The Climate of Japan: Present and Past
暫譯: 日本的氣候：現在與過去

Takehiko Mikami is a professor emeritus in the Department of Geography at Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan. He has been leading pioneering research activities in the field of historical climatology in the world. He organized several international conferences and symposiums on climatic changes, including the International Symposium on the Little Ice Age Climate (LIAC,1991) and the International Conference on Climate Change and Variability (CCV, 1999), among others. His main research interests are historical climatic changes in Japan based on the large amount of documentary sources and meteorological data. Also, he has organized several heat island research projects in the Tokyo metropolitan area and has published a number of research results. He is an international editorial board member of the International Journal of Climatology (UK Royal Meteorological Society) and a fellow of Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU).

三上武彦（Takehiko Mikami）是日本東京 metropolitan 大學地理系的名譽教授。他在歷史氣候學領域領導了多項開創性的研究活動。他組織了幾個有關氣候變遷的國際會議和研討會，包括小冰期氣候國際研討會（International Symposium on the Little Ice Age Climate, LIAC, 1991）和氣候變化與變異國際會議（International Conference on Climate Change and Variability, CCV, 1999）等。他的主要研究興趣是基於大量文獻資料和氣象數據的日本歷史氣候變遷。此外，他還在東京大都市區組織了幾個熱島研究項目，並發表了多項研究成果。他是英國皇家氣象學會的《國際氣候學期刊》（International Journal of Climatology）的國際編輯委員會成員，也是日本地球科學聯合會（Japan Geoscience Union, JpGU）的研究員。