023: 0.3
SJR 2023: 0.138

ISSN 0389-1755

Open access to published articles

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International conferences contributed

International conferences at JGU Fall Meetings

“Geomorphic Process Researches in Understanding the Formation of Landforms”, 2024/11/2, Tottori University
“Engineering Geomorphology”, 2022/11/5, Hokkaido University
“Hydro-geomorphology: advances and future tasks”, 2019/11/8, Kyoto University

IAG International Conference on Geomorphology

9th International Confernce on Geomophology (9th ICG), 2017/11/6-11, New Delhi, India
8th International Conference on Geomorphology (8th ICG), 2013/8/27-31, Paris, France, Geomorphology and Sustainability
7th International Conference on Geomorphology (7th ICG), 2009, Melbourne, Australia
6th International Conference on Geomorphology (6th ICG), 2005, Zaragoza, Spain
5th International Conference on Geomorphology (5th ICG), 2001, Tokyo, Japan
4th International Conference on Geomorphology (4th ICG), 1997, Bologna, Italy
3rd International Conference on Geomorphology (3rd ICG), 1993/8/23-29, Hamilton, Canada
2nd International Conference on Geomorphology (2nd ICG), 1989, Frankfurt am Main, West Germany
1st International Conference on Geomorphology (1st ICG), 1985, Manchester, England

IAG Regional Conference on Geomorphology

1996 Budapest, Hungary
1995 Singapore
1991 Ankara, Turkey

East Eurasia International Workshop

14th International Workshop on Present Earth Surface Processes and Long-term Environmental Changes in East Eurasia, 2017/9/15-21, Novosibirsk-Altai, Russia