Papers

Relation between surface failure of granite hillside slope and plant communities

Yasuhiko TANOKUCHI, Yasuo NAKANO and Asako ICHISAWA 3

The processes of erosion and sediment discharge at the Yue river in Unzen volcano

Yukiyoshi TERAMOTO, Etsuro SHIMOKAWA and Takashi JITOUSONO 15

Technical Reports

A method of runoff analysis considering the effect of forest-An application of storage function method-

Hideo KATO and Ryosuke UENO 26

The sediment disasters occurred in Southern Leyte of the Philippines in December 2003

Wataru SAKURAI, Toshiyuki KANO, Hiroshi TSUDA, Dolores M. HIPOLITO,Michael T. ALPASAN and Grecile Christopher R. DAMO 33

Sediment]related disasters in Kisawa]Village and Kaminaka]Town in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, induced by the heavy rainfall of the Typhoon Namtheun in 2004 (prompt report)

Hiromasa HIURA, Masahiro KAIBORI, Akira SUEMINE, Yoshifumi SATOFUKA and Daizo TSUTSUMI 39

Sediment related disasters caused by typhoon Meari (T 0421) in Miyagawa village, Mie prefecture on September 29, 2004 (prompt report)

Setsuo HAYASHI, Satoshi TSUCHIYA, Kanji KONDO, Hirofumi SHIBANO, Shinya NUMAMOTO, Ken'ichirou KOSUGI, Takao YAMAKOSHI and Akihiko IKEDA 48

Research Notes

Experimental study on a estimating method for velocity of debris flow in bending curves

Hideaki MIZUNO 56

Freeze]thaw resistance and use of poor quality construction material

Kazuki MATSUMURA, Keita HIGUCHI and Yoshihiro IWAMOTO 60

Sabo dams with shutters and shutter operating information system

Takahisa MIZUYAMA 66