Jun. 2, 2014

Japan Society of Civil Engineers
International Activities Center

IAC News No. 20“INSIDE JSCE” Series 1

Coastal Engineering Committee

The Coastal Engineering Committee was established in 1955. The main
activities of the committee that have been carried out continuously since its
establishment have been holding the Coastal Engineering Conference andpublishing the proceedings. Also, the committee takes the lead in editing theinternational Coastal Engineering Journal (CEJ), twice it has held theInternational Conference on Coastal Engineering, and the international
conference on Asian and Pacific coasts (APAC) is being planned. Particulareffort is devoted to publicizing technical results overseas, and to theinternational spread of academic research.

Shinji SATO
University of Tokyo
Chairperson of the Coastal
Engineering Committee

The permanent subcommittees are the Proceedings Editorial Subcommittee
which is responsible for editing the Proceedings of the Coastal Engineering Conference, the CEJ Editorial
Subcommittee, Public Relations Subcommittee, and the Subcommittee to Promote Research on the CoastalEnvironment. In addition, various research sub-committees and WG organizations are established from time totime to respond flexibly to the changing demands of society and research trends. Currently the Tsunami
Damage Prediction and Reduction Technology Research Subcommittee, the Numerical Wave Action Water
Tank Research Subcommittee, the Global Warming Response Measures Investigation Subcommittee, and theWave Motion Modeling Research Subcommittee are active.
No.

The

first

CoastalEngineering

No. papers submitted

Conference was held in Kobe in 1954.

No. papers accepted

Currently the conference covers a wide

No. papers in international session(The above submitted/accepted
numbers are separate totals)

range of fields such as waves, flows,
sand drifts, coastal changes, structures,
disaster prevention, environment, etc.,
andeveryyear

thenumberofpresentations

isabout

300.

TheProceedings of the Coastal Engineering
Conference (since 2008 the Journal ofJSCE, Series B2 (Coastal Engineering))
Figure 1: Number of submission and acceptance of papers for JSCE
Journal of Coastal Division

is published associated with the Coastal
Engineering Conference, in which about300 papers are published annually (Fig. 1). In addition to the Coastal Engineering Conference, a summer
training workshop on hydraulics is held jointly with the Hydraulics Committee, and 2014 will be the 50th time
this has been held.
In the case of the Great East Japan Earthquake, a survey of the Off the Coast of Tohoku Earthquake tsunami
was carried mainly by members of the Coastal Engineering Committee. The committee provided support forthe distribution of information of the joint survey group, playing the role as a center of information on tsunami
damage survey both inside and outside Japan. （http://www.coastal.jp/ttjt/）

It is intended that the Committee will continue to operate in the future as a bridge between coastal engineeringresearchers and their tasks.

Figure 2: Overview of tsunami survey for the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake TsunamiSeminar on Intelligent Transport System, Soft Soil and Pavement
On March 12 2014, Center for Promoting Vietnamese –Japanese Civil Engineers Collaboration (CJV) in collaboration
with National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management(NILIM)- Japan Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport andTourism (MLIT), Institute of Planning & Transportation
Engineering (IPTE) and Vietnam Chapter of International
Geosynthetics Society (VCIGS) held seminar on Intelligent
Transport System, Soft Soil and Pavement at the library of
National University of Civil Engineering (NUCE).
Assoc.Prof.Dr. Pham Hung Cuong- deliver
opening speech

In NUCE’s side, Assoc.Prof.Dr. Pham Hung Cuong- Vice

President delivered an opening speech and thanked Japanese - Vietnamese experts for their presentations
and all participants’ attendance at the seminar.

In the morning session at the 2nd floor Meeting Hall of the library, there have been four technical presentations.
At first, Dr. Yukihiro Tsukada Director of Research Center of Advanced Information Technology- NILIM
presented Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) toward Sustainable Society. This presentation gives an overviewof ITS‘s effectiveness in daily life and its utilization after disaster. Secondly, Dr. Vu Anh Tuan Director ofExpressway Management Bureau- Directorate for Roads of Vietnam delivered Development situation ofexpressway system in Vietnam by 2020 and vision after 2020. The presentation shows utilization andexploitation situations as well as difficulties, challenges and solutions of present expressway system inVietnam. Thirdly, Mr. Hitoshi Fujita Professional Engineer of Japan Road Contractors Association gave A
Review of Japanese Road Pavement (Present Status and Future Direction). In this presentation, past andpresent paving technologies in Japan were shown clearly. Finally, Dr. Dinh Van Hiep, Director of Institute ofPlanning & Transportation Engineering presented Opportunities and Difficulties of Applying Intelligent
Transportation Systems (ITS) for Traffic Management and Highway Operations in Developing Countries – Acase study of Vietnam.

Participants of Round Table Meeting

In the comprehensive discussion at the CJV, experts of bothsides further discussed Soft soil and Pavement at present inVietnam. The comments of Japanese experts have beenrecorded and highly appreciated.
In summary, the seminar on Intelligent Transport System, Soft
Soil and Pavement is in a series of CJV’s technology exchange
seminar. This seminar attracted more than 90 officials, lecturers,
students not only from National University of Civil Engineering
Round Table Meeting Pavement
Operation Session

but also from Institutes of Ministry of Transport and construction
companies of Japan and Vietnam. Especially, after thecomprehensive discussion, Dr. Nguyen Hoang Giang CJV’s

Director has established three technical expert groups in the field of ITS, Soft Soil and Pavement. He also
expressed his special thanks to Japanese and Vietnamese experts attending the seminar which is apreparation step for Japan-Vietnam seminar on Construction Quality to be held in May.
【Reported by JSCE Int’l Vietnam Group】

IAC International Symposium on the Internationalization of JapaneseConstruction Industry Series, No.3
IAC Professional Development and Education Program Group
organized a series of three international symposia as one of its
activities which focused on strengthening globally-capable humanresources, assisting the Japanese construction industry to expand
its business overseas. The last one, series No.3, titled”Strategic
Management for International Diversification of Business: The
Examples of Multinational Firms” was held. The speakers invitedfrom overseas firms who work internationally shared their views andopinions on each company’s activities and overseas business

Mr. Ohashi delivers a speech.

expanding with 72 attendees from academia, industry, and public
sectors participated in the Symposium.

In the Symposium Part1, Mr. Jun OHASHI, Macquarie Capital Securities (Japan) Limited delivered a speech,
titled "Overview of Overseas Infrastructure Projects (Including PPP), Case Studies and Involvement ofConstruction Companies”. He introduced overseas infrastructure business development by Macquarie Groups,
a provider of banking, advisory, investment and fund management services, using examples. He discussed
PPP from a perspective of investment firms and the trend of overseas expansion through M&A. Hispresentation provided a valuable opportunity to gain information which we usually can’t easily hear, and it wasfollowed by a lively question-and-answer session.

In Part 2, Mr. Masanobu OKA, Lend Lease Japan, Inc. delivered aspeech titled” Overseas Development by Foreign Companies andBusiness Activities in Japan”. Mr. OKA discussed businessdevelopment in Japan as a foreign company’s overseas branch,and introduced the difference of the standpoint between overseas
headquarter and Japan office, based on his experience ofmanaging the overseas office in Japan of multinational firm. The
discussion offered valuable insight into the future operation of head
Mr. Oka delivers a presentation.

office in Japan in relation to overseas offices and attracted toaudience many of who worked with the companies pursuinginternationalization for their operations.

The international symposium series was organized as a series of three. The speakers invited from Japanesefirms doing their business overseas and foreign firms operating globally delivered presentations from theirexperiences. The Group hopes that this symposium series will give useful clues the Japanese firms attempting
to internationalize their business operations. The next symposium series on the future of international
development by construction firms will be held in this winter, by about the beginning of next year.
【Reported by IAC Professional Development and Education Program Group】

IAC Current News by Kotaro Hashimoto the 101st JSCE President
IAC Vietnam Group, in cooperation with VFCEA, held a seminar on civil engineering professional
qualification system which is the key factor for high-quality infrastructure maintenance in Hanoi on May 21.
In order to organize the seminar, the Vietnam Group and VFCEA received cooperation and support frommajor organizations such as the Ministry of Construction and Ministry of Transport, Vietnam,

Vietnam

Bridge and Road Association (VIBRA), National University of Civil Engineering (NUCE), Ministry of Land,
Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), Japan, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) ,Vietnamese and Japanese construction companies, and JSCE Organization for Promotion of CivilEngineering Technology (OPCET) and IAC. We are very grateful to them.
In Vietnam, there are several on-going infrastructure projects on highways, subways, ports and harbors,
airports, urban development, water resources, sewage systems, and natural disaster risk mitigations;accordingly, several seminars and workshops are held focusing on those subjects including themaintenance and management of those infrastructures one after another.
JSCE has signed Agreement of Cooperation and Memorandum of Understanding with 32 civilengineering related societies overseas; and 11 groups and 9 International Sections by region which are
the first and major contact with those societies. Some often work with and carry out joint activities with
their overseas counterparts while some dose so less frequently.
IAC itself should take a leadership role to strengthen their communications to be more effective andresponsive to their counterparts’ needs. It is advisable to set up working groups in each of the 11 groups
to meet their needs and support the working groups to make strategic communication plans. Furthermore,
it should be remembered that the partnership among MLIT, JICA, private companies (e.g. construction,consultants, construction-related major companies), governments in target countries, AOC societies,
JSCE’s International Sections, embassies and the Japanese companies doing business in the target
countries. The IAC has come to the time to shift its comprehensive view of business operation to adetailed-oriented view in its 3rd year. The IAC, working with those groups, should look into what theircounterparts expect from their communication with JSCE and make practical and feasible activity plans.
That will be the first step to improve the contribution of JSCE to the development of infrastructure and asafe society.

Thank you very much.

What’s Happening●2014/6/13～14・・・・・2014 MACE Annual Meeting Mongolia

Venue Mongolia, Ulan Bator●2014/8/5・・・・・IAC Japanese Civil Engineers the Global Leaders Symposium Series No.2
Venue：JSCE HQ, Tokyo●2014/8/26～28・・・・・2014 HAKI Annual Meeting

Venue：Indonesia, Jakarta●2014/8/28～29・・・・・JSCE Seibu branch-KSCE Busan(Pusan) branch-Taiwan Society & Public work Joint
SeminarVenue：Korea, Pusan

UpdatesThe summary of feature articles in the JSCE Magazine is available on the JSCE website.
http://www.jsce-int.org/pub/magazine
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http://www.jsce.or.jp/committee/concrete/e/newsletter/Newsletter.htm

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Y’s Murmuring
I have just come back from the seminar held in Hanoi on May 21. The seminar was very productive andmeaningful in terms of JSCE and VFCEA cooperation as well as future civil engineering professional
development. JSCE delegation members formed by MLIT, a major construction company, and JSCE presented
their own views- public sector, private sector and professional civil engineering society on the development ofcivil engineering professional quality and ability. Their opinions and information well responded to what theVietnamese civil engineers were looking for, who are facing several challenges on rapid infrastructuredevelopment in their society.
I do hope that the Vietnam Group will further liaise between the two countries
and civil engineers. Well,,, they have to. One last comment…I had never seen so many motorcycles wererunning on roads. Our car was like swimming in the big waves of motorcycles.

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