Abstract
The recent progress of late Quaternary shoreline studies in Japan are reviewed. In the first half, outcomes of the estimation of ages and elevations of shorelines during high sea-level stand of the late Pleistocene are exemplified for five localities, Hateruma Island in the Ryukyus, Matsumae Peninsula of Hokkaido, Tanegashima Island to the south of Kyushu, Noto Peninsula in the Japan Sea side of Chubu district, and Muroto Peninsula of southeastern Shikoku. The latter half is a summary, mainly as to the elevation of shorelines of the last interglacial, and gives some informations on younger (isotope stages 5c or 5a) and the penultimate interglacial (isotope stage 7) shorelines in the Japanese Islands. There it is evidenced not only how to confirm the elevation of each shoreline but also how to determine the age of it.
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