The 16th Japan Earthquake Engineering Symposium calls for papers on earthquake engineering and earthquake disaster reduction. We will accept a wide range of papers, including ongoing research, various surveys, experiments, and case reports. We are also considering giving awards to young researchers, so students are also encouraged to apply. In order to ensure smooth organization of the program, abstracts should be submitted in advance. In addition to the regular sessions, there will be an open call for papers in the Organized Sessions, so please consider submitting your paper.

Papers will not be reviewed at this symposium. However, papers presented at this symposium may be submitted as reviewed papers in the 16JEES special issue of the Journal of Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering (submission fee to be paid separately). Details will be posted at a later date.

Paper presentations can be either oral or poster. We will ask for your preference at the time of paper submission, but we may not be able to accommodate your request due to the organization of the program. Please also note that, as mentioned above, papers will not be reviewed at this symposium, but may be rejected if they are deemed inappropriate as academic papers from the following perspectives

a) Insufficiently explained and extremely difficult to understand the content logically.
b) Biased toward commercial, political, or religious propaganda.
c) Contain slanderous remarks about others.
d) Do not conform to the submission and writing guidelines.

Paper Submission Fee

a. Earthquake-related natural phenomena (ground motion, subsurface structure, site effects, tsunami, historical earthquakes, etc.)

a-1 Source characteristics
a-2 Subsurface structure
a-3 Ground motions
a-4 Soil liquefaction / slope failure
a-5 Tsunamis / historical earthquakes
a-6 Others


b. Structures (seismic response, structural testing, seismic design, seismic isolation, structural control, seismic retrofit, interactions, etc.)

b-1 Underground structures / dams / soil structures
b-2 Pile and foundation structures
b-3 Soil-structure-interaction
b-4 Civil engineering structures
b-5 Building structures
b-6 Mechanical equipment
b-7 Seismic isolation / structural control system
b-8 Seismic reinforcement, new structures and materials / seismic design method (ISO) / historical structures
b-9 Others


c. Social issues (lifelines, disaster information, risk management, disaster prevention planning, recovery planning, etc.)

c-1 Lifeline
c-2 Emergency early warning / disaster information / remote sensing / real-time earthquake disaster prevention
c-3 Disaster prevention planning / regional disaster preparedness / risk management / social and economic issues
c-4 Recovery plan / disaster management in urban planning
c-5 Multi-hazards / compound and cascading disasters / wide-area disasters, Covid19
c-6 Resilience / BCP
c-7 Others


d. Damage investigation and analysis, etc.

d-1 Investigation and analysis of recent earthquake damage
d-2 Strong motion observation system and its application / structural health monitoring
d-3 Indoor damages / damage to equipment
d-4 Community survey / life restructuring
d-5 Machine learning / IoT / DX
d-6 Others