Kusatsu-Shirane volcano / Вулкан Кусацу-Ширанэ

We would like to thank the authors of the chapters in this book. They have contributed to research phreatic eruptions of Kusatsu–Shirane volcano, monitoring of the unrest from 2014 to 2021, including the phreatic eruption in 2018, and risk management of Kusatsu Town.
We are grateful to the reviewers who provided useful comments on the draft chapters: Takeshi Hasegawa (Ibaraki University, Japan), Masao Ban (Yamagata University, Japan), Wataru Kanda (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), Yoshikazu Kikawada (Sophia University, Japan), Dmitri Rouwet (National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, INGV, Italy), Hiroshi Shinohara (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST, Japan), Antonio Caracausi (INGV, Italy), Yohei Yukutake (University of Tokyo, Japan), Takao Koyama (University of Tokyo, Japan), Takeshi Hashimoto (Hokkaido University, Japan), Yasuhito Jibiki (Tohoku University, Japan), Julie Nootbaar (Oita Prefectural College of Arts and Culture, Japan), and the members of the Plurilingualism and Social Interactions Research Group (Waseda University, Japan).
We thank the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), and Yatsugatake Geo-Electromagnetic Observatory of the Earthquake Research Institute, the University of Tokyo (ERI), for sharing geophysical monitoring data. We thank graduate students of the Geochemistry Research Group of the Department of Chemistry and Department of Materials and Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sophia University, for their efforts in collecting annual geochemical data over fve decades. We are grateful to the Joint Research Team for Ash Fall and Ballistic Ejecta Data from the 2018 Kusatsu–Shirane Eruption for assistance with the feld survey and sample processing <...>