********************************************************************************IISEE Newsletter No.48

22 Dec. 2009********************************************************************************+++++++++++++++++++++++++++Contents++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1. Season's Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year
2. The 1st China Training Course has finished!
3. CCOP's Tsunami Symposium was held in Manado, Indonesia
4. International Friendship Party was held++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++==================================================================[1] Season's Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year
Only 10 days left till the New Year, and now is the time to reflect year 2009. Again thisyear many disastrous earthquakes occurred in many parts of the world. Especially,Indonesia has been frequently hit by great earthquakes including Java on 2nd andSouthern Sumatra on 30th September. The severe damage by tsunami in the Samoa
Islands region occurred on 29th Sep. is also still fresh in our minds. Let's do our best toreduce earthquake damages next year. Please find the attached group photo that shows
you all the IISEE staff members. This year Dr. Sugano joined us as a visiting researchstaff. Research support staffs and secretaries joining IISEE in this year are as follows;
Mr. Kurosawa, Ms. Someya, Ms. Ren, Ms. Iso, Ms. Sasaki, and Ms. Uedaira. We
sincerely appreciate your continuing support for IISEE. We wish the New Year will bethe happiest and best for you.
Nobuo HURUKAWA & all IISEE staff members

Season’s Greetings and Best WishesforThe New Year2009 / 2010
IISEE
Administration Division
Mr. KUROSAWA, H Ms. ISOGAI, A
Research Engineers
Dr. SAITO, T Dr. KOYAMA, S
Research Seismologists
Dr. YOKOI, T Dr. HARA, T

Ms. SOMEYA, K

Dr. KASHIMA, T

Dr. SHIBAZAKI, B

Visiting Research Staff
Dr. MINOWA, C Dr. INOUE, H

Dr. YAGI, Y

Dr. Nobuo Hurukawa
DirectorDr. MUKAI, TDr. FUJII, Y

Dr. SUGANO, S

JICA Coordinator
Mr. SAITO, A
Secretaries
Ms. NISHIZAWA, E Ms. NARUSHIMA, A Ms. SATOU, A Mr. NISHIMURA, N Ms. KATAYAMA, J Mr. Ryu, K
Ms. SUZUKI, T Ms. WATANABE, M Ms. TAKIKAWA, C Ms. ISO, M Ms. UEMATSU, I Mr. MIZUTANI, H
Ms. SASAKI, J Ms. REN, C

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[2] The 1st China Training Course has finished!
The first training course on Earthquake-resistant design/Diagnostics/Reinforcement inChina started on 27th October was closed on 22nd December. The 20 participants from
Sichuan and many other provinces have learned diligently and completed all programson this course. Ms. ZHANG Yiping, a leader of participants have made remarks such as"The knowledge and experiences on seismic resistant construction and technologies fordisaster mitigation in Japan acquired through this course will help our works in China.
I was impressed with sincere and dedicated attitudes of teachers. I really appreciate
having the opportunity to participate in this training. I hope that the technicalcooperation between Japan and China will be much more consolidated in the future".
After returning to China, they are expected to play active roles in disseminating theantiseismic technologies into all over China.

Award the certificate

Group photoHajime KUROSAWA
Head of Administration Division, IISEE-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[3] CCOP's Tsunami Symposium was held in Manado, Indonesia
The International Symposium on Tsunami Risk Assessment and Mitigation in South &Southeast Asia was held from Dec. 1 to 2, 2009 in Manado, Indonesia, which wasarranged by Coordinating Committee for Geoscience Programmes in East andSoutheast Asia (CCOP), and funded by the Norwegian Government and in cooperation
with cost sharing with Geological Agency of Indonesia (GAI). I (Y. Fujii) was invited tothis symposium as a speaker and gave the presentation entitled "Observation andModeling of the January 2009 Papua, Indonesia Tsunami". Through this symposium, I
spent a quality time discussing about the tsunami preparedness and modeling with theparticipants including four ex-participants of the S-course at IISEE.

Group photo

Meeting room

Yushiro FUJII
Research Scientist, IISEE------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[4] International Friendship Party was held
The International Friendship Party was held at the exhibition hall of BRI on December
21, 2009. All 43 participants including the regular and China courses, Chief Executive,
Deputy Chief Executive, some lecturers of BRI, and IISEE and JICA staff members
joined this party and deepened friendship. Each course and some volunteer groups

showed their entertainments in this party. In fact, many kinds of songs and dances frommany countries were performed. Each and every performance was so wonderful that theparty was warmed up very much. That is to say, the participants showed their highcapabilities not only of studies but also of entertainments. We really had a great timeon this day.

A scene of the party

Performance by participants

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