IISEE Newsletter
Jun 29 2017
Number 146

In This Issue• Colloquium, GeneralMeeting, FriendshipParty• Reports on Kansai
Study Trip for Latin
American Earthquake
Engineering Course• Group ofGovernment Officials
For Buildng
Technology, theLatin American
Earthquake
Engineering closed

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tel+81-29-879-0678 facsim+81-29-864-6777•Colloquium, General Meeting, Friendship Party

By Mr. Yoshihiro Iitake, Head of Administration Division, IISEENow, regular training course participants are under individual studies
which started on June 1st with their professors assigned respectively towrite master theses. Almost half of them have moved to all over Japan from
Hokkaido to Okayama-ken and been studying there.
Before their movement, IISEE held Colloquium and General Meeting on
Tuesday, May 30th and Wednesday, May 31st. Participants presented theoutline of individual training report at the Colloquium, and expressed theiropinions about the lectures and daily life at the General Meeting.
Afterword, we had a friendship party in order to encourage them to getthrough the individual training. Also, we held a birthday party which female
staffs regularly holding, and gave them heartfelt gifts and cards.

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By Mr. Eduardo Orlando HURTADO GAJARDO From Chile

Fist of all, I want to thank JICA and BRI staff forplanning and making a very good study trip for all of theparticipants of this training course. This Study trip toKansai, was very interesting for all of us.
First, we went to Nagoya and we visit the amazing
castle, it was restored and it seems us to go back in thetime of empires in Japan. We took Shinkansen to go
there and enjoyed it, too.
After that we went to Kobe and visit the Disaster
Reduction and Human Restoration Institution, we saw avery sad experience of Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake
video about a girl who lost her sister at that time. She decided to dosomething with her life in order to help other peoples as part of her life,
studying for becoming a nurse withremembering her dead sister.
Well after that we visited the Akashi
Kaikyo Bridge and it was amazing to walkinner parts that not permitted for visitors,just as an attention of the staff. We could
see the top of the bridge and how it looks
like by the sky. And we can saw specificstructural parts of it helped by staff of thebridge. We really appreciate it as not only
Akashi Kaikyo Bridge Walk
wonderful visit but amazing engineer
knowledge.
Finally, we went to Kyoto and I was impressed how to maintain old
wood patrimonial structures with same wood of origin and the technique ofjoin parts of wood pieces of roof structure. Besides we saw the To-ji in
Kyoto Minami-Ku, a very old structure with an structural axes that permits
deformation under earthquake, it is incredible is still alive more than 1000years.
we will never forget all of these memories to work for a better world
form our countries. I hope we met each other again, thanks for everything.

By Ms. Magda Nohemy CASTELLANOS OCHOA From El Salvador

Our trip began in Nagoya Castle, and we could lookaround the beautiful gardens with a nice weather.
The visit to the Castle was awesome. Outside isamazing, and inside is a littler representation of the reallife of Japan in the past. Each level of the building is amuseum and the top is an observatory. The palace wasimpressive with the delicate composition of details ofwood and art work in the walls. Kobe was Impressive,too. The memory which is kept at the Disaster Reduction
andHuman Renovation Institution is necessary to remember about thedisaster and all the reconstruction. The whole city keeps the history in theparks and statues.

I felt privileged when I met theAkashi Kaikyo Bridge and its
exhibition center, and knowing about
the building process, the redesign
caused by the earthquake and all ofthe maintenance process.
I went to the top of one ofbridge's tower; it was uniqueexperience in my life.
The Nojima Fault and thememorial park was an awesome
sample of the force of nature.
Nojima Fault
Toji was an excellent visit; wecould enter to one of the repair work of the temples. At the visit of theKinkaku-ji Temple, we could walk around the beautiful place.
The masonry buildings of the Doshisha University were an amazing
work of engineering architecture. The visit to the Fushimi Inari Taisha andthe walk through the 1,000 Torii was perfect end of this jouney.

By Mr. Dwane Roberto AMADOR ROCHA From Nicaragua

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First of all, I would like to thank JICA and BRI forgiving me the opportunity to be in this beautiful country,sharing with you and my Latin American brothers. I
would also like to thank all the companies and institutions
that have opened
their doors during
this trip which willundoubtedly be
unforgettable foreach and one of us
because of the all the teachings itleft.
It has been a fruitful experiencefrom the point of view of learning
because it allowed us to know deeply
how the Japanese people have faced
Disaster Reduction andHumaneach of their catastrophes andRenovation Institution
managed to overcome theseadversities.
It was also pleasant to connect more with its culture with visits tohistorical sites that describe its beautiful history. Thank you very much
Japan. Latin America still has a lot to learn from you.

By Ms. Tamara Carolina GOLER NUEZ From Chile

The study trip was a very enriching experience, bothfrom a professional and personal aspect. Thinking about
the fact that how Japan get up in the face of natural
disasters, the country is more prepared to face them.
One concept that I remember - referred by one
teacher – is the "coexistence", which we have to be able
to understand and prepare ourselves before the effects ofnature and know how to coexist with them from the all
point of view of engineering, construction andprevention.
There is no doubt that the most efficient learning is experimental whenthey are happened on the field.
Everything lived and experienced
through didactic activities andfield visits will be a great
contribution to our knowledges.
Japan is a wonderful country
and the people are even more;very professional people, humanquality, respect, humility,
helpfulness, organization, among
others, are some of the qualities
that have the people of thisAkashi Kaikyo Bridge
country and in particular thecoordinators, teachers and all the professionals who have worked toprepare the contents of this course, qualities that I must be highlighted.
JICA and IISEE Japan, Thank you very much for this wonderfulexperience.

Group of Government Officials For Buildng Technology,
the Latin American Earthquake Engineering closed

By Mr. Yoshihiro Iitake, Head of Administration Division, IISEEOn Friday, June 6th, a closing ceremony ofGroup of Government Officials for Building
Technology, Latin American Earthquake
Engineering Course was held in JICATSUKUBA. Nine participants from sevencounries presented their proposition ofbusiness assignments improvement plan for
their each country based on quake-resist
Mr. Ramiro’s Speechengineering technology which they learned
through the training course. They received certificates from JICA and IISEE,and Mr. Ramiro Mancheno from Ecuador made a speech on behalf of theparticipants.
I hope they could make new relationship and it will help to reduce
damage when earthquakes occur in their country.

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