摘要：Despite its long tradition, Japanese paleoscience was not well rep-resented in the scientific world until recently. This may be partly due to Japan's geographical location at the eastern rim of the Eurasian continent, far away from the scientific hotspots of Europe and North America. In addi-tion, numerous publications were writ-ten in Japanese and have not yet been translated.To strengthen the contact with the Japanese paleoscience community and to highlight the diversity of Japanese paleoresearch, a PAGES Regional Workshop was held in Nagoya, Japan in 2010, alongside the PAGES Scientific Steering Committee meeting. That workshop resulted in the idea of a dedicated special section of the PAGES newsletter. The following thirteen sci-ence highlights showcase to the global community a cross-section of Japanese contributions to paleoscience
