Climate of the Past www.clim-past.net 1814-9324 1814-9332 5 1 2009 10.5194/cp-5-13-2009 http://www.clim-past.net/5/13/2009/ http://www.clim-past.net/5/13/2009/cp-5-13-2009.html http://www.clim-past.net/5/13/2009/cp-5-13-2009.pdf 13 19 2009-02-09 Recent climate change in Japan – spatial and temporal characteristics of trends of temperature D. Schaefer Dirk.Schaefer@Uni-Mainz.de M. Domroes Department of Geography, Mainz University, 55099 Mainz, Germany In this paper temperature series of Japan were statistically analysed in order to answer the question whether recent climate change can be proved for Japan; the results were compared and discussed with the global trends. The observations in Japan started for some stations in the 1870s, 59 stations are available since 1901, 136 stations since 1959. 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