The Third International Metasequoia Symposium Final Circular

August 3 to 8, 2010,

Financially supported by Tokyo Club Expo '90 Foundation Commemorative Organization for the Japan World Exposition „70

Supported and Cooperated by Japanese Association of Historical Botany The Botanical Gardens, Tohoku University Osaka Museum of Natural History Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University Kinki branch of Geological Society of Japan Lake Biwa Museum Mizunami Fossil Museum Nagai Botanical Garden, Osaka

■Organizing committee Mitsuo SUZUKI, Secretary-in-General (Tohoku University, Sendai) Minoru TSUKAGOSHI, Vice Secretary-in-General and Symposium (Osaka Museum of Natural History, Osaka) Akira TAKAHASHI, Finance (University of Hyogo, Sanda) Kazuhiko UEMURA, Program (National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo) Harufumi NISHIDA, Program (Chuo University, Tokyo) Ben A. LePAGE, Program (PECO Energy Company, Philadelphia) Christopher J. WILLIAMS, Program (Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster) Jinshuang MA, Program (Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden) Shuichi NOSHIRO, Proceedings and Abstract (Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), Tsukuba) Atsushi OKUBO, Symposium (Osaka City University, Osaka) Mutsuhiko MINAKI, Symposium (University of Marketing and Distribution Sciences, Kobe, President of Japanese Association of Historical Botany) Arata MOMOHARA, Excursion (Chiba University, Matsudo) Motonari OHYAMA, Accountant (Tohoku University, Sendai) Kiyoaki SAITO, Advisor (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto) ■VENUE Osaka Museum of Natural History (OMNH) Nagai Park 1-23 , Higashi-Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, 546-0034, Japan Phone +81-6-6697-6221 FAX +81-6-6697-6225 http://www.mus-nh.city.osaka.jp/english/index.html

■CONFERENCE PROGRAM August 3 (Tuesday) 13:00-17:00 Registration at Osaka Museum of Natural History (OMNH) 18:00-20:00 Welcome Reception at OMNH August 4 (Wednesday) 09:00- Registration at OMNH 09:30-10:00 Opening at OMNH Opening address 10:00-12:05 Oral Session at OMNH 13:30-15:35 Oral Session at OMNH 15:40-17:00 Poster Session at OMNH 18:50-21:00 Dinner Party (river cruising on a Japanese traditional boat) August 5 (Thursday) 09:30-11:35 Oral Session at OMNH 13:00-15:05 Oral Session at OMNH 15:35-17:40 Oral Session at OMNH 17:40-18:00 Closing at OMNH August 6 (Friday) 07:40 Meeting at the AOTS Kansai Kenshu Center (http://www.aots.or.jp/eng/about/center/facilities_kkc.html). 08:00 Departure for Field Excursion by chartered bus (Please see the page of excursion for minute schedule) August 8 (Sunday) 19:30 Arrival to the AOTS Kansai Kenshu Center

■REGISTRATION Although the informed registration deadline (June 1) was passed, we can still now accept symposium participant. Please get the registration form from page of the second circular and send it to secretary of the International Metasequoia Symposium. Dinner: closed. Excursion: closed.

How you can arrive to OMNH and AOTS? ■ACCESS TO VENUE AND ACCOMMODATION OMNH; Osaka Museum of Natural History AOTS; The Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship, Kansai Kenshu center

From Kansai International Airport to Nagai station (Fig.1) Please take “rapid” or “express” train for Namba by Nankai Line (do not use JR line for convenience) at Kansai International Airport station, and transfer from Nankai Line to Subway Midosuji Line for Nakamozu at . If you want to go OMNH, please get off at Nagai station. If you want to go AOTS, please get off at Abiko station that is the next of Nagai station.

Fig. 1 Access map from Kansai International Airport to OMNH and AOTS

(time required) ・From Kansai International Airport to Namba by Nankai line; about 50 minutes. ・Transfer at Namba station from Nankai Line to subway Midosuji Line: about 10 minutes (Fig.2). ・From Namaba station to Nagai station by subway; about 15 minutes. ・From Nagai station to Abiko station by subway; about 1 minute.

Fig. 2 Route from Nankai Line to Subway Midosuji Line, at Namba St.

From Nagai station to OMNH (Fig.3) OMNH is located within the Nagai Park. Please take exit No.1 or No.3 at Nagai station. Walk about 800m in accordance with the sign ''3rd International Metasequoia Symposium''. You can enter OMNH not from public entrance but from the entrance for museum staff.

Fig. 3 Route map from Nagai St. to OMNH From Abiko station to AOTS Kansai Kenshu Center (Fig.4) Please take Elevator or exit No.3 at Abiko station. From Abiko Station 5 min. by Taxi (about 700JPY), or 10min. walk on foot (about 600m).

Fig. 4 Route map from Abiko St. to AOTS Kansai Kenshu Center

(Notice!) Please remember that Osaka will be very hot look like as a tropical area in August. Therefore, it is not recommended to carry big luggage from Nagai station to OMNH. You will be better firstly check-in AOTS, and then visit OMNH for registration. ■ACCOMMODATION AOTS (The Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship) Kansai Kenshu Center Asaka 1-7-5, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, 558-0021，JAPAN Tel: + 81-6-6608-8260 (Reception) Fax: + 81-6-6690-2678 E-mail: kkcreservation#aots.or.jp URL: http://www.aots.or.jp/eng/about/center/facilities_kkc.html

(Caution!!: Please change # to @ in sending your e-mail.)

■ABSTRACTS For the instruction of Abstracts, please see the page “ABSTRACTS FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS” in the second circular. The deadline for submission of Abstracts is July 1, 2010.

■PROCEEDINGS (New!) The proceedings of the symposium will be published within a year. Its instruction will be given by the chief editor (Dr. NOSHIRO, FFPRI) at the symposium venue. Registration participant will get each one copy without charge.

■ FIELD EXCURSION Neogene fossil sites and Chamaecyparis forest in central Japan. August 6 - 8 Organizers: Arata MOMOHARA (Chief, CHIBA Chiba University), Chiyomi YAMAKAWA (Lake Biwa Museum), Takeshi SAITO (Meijo University), Minoru TSUKAGOSHI (Osaka Museum of Natural History)

Schedule August 6 (Friday) 07:40 Meeting at the AOTS Kansai Kenshu Center 08:00 Departure by chartered bus 10:30 Arrival to the Lake Biwa Museum at Kusatsu, Shiga Prefecture, and an exhibition of a Pleistocene Metasequoia forest in the Kobiwako Group 11:30 Lunch 13:00 Observation on plant fossil collections of the museum 14:00 Departure from the museum 14:40 Arrival to Yoshinaga site, Konan, Shiga Prefecture, and observation on the Late Pliocene Yoshinaga fossil Metasequoia forest 15:50 Departure from the Yoshinaga site 17:50 Arrival to Hotel Harmonie Terrasse in Gifu, Gifu Prefecture 18:40 Dinner in the hotel

August 7 (Saturday) 07:00 Breakfast in the hotel 08:00 Departure from the hotel 09:00 Arrival to the Minokamo Fossil Forest Park, Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, and observation on the Early Miocene Petrified Forest dominated by Wataria, Sterculiaceae 09:30 Departure the park 10:20 Arrival to the early Late Miocene carpological site of the Tokiguchi Porcelain Clay Formation at the Hishiya Opencast Mine, Tajimi, Gifu Prefecture 11:40 Departure for Mizunami, Gifu Prefecture 12:20 Arrival and lunch at Mizunami Geoscience Center 13:20 Observation on Miocene fossil collection of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 15:00 Departure from the museum 17:00 Arrival to Hotel Kyorai-So in Akasawa Natural Forest Park, Nagano Prefecture 18:30 Dinner in the hotel

August 8 (Sunday) 07:00 Breakfast in the hotel 08:00 Hiking in Chamaecyparis obtusa and C. pisifera forest of Akasawa Natural Forest Park 09:50 Departure for Tsumago, Nakatsugawa, Nagano Prefecture 12:00 Lunch, street watching and traditional souvenir shopping at Tsumago, a preserved and restored Shukuba town (an old post station) in Nakasendo Route from Edo (old Tokyo) to Kusatsu (near Kyoto) 14:00 Leaving Tsumago 19:30 Arrival to the AOTS Kansai Kenshu Center