IISEE Newsletter
July 29 2019
Number 171

In This Issue• Dr. Julio Kuroiwa
Horiuchi passed
away on July 9.
• Latin Amenrican
Earthquake
Engineering course
for group ofStructural Engineer
closed• On Grant-In-Aid for
17WCEE• An ex-participantfrom Peru visited
IISEE

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Dr. Julio Kuroiwa Horiuchi passed away on July 9.
By Mr. Takahiro Yamada, Head of Administration Division, IISEE
We, all of the IISEE staffs, would like to express great sorrow uponreceiving the sad news of the sudden and untimely passing of Dr. Julio
Kuroiwa Horiuchi, an ex-participant of the 1961-1962 Earthquake
Engineering course.
After graduated from IISEE-BRI, he went back to his country and has
committed his whole life to promoting and developing earthquake
engineering in Peru.
From the Peruvian mass media, he was called as “El señor de los sismos”“Teacher of Earthquake,” with a sense of familiarity, and from Peruvian
engineers as “Padre de la ingeniería sísmica en Perú” “Father of seismic
engineering in Peru,” with much respect.
We convey our deepest sympathy to his family.

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Latin Amenrican Earthquake Engineering course
for group of Structural Engineer closed

By Mr. Takahiro Yamada, Head of Administration Division, IISEETaking advantage of the knowledge from the training conducted in IISEEfrom Thursday, May 16, nine participants of structural engineers of Latin
American Earthquake Engineering course had a presentation each aboutproblems to solve in their countries that they can work on the plan in thehalf-year through a year on Thursday July 11.
This presentation was the last event in this course in Tsukuba.
From Monday, July 15, they had lectures and experiments focusing onframework masonry and concrete-block construction in El Salvador. On
Friday, July 26, the training of the group of structural engineers had closed.
Including participants in this course, we had 92 people from 11 countries inthe total of the Latin American Earthquake Engineering course.
We hope to come into full use of the earthquake-resistant buildings become
more accelerated in Latin American countries by efforts of ex-participants ofIISEE.
Enjoy Now

Mr.Victor from Ecuador

Call for Papers
IISEE Bulletin is now
accepting submissionsof papers for the seismology, earthquake
engineering, andtsunami. Developingcountries are targeted,but are not limited.
Your original papers
will be reviewed by theeditorial members andsome experts.
NO submission fee isneeded.
Try to challenge!!

Mr. Mendosa from Nicaragua

Observation ofwooden model house

Experiment

On Grant-In-Aid for 17WCEEBy Dr. Toshiaki Yokoi, Director of IISEEIn the URL of the 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering(17WCEE), the information about the GRANT-IN-AID for young generationfrom the developing countries provided by the Local Organization
Committee is found.
I recommend the ex-participants who is willing to attend 17WCEE to checkthis information, especially, qualifications in the following URL.
http://www.17wcee.jp/call.html
The information is at the bottom ofthis URL.

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By Dr. Toshiaki Yokoi, Director of IISEEDr. Daniel Abanto Cordova fromPeru who had studied in IISEE in
1987-88 in Earthquake EngineeringCourse visited IISEE on June 18,
2019. After completing the oneyear course, he went back home,and he came to Japan. He got aMaster’s degree at Tsukuba
University. He had worked in Japanfor a while. Now he succeeds in aleft to rightchemical company in the U.S.A.
Dr. Kashima, Dr. Abanto
We always welcome the visit ofand Dr. Yokoi
ex-participants. Please don’t
hesitate to contact us when you get a chance to come to Japan.