Brief History

Age Fiscal
Year		 Event President
0 1948 Establishment of SEGJ/First meeting K. Iida
The First issue of the journal, Butsuri-Tanko (Geophys. Explor. in English title)
Office located at the Geol. Surv. Japan (Kawasaki)
1 1949 Issue of Survey List of Geophysical Prospecting K. Iida
2 1950 K. Iida
3 1951 Start of Spring and Fall meetings K. Iida
4 1952 K. Iida
5 1953 The 5th Anniversary K. Iida
6 1954 T. Fuchida
7 1955 K. Sasa
8 1956 K. Sato
9 1957 K. Sato
10 1958 The 10th Anniversary T. Fuchida
Special issue of Butsuri-Tanko
11 1959 T. Noguchi
12 1960 K. Iida
13 1961 Beginning of SEGJ Award K. Sato
14 1962 T. Fuchida
15 1963 Publishing of Logging and Its Application Z. Hatsuda
16 1964 H. Hayashi
17 1965 Change of organization T. Fuchida
18 1966 Bi-monthly publication of the journal K. Iida
19 1967 K. Sato
20 1968 The 20th Anniversary T. Noguchi
21 1969 Publishing of Recent Development of Geophysical Exploration M. Hayakawa
22 1970 H. Hayashi
23 1971 Beginning of student membership S. Kunori
24 1972 Publishing of Course Note Geophysics for Civil Engineering K. Nakabayashi
25 1973 A. Matsuzawa
26 1974 Re-publishing of the journal Vol. 11 No. 4 J. Suyama
27 1975 Publishing of Geophysics Utilizing Bore Hole J. Suyama
28 1976 E. Yoshizumi
29 1977 Publishing of Seismic Method for Civil Engineering S. Onodera
30 1978 The 30th Anniversary T. Tamano
31 1979 Publishing of Encycropedia of Geophysical Prospecting K. Tazime
Move of the office (Minato-ku, Tokyo)
Change of the Japanese name of the Society
32 1980 Mission on U.S. geophysical technology S. Omote
33 1981 S. Omote
34 1982 Y. Ono
35 1983 Short course of seismic exploration S. Yoshikawa
36 1984 Second mission on U.S. geophysical technology Y. Ishii
37 1985 Start of continuing education program K. Noritomi
38 1986 Change of the Japanese name of the journal from Butsuri-Tanko to Butsuri-Tansa H. Yokoyama
39 1987 Move of the office (Ota-ku, Tokyo) N. Kobayashi
40 1988 The 40th Anniversary Y. Ishii
41 1989 Publishing of Graphic Butsuri-Tansa T. Toba
Geotomography Symposium
42 1990 Publishing of Elastic Velocity of Soil and Rocks K. Taniguchi
International Symposium -Geotomography-
43 1991 Publishing of SEGJ Intern. Book Ser., No. 1, Geotomography Vol. 1 I. Tamaki
44 1992 The 2nd SEGJ/SEG International Symposium -Geotomography- K. Ogawa
Publishing of SEGJ Intern. Book Ser., No. 2, Geotomography Vol. 2
45 1993 The 45th Anniversary T. Kawamura
46 1994 K. Sassa
47 1995 The 3rd SEGJ/SEG International Symposium H. Okada
Publishing of SEGJ Intern. Book Ser., No. 1, Geotomography Vol. 3
48 1996 M. Saito
49 1997 S. Iizuka
50 1998 The 50th Anniversary K. Ogawa
Publishing of Handbook Butsuri-Tansa
The 4th SEGJ International Symposium
51 1999 Association Agreement with KSEG and SEG T. Sugiyama
52 2000

5th SEGJ International Symposium

Publishing of Application of Geophysical Methods to
Engineering and Environmental Problems (in Japanese)

 S. Ohya
53 2001 Obtain corporate status
54 2002 6th SEGJ International Symposium Y. Ashida
55 2003

55th Anniversary

Publishing of Application of Geophysical Methods to
Engineering and Environmental Problems (in English)
56 2004

7th SEGJ International Symposium

Start of joint issue of the journals with ASEG and KSEG

 K. Ushijima
57 2005 Publishing of Dictionary of Exploration Geophysics - New
Edition
58 2006

Move of the office (Higashi-Kanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)

8th SEGJ International Symposium

 T. Matsuoka
59 2007
60 2008 60th Anniversary S. Rokugawa
61 2009