The Annual Training on Seismology, Earthquake Engineering and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation courses started on October 4th in cooperation with GRIPS and JICA. The participants will visit the affected sites of the Great East Japan Earthquake in November to learn about the situation of the damage and the reconstruction. The last 3 months of the course are assigned for individual

study, in that each participant makes a research on specific subjects to cope with the individual problems of the participants’ respective countries.

A total of 1,601 participants from 98 countries in the world participated in the IISEE training including this time and other trainees who joined courses that BRI held so far more than two months (among them 1,078 participants from 80 countries joined annual training courses).

Participants (21 persons, 15 countries):

Armenia, Chile (2), China (2), Dominican Republic, Indonesia (2), Iran, Myanmar (2), Nepal, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinean(2), Peru, Philippine (2), Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda

(ABC order): Seismology Course: 9, Earthquake Engineering-course: 8, Tsunami Course: 4

Hajime KUROSAWA

Head of Administration Division, IISEE

Recently we are occasionally getting information about your academic and/or professional activities among them your publications and presentations of which topics are directly/indirectly related Master Report and/or Individual Study.

We wish to collect the information systematically to grasp the activities of ex-participants and ask you for your kind collaboration.

This information can be used for explaining the importance of the IISEE training course to the government of Japan, especially, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and also to Japan International Cooperation Agency.

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When you have presentation in some meetings (conferences, congress etc.) about the result of the study that you have conducted for Master Report and/or when you submit it to some journals (including Extended Abstract, Proceedings and Conference paper) for publishing:

+ Please consult beforehand to your supervisor and advisor, then get her/his agreement for being co-author, for presentation and/or publishing.

+ Please write "This study was conducted as a part of the training course of International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Building Research Institue, Japan that is financially

supported by Japan International Cooperation Agency from Oct., 2011 to Sep., 2012." in "Acknowledgements", when you talk and/or publish the result of study for Master Report as it is.

+ Please write "This study was partially conducted as a part of the training course of International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Building Research Institue, Japan that is financially supported by Japan International Cooperation Agency from Oct., 2011 to Sep., 2012." in Acknowledgements, when you talk and/or publish the result of study for Master Report after improving it significantly.

+ Please inform afterward about your presentation and/or publishing to iisee@kenken.go.jp . The information needed for presentation is Authors name and affiliation, title of presentation, title of conference, year of holding, Venue. For publishing Authors name and affiliation, title of paper, title of journals (including Expanded Abstract, Proceedings and Conference paper), volume number, starting and ending page numbers, year of publishing.

Toshiaki YOKOI

Chief Research Scientist, IISEE

IISEE received a report on recent earthquake in Costa Rica as "The Guanacaste (Costa Rica) Earthquake of September 5th, 2012 (mw 7,6)"" by Rafael Barquero who joined IISEE in 1987-88 (S-Course) and Wilfredo Rojas, National Seismic Network (RSN) Costa Rica.

http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/special2/20120905costarica.htm

IISEE appreciate the information from ex-participants as indicated above site.

In 1996 I have moved to IISEE. Since then I have worked for the training course as a lecturer and also as the course leader of Seismology course. It was announced in a meeting co-hosted by the World Bank and Japanese Government in Sendai last week that it is urgently needed to integrate disaster risk management into development planning. It is expected that the ex-participants of IISEE training courses are strongly related to both of disaster prevention and development issues and therefore play leading rules in their home countries for the mentioned integration. IISEE including me wish to support them through the capacity development of young generation.

Toshiaki Yokoi

Chief Research Scientist, IISEE