
Current work:
Revision of Indo-Pacific carangid fishes (family Carangidae).
Revision of Indo-Pacific leiognathid fishes (family Leiognathidae).
Revision of Indo-Pacific marine atherinid fishes (family Atherinidae).
Studies on the ichthyofauna of the tropical western Pacific.
Study of the ichthyofauna of Kumano-nada, Pacific coast of the central Japan (including the mesopelagic fishes).
Study of larval fish fauna of Ago Bay, Pacific coast of central Japan.
Editor of Ichthyological Society of Japan