IISEE Newsletter
Apr 26 2019
Number 168

In This Issue• HANAMI -Cherry
Blossom Viewing• Introduction ofpersonal changes• Greetings from New
IISEE staff• On participants ofthe training course“Enhancement andDissemination ofEarthquake-resistantTechnology for
Buildings in Latin
America”

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HANAMI -Cherry Blossom ViewingBy Mr. Takahiro Yamada, Head of Administration Division,IISEE
April 3, IISEE had a Hanami
Lunch party. Dr. Midorikawa, thePresident of BRI and Dr. Sawachi,
the vice president joined us, andwe enjoyed full-bloomed cherry
blossoms and Japanese lunch box.

• Revision of the Freesoftware for themicrotremor array
exploration

The cherry blossom forecast in
Ibaraki prefecture said first bloom
was on March 27th, expected peakbloom date was April 5th. The
cherry blossom season is short.
Around the buildings of IISEE havea lot of cherry blossom trees, andthey are in full bloom at thebeginning of every April.
On that day the weather and also
the cherry blossoms are at theirbest for Hanami.

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Hanami is a traditional seasonal
event for Japanese. People enjoy
drinking and eating under cherry
blossoms with family, friends, andcoworkers.

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The staff of IISEE enjoyed beautiful
cherry blossoms with participants,
newcomers; Dr. Ito and Ms. Okawa
introduced themselves.
It was more chiller than last year,
but the weather was perfect for Hanami.

Earthquakes
The 2011 off the Pacificcoast of Tohoku
Earthquake
Reports of Recent
EarthquakesUtsu Catalog
Earthquake Catalog

Call for Papers
IISEE Bulletin is now
accepting submissionsof papers for the seismol og y, ea rt h qu ake
engineering, andtsunami. Developingcountries are targeted,but are n ot limited.

Introduction of personal changes
IISEE

By Dr. Takahiro Yamada, Head of Administration Division,Your original papers
will be reviewed by theeditorial members andsome experts.

As of March 31, Mr. Yoshihiro Iitake transferred to Welfare Division,
Minister's Secretariat and Mr. Takahiro Yamada from Real Estate MarketDivision, Land Economy and Construction Industries Bureau transferredtoIISEE by turns.
NO submission fee isAsof April 1st, Mai Ito joined IISEE.
needed.
Try to challenge!!

Greetings from New IISEE staff
IISEE

By Dr. Takahiro Yamada, Head of Administration Division,

I am Takahiro Yamada who was
assigned to head of administration
office, IISEE as of April 1st, 2019.
It is my second time to work in BRI, I
have worked in the accounting
department from April 1999 to June
2002, and I have worked in a training
organization called college of Land,
Infrastructure, Transport, andTourism from April 2011 to July 2013.
I hope I can use my experience inIISEE. I am looking forward to working with you from now on.

By Dr. Mai Ito, Senior Research Engineer of IISEEMy name is Mai Ito. I am the new research engineer of IISEE. I used towork at the department of architecturein Kobe University as an assistantprofessor for 6 years. My researchinterests include structural
engineering, seismic isolation systemand energy dissipation device. I amvery honored with this opportunity towork here. I would like to do my bestin my research field and also new workin IISEE.

Enjoy, NowOn participants of the training course“Enhancement and Dissemination ofEarthquake-resistant Technology for Buildings inLatin America”
By Dr. Toshiaki Yokoi, Director of IISEERecently, IISEE and JICA have selected eleven participants from sevencountries (Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Ecuador,Peru, Chile) for the mentioned training course using Spanish as theContact Us
teaching language. Among them nine engineers will attend the training
The IISEE Newsletter is course at IISEE-BRI, Tsukuba, Japan from May 16 to Jul. 12, 2019 andintended to act as a twogo-between for IISEE governmental officials to Jun. 7. The engineers’ group will move to Sanand ex-participants.
Salvador, El Salvador and attend seminars and debates about themasonry
We encourage you tocontribute a report and structure, structural experiments and visit to the site of the project
an article to this news- “Taishin” from Jul. 15 to 26, 2019, planned and held by the professors
letter. Please let usof University of El Salvador and University of Centro America “Joseknow your current
Simeon Canas”. IISEE puts an emphasis on this course for those whoactivities in yourhavecountries.
current or near future managerial functions with the role of training
engineers and or technicians, disseminating or investigating
We also welcome yourco-workers and friends earthquake-resistant construction technologies or in similar fields into register our mailing
Latin America.
list.
The remaining nine people will not be invited this year due to thelimitations of the course capacity. However, re-application after theiiseenews@kenken.go.jp
http://iisee.kenken.go.jp
next year or later will be welcome.
Dear Readers. Please let us know if you are interested in the course orfind someone around you who is interested.
Why don't we expand the safe world against earthquake disaster?

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Revision of the Free software for the microtremor
array exploration
By Dr. Toshiaki Yokoi, Director of IISEEThe revised versions of the software for the microtremor array
exploration were released on IISEE-NET HP.
SPAC2017:
http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/net/SPAC_FREE_PROGRAM/SPAC2017_Ubuntu_open4public/SPAC_PROGRAM_DOWNLOAD.html
CCA2017:
http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/net/CCA_FREE_PROGRAM/CCA2017_Ubuntu_o
pen4public/CCA_FREE_PROGRAM.html
Please take a look to the above mentioned URL if you are interested.