2017 Fiscal year JSCE Kansai Chapter scientific conference was held at Osaka Institute of technology. Miyake-san and Sugawara-san from Takara lab attended this conference.
miyake-san gave a presentation on “RRI モデルを用いたリアルタイム浸水マッピングのため
の河川水位最適内挿法”
Sugawara-san gave a presentation on”山体地下における不飽和浸透の解析解に関する研究”.
Sugawara-san won the best presentation award in his session, congratulations~~~
Now it’s the perfect season for cheery-blossom. We had a great lunch party under the beautiful Sakura trees in front of Uji campus. Takara sensei, Sayama sensei, Inoue san, Saidera san and students kindly joined the party. 
on March 25, 2017. About 60 people from 15 different countries were celebrated Takara sensei’s 60 years birthday (Kanreki) for him. Most of the participants are the graduated students from Takara lab. Takara family members are located all around the world. Congratulations, Takara sensei, we hope you boundless happiness and a longlong life. 
DPRI annual meeting has been held on February 21 and 22, 2017.
Oral presentation
Hendy Setiawan “Assessment of the 2016 Minami-Aso Landslide in Kumamoto Prefecture Based on LiDAR Data and Numerical Simulation”
Hendy Setiawan–san won the Best Presentation Award! Congratulations~~~
Han Xue “Estimation of Non-point Source pollution in the Pingqiao River Basin of China based on a Spatial Source Hydrograph Separation Approach”
Toma E.STOYANOV “Extreme Weather Event Analysis in Southern Bulgaria and Climate Change Influence”
山本 浩大 “千種川流域を対象にしたモデルによる降雨流出・洪水氾濫総合型解析”
Eva Mia Siska “Impact of Rapid Tourism Growth on Water Scarcity in Bali, Indonesia”
Karlina “Low Flow Forecasting with Recession Analysis Approaches”
Nguyen Duc HA “Identifying Rainfall Threshold of Triggering Landslide in Halong City Based on the Empirical Approach”
The defense of Dr. Xue and Dr. Setiawan have been successfully held on January 23, 2017.
Takara-sensei, Tachikawa-sensei, Sumi-sensei, Sassa-sensei, Sayama-sensei, and students from Takara lab have attended this defense.
Dr. Xue’s defense title is “Hydrograph-Separation-based Non-pointSource Pollution Modelling in the Pingqiao River basin, China”.
Dr. Setiawan’s defense title is “Landslide Hazard Assessment on the Upstream of Dam Reservoir”.
Congratulations to Dr.Xue and Dr. Setiawan. We wish both of you have wonderful future!
Dr. Josko Troselj’s Defense has been successfully held on Oct. 22, 2016, congratulations~~
Takara-sensei, Tachikawa-sensei, Yamashiki Sensei and Sayama-sensei, students from our lab. friends of Josko san have attended this defense
Dr. Josko’s topic is “FLUVIAL INFLUENCE ON ESTUARINE SEDIMENT TRANSPORT PROCESSES AND LINKAGE OF ITS OUTFLOW DATA TO COASTAL MODELING” and achived his doctoral degree.
We wish you success in your future career and all the best!
Takara sensei, Sayama sensei and our lab memebers had a party for three main purposes: 1. Birthday celebrations for Yamamoto san and Ha san; 2. Welcome Asri san who will stay at our lab for four month; 3. celcebrate for Inoue san’s recovery. We had a great time~~~
Takara sensei and Ms. Khai Lin attended Kyoto – ASEAN Forum 2016 on the theme of “WINDOW TO ASEAN: INTERNATIONAL AND INNOVATIVE” – EXPLORING NEW HORIZONS IN COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN ASEAN AND KYOTO UNIVERSITY – which held in Pullman Kuala Lumpur City Centre on 8th – 9th September 2016. This forum was a great success, over 250 participants attended the forum. This forum brings together researchers, young researchers and young students which the aim to improve capabilities on their research, through the sharing of knowledge, experience, and wisdom. 
It was an opportunity for Takara sensei to meet up his former students and colleagues in Malaysia.
Takara sensei and two PhD students: Ms. Khai Lin Chong and Ms. Karlina from Takara Lab have participated 4th AUN/SEED-NET REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURAL DISASTER 2016 on Sept 6 and 7 at Seri Pacific Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Takara sensei had been invited to deliver a keynote speech on Sept 7.
Ms. Khai Lin had her oral presentation on Sept 6 in the session of Assessing Risks, with title ‘Estimation the Effects of Hydrological Processes in Time of Concentration’. Ms. Karlina had her oral presentation on Sept 6 in the session of Understanding Hazards, with title ‘Low Flow Forecasting Based on Recession Analysis’.
Takara sensei and our lab members celebrated the birthdays in July for Sayama sensei, Inoue san and Saima san. Our lab member Tien san prepared Vietnam dessert-Black Glutinous Rice for us, Saima san prepared Pakistan Rice and Inoue san prepared candys from each prefecture for us.
