Division (1962-63) and Head of the Ship Dynamics Division (1963-69), then Deputy 
General Director (1969-72) and finally Director-General of the Ship Research Institute 
(1972-73), Ministry of Transport in Tokyo, Japan. He joined Mitsui Engineering and 
Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. as Senior Deputy Director, advancing to Technical Director upon 
his retirement in 1983. He contributed to the construction and organization of a new 
research laboratory, and was the first General Manager of the Akishima Laboratory of 
Mitsui from 1975 to his retirement in 1983. He was Professor at the College of Science 
and Technology (1982-89) of Nihon University in Tokyo, Japan. 
Dr. Yamanouchi has had a long and distinguished scientific career, with pioneering 
publications on ship dynamics, ocean waves and stochastic processes. He is no stranger 
to the United States, having done research at the Davidson Laboratory of Stevens Insti- 
tute of Technology from 1957-60 and having served as Visiting Professor at the U.S. 
Naval Academy during 1984-85. We are most honored that he agreed to be a David W. 
Taylor Lecturer. 
