{"id":4717,"date":"2026-04-03T09:55:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imeg.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/?page_id=4717"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:03:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T01:03:39","slug":"past_directors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.imeg.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/past_directors\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"about_obi\">About IMEG<\/div>\n<div class=\"box960\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"box960\"><strong>Past Directors<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"box960\">\n<table style=\"width: 889px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 180.1px;\">Apr 2026 \u2013<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 174.9px;\">Norifumi SHIODA<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 514px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imeg.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/message\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Director&#8217;s message (April 2026)<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 180.1px;\">Apr 2024 &#8211; Mar 2026<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 174.9px;\">Akira NAKAMURA\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 514px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imeg.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/message2024apr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Director&#8217;s message (April 2024)<\/a>\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 180.1px;\">Apr 2020 &#8211; Mar 2024<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 174.9px;\">Hitoshi NIWA<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 514px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imeg.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/message2020apr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Director&#8217;s message (April 2020)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 180.1px;\">Apr 2016 &#8211; Mar 2020<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 174.9px;\">Ryuichi NISHINAKAMURA\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 514px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imeg.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/message2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Fiscal Year\u2019s Greeting -One Year After the Earthquake(Apr 14, 2017)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imeg.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/message2016oct14\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Six Months After the Earthquake (Oct 14, 2016)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imeg.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/message2016jul14\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Three Months After the Earthquake (Jul 14, 2016)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imeg.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/message2016may2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">On the way to restoration (May 2, 2016)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imeg.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/message2016apr25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eleventh day after the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake (Apr 25, 2016)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imeg.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/message2016apr19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">To all IMEG members and supporters (Apr 19, 2016)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imeg.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/message_basic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Be smart. Stay foolish. (Apr 4, 2016)<\/a>\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 180.1px;\">Apr 2010 &#8211; Mar 2016\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 174.9px;\">Mitsuyoshi NAKAO\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 514px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 180.1px;\">Oct 2008 &#8211; Mar 2010\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 174.9px;\">Teru OGURA\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 514px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 180.1px;\">Apr 2008 &#8211; Sep 2008\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 174.9px;\">Tetsuya TAGA\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 514px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 180.1px;\">Apr 2006 &#8211; Sep 2008\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 174.9px;\">Mitsuyoshi NAKAO\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 514px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 180.1px;\">Oct 2001 &#8211; Mar 2006\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 174.9px;\">Tetsuya TAGA\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 514px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 180.1px;\">Apr 2000 &#8211; Sep 2001\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 174.9px;\">Toshio SUDA\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 514px;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About IMEG \u00a0 Past Directors Apr 2026 \u2013 Norifumi SHIODA Director&#8217;s message (April 2026)\u00a0\u00a0 Apr 2024 &#038;#8211 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4717","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imeg.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imeg.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imeg.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imeg.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imeg.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4717"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.imeg.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4736,"href":"https:\/\/www.imeg.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4717\/revisions\/4736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imeg.kumamoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}