Degree programs I did not get into

• 2003 Kyoto Univ. faculty science
• 2004 Kyoto Univ. faculty engineering
• 2006 Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering, Tohoku University.

Academic positions and fellowships I did not get

• 2015 USGS Mendenhall Research Fellowship Program
• 2017 ERL, MIT Research Scientist

Research grant I did not get

• 2015 JSPS Kakenhi Wakete B

# Paper rejection from academic journals

• 2020 Scientific reports, EPSL
• 2019 Science Advances
• 2019 Science
• 2019 Nature communication (twice)
• 2018 Nature/Nature Geoscience
• 2017 Tectonophysics
• 2016 
• 2015 Geophysical Research Letters
• 2014 Geophysical Research Letters, Geophysical Journal of International, Seismological Research Letters