IISEE Newsletter
Jul 31 2017
Number 147

In This Issue• Latin AmericanEarthquake
Engineering Course
for Group of Building
Engineers closed• Visit to Institute ofEarthquakeEngineering (IEM),China• Study trip toHiroshima and Nara
• On Certificate ofEnglish Proficiency
for Application toIISEE's One Year
Training Courses

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Latin American Earthquake Engineering Course forGroup of Building Engineers closed

By Mr. Yoshihiro Iitake, Head of Administration Division, IISEEOn Thursday, July 6th, the participants of a group of building
engineers in the Latin American Earthquake Engineering course
presented their action plan for their own country just as the othergroup, the government officials in charge of construction engineering
who left prior to them has done last month. IISEE held a farewell party
as their training in Japan has been completed.They seemed to berelaxed with eating sweets and snacks in genial mood. Afterword,theyattended new lectures and structural tests in El Salvador from July 10thto July 21st.
A total number of participants of Latin American EarthquakeEngineering Course which started in 2014 so far reached 69 from 9
countries in Latin America.
In Dominican Republic, ex-participants of IISEE played a central
part in conducting the review of quake-resistance standards to apply theupdated knowledge. Since they requested the support, JICA andBuilding Research Institute has given the support as a part of follow-up
of the training course, the Latin American Earthquake Engineering.
We, IISEE, will continue providing training to reduce a possible
damage of future earthquakes in Latin America in cooperation with JICA.

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Visit to Institute of Earthquake Engineering (IEM),China
By Dr. Toshihide KASHIMA, Senior Research Scientist of IISEEThe Institute of Earthquake Engineering (IEM), China Earthquake
Administration, is a research and educational institution on earthquake
engineering representative in China. This time, an ex-participant fromIEM invited me to give lectures on strong motion observation andrelated topics to researchers and students of IEM. I thought it was agood opportunity to introduce trends of research on earthquake
engineering in Japan to the people who work in a field of the topic in
China, so I visited IEM and gave lectures for two days. In addition, I
could meet six ex-participants at IEM and deepened our old friendship.

IISEE Bulletin is now
accepting submissionsof papers for the seismol og y, ea rt h qu ake
engineering, andtsunami. Developing
countries are targeted,but are n ot limited.
Your original papers
will be reviewed by theeditorial members andsome experts.
NO submission fee isneed.
Try to challenge!!

The Lecture at IEM

Study trip to Hiroshima and Nara
By Mr. Sajadur RAHMAN

On June 27th and 28th, the trip wasconducted for 8 E-course participants to Hiroshimaand Nara to observe the devastation of atomic
bomb, seismic retrofitting of World Heritage site andrestration work.
On the first day of the visit was to theHiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, the Atomic
Bomb Dome which is World Heritage and Miyajima
Island. We observed the memory of devastation, thestrengthening work that had been done of theheavily damaged atomic bomb dome without altering the view and thechallenges of seismic retrofitting.Then we visited the Itsukushima shrinein Miyajima Island which looks like floating during high tide.

On the next day,we visited Todaiji
Temple in Nara toobserve therestoration work. The
restoraion work was
not visible from thehall.
Finally, I would
like to appreciate theeffort for arranging
this trip to give us
such invaluable
learning.

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The Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima

On Certificate of English Proficiency for
Application to IISEE's One Year Training Courses
By Dr. Toshiaki Yokoi, Director of IISEEAs we have mentioned on previous newsletter No. 138,(http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/nldb/?action=letter&id=174) IISEE's one-yeartraining course nominees must have a competent command of spoken
and written English with a minimum test score of TOEFL PBT 500, TOEFL
iBT 79, IELTS Academic 6.0 within two years up to the deadline ofapplication or you will be able to get waiver request* if you fulfill thecertain conditions.
*Waiver Request
・Official documents issued by the educational institution you attended
certifying that your undergraduate or graduate education was conducted
in English, can be equivalent to the certificate of above mentionedexams.
・Applicants who have completed or expect to complete anundergraduate or a graduate degree at an accredited institution locatedin the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, or Ireland will be
automatically exempted from submitting an English test score.
Upon qualification by GRIPS, preparation in advance is highlyrecommended.

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