1. Malik, J., Shishikura, M., Echigo, T., Ikeda, Y., Satake, K., Kayane, H., Sawai, Y., Murty, C.V.R., Dikshit, O. (2011) Geologic evidence for two pre-2005 earthquakes during recent centuries near Port Blair, South Andaman Island, India. Geology, in press
  2. Horton, B.P., Sawai, Y.Hawkes, A.D., Witter, R.C. (2011) Sedimentology and paleontology of a tsunami deposit accompanying the great Chilean earthquake of February 2010. Marine Micropaleontology, in press
  3. Hawkes, A.D., Horton, B.P., Nelson, A.R., Vane, C.H., Sawai, Y. (2011) Coastal subsidence in Oregon, USA, during the giant Cascadia earthquake of AD 1700. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30, 364-376.
  4. Yamanaka, T., Miyabe, S., Sawai, Y., Shimoyama, S. (2010) Geochemical and diatom evidence of transition from freshwater to marine environments in the Aira Caldera and Kagoshima Bay, Japan, during post-glacial sea-level rise. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 39, 386-395.
  5. Sawai, Y., JankaewCK., Martin, M.E., Choowong, M., Charoentitirat, T., Prendergast, A. (2009) Diatom assemblages in tsunami deposits associated with the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami at Phra Thong Island, Thailand. Marine Micropaleontology, 73, 70-79.
  6. Sawai, Y., Kamataki, T., Shishikura, M., Nasu, H., Okamura, Y., Satake, K., Thomson, K.H., Matsumoto, D., Fujii, Y., Komatsubara, J., Aung, T.T. (2008): Aperiodic recurrence of geologically recorded tsunamis during the past 5500 years in eastern Hokkaido , Japan . Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2007JB005503
  7. KruawunCJ., Atwater, B.F., Sawai, Y., Choowong, M., Charoentitirat, T., Martin, M.E., Prendergast, A. (2008) Medieval forewarning of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Thailand. Nature, 455, 1228-1231
  8. Sawai, Y., Fujii, Y., Fujiwara, O., Kamataki, T., Komatsubara, J., Okamura, Y., Satake, K., Shishikura, M. (2008) Marine incursions of the past 1500 years and evidence of tsunamis at Suijin-numa, a coastal lake facing the Japan Trench. The Holocene, 18, 517-528.
  9. Komatsubara, J., Fujiwara, O., Takada, K., Sawai, Y., Aung, T.T. (2008) Historical tsunamis and storms recorded in coastal lowland deposits along the Nankai Trough southwestern Japan. Sedimentology, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2008.00964.x
  10. Nelson, A.R., Sawai, Y., Jennings, A., Bradley, L., Sherrod, B., Sabean, J., Horton, B.P. (2007) Great-earthquake paleogeodesy and tsunamis of the past 2000 years at Alsea Bay, central Oregon coast, USA. Quaternary Science Reviews, 27, 747-768.
  11. Kelsey, H., Satake, K., Sawai, Y., Sherrod, B., Shimokawa, K., Shishikura, M. (2006) Recurrence of Postseismic Coastal Uplift, Kuril Subduction Zone, Japan. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L13315, doi:10.1029/2006GL026052.
  12. Satake, K., Aung, T.T., Sawai, Y., Okamura, Y., Win, K.S., Swe, W., Swe, C., Swe, T.L., Tun, S.T., Soe, M.M., Oo, T.Z., Zaw, S.H. (2006) Tsunami heights and damage along the Myanmar coast from the December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake. Earth Planets Space 58(2), 243-252.[no abstract]
  13. Sawai, Y., Nagumo, T., Toyoda, K. (2005) Three extant species of Paralia (Bacillariophyceae) along the coast of Japan. Phycologia, 44(5), 517-529. [no abstract]
  14. Cisternas, M., Atwater, B.F., Torrejon, F., Sawai, Y., Machuca, G., Lagos, M., Eipert, A., Youlton, C., Salgado, I., Kamataki, T., Shishikura, M., Rajendran, C.P., Malik, J.K., Rizal, Y., Husni, M. (2005 in press) Predecessors of the giant 1960 Chile earthquake. Nature, 437, 404-407. [no abstract]
  15. Sawai, Y., Nagumo, T., Toyoda, K. (2005) Three extant species of Paralia (Bacillariophyceae) along the coast of Japan. Phycologia 44(5), 517-529
  16. Sawai, Y., Nasu, H. (2005) A 4500-year record of emergence events at Onnetoh , Hokkaido , northern Japan , reconstructed using plant macrofossils. Marine Geology, 217 (1-2), 49-65 [abstract]
  17. Sawai, Y., K. Satake, T. Kamataki, H. Nasu, M. Shishikura, B.F. Atwater, B.P. Horton, H. Kelsey, T. Nagumo and M. Yamaguchi (2004) Transient uplift after a 17th-century earthquake along the Kuril subduction zone. Science, 306, 1918-1920.
  18. Atwater , B.F., Furukawa, R., Hemphill-Haley, E., Ikeda, Y., Kashima, K., Kawase, K., Kelsey, H.M., Moore , A.L., Nanayama, F., Nishimura, Y., Odagiri, S., Ota, Y., Park, S., Satake, K., Sawai, Y., Shimokawa, K. (2004) Seventeenth-century uplift in eastern Hokkaido , Japan . The Holocene, 14, 489-501.[no abstract]
  19. Sawai, Y., Horton, B.P., Nagumo, T. (2004) Diatom-based elevation transfer function along the Pacific coast of eastern Hokkadio, northern Japan -an aid in paleo-seismic study along the coasts near Kurile subduction zone. Quaternary Science Reviews, 23, 2467-2483 [abstract]
  20. Sawai, Y. (2002) Evidence for 17th century tsunamis generated on the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone, Lake Tokotan, Hokkaido, Japan. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 20, 903-911. [abstract]
  21. Sawai Y., Nasu H. and Yasuda Y. (2002) Fluctuations in relative sea-levels during the past 3000 years at the Onnetoh estuary, Hokkaido , northern Japan . Journal of Quaternary Sciences, 17, 607-622. [no abstract]
  22. Sawai Y. (2001) Episodic emergence in the past 3000 years at the Akkeshi estuary, Hokkaido , northern Japan . Quaternary Research, 56, 231-241. [abstract]
  23. Sawai Y. (2001) Distribution of living and dead diatoms in tidal wetlands of northern Japan : relations to taphonomy. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 173, 125-141. [abstract]
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