JSCE-At-A-Glance
As of November 1, 2020

Japan Society of Civil Engineers
Planning Committee & Communications and Public Relations Center
TEL: +81-(0)3-3355-3448, cprcenter@jsce.or.jp
Sotobori-Koen, Yotsuya 1-chome, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan 160-0004

http://www.jsce.or.jp (JP) , http://www.jsce-int.org (ENG)

38

JSCE Regular Membership

KCorporate
Members

Reg. Member Composition

8Regional
Chapters

Hokkaido

Tohoku628
SpecialMembers

Chugoku

477

Seibu

Chubu

Kanto

Kansai

Shikoku

As of March 2020

15.6%
738

Student Member4,744

The end of every fiscal year

2,118♀members: 5.6% of the JSCE members, quadrupled in the last 22 yrs.

JSCE2020-2024~ Link up with Communities, Generations andValues, and Build a Future Society ～Goal 1 “Ensure Safe and Secure Environment”

Optimize sustainable land-use to ensure asafe and secure environment
Goal 2 “Strengthen Internationalization”

Strengthen international competitivenessto implement quality projects overseas andcontribute to solving global challenges
Goal 3 “Increase Communication”

Communicate with technical & non-technicalaudiences, giving information from a fair & objective
viewpoint, and systematize information collection& sharing
Goal 4 “Enhance Human Resources”

Build the society in which future engineers candevelop & use their abilities and a diverse groupof engineers can take a role.

The action plan JSCE 20202-2024 sets forth 5 mid-term goals toaccomplish in the next 20 to 30 years; it is broken down into
specific activities.
https://committees.jsce.or.jp/JSCE20XX/jsce2020©JSCE, 2020-11-01

Civil Engineering Day
November 18
Civil Engineering

土木
The kanji characters“土木”are composedwith four kanjis:“土”=“十:ten” & ”一:one”.
“木”＝“十: ten”＆”八:eight”. They can beread as 11&18,
November 18.
November 18 is the daythat JSCE wasestablished in 1879. We
have observed CivilEngineering Day on
November 18 since then.
http://www.jsce.or.jp/committee/day/JSCE-At-A-Glance
As of November 1, 2020

448

Designated Civil No. of Civil Engineering Heritage designated structures by JSCE Regional Chapter
Engineering
Hokkaido Tohoku Kanto
Chubu
Kansai Chugoku Shikoku Seibu Overseas Total
HeritageRiver & Cost761915574972

JSCE Civil Engineering Heritage program
recognizes significant national andinternational civil engineering structures
every year. JSCE started this program in2000 in order to increase civil engineers’
and public awareness and appreciation ofcivil engineering contribution to society
and preserve significant civil engineering
works.

Dam

43

12

5

7

3

2

5Bridge

12946

21

32

11

11

18

1

160

42

Road

12

1214

3

1

3

27

Railway

53

173

25

3

4565

Tunnel

22

125

12

1

2

5

41

6

3

5

1

1

3

19

4

4

15

4

5

1

15

6

1

7

4

3

11

124

63

4

32

624

Port &Harbor
Water Supply& Sewage
Power Plant
Irrigation
SystemOthers

451026934Total

514415864102423064

140432557※ Some structures are counted in two and more categories

http://www.jsce.or.jp/contents/isan/Tokiwa Bridge (Chuo-ku, Tokyo）

118
13recipients inaward
categories

JSCE Award Program has recognized significant projects and civilengineers who have made outstanding achievements since 1920. The
JSCE Award Program has 13 awards/categories now and recognized
118 civil engineers, organizations and projects in 2019.
Major awards such as Tanaka Award,Yoshida Award and Outstanding Civil
Engineering Achievement Award wereestablished before the 1960s.
These are considered to be highly
prestigious award for the JSCE members.
http://www.jsce.or/prize/

JSCE Journal

Research & Study Committees

JSCE Journal publishes peerreviewed research papers in 19
titles in 8 areas as of 2020.
192 research papers written inJapanese and 20 ones written in
English were published in 2019.

JSCE has Academic Research Dept.
and 29 Research & Study
Committees. They implement
research projects, hold seminars,
symposiums and workshops,
develop design standards andothers throughout the year.
166 technical, academic, social
networking events with 20,890participants in total in 2019.

8 19
212
areas,titles

papershttps://www.jsce.or.jp/collection/

166

10publications

JSCE publishes various technicalreferences such as design
specifications, research reports,
journals and others.
10 publications in 2019

events20890

participants

FY2020 Disaster Investigation and Analysis

5 161

JSCE responds swiftly in the event of disasters in & outside the country:
it sets up a disaster-response headquarters and dispatches the teams ofcivil engineering professionals to disaster-affected areas to investigate,collect data and propose measures to mitigate disaster risks and prepare
for future disasters. In response to Yamagata Earthquake in June,times
members
torrential rain and flooding in Saga in August, Typhoon 19 in October,investigation teams were dispatched 5 times, in which 161 members
https://committees.jsce.or.jp/report/
participated. Since 1999, the JSCE has dispatched 396 members ininvestigation teams 38 times.
In Jan 2019, the Typhoon 19 investigation team headed by the JSCE President proposed a flood risk managementwith river basin river basin management.
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5FY2020targets

Respond to disasters timely &effectively and Communicate
with the public

Recover from 2011 Great East
Japan Earthquake Disaster andPrepare for Future Disasters

Strategically executeinfrastructure development
projects

Develop strategic infrastructure
management & maintenance

5 targets are set to achieve in 2020 under theleadership of Dr. Ieda the 108th JSCE President.

Go Online!

Enhance networks andcollaborative partnerships

JSCE Annual Meeting

JSCE doesn’t hesitate to move a step forward evenunder the COVID-19 pandemic: it has implemented
remote work, run its business as normal as it can do,
and hold online meetings, seminars and symposium
one after another since March 2020.
On June 8, Symposium on railway infrastructure
was held by Infrastructure Maintenance Committee,for example.
2020 JSCE Annual Meeting was held online due to the
COVID-19 outbreak. The very 1st online annual
meeting! 3826 research paper presentations made,and total 33458 participants at the meeting.

June toOctober 2020

48

eventsonlineAs many aspresentations

200

attendees/
event

P.E. Qualification &Professional Development Program
8058 registered Professional
Engineers in the JSCE Civil
Engineering Professional
Qualification as of 2019
The qualification meets theMLIT’s requirements for civilengineers in 57 areas.

participants

17362

CPD Courses offered by FY 2019

JSCE provides the members with JSCE CPD Program tosupport them to improve their professional abilities andskills, to manage their continuing education and license
renewal requirements.

https://committees.jsce.or.jp/opcet/cpd

8058

registered P.E.s as of 2019

Grade 6:
1001, Grade 5:
2098
Grade 3&4: 1670, Grade1&2: 3289
https://committees.jsce.or.jp/opcet/shikaku

InternationalCommunication

3826
33458

JSCE, a pioneer of online CPD Program, has developed
quality- & quantity-wise. In FY2019, “Introductory Civil
Engineering Information Processing” and “Comparative
Study of Disaster Management: floods, tsunamis, torrential
rains” were offered on JMOOC. A full-year “Basic Bridge
Maintenance” is offered in cooperation with International
Maintenance Education Center,
Nat’l Institute of Technology,
Maizuru College.
https://committees.jsce.or.jp/opcet/01e-learning

Developing communication and network among civil engineers beyond borders
is one of JSCE’s missions. 52 seminars, symposiums and the like were held incollaboration with overseas counterparts and 303 participants from JSCE
from 2004 to 2010.

522019 Int’l Workshop for Young Civil Engineers

Seminars & symposiums incollaboration with overseas
counterparts

303

159

Members
overseas

Participantsfrom JSCE©JSCE, 2020-11-01

Infrastructure Health Report
JSCE as an independent organization has assessed the conditions ofinfrastructure by condition index and published the results with analyses as
Infrastructure Health Report since 2014. The report helps the users to aware of
the conditions of infrastructures and problems,
and to understand the importance of proper
maintenance, management of infrastructure.

会長トピックIn FY 2019, JSCE issued Railway Infrastructure
Health Report and published the picture book
Railway Infrastructure Maintenance.
Furthermore, the JSCE issued a comprehensive
Infrastructure Health Report in June 2020.
http://committees.jsce.or.jp/reportcard/

The radio show DOBO-Radi invites
civil engineering professionals,
supporters and fans to talk about
their interests in civil engineering,favorite structures, anecdotes andthe like around Tokyo. The show
broadcasts on Chuo FM at 8 p.m.
on every Wednesday.

The Civil Engineering
Library Committee opened
the online museum
DOBOHAKU in FY2016
In FY2019, two onlinemuseums opened:
Dissection ofInfrastructure inCentral of Japan” and“Rivers: beautiful river
scenery in 20 areas inJapan”.
http://www.dobohaku.com

http://doboradi.jsce.or.jp/

Facebook followers

43455
YouTubeRegistrants

Communication withthe public is very
important. Not justvia HP and news
media, JSCE
interacts with thepubic on SNS.

The exhibition DOBOKU
Collection 2019 visitors

35000

The DOBOKU Collection shows
the unique and valuable films,photographs,maps,
designdrawings and documents which
are stored in the JSCE Library.

626 2356

Twitter followers

As of October 2020

https://dobokore8.webnode.jp/

1.4

JSCE’s revenue JPY©JSCE, 2020-11-01

billion