When put straight a brick structured building, is a general term of building with brick masonry walls. But the interiors like roof truss, flooring and fittings are all structured of either wood or steel. From Meiji-era on, brick masonry has developed uniquely within Japan, as a new technical system. Plus, the wooden framing has seen an expansion by importing techniques form the West. However, how these independent technical systems were integrated, has not been mentioned hitherto.
 This paper studies in what relations the brick masonry and the wooden framing were used in construction of a single building by inspecting the Old Brick Warehouse of the Commercial Bank of Honjo, completed in 1896, as a case example.

 Firstly, I have analyzed the the planning of the brick masonry and wooden framing separately. As a result, overall plan of the brick masonry was possibly organized based on the Shakkan system. On the other hand, planning methods of the wooden frame is not affirmed. So, I focused on the joints of wooden frame and brick masonry.
 By this, I have pointed out that in wooden framing plans, there existed planning methods which adjusts to brick masonry patterns. In brick masonry on the other hand, ways of making design and structure compatible by modifying masonry patterns, as seen in the solution in difficulty around the opening of ventilation, could be pointed out. Though brick masonry and wooden framing each seems like an autonomic technical system, points where they must be correspondent to each other exists certainly.

 Japanese brick masonry systems, introduced by westernizing policies of the Meiji government have developed original skills by experiencing earthquakes. At the same time, it is known that they were mounted into the high standard of construction technology passed on from the early modern period of Edo.
 The significant point which I wish to point out in this paper, is that at times of these introductory period of techniques, existing technical systems does not fix its traditional forms but purposed flexibly to combine with the newly introduced system. by analyzing wooden framing within brick buildings, one could understand how Japan has introduced itself brick building techniques and how it has achieved its development further out.

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Our goal is to promote brain health through “bSports” (brain-Sports), a form of social sport competition using brain-machine interfaces. As the core technology, we have been developing an electroencephalography-based cognitive training system, “Neurotrainer,” using event-related potential as a virtual “mind switch” to control games. Here, we aimed to assess the performance of the Neurotrainer under competitive conditions between players. Fifteen pairs of healthy adults, including older people with tendency of degrading motor functions, were involved in a one-hour session of 4 games. Each player activated the mind switch to select one of eight pictograms to control his/her robot avatar for its desired action. All players regardless of age performed well at the level of about 85% success rate and reported that they had fun with our body-free technologies. These results suggest that bSports is an effective cognitive training and social activity that can be appreciated by people across all generations.

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We analyzed the difference in weight between construction materials that we measured and those calculated from blueprints for four different houses. Next, we determined the coefficient used to calculate CO₂ emissions based on the calculation using the actual measurements and those measurements taken from the blueprints. The following results were obtained.
1) The weights of the construction materials used in the bases, the building frames and the roofs that were calculated from blueprints were both heavier and lighter than the actual measured values. The weights of the materials used in the outside walls that were calculated from blueprints tended to be lighter than the actual measured values.
2) Our calculated coefficients are 98.5%～102.5% for the bases, 97.7%～105.9% for the building frames, 102.7%～-116.3% for the roofs and 126.1%～137.7% for the outside walls.

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