• Kawaguchi, K., Oh, C.W., Jeong, J.W., Furusho, M., Shibata, S., Hayasaka, Y., 2023. Zircon U–Pb ages and Lu–Hf isotopes of the Jurassic Granites on the east coast of the Korean Peninsula and Southwest Japan: Petrogenesis and tectonic correlation between the Korean Peninsula and Japanese Islands. Gondwana Research. 117, 56–85. DOI
   
• Kawaguchi, K., Oh, C.W., Jeong, J.W., 2023. Geochemistry, zircon U–Pb ages and Lu–Hf isotopes of Triassic plutons in the eastern Gyeonggi Massif, Korean Peninsula: Magma genesis and geodynamic implications for East Asia. Lithos, 436–437, 106955. DOI
   
• Kawaguchi, K., Hayasaka, Y., Shibata, T., Komatsu, M., Kimura, K., Das, K., 2020. Discovery of Paleozoic rocks at northern margin of Sambagawa terrane, eastern Kyushu, Japan: Petrogenesis, U–Pb geochronology and its tectonic implication. Geoscience Frontiers, 11, 1441–1459. DOI

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Dr. Kenta Kawaguchi was born in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. He received his B.S. (2013) and M.S. (2015) in Earth and Planetary Systems Science from Hiroshima University. He then joined OYO Corporation in Tokyo. In 2017, driven by his desire to pursue research, he returned to Hiroshima University to pursue his Ph.D. and earned his Ph.D. in 2020. He subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Jeonbuk National University (South Korea) and as a JSPS Research Fellow (PD) at 
Kyushu University. Dr. Kawaguchi returned to Hiroshima University in 2024 and has held his current position since then.

The present-day Japanese Islands are thought to have formed approximately 15–20 million years ago, when the opening of the Japan Sea rifted “proto-Japan” away from continental Asia. To investigate the origin of proto-Japan relative to the Asian margin, Dr. Kawaguchi collects and analyzes Jurassic rocks from key localities in Japan and South Korea. These data help constrain which segment of the Asian continental margin proto-Japan was connected to before the Japan Sea opened. Dr. Kawaguchi also studies the Median Tectonic Line (MTL), one of Japan's major fault systems, which marks a fundamental boundary between tectonic units in the Japanese Islands. By comparing rock records from the Japanese Islands and continental Asia, he aims to propose a geological model for the origin and tectonic evolution of proto-Japan within the framework of plate tectonics—an area for which no consensus reconstruction currently exists.