2023. 6. 1

Japan Society of Civil Engineers
International Activities Center

IAC News No.128
A Message from the JSCE PresidentInternational Cooperation Regarding Global Issues inthe Civil Engineering Field
The Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) has continuously
formed five-year plans, with its current plan JSCE 2020-2024(JSCE2020 (1)). JSCE2020 outlines four major mid-term targets, oneof which is “to roll out high-quality Japanese infrastructure to therest of the world and to lead efforts to help resolve internationalissues.” To this end, JSCE2020 states that JSCE will actively leadefforts to develop globally-minded human resources in Japan, andthe General Committee for Globalizing Civil Engineering in thePresident Ueda Project also aligns itself with this goal. Furthermore,“for dealing with problems of a global scale,” JSCE2020 states that
JSCE, “will engage in international cooperation to resolveinternational issues through experts from industry, government, andacademia uniting together and utilizing each other’s strengths inworking on technical efforts.” This is also in sync with “ACECCTokyo Declaration 2019 (2)” declared at CECAR8, an international
conference of the Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council

Photographer Rumiko ItoTamon Ueda
110th President of the Japan Societyof Civil Engineers(ACECC (3)) organized by JSCE.
As for JSCE’s international efforts to date, the main focus had been on technical assistance and personnel
development in developing countries. However, from here on, JSCE has highlighted the importance of engaging
in international cooperation with developed countries and developing countries on common global issues, asstated in JSCE2020.
The counterparts to JSCE’s international cooperation are civil engineering-related academic societies located invarious countries and regions. Currently, 31 academic societies (Figure 1) have signed a partnership agreementwith JSCE; 12 of which are members of ACECC. At present, ACECC has 17 member organizations. The reason
JSCE has more partner academic societies is that ACECC is an international organization in Asia, and there areno member organizations from Europe and America other than the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
For JSCE to cooperate with the civil engineering-related academic societies in each country, it must have a1

sufficient understanding of the organizations it will work with and what they do exactly. That is, thecircumstances of the organizations differ from that of JSCE, with a diverse range of organizations depending on
the country and region. For example, many countries do not have an academic society that includes the wordsof civil engineering in the name. In Australia, Thailand, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, their engineeringsocieties will be the counterparts for international cooperation. Even academic societies that contain the wordsof civil engineering do not cover all fields of civil engineering, and in China and Indonesia, the field ofhydroengineering is not included, with hydroengineering split off into a separate organization. Also, someorganizations, just like the Japan Federation of Engineering Societies (JFES), are like a federation of suborganizations, with organizations in China and Vietnam corresponding to this structure. In such cases, each suborganization carries out substantial efforts. While JSCE is home to experts from industry, government, andacademia and also actively engages in creative initiatives such as technical surveys and research, organizationsin other countries such as USA and the UK mainly focus on education and activities to promote awareness. TheKorean Society of Civil Engineers (KSCE) is a society similar to JSCE in terms of the type of organization andits initiatives.
After understanding the aforementioned circumstances, by engaging in bilateral and multilateral cooperation,
JSCE will tackle global issues such as addressing natural disasters, the problem of overpopulation, climatechange, diversity and inclusion, and developing human resources. As is evident from comparing JSCE against
the organizations of other countries, because JSCE is one of a handful of organizations that covers all aspectsof civil engineering and where experts from industry, government, and academia work together to carry out
technical and research activities comprehensively, we believe that JSCE has a duty to lead international
cooperation. Going forward, JSCE will continuously and actively engage in international cooperation efforts.
We hope we can count on you all to help make these efforts a success.
●JSCE’s International sections: Taiwan, Korea, UK, Mongolia, Turkey, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam (in order of establishment)●Overseas academic societies partnered with JSCE for international cooperation
Note: The marks are plotted in the position of the capital city of each country.

Partner academic societies, country/region (year of commencing partnership)
ASCE, US (1988)

CNISF, France (1993)

IEB, Bangladesh (2000)

IEI, India (2002)

CSCE, Canada (1988)

PICE, the Philippines (1997)

VFCEA, Vietnam (2000)

NEA, Nepal (2003)

KSCE, Korea (1989)

FECIC, Mexico (1998)

IEP, Pakistan (2001)

PII, Indonesia (2005)

MES, Myanmar (2013)

EA, Australia (1990)

ECCE, European Union (1999)

TCCE, Turkey (2001)

KDPA, Korea (2007)

HAKI, Indonesia (2013)

SVR, Sweden (1990)

CCES, China (1999)

IEM, Malaysia (2002)

TCG, Greece (2008)

ICE, UK (1991)

EIT, Thailand (1999)

HKIE, Hong Kong (2002)

VASECT, Vietnam (2012)

CICHE, Taiwan (1992)

IES, Singapore (1999)

MACE, Mongolia (2002)

VIBRA, Vietnam (2012)

Figure 1: JSCE’s International Network

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MPWT, Cambodia/JICA/ITC, Cambodia (2012)◆References:(1) JSCE’s five-year plan (JSCE 2020-2024): https://committees.jsce.or.jp/JSCE20XX/jsce2020(2) ACECC Tokyo Declaration 2019: https://committees.jsce.or.jp/acecc/node/46(3) The Committee on Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council(ACECC):

https://committees.jsce.or.jp/acecc/node/4

FY2022 JSCE Awards
Twenty civil engineers including two non-Japanese engineers were recognized with International Lifetime
Contribution Award and Continuing International Contribution Award. The recipients by award are listed in thetable below.
For further details, please visit https://www.jsce.or.jp/prize/prize_list/p2022.shtml.

< International Lifetime Contribution Award: 5 recipients >The Award recognizes (1) Japanese civil engineers for their significant contributions to the development of civilengineering technology and/or the infrastructure development through their professional practices in and outsideJapan; (2) non-Japanese civil engineer(s) for his/her commendable achievements to the progress and promotion ofJapanese civil engineering.

NAME
Yuichi Ishikawa
Onozaki Hirokazu
Akira Koyama
Hitoshi Tanaka
Nguyen Ngoc Hue

AFFILIATION
Nippon Koei Co., Ltd.
Obayashi Corporation
Japan Sediments Management Association
Tohoku University
Vietnam Association of Port-Waterway-Offshore Engineering< Continuing International Contribution Award: 15 recipients >The Award recognizes young professionals who have made and will make a significant contribution to thedevelopment of civil engineering and/or the development of infrastructure outside Japan with their unique andinspiring perspectives and solid technical skills.

NAME
Jun Izawa
Tomohiro Ono
Kazuyoshi Takashima

AFFILIATION
Railway Technical ResearchInstituteJapan International
Cooperation Agency
Hazama Ando Corporation

NAME
Hiroshi Hoshiya
Kakuya Matsushima
Junichi Mizuta

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AFFILIATIONElectric Power Development
Co., Ltd.
Kyoto University
The Kansai Electric Power
Co., Inc.

Tomohiro Taguchi

Obayashi Corporation

Naoto Mizuno

Yachiyo Engineering Co., Ltd.

Masataka Tanimoto

SHIMIZU CORPORATION

Takeshi Muronaga

Kentaro Nishizawa

Oriental Consultants Global
Co., Ltd.

Toru Yamaji

Takayuki Fujitomi

Nippon Koei Co., Ltd.

Jian-Hong Wu

Ministry of Land,
Infrastructure, Transport andTourism
National Research andDevelopment Agency,
National Institute of Maritime,
Port and Aviation Technology,
Port and Airport ResearchInstituteNational Cheng Kung
UniversityToru Furukawa

TAISEI CORPORATIONUpdates◆JSCE Feedback Web Form「多門に多聞&多問」
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https://www.jsce-int.org/node/814

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◆The 4th Asian Concrete Federation (ACF) Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Structural Longevity(ACF2022_ETSL): https://acf2022.aconf.org/index.html◆CECAR10：http://www.cecar10.org/◆ASCE 2023 CONVENTION, CHICAGO (October, 18-21)
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