IISEE Newsletter
Mar 29 2019
Number 167

In This Issue• Twelve Persons fromNine Countries Jointhe GlobalSeismologicalObservation Training
Course for TwoMonths• Address in reply onbehalf of all theParticipants of the
Global SeismologicalObservation Course• Visit the U.S.

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Twelve Persons from Nine Countries Join theGlobal Seismological Observation Training Course
for Two Months
By Mr. Yoshihiro Iitake, Head of Administration Division, IISEEGlobal Seismology Observation course
started on Jan 16th has closed on Mar 8thFriday. The Graduation ceremony washeld in JICA Tsukuba, Mr. Taguchi,
Principal Deputy-Director, Arms Control
and Disarmament Division,Disarmament,Non-Proliferation and Science
Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairsof Japan sent a congratulatory address.
All 12 participants from Egypt, India,Iran, Pakistan, Solomon Islands, SriLanka, Timor Leste, Tonga, and Tuvalu
received the certificate from Mr.
Takahashi, Director general of JICA
Tsukuba and Dr. Midorikawa, thepresident of BRI.
Ms. Shimaa from Egypt made anaddress by the representative ofparticipants in response.

Mr. Kazuho TAGUCHI,
Principal Deputy-Director,
Arms Control and Disarmament Division,Disarmament,
Non-Proliferation and Science Department,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

Dr. Midorikawa,the president of BRI.

The training period was about twomonths, but in the training program,participants acquired knowledge of theCTBTO regime and the role ofseismology in the International
EarthquakesMonitoring System (IMS). They also
Mr. Takahashi,
The 2011 off the Pacific study global seismological observation
Director general of JICA Tsukuba
coast of Tohoku
technologies for monitoring nuclear tests
Earthquakeand earthquakes and acquire data
Reports of Recent
analytical techniques to discriminate nuclear tests from natural
Earthquakes
earthquakes.
I hope participants spread their knowledge which got in Japan to their
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country.
Earthquake Catalog
I'm looking forward to their success.

Mr. Carlos from Solomon Islands

Call for Papers
IISEE Bulletin is now
accepting submissionsof papers for the seismol og y, ea rt h qu ake
engineering, andtsunami. Developing
countries are targeted,but are n ot limited.
Your original papers
will be reviewed by theeditorial members andsome experts.
NO submission fee isneeded.
Try to challenge!!

Enjoy, Now

Mr. Max from Tuvalu

Address in reply on behalf of all the Participantsof the Global Seismological Observation Course
By Shaimaa Ali Mamoun KHER from Egypt

Kon-nichiwa,
Mr. Kazuho TAGUCHI, Principal Deputy-Director,
Arms Control and Disarmament Division, Disarmament,
Non-Proliferation and Science Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs ofJapan
Dr. Mitsumasa Midorikawa, President of BRI,
Mr. Masayuki Takakhashi, Director General of JICA –Tsukuba center
Respected Sensei, distinguished guests, fellow participants, ladies andgentlemen.
Watashiwa Shaimaa desu.
Konnichiwa. Egypt kara kimashita.
Dozo yoroshiku onegaishimasu.
I am much honored today to speak
on behalf of the 2018-Global
Seismological Observation course
participants, who had justcompleted their training.
I am also glad to have thisMs. Shaimaa Ali Mamoun KHER from
opportunity to express our feelings
Egyptand grateful sense to all of you.
Although we are coming fromdifferent countries, speaking different languages, different cultures,different religions,….. but.. we managed to be united, succeed in
becoming friends and could find the ways to contact and understandeach other.
The past two months were very special, fruitful and wonderful for us.
These two months of training consisted of excellent lectures andinteresting subjects delivered by BRI, IISEE professors, experts from
JMA, JWA and CTBTO. All of these useful lectures improved ourknowledge and broadened our views of monitoring technology applicable
to discriminate nuclear explosions and earthquakes. I am confident that
we all have achieved the main objective of this course.
I would like to express here that we really get impressed a lot ofJapanese lifestyle, as we saw the safe and very clean country, the hardworking attitude of the people, everything very well organized and allContact Usobey the rules in every step. I have the honor to mention that we, inEgypt recently introduced an experiment for Japanese school to educate
small kids the acting, learning and behave in a manner like Japanese.
Oh, it’s time to say good bye.
We all are excited to go back homes tomorrow to our family and loved
ones. But, honestly, there is some sadness in our hearts to leave thisbeautiful country, the most helpful and kind people, leaving our friends
from different countries. It is hard to imagine that we are travelling
tomorrow without Sakuma-san and Hiko-san to be sure that we are wellsafe and onboard in the proper time of our flights.
We are sincerely grateful for the Japanese Government, Ministry ofForeign Affairs (MOFA), JICA, IISEE and BRI for your warm welcome,continuous caring for comfortable living in Japan. We all thank you forallowing us to participate in the course and to have the opportunity toshare the experiences with our families and friends. We gained a lot
from such experience like new friendships, huge platform forseismology, respecting the difference ones……… and the only thing that I
lost was weight and it is also another benefit for me.
Finally, we wish this country and its friendly people to remain safe andpleased forever, and also the world in peace and harmony with anuclear-free environment.
Actually I think 3 or 5 minutes are not enough for expressing ourfeelings and experiences here…………….
So, Doumo Arigatou Gozaimashita.

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Visit the U.S.

By Dr. Takumi Hayashida, Senior Research Scientist, IISEEBuilding Research Institute has a long-term researcher dispatch
program that makes it possible for young researchers to conduct studies
at foreign universities or research institutes. This time I have been
selected as the dispatch researcher and I will study at University ofCalifornia, Berkeley (UCB) in the United States from April 1, 2019 toBack Numbers
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January 31, 2020. UCB has many seismologist and various leading-edge
studies from fundamental studies to practical applications areconducted. There are many earthquakes both in Japan and the West
Coast of the U.S., but research approaches and utilizing methods ofseismic data seem to be somewhat different, so that I would like tolearn advanced technologies and have deeper discussions with many
researchers on my research topics. I’m really looking forward to myvisit, but on the other hand I’m worried about new environment anddifferent culture (I wonder if IISEE participants may have the same
feelings before moving to Japan…). I’m afraid that I will not able tocontribute to the IISEE mission during my visit to the U.S., but I reallywould like to make use of my new knowledge, experience and ideas toIISEE training course after returning to Japan.
Please drop in when you happen to be in the neighborhood during myvisit.

Dr. Hayashida (left) and Participants of Global Seismological Observation course