We would like to extend our heartfelt congratulations to Professor Satoshi Ōmura for being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2015). He served as Editor-in-Chief for The Journal of Antibiotics from 2004 to 2013 and continues to support the journal’s development as Editor-in-Chief Emeritus. We feel honored to work with him and would like to express our deepest gratitude for his contributions, as always.

2017 is a special year for The Journal of Antibiotics, marking its 70th anniversary. As Editor-in-Chief, I will endeavor to maintain the journal’s high quality standards, which will only be possible with the great collaboration of Section Editors, Editorial Board Members, Emeritus Members, Authors, and Reviewers.

Editor-in-Chief wishes to thank all the following Reviewers who provided their generous support by reviewing papers received from October 2015 to August 2016.

Abe, Akio

Adachi, Hayamitsu

Ahn, Jong Seog

Ajito, Keiichi

Allemann, Rudolf

Amagai, Keita

Ambler, Jane Elizabeth

Anderson, Donald C.

Ando, Katsuhiko

Anke, Timm

Anzai, Yojiro

Arai, Masayoshi

Arimoto, Hirokazu

Asai, Teigo

Asami, Yukihiro

Baltz, Richard H.

Bennett, Clay

Bérdy, Janos

Blunt, John Wilson

Boddy, Christopher N.

Bradford, Patricia

Burkart, Michael D.

Bush, Karen

Butaye, Patrick

Butler, Mark S.

Buyck, Julien

Ceccarelli, Matteo

Cheng, Yuan-Rong

Cheung, Gordon Yiu Chong

Chida, Noritaka

Clark, Kay

Cozzi, Franco

Dairi, Tohru

Dalhoff, Axel

Davies, Christopher

Dawson, Mike

Demain, Arnold L.

Dhar, Neeraj

Doi, Takayuki

Dougherty, Thomas John

Duffy, Erin

Dunlap, Christopher

Dyson, Paul

Eguchi, Tadashi

Elasri, Mohamed

Esteban, Jaime

Falgenhauer, Linda

Fenical, William

Fernandes, Prabhavathi B.

Field, Robert

Flieger, Miroslav

Fujii, Isao

Fujimaki, Takahiro

Fujiwara, Yukio

Fukazawa, Hidesuke

Fukuda, Takashi

Funa, Nobutaka

Futamura, Yushi

Garneau-Tsodikova, Sylvie

Gonoi, Tohru

Gu, Jian-qiao

Guo, Jiantao

Hagihara, Mao

Hamada, Moriyuki

Hamamoto, Hiroshi

Hamano, Yoshimitsu

Hardy, Dwight

Hattori, Akira

Hayakawa, Ichiro

Hayakawa, Masayuki

Hayakawa, Yoichi

Hecker, Scott

Herczegh, Pál

Hino, Motohiro

Hitora, Yuki

Hoffman, Paul S.

Horwith, Gary

Hosokawa, Seijiro

Hotta, Kunimoto

Huang, Liang H.

Huigens, Robert

Hussain, Muzaffa

Ichinose, Koji

Igarashi, Yasuhiro

Ikeda, Haruo

Ikeda, Kiyoshi

Imoto, Masaya

Inokoshi, Junji

Inoue, Yoshihiro

Ishibashi, Masami

Ito, Akihiro

Iwasaki, Arihiro

Jang, Jae-Hyuk

Jayamani, Elamparithi

Jennings, Jessica

Kaatz, Glenn

Kadlec, Kristina

Kakeya, Hideaki

Kan, Toshiyuki

Kanemoto, Kenichi

Kanoh, Naoki

Karaffa, Levente

Kashimura, Masato

Kato, Naoki

Katoh, Tadashi

Kawada, Manabu

Keatinge-Clay, Adrian

Kersten, Roland D.

Khatuya, Hari

Kim, Seungbum

Kim, Won-Gon

Kimura, Ken-ichi

Kimura, Kouji

Kinashi, Haruyasu

King, Bruce

Kirst, Herbert A.

Kita, Masaki

Kobayashi, Jun'ichi

Komaki, Hisayuki

Koshino, Hiroyuki

Kotoku, Naoyuki

Koyama, Nobuhiro

Krause, David

Kuo, Ming-Shang

Kurisawa, Motoichi

Kuzuyama, Tomohisa

Kwon, Ho Jeong

Laatsch, Hartmut

Labeda, Dean P.

Leahy, James W.

Lepak, Alexander

Li, Wen-Jun

Littlefield, Bruce A.

Loh, Evan

Matsui, Hidehito

Matsumoto, Atsuko

McAlpine, James B.

Miao, Vivian

Miki, Tsuyoshi

Miller, Marvin J.

Minami, Atsushi

Misra, Rajeev

Miyoshi, Hideto

Mizukami, Tamio

Moellmann, Ute

Momose, Isao

Mori, Mihoko

Müller, Rolf

Muramatsu, Hideyuki

Nagarajan, Saisubramanian

Nakano, Hirofumi

Napolitano, Jose G.

Nash, Claude H.

Nennniger, Ashley

Nishimura, Shinichi

Nogawa, Toshihiko

Oberlies, Nicholas

Ohno, Hiroaki

Ohno, Osamu

Ohyoshi, Takayuki

Oikawa, Hideaki

Olsufyeva, Evgenia N.

O'Maille, Paul

Onaka, Hiroyasu

Opperman, Timothy

Osada, Hiroyuki

Paulvannan, Kumar

Pearce, Cedric

Peters, Reuben J.

Philmus, Benjamin

Potterat, Olivier

Pradeep, Lovy

Price, Lance

Pushkin, Richard

Rahman, Moazur

Rainier, Jon Douglas

Rentier, Cédric

Rigouts, Leen

Robison, Keith

Roemer, Terry

Rutjes, Floris

Saikawa, Yoko

Sajiki, Hironao

Sakoulas, George

Sarpong, Richmond

Sasaki, Kazushige

Sato, Mitsunobu

Sato, Tsutomu

Seki, Atsushi

Shen, Ben

Shigemori, Hideyuki

Shindo, Kazutoshi

Shin-ya, Kazuo

Shiomi, Kazuro

Shoji, Mitsuru

Silver, Lynn

Simmler, Charlotte

Simões, Manuel

Singh, Sheo B.

Sorg, Joseph

Sterner, Olov

Strayer, Andrew

Suenaga, Kiyotake

Sugawara, Akihiro

Sugimoto, Tomohiro

Sunazuka, Toshiaki

Sutcliffe, Joyce

Suzuki, Ken-ichi

Takada, Kentaro

Takahashi, Daisuke

Takahashi, Shunji

Takahashi, Yoshikazu

Takao, Ken-Ichi

Takasu, Kiyosei

Takemoto, Yasushi

Tamura, Atsushi

Tamura, Tomohiko

Tanaka, Hiroshi

Tatsuda, Daisuke

Taylor, Dean P.

Tokuyama, Hidetoshi

Tomoda, Hiroshi

Tor, Yitzhak

Toshima, Kazunobu

Townsend, Craig Arthur

Toyomasu, Tomonobu

Trenin, Alexey S.

Tsunematsu, Yuta

Uchida, Ryuji

Ueda, Kenji

Ueki, Masashi

Usui, Takeo

Van Bambeke, Françoise

Van Lanen, Steven Gary

Venugopalan, Vayalam P.

Vidaillac, Céline

Viveiros, Miguel

Watanabe, Kenji

Wright, Gerard D.

Wrigley, Stephen K.

Yagisawa, Morimasa

Yamada, Ken-ichi

Yamamura, Hideki

Yang, Soo-Jin

Yao, Raymond C.

Yoshia, Minoru

Yoshinari, Tomohiro

Zhu, Jieping