By Mr. Takahiro YAMADA, Head of Administration Division, IISEE, and Dr. Haruhiko Suwada, Senior Research Scientist, IISEE

Due to Covid-19, IISEE conducts Latin American Earthquake Engineering Course in 2022 fully online again as last year.
There are 10 participants include 3 executive officers from 4 countries such as Colombia (2), Mexico (1), Nicaragua (5) and Peru (2).

Please see the Newsletter attached on page 1-2.

By Dr. Bunichiro Shibazaki, Director of IISEE

Group training for the IISEE regular course for the academic year 2021-22 was completed on May 13.
During the group training, participants were divided into three courses (seismology, earthquake engineering,
and tsunami disaster prevention) and spent about eight months attending lectures and acquiring basic
and applied knowledge in each field.

Please see the Newsletter attached on page 2.

By Mr. PRATAMA Wahyudi Nasrul from Indonesia, S-Course

IISEE participants experienced study trip this year.
Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Course participants went together to
Miyagi and Fukushima Prefecture on 18 April – 21 April 2022.

Please see the Newsletter attached on page 2-5.

By Dr. Hiroto Nakagawa, Senior Research Engineer, IISEE

Sixteen participants visited National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED) on April 27th.
Three participants participated in the online lectures from their respective countries.
First, they watched an introductory video of NIED, then observed the Large-scale Earthquake Simulator.

Please see the Newsletter attached on page 5.