Updated:   3 February 2024

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Toru Nakagawa (OGU, WTSP Project Leader)   "TRIZ Home Page in Japan":

     http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/

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Dear TRIZ Colleagues and WTSP Members

Hello, How are you, your family, and the people in your country?

I wrote in my last Update Announcement (Feb. 4) as:
   Last December and January, I was working mostly on the
    issue of "Short-Term Prediction of Earthquakes, Research
    and Application".

    This is a crucial issue in Japan, because we experienced
      the Hanshin-Awaji EQ Disaster (1995) and
      the East-Japan EQ Disaster (2011)

      and now an even larger EQ (Nankai EQ) is foreseen
        in the central and west regions in Japan
        with the probability of 70-80% in 30 years.

      Seismic Society of Japan (SSJ) and the Government regard
        the short-term prediction of earthquakes
        is currently impossible and
        decline to make efforts for such a research.

    I joined Earthquake Prediction Society of Japan (EPSJ) in 2015
      and am now trying to promote a research project in EPSJ
      (a small academic society with only about 100 members).

      You may see my several articles in Japanese in my website.

    Please give me a few more weeks to introduce them in English,
I have made a new folder 'eEQP' directly under the 'eTRIZ' root
  folder, to show short introductions in English to all my
  Japanese articles on EQP.  Such articles are:

[1] eEQP Index Page (for the 3rd time) (Toru Nakagawa)

[2] Links to EPSJ (Earthquake Prediction Society of Japan) website.

[3] Book Reviews written by Nakagawa and posted in the Amazon site:

  (a) T. Rikitake: "Earthquake Prediction: Development and Prospects"
        (2001), review by TN  (Apr. 2015)
  (b) J. Tomari: "130 Years of Earthquake Prediction Research in Japan:
        From the Meiji Era to the Great East Japan Earthquake" (2015),
        review by TN (Jun. 2023)
  (c) T. Yoshida: "Can We Find Earthquake Precursors? - Multiple
        Perspective Observation with Radio Waves" (2016),
        review by TN (Jan. 2024)

[4] Presentation by Toru Nakagawa, EPSJ Annual Conf., Dec. 22, 2023
      "On the Direction of Development of Earthquake Prediction Research"

      Paper in proceedings, Presentations slides, and Presentation
        video are posted in Japanese in "TRIZ Home Page in Japan". (Dec. 25, 2023)

   Abstract:
      Based on the theory of plate tectonics, recent seismology
      has enabled long-/medium-term probabilistic forecasting of
      earthquakes (EQs), using the analysis of seismic motion with
      networks of seismographs and the analysis of crustal motion
      measured by geodetic satellites.

      But it avoids the research of short-term/imminent prediction
      of EQs, assuming that such prediction is currently impossible.

      However, most of the public wants to make the short-term/
      imminent EQ prediction possible to reduce the EQ disaster;
      and this desire is exactly the goal of the Earthquake
      Prediction Society of Japan (EPSJ).

      The present paper discusses the methodology for realizing
      the goal. Our basic strategy is to capture the precursor
      phenomena. We take the approach of experimental science,
      relying on observations and experiments rather than theories,
      and we also focus on electromagnetic phenomena rather than
      mechanical phenomena.

      In particular, the present paper notes the observation of
      signals in the underground electric field by Minoru Tsutsui
      (2022) and therefore proposes to start a research project
      to verify the signals as EQ precursors by simultaneous
      observation at multiple sites and to establish a method for
      short-term/imminent prediction of EQs.
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   Since the end of 2022, I have been calling in EPSJ for
   'a cooperative research project by several research groups to
   establish a reliable EQ prediction method'.
   EPSJ is a small society of about 100 members and has a difficulty
   in obtaining research funding.

   I have decided to make every effort to make it a success,
   in order to "Save Japan by Reducing Disaster due to Great EQ(s)
   foreseen in the near future".
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   This means that I will not have so much time to work for the
   WTSP project as before. This is indeed a pity for me and for the WTSP project.

   I sincerely wish TRIZ Leaders in the world, especially in the
   countries active in TRIZ and yet incomplete of Country Parts
   of World WTSP Catalogs, to contribute your manuscripts to
   the World WTSP Catalogs.

   I promise to edit such manuscripts and to complete the World
   WTSP Catalogs in the Gamma Edition.
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  All the details of these articles are posted on my website
    "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" in Japanese and (briefly) in English.

I will write (in the next [WTSP] Letter) what we, together
  you must complete the Gamma Edition of the World WTSP Catalogs of TRIZ Sites with you all.

    Let's work Together! Connected !!

     Best wishes,

     Toru

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Toru Nakagawa,  Dr.,  Professor Emeritus, Osaka Gakuin University

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          This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [For sending Update Announcements] Editor of the "TRIZ Home Page in Japan":

      https://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/">URL:https://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/

Project Leader of World TRIZ-related Sites Project (WTSP) Director of CrePS Institute:

      Publication of "TRIZ Practices and Benefits" book series  (in Japanese)

     3-1-13 Eirakudai, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-0086, Japan.

     Phone & FAX:  +81-4-7167-7403

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Updated:13 November 2023

toru nakagawa

Toru Nakagawa (OGU, WTSP Project Leader) 

    "TRIZ Home Page in Japan":

     http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/

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Dear TRIZ Colleagues and WTSP Members

Hello, How are you, your family, and the people in your country?

I have updated "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" on Nov. 9 and yesterday:

       https://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/

    My Website "TRIZ Home in Japan" celebrated its 25th Anniversary on Nov. 1.

    It serves as an open forum for information exchange for better understanding and usage of Creative Problem Solving Methodologies.

    I am very grateful to you all, including authors, co-authors, translators, and readers in Japan and around the world, for

    your continuing support.

[1]  On the 25th Anniversary of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan"

      ... The WTSP Project for creating Catalogs of TRIZ-related Websites in the World has been carried out for nearly 6 years.

      We presented our WTSP Reports last September at the Japan TRIZ Symposium and at ETRIA TFC.

      In the English pages, I have posted the full paper and presentation video (15 slides, 11 minutes).

      Last year I finished the WTSP World Catalog of Around-TRIZ Websites.

      However, the World Catalogs of TRIZ Websites are still insufficient due to the lack of contributions from many countries.

      Many TRIZ people support the WTSP project, but very few of them actually work to build the Catalogs.

      Many of them say "too busy to do the voluntary work for WTSP".

      The key to overcoming this difficulty must be the recognition of the possible Values of the WTSP Catalogs.

      The  World WTSP Catalogs are valuable for TRIZ experts to show their excellent websites and to overview the progress

      and activities of TRIZ in the world.

      All such Values can be created only by the collaboration of TRIZ leaders and colleagues around the world.

      The Catalogs, in fact, are much more valuable for numerous TRIZ learners and users in the world.

      We will make the World WTSP Catalogs more "Useful and Attractive", step by step.            

      Last June I posted a Forum page "On Earthquake Prediction Research and Disaster Mitigation".

      Since this is a crucial issue in Japan, I have started to support a research project for earthquake prediction.

(2) A Brief History of 25 Years of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" (Posted on LinkedIn and this Website,)  25th Anniversary 2023 11 14 131949

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  The figure (attached) shows a brief history of the Website "TRIZ Home Page in Japan".

     It is designed on the basis of my Site Introduction (2020) for the World WTSP Catalogs.  See:

       Best 4 Slides from My 21 Years of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan", )

       Site Introduction (Features and Selected articles) of

         "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" for the World WTSP Catalogs.

    [1] "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" was established in Japanese and in English (Nov. 1998).

    [2] The essence of TRIZ in 50 Words (in 'Learning and Applying the

        Essence of TRIZ with Easier USIT Procedure', (ETRIA TFC2001, Nov. 2001).

    [3] Six-Box Scheme: A New Paradigm for Creative Problem Solving (ETRIA TFC2006, Nov. 2006).

    [4] CrePS: A New Target beyond TRIZ (in 'CrePS (General

        Methodology of Creative Problem Solving) beyond TRIZ:

        What, Why, and How?' (TRIZCON2016, Jun. 2016).

    [5] 'Liberty vs Love' as the Principal Contradiction of Human

        Culture, and 'Ethics' as the Solution Direction, (ICCI (Intern'l Conf. of Creativity and Innovation) 2018

           (Sept. 2018).

    [6] WTSP (World TRIZ-related Sites Project) for Creating the

        Catalogs of TRIZ and Around-TRIZ Websites in the World.

        WTSP Report (6) (ETRIA TFC, Sept. 2023).

   I hope this Home Page is useful for you readers to solve your various problems.

    Let's work Together! Connected !!

     Best wishes,

     Toru

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Toru Nakagawa,  Dr.,  Professor Emeritus, Osaka Gakuin University

E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [Main email address.  For receiving.]

          This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [For sending (& receiving)]

          This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [For sending Update Announcements] Editor of the "TRIZ Home Page in Japan":

      https://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/">URL:https://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/

Project Leader of World TRIZ-related Sites Project (WTSP) Director of CrePS Institute:

      Publication of "TRIZ Practices and Benefits" book series  (in Japanese)

     3-1-13 Eirakudai, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-0086, Japan.

     Phone & FAX:  +81-4-7167-7403

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