Seismological Society of Japan


The Seismological Society of Japan or SSJ is a learned society with the goal of advancing the understanding of earthquakes and other seismic phenomena.
WWW zisin.jp

History

John Milne joined James Alfred Ewing, Thomas Lomar Gray and Thomas Corwin Mendenhall in founding the Seismological Society in 1880. These men were teaching at the Imperial College of Tokyo and were foreign advisors to the government in Meiji period Japan.
The founding president of the society was Hattori Ichizo.

Publications

The organization publishes the Journal of the Seismological Society of Japan abbreviated at "J Seismol Soc Jpn". The publication is also known as Zisin, which is a syllabic abbreviation.
The SSJ also sponsors the journal Earth, Planets and Space.