Tetsuo Takashima

Tetsuo Takashima (高嶋 哲夫 Takashima Tetsuo, born July 7, 1949) is a popular contemporary Japanese author active in a number of genres that include science fiction, mystery fiction, historical fiction, social commentary, and juvenile fiction.

Biography

• 1949 Okayama Birth
• 1973 Keio University Faculty-of-Technology Graduation
• 1975 Keio University Graduate School Engineering Graduate Course Master Course End
• 1975 Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute Research Worker
• 1978 University of California Studying Abroad

• 1978 article was carried by "Scientific Instruments vol.49"(a publication of the American Institute of Physics).

The title of the article was : Drive characteristics of a fast movable limiter in the JT-60 tokamak T.Takashima, M.Ohta, and M.Shimizu Division of Large Tokamak Development, Tokai Establishment, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken, Japan. (received 26 August 1977; in final form, 17 October 1977) A Pair of fast-scting movable limiters are to be installed in the vacuum chamber of the JT-60 tokamak being designed at JAERI.Their purpose is to supperss skin current in the plasma column.They should traval across are vacuum chamnber over a stroke of about 1 m in 0.1 s during the built-up phase of the plasma current. Each movable limiter system consists of the drive system, a vacuum seal, a bearing usable at hgh temperature in a vacuum, and a molybdenum rail limiter head. For the drive a hydraulic mechanism is used with servovalves to control the oil flow. To develop satisfactory movable limiters for JT-60, the full-scale model was constructed and tested. Overall tets with the model showed high reliability, reproducibility, controllability, and safety of the movable limiter. The drive pattern measured is in good agreement with that simulated. The movable limiters should prevent the skin effect of plasma current in the current rising phase and also provide information on particle diffusion during the flat-top phase of plasma current.

• 1995 Japanese Inference Writer Association Member
• 2000 Japan Writer's Association Member
• 2001 National Coaching School Cooperative Society Director
• 2007 Filmize "Midnight Eagle" (Shochiku-Universal Pictures) reviewed by Matt Zoller Seitz in The NewYork Times (23 November 2007)).

Prize

• 1979 Atomic Energy Society of Japan Technical Prize
• 1990 Yasushi Inoue & North Japan Literary Prize " Kikoku(帰国,Homecoming) "
• 1994 Shosetsu gendai Inference Newcomer Prize " Meltdown "
• 1999 Suntory Mystery Grand-prix, Grand-prix, and Reader Prize " Intruder"
• 2006 Iue Cultural prize

Works

• 1982 " America No Gakko Seikatsu(アメリカの学校生活,U.S. School Life) "
• 1984 " California No Akane-chan(カリフォルニアのあかねちゃん,My Akane of California) "
• 1999 " Intruder "
• 1999 " Spica "
• 2000 " Dirty you "
• 2000 " Midnight eagle "
• 2000 " Juku Wo Gakko Ni(塾を学校に,It is to a school about a private school) "(Collaboration)
• 2000 " Friends "
• 2000 " Meifu No Toriko(冥府の虜,The captive of hell)"
• 2001 " Petro bacteria Wo Oe(ペトロバクテリアを追え,Petro bacteria can be followed.) "
• 2001 " Truman's letter "
• 2001 " Kouritsu Gakko Ga Nakunaru(公立学校がなくなる,A public school dies) "(Collaboration)
• 2001 " Tocho Bakuha(都庁爆破,Metropolitan Government Office blasting) "
• 2002 " Inochi No Idenshi(命の遺伝子,The Gene of Life) "
• 2002 " Afugan No Kaze(アフガンの風,The Wind of Afghanistan) "
• 2003 " Meltdown "
• 2003 " Kyoko Kinyu(虚構金融,The False Finance) "
• 2004 " M8 "
• 2005 " TSUNAMI "
• 2005 " M8 " (Comic by Shinji Hiramatsu)
• 2005 " Kyodai Jishin No Ato Ni Osottekita Koto(巨大地震の後に襲ってきたこと,Be attacked by Huge Earthquake) "
• 2006 " Kyodai Jishin No Hi(巨大地震の日,A day of Huge Earthquake) "
• 2006 " Animato " (Comic by Takanori Yasaka)
• 2008 " Firefly "
• 2008 " Jemini No Hakobune(ジェミニの方舟,Jemini's Ark) "
• 2009 " Kaze Wo Tsukamaete(風をつかまえて,Catch The Wind) "
• 2009 " Tsuiseki(追跡,Chase) "
• 2009 " Ran-shin(乱神,The Wild God) "
• 2010 " Tanabota(タナボタ) "
• 2010 " Shuto Kansen(首都感染,The Pandemic) "