This article describes the outline of the Oukan Gijutsu forum, which held on Jan. 2011. The objective of the forum was to demonstrate the strength of Japanese society against disasters from the viewpoint of Socio-Informatics. The Socio-Informatics is a comparatively young field of a social science and the Society of Socio-Informatics (SSI) is a new academic society. The article summarizes the SSI’s activities against the east Japan disaster. Then the summaries of the forum will be presented.

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In this paper, we describe two applications to find photo albums that have been lost during the earthquake and massive tsunami on the day of March 11th 2011. One is an archive system in which users can search photo albums using keywords attached to them. The keywords are inputted by the local persons who come to a place to look for their lost albums. The other is a facial recognition system to identify a person by comparing selected facial features from the image and a facial database. The two systems have produced the desired effect on returning the albums to their owners.

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The aim of this paper is to make clear important points of disaster volunteer from experience of volunteer activity after East Japan Great Earthquake 2011. After the earthquake, young researchers in Japan Society of Information Society (JSIS) made a volunteer team to support a suffered local town in Tohoku area. As a member of this team, I report and analyze our volunteer activity. With other actors, we make horizontal relationship which fits well for information society. From this experience, I draw important instruction for disaster volunteer activity in general.

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This document analyses Japanese society after the Great East Japan Earthquake from two points of view. First, the author investigates the historical disasters, and analyses the social changes happened after the disaster with the multi-layer moral conflict model and the alt. elite model. Then, the results of the questionnaire survey carried out June, 2012 are discussed.

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This computational social scientific study intended to inquiry into an emerging pattern of self-organized networking in social phenomena such as cooperative voluntary participation and civic engagement. Especially, the ‘Pay It Forward’ inspired networking was able to unveil the nature of varieties of social participatory cooperation and ad hoc networking patterns by artificial social simulation. It suggested that this type of self-organizing networking can be adapted in various fields such as biologically inspired computing, community based services by information communication technology, smarter networking systems and other sociological concerns. And finally, taken together, I discussed various considerable matters as the lessons from the Tohoku Earthquake Disaster in Japan at the beginning of March 2011.

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Under so unique research and education environment in Japanese universities without departments of statistics, Japanese Society of Applied Statistics has been promoting and developing several types of application of advanced statistical methodology to industries or different sciences since the establishment in 1971. The society also made dedicated efforts to establish Japanese Federation of Statistical Science Association in 2005. Recently we recommended to submit three proposals to the Japanese universities on the education of trans-disciplinary methodology for problem solving by relevant industries or academic societies under the leadership of both Japanese Federation of Statistical Science Association and Transdisciplinary Federation of Science and Technology.

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“The Japan Society for Computational Engineering and Science (JSCES)” was founded in 1995 by the first president T. Kawai and organizers of WCCM III (The Third World Congress on Computational Mechanics). JSCES has been affiliated to the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IACM) since 1995. The JSCES has currently over 900 members, all of which are automatically registered as international members of the IACM. The purpose of JSCES is to promote advances of education and technology in computational engineering by opening the meeting among the members of JSCES and the related organization. In addition, we contribute to international advancement of this field widely through the international activity.

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