Kanagawa, K. (1986)　 Early Cretaceous folding and cleavage in the Kitakami Mountains, analysed in the Ofunato terrane.　 Journal of the Geological Society of Japan, 92, 349–370.

Kanagawa, K. (1986)　 Cleavage development around the Iriya granite in the southern Kitakami Mountains.　 Journal of the Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Sec. II, 21, 191–204.

Kanagawa, K. and Yoshida, S. (1988)　 Utility of the orientation tensor method for quantitative representation of preferred orientation of phyllosilicates and amphiboles measured with X-ray texture goniometer.　 Journal of the Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Sec. II, 21, 447–465.

Kanagawa, K. (1990)　 Automated two-dimensional strain analysis from deformed elliptical markers using an image analysis system.　 Journal of Structural Geology, 12, 139–143.

Kanagawa, K. (1991)　 Change in dominant mechanisms for phyllosilicate preferred orientation during cleavage development in the Kitakami slates of NE Japan.　 Journal of Structural Geology, 13, 927–943.

Kanagawa, K. (1993)　 Competence contrasts in ductile deformation as illustrated from naturally deformed chert–mudstone layers.　 Journal of Structural Geology, 15, 865–885.

Kanagawa, K. (1996)　 Simulated pressure fringes, vorticity and progressive deformation.　 In: De Paor, D. G., editor, Structural Geology and Personal Computers, Elsevier Science, Oxford, 259–283.

Furusho, M. and Kanagawa, K. (1999)　 Transformation-induced strain localization in a lherzolite mylonite from the Hidaka metamorphic belt of central Hokkaido, Japan.　 Tectonophysics, 313, 411–432.　 (PDF)

Kanagawa, K., Cox, S. F. and Zhang, S. (2000)　 Effects of dissolution–precipitation processes on the strength and mechanical behavior of quartz gouge at high-temperature hydrothermal conditions.　 Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 11,115–11,126.　 (PDF)

Takanashi, M., Nishizawa, O., Kanagawa, K. and Yasunaga. K. (2001)　 Laboratory measurements of elastic anisotropy parameters for the exposed crustal rocks from the Hidaka Metamorphic Belt, Central Hokkaido, Japan.　 Geophysical Journal International, 145, 33–47.　 (PDF)

Ando, J., Shibata, Y., Oakjima, Y., Kanagawa, K., Furusho M. and Tomioka N. (2001)　 Striped iron zoning of olivine induced by dislocation creep in deformed peridotites.　 Nature, 414, 893–895.　 (PDF)

Kanagawa, K. (2002)　 Frictional behavior of synthetic gouge-bearing faults under the operation of pressure solution.　 Earth, Planets and Space, 54, 1147–1152.　 (PDF)

Tsurumi, J., Hosonuma, H. and Kanagawa, K. (2003)　 Strain localization due to a positive feedback of deformation and myrmekite-forming reaction in granite and aplite mylonites along the Hatagawa Shear Zone of NE Japan.　 Journal of Structural Geology, 25, 557–584.　 (PDF)

Imon, R., Okudaira, T. and Kanagawa, K. (2004)　 Development of shape- and lattice-preferred orientations of amphibole grains during initial cataclastic deformation and subsequent deformation by dissolution–precipitation creep in amphibolites from the Ryoke metamorphic belt, SW Japan.　 Journal of Structural Geology, 26, 793–805.　 (PDF)

Takeshita, T., Ishii, K. and Kanagawa, K. (2005)　 Flow kinematics in the deeper part of a subduction channel, as inferred from inclusion trails in plagioclase porphyroblasts from the Sambagawa metamorphic rocks, south-west Japan.　 Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 23, 279–294.　 (PDF)

Michibayashi, K., Ina, T. and Kanagawa, K. (2006)　 The effect of dynamic recrystallization on olivine fabric and seismic anisotropy: Insight from a ductile shear zone, Oman ophiolite.　 Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 244, 695–708.　 (PDF)