※Please note that the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies　(GRIPS) will be closed for the year-end and New Year holidays from Saturday, December 28, 2013 until Sunday, January 5, 2014.

National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) International Liaison Office

Dear SSJ-Friends,

We are pleased to invite you to the next GRIPS Forum at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies on January 6.

*Please register at gripsforum@grips.ac.jp with your name, affiliation, job title, phone number or email address by December 27 (Fri) without changing the title.
*If you are arriving by a private car, please let us know the car information (type, color, and number) in advance so that we can register it for campus entry permission.

Date: Monday, 6　January, 2014
Time: 16:40-18:10
Venue: GRIPS　Sokairo Hall, 1st Floor
Speaker: Dr. Shigeru Morichi, Senior Professor; Director of Policy Research Center, GRIPS
Theme: Required Policies for Aged Infrastructures
Language: Japanese (English simultaneous interpretation
provided)

After the collapse of bridges on interstate freeway, “America in Ruins” was published in early 1980’s which brought the impact on the improvement of the policies for aged infrastructures and related research activities. However, bridge accidents have occurred almost every year still now. The research on asset management for infrastructure and the measurements have been implemented in Japan, and additional policies were introduced especially after the collapse of the Sasago Tunnel in 2012. In this forum the lessons from the US experience and require policies in engineering and institution will be discussed.

Speakers’ Profile:
1966-1967 Japan National Railway
1967-1975 Research Assistant, Tokyo Institute of
Technology
1975-1987 Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute
of Technology
1987-1996 Professor, Tokyo Institute of
Technology
1996-2004 Professor, The University of Tokyo
2002- Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute
of Technology
2004-2009 Professor, National Graduate Institute
for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
2004- President, Institute for Transport
Policy Studies (ITPS)
2004- Board member, Research and
Education Board, GRIPS
Program Director; Development Policy Program, GRIPS Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo
2005- Program Director, Disaster
Management Policy Program, GRIPS
2009- Senior Professor, GRIPS
President, International Urban Studies Institute
2011- Director, Policy Research Center

*** GRIPS Forum ***
Since its establishment in 1997, the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), as the only graduate school in Japan specializing in policy research, has promoted education and research on a wide range of policy issues.
Utilizing our vast policy network, this Forum invites leaders from various fields including government, academia and business, as well as staff from our own faculty, to deliver lectures on current policy concerns.
The Forum welcomes attendance of GRIPS faculty and students as well as participants from outside the university. Simultaneous interpretation will be available (Japanese/English).

For Access & Map to the GRIPS campus:
http://www.grips.ac.jp/en/about/access/
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-8677

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For registration and inquiries, please contact: Ms. Iso

gripsforum@grips.ac.jp or 03-6439-6037
http://www.grips.ac.jp/
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