IISEE Newsletter
October 30 2015
Number 126

In This Issue IISEE Welcomes 21
Participants from 11Countries
 Visit to Edo-Tokyo
Museum and Honjo
Life Safety LearningCenter New Participants

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IISEE Welcomes 21 Participants from 11 Countries
By Mr. Takashi Yamashita, Head of IISEE Administration Division
The IISEE opening ceremony of the 2015-2016 training course was held at JICA
Tsukuba from 16:00 to 16:30 on Tuesday, October 6. They are 6 participants ofSeismology Course, 11 participants of Earthquake Engineering Course and 4participants of Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Course. For most of them it is thefirst time to come to Japan, but there are some participants who had finishedanother course at IISEE and came back to Japan for the second time.
At the ceremony, Mr. Katsuhiko Haga,
Director
GeneralofJICA
Tsukuba
International Center made an opening
address. Next, Dr. Yuzo Sakamoto, BRI
President made a welcome speech. He told
the new participants that the BRI has been
conducting the training program over 50
years and he still felt sympathy with thepeople suffered from earthquakes andtsunamis. He hoped that they would learn
Dr. Sakamoto, President of BRI
how people in the devastated areas lives aswell as natural disasters themselves. And, Dr. Shoichi Ando, Professor ofNational Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) delivered an welcoming
address. After that, each participant made self-introduction. Lastly, as therepresentative of the participants, Mr. Ashish GUPTA from India gave anaddress in reply.
Thanks to the cooperation by their respective governments concerned and JICA
offices, 22 candidates from 11 countries applied for the IISEE training programthis year.
Finally 21
participants
from11countries have come overto Japan.
Including the new oneyear course participants,
the number of the oneyear course participants is
1,142 from 81 countries.
Counting this course, theparticipantsofIISEE
training
programare
1,724 from 100 countries
altogether.

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Visit to Edo-Tokyo Museum and Honjo Life Safety
Learning Center, October 9, 2015
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Oct. 9th we have visited the Tokyo Low
Land,
socalled
Shita-machiinJapanese. Our first destination was theEdo-Tokyo Museum, where we canknow the history from 17th century till
today of Tokyo. Its ancient name was
Edo in the Shogunate period (1603 to1868). After taking lunch in Yokoami-cho
Park we moved to the Life Safety
Learning Center, so called Honjo-BosaiDr. Yokoi and Participants
Kan in Japanese and had the experiencesof strong ground motion, evacuationfrom submerged vehicle, firefighting andheavy storm.
On the way back, we could enjoy theincredible scene of Tokyo Sky Tree atpoint-blank range. This was the first visit
to Tokyo after theopening of thetraining
courseforthecourse
participants. I hope that all participants
can enjoy their stay in Tsukuba and also
can utilize this chance to grade-up theirskills and knowledge.

Ms. Koyano( JICA coordinator)and Participants＊＊＊ New Participants 2015-16 ＊＊＊