IISEE Newsletter
September 30 2014
Number 113

In This Issue 20 ParticipantsCompleted the 54th
One-Year Training
Course Courtesy Call on the
MLIT Minister
 GRIPS GraduationCeremony
 2nd European
Conference onEarthquake
Engineering andSeismology
 Japan-Mongolia
Seminar onTechnologies for
Earthquakeresistance and Highrise Buildings
 Address in Reply on
Behalf of All theParticipants

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20 Participants Completed the 54th One-Year
Training Course
By Ms. Yoriko Iiba, Head of IISEE Administration Division
The IISEE Closing Ceremony for the 2013-2014
Training Courses on Seismology, Earthquake Engineering and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation was heldat the BRI Hall from 11:00
to 11:45 on Thursday,
September 11.
The training course beganat the University of Tokyoin 1960. The Building
Closing Ceremony
Research Institute took
over the program from 1962 after the negotiation by ministries concerned.
Almost 45 people including 20 training participants came together andcelebrated the ceremony. As it was the joint
ceremony between JICA and BRI/IISEE, Mr.
Senichi KIMURA, Director General of JICA
Tsukuba International Center and Dr. Yuzo
SAKAMOTO, BRI Chief Executive made theircongratulatory remarks first. After them, Dr.
Shoichi ANDO, Professor of National Graduate
Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) extended
his congratulations to the participants. TheDr. Sakamoto, BRI Chief
GRIPS is the joint partner of the master degree
Executiveprogram.
Following the speeches, participants received
the graduation certificates and diplomas. Then
three of the participants were bestowed theBest Research Awards by GRIPS and IISEE incelebration of their high research capability andscientific level in their master theses. They areMs. Raquel Noemi Vasquez Stanescu fromVenezuela, Ms. Pamela Urrutia Barrios from El
Salvador and Mr. Jorge Manuel Morales Tovarfrom Peru.

Awarding of Certificates

This year IISEE established the new award named the IISEE Director’s Award inrecognition of participants who accomplished the outstanding achievement of

the IISEE training program. Three participants won the awards. They are Ms.
Yanuarsih Tunggal Putri form Indonesia, Mr. Shafiq Ur Rehman from Pakistan
and Mr. Md. Shamsul Islam from Bangladesh.

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Finally, Mr. Md. Shamsul Islam from Bangladesh represented the entire
participants and made a speech in response. (Plese see P4)
We wish the participants good health and continued success in their work.

Courtesy Call on the MLIT Minister
By Ms. Yoriko Iiba, Head of IISEE Administration Division
On September 8, 2013-2014 training
participants paid a courtesy visit toMr. Akihiro Ohta, Minister of Land,
Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
They met in the Minister’s room of theministry headquarters.
Minister Ohta specialized in civilengineering in Kyoto University. He
learned in earthquake engineering.
With the ministry executives, hewelcomed the participants and gave aMinister Ota and the IISEE
speech with his research theme in hisParticipants
university days and Japan’s efforts on
the countermeasures against earthquake disasters.
He encouraged theparticipants to make efforts in the field of disaster mitigation in their respective
countries.
Ms. Yanuarsih Tunggal Putri from Indonesia
expressed her gratitude to the Minister andmade a speech on behalf of the participants.
Mr. Faouzi Gherboudj from Algeria, Mr. Ergun
Binbir from Turkey and Mr. Jorge ManuelMorales from Peru introduced their studies.
By courtesy of the Minister Ohta, participants
spent almost half an hour in his office andlastly he shook hands with the participants
one by one.

Representative of theParticipants

GRIPS Graduation Ceremony
By Ms. Yoriko Iiba, Head of IISEE Administration Division
With the collaboration of the National
Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS),IISEE participants are awarded the degrees ofMaster of Disaster Management when theysuccessfullycomplete
one-yeartrainingcourse.
The 2013-2014 training course participants
passed the GRIPS’ evaluation criteria andConferment of Diploma onassessment.
On September 12, theMaster Degree
Graduation Ceremony was held in GRIPS
Sokairou Hall.
182 doctoral and masterprogram graduates received their diplomas. The number of the graduates ofthe Disaster Management Policy Program was 32 including the IISEE

participants.
Mr. Faouzi Gherboudj
from Algeria was awarded his diploma
at first and his colleagues werefollowed.

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After the ceremony, graduates andpeople concerned came together to thereception. Every participant looked tobe happy to have their diplomas onmaster degree. It was surely the happy
day and the last day for the IISEE
participants. Lastly, IISEE extend ourgreat appreciation to the people whoEnjoy, Now

2nd European Conference on Earthquake
Engineering and Seismology – Istanbul, Turkey By Mr. Mizuo Inukai, Dr. Toshihide Kashima and Dr. Masanori
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Mr. Inukai, Dr. Kashima and Dr. Tani
attended to the 2nd European Conference on
Earthquake Engineering and Seismology
which was held on August 24th to 29th inIstanbul, Turkey. 2089 abstracts from 76
countries were submitted to the conference.
Mr. Inukai and Dr. Kashima presented oneand two papers in the poster sessions,
Panorama of Istanbul
respectively,andDr.
Tanimadea
presentation in the oral session. We met with eighteen ex-participants (Albania,Algeria (5), Costa Rica, Iran, Macedonia (3), Romania, and Turkey (5)) during
the conference and knew how they are getting along.

Japan-Mongolia Seminar on Technologies for
Earthquake-resistance and High-rise Buildings
By Dr. Toshihide Kashima, IISEE Senior Research Engineer
Dr. Tajiri of Structural Engineering Department and I participated the “JapanMongolia Seminar on Technologies for Earthquake-resistance and High-risebuildings” held on September 4th and 5th in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. In theseminar, design and construction system of buildings, building standard, designand construction technologies of high-risebuildings, seismic isolation and seismic control
buildings, seismic design of non-structuralelements, fire protection of high-rise buildings
and safety measure of elevators wereintroduced by Japanese experts. From theMongolian side, Prof. Ganzorig spoke about thetrend of buildings and the situation ofearthquake-resistant design in Mongolia. He is
Conference Hall
one of the ex-participants of IISEE and one of
my good friends. Taking this opportunity, I am hoping that the cooperation
between Mongolia and Japan will be enhanced and that the seismic safety ofthe buildings in Mongolia will be improved.

Address in Reply on Behalf of All the Participants
By Mr. Md. Shamsul Islam from Bangladesh
Dr. SAKAMOTO, Chief Executive of Building research Institute, Dr. YOKOI, Director of IISEE, Dr. ANDO,
Professor of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies and former Director of IISEE, Mr. Kimura,
Director General, JICA Tsukuba International Center, ladies and gentlemen, good morning.
I am honored to have this opportunity to speak in this ceremony on behalf of the participants and myfriends of the training courses Seismology, Earthquake Engineering and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation.
I would like to start with the proverb “All is well that ends well”, and I believe we are having a goodending of the one year intensive training course.
To me, the knowledge and experience we have gained through this training course has two sides: oneside is academic and the other is about the people of Japan and their culture.
It is obvious that we have learned a lot and get acquainted with the state of the art Japaneseknowledge and technology in our respective study fields. But I do believe that we are equally or
probably more impressed with the people of Japan for their patience, determination, perfection in every
bit of work, friendliness, cooperation, smile and gentle bow.
Now we know why Japanese products are
known to be second to none in the world
when it comes to performance and efficiency.
Anyone, even on a remote village in Africa orin the mountains of Afghanistan, when comesto know that the product is made in Japan,
would jump for it without hesitation. As longas it has the label Made in Japan, it is enoughfor him. He buys it with full trust as he knowsthat he will never be disappointed.

Mr. Md. Shamsul Islam

The high quality products of Japan tell us
about the people making them. If theirproducts are in such a high standing caliber,
the people designing them would beoutstanding and superior humans who are ofnoble qualities and character. And now weknew it very well.
And to the participants and my friends I want to say, we have been shown the way and we must get
moving, if you cannot run; walk; if you cannot walk, crawl; but there has to be movement. Pleasecherish the learning and experience we have from our field visits to the affected areas by The Great
East Japan Earthquake, Niigata Chuetsu Earthquake and Kobe Earthquake. Where we saw Japanesepeople always raised from dark to light, helping each other, and learning from the past, and they
developed themselves with the Motto “keep going and never give up”.
I wish all safe journeys. Please keep in touch to help each other in the future for the betterment of ourlives.
Finally, I would like to thank people in the Japan International Cooperation Agency, the Building
Research Institute, the International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, the National
Graduate Institute for Policy Studies and every single person that contributed to this training course.
Thank you all.