International Memorial Symposium“Protecting Lives from Earthquakeand Tsunami Disasters”
Date and Time : Wed,

June 27, 2012, 10:00-17:00

Venue : Sokairo Hall of National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)[7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo]
Simultaneous translation service (Japanese/English)

Organized by :UNESCO , Building Research Institute (BRI), GRIPS
Supported by :Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT),
Japanese National Commission for UNESCO (JNCU) of MEXT,
Ministry of Foreign Aﬀairs (MOFA), JICA, The Yomiuri Shimbun

Objective : Since devastated super disasters
frequently occurred such as the 2004
Indian Ocean Tsunami and the Great East
Japan Earthquake, in order to promote
activity of the International Platform for
Reducing Earthquake Disasters (IPRED) byUNESCO, International Institute ofSeismology and Earthquake Engineering(IISEE) of BRI and GRIPS co-host aninternational symposium. Top class experts
from all over the world provide message for
future to protect lives through global
cooperation. (It will be also held as amemorial event of IISEE initiated byUNESCO.)

Organizers :UNESCOInternational Institute of Seismology andEarthquake Engineering (IISEE) of BRI
GRIPS

IPRED member country :JapanRomaniaPeruTurkey
Chile
Kazakhstan
Egypt
El Salvador
Indonesia
Mexico-- How to register
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・Without registration, you may not be able toparticipate in the symposium when seats are full.

-- Registration/ Inquiry

Admission Free(Pre-registration required)

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■From exit no. 4A at Roppongi station on the Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line:
10 minutes walk
■From exit no. 5 at Nogizaka station on the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line:
6 minutes walk
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International Memorial Symposium“Protecting Lives from Earthquake and Tsunami Disasters”
Program -------------------- Wed, June 27, 2012

Keynote Lecture 1

Keynote Lecture 2

Kazuo Oike

Badaoui Rouhban

10:00 >>> Opening Ceremony-- Opening and Welcome Remarks
Yuzo Sakamoto, Chief Executive, BRI
Keiichi Tsunekawa, Vice President, GRIPS-- Guest Speech
Toshiyuki Inoue, Deputy Director-General, Housing Bureau, MLIT

10:20 >>> Keynote Lecture 1 “Future of Seismology”
Kazuo Oike, Director, International Institute for Advanced Studies/ Former President of Kyoto University

11:10 >>> Keynote Lecture 2 “UNESCOʼs roles and strategies for reducing earthquake andtsunami disasters”
Badaoui Rouhban, Director, Unit for Natural Disasters, Natural Sciences Sector, UNESCO========================= [ 12:00 - 13:15 Lunch ] =========================
13:15 >>> Lectures “Protecting Lives: Lessons learned and Future prospects” [ 25 min. each ]--"Views for the post-2015: achievements and challenges in the ﬁeld of disaster risk reduction"
Sálvano Briceño, Chair, Science Committee, Integrated Research on Disaster Risk/ Former Director of UN
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction--"Long-Period Ground Motion as a New Urban Threat"
Kazuki Koketsu, Professor, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo-- "Dissemination strategy of the standard on earthquake engineering design to support a better earthquake
disaster mitigation in Indonesia"
Anita Firmanti, Director of Research Institute for Human Settlement (RIHS), Indonesia--"Structural Design Requirement on the Tsunami Evacuation Buildings"
Hiroshi Fukuyama, Director, Department of Structural Engineering,BRI--"The importance of collaboration for complementary research in the ﬁeld of earthquake engineering-Anexample SAFECAST project in Europe"
Faruk Karadoğan, Professor & Former Rector, Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey========================= [ 15:20 - 15:40 Break ] =========================15:40 >>> Panel Discussion “International Cooperation on Earthquake Disaster Management toProtect Lives” [ 75 min. ]--Moderator:[UNESCO] Badaoui Rouhban, Director, Unit for Natural Disasters, Natural Sciences Sector, UNESCO--Panelists:[Chile] Raul Alvarez, Professor, Universidad Catolica de Chile[Egypt] Salah Mahmoud, Head, Department of Geodynamics, National Research Institute of Astronomy andGeophysics (NRIAG)[Peru] Carlos Zavala, Director, Japan-Peru Center for Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Mitigation (CISMID)[Romania] Radu Vacareanu, Vice-Rector, Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest (UTCB)[Japan] Kenji Okazaki, Professor of GRIPS

16:55 >>> Closing Remarks--Closing Remarks
Isao Nishiyama, Deputy Chief Executive, BRI

Simultaneous translation service (Japanese / English)
Organized by : UNESCO, International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (IISEE) of BRI, GRIPS