The Editors and Editorial Board Members are deeply grateful to the consultants listed below for their reviews of manuscripts from October 23, 2017, to October 30, 2018. The reviewers’ generous guidance and recommendations are invaluable for us to maintain our journal’s high standards of professionalism and quality and, most importantly, for the satisfaction and respect of our reading audience.

Arakawa, Mamoru

Abe, Yusuke

Akiyama, Masatoshi

Anai, Hirofumi

Ando, Masahiko

Ando, Ryoichi

Aokage, Toshiyuki

Baba, Shunsuke

Eguchi, Yutaka

Feng, Zhonggang

Firstenberg, Michael

Fuchimoto, Yasushi

Fujita, Tomoyuki

Fujiwara, Tatsuki

Fukuda, Makoto

Fukui, Toshihiro

Fukunaga, Kazuyoshi

Furukawa, Hiroshi

Furuzono, Tsutomu

Galli, Francesco

Haruguchi, Hiroaki

Hasegawa, Masahiro

Hata, Hiroki

Hibiya, Makoto

Higuchi, Chieko

Hiramatsu, Yuji

Hirata, Isao

Hirata, Mitsuhi

Hoshiba, Takashi

Hoshino, Masami

Ichiba, Shingo

Ichikawa, Hajime

Iguchi, Atsushi

Ijima, Hiroyuki

Isoyama, Takashi

Ito, Hiroshi

Iwasaki, Kiyotaka

Izumi, Yuichi

Janz, Viktor

Kakinoki, Sachiro

Kambe, Yusuke

Kanda, Keiichi

Kashiwa, Koichi

Kawaharada, Nobuyoshi

Kawahito, Koji

Kawanishi, Hideki

Kawasaki, Taku

Kimura, Mitsutoshi

Kimura, Tsuyoshi

Kinoshita, Osamu

Kinugawa, Koichiro

Kishida, Akio

Kitamura, Makoto

Kokubo, Kenichi

Komura, Makoto

Lee, WooSurng

Mahara, Atsushi

Maruyama, Osamu

Masakane, Ikuto

Masuzawa, Toru

Matsuda, Kenichi

Matsumine, Akihiko

Matsumoto, Kazuo

Mineshima, Michio

Mitamura, Yoshinori

Miyagawa, Shigeru

Miyasaka, Takehiro

Mizuno, Toshihide

Momose, Naoki

Moriguchi, Takeshi

Morita, Shigeki

Myoui, Akira

Nakada, Taka-aki

Nakamura, Naoko

Nakasone, Satoshi

Nakazawa, Yasumoto

Narita, Yuji

Nawata, Kan

Negishi, Jun

Nishida, Hiroshi

Nishida, Masahiro

Nishimura, Kazunobu

Nishimura, Motonobu

Nishimura, Takashi

Nishinaka, Tomohiro

Noda, Kentaro

Ochiai, Yoshie

Oda, Shigeto

Ogura, Takayuki

Ohata, Toshihiro

Ohshimo, Shinichiro

Okamoto, Eiji

Ono, Minoru

Orihashi, Kazumasa

Oshima, Hideki

Peek, Giles

Saito, Satoshi

Saito, Shunsuke

Sakaguchi, Taichi

Sakai, Takashi

Sakakibara, Shunsuke

Sakata, Naoaki

Sato, Koichi

Sezai, Akira

Shiba, Mariko

Shiga, Hidetoshi

Shiiya, Norihiko

Shime, Nobuaki

Shimizu, Keiki

Shiose, Akira

Sonoda, Hiromichi

Stronks, H Christiaan

Sudo, Akihiro

Sugano, Nobuhiko

Sumikura, Hirohito

Takaseya, Tohru

Takemasa, Ryuichi

Takewa, Yoshiaki

Tanaka, Akira

Tanoue, Yoshihisa

Tatsumi, Eisuke

Tayama, Eiki

Toda, Koichi

Togo, Konomi

Tokuhashi, Yasuaki

Tokunaga, Shigehiko

Tomo, Tadashi

Tsukiya, Tomonori

Usui, Akihiko

Yamamoto, Masaya

Yambe, Tomoyuki

Yano, Tetsuya

Yoshikawa, Yasushi

Yoshimi, Yasuo