I	REGIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE CRUST IN METROPOLITAN AREAS FOR PREDICTION OF STRONG GROUND MOTION
1. 2. 3.	Deep Seismic Exploration Deep Drilling Characterization of Earthquake Faults and Crustal Structure
II	SIGNIFICANT IMPOROVEMENT OF SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF STRUCTURES
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.	Establishment of Utilization System for 3-D Full Sale Earthquake Testing Facility "E-Defense" Test and Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Structures Test and Analysis of Soil-Pile-Structure Systems Test and Analysis of Conventional Wooden Structures Development of Advanced Control System for E-Defense Development of a 3D Ground Motion Database
III	ADVANCED DISASTER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
1.	Development of Intergrated Earthquake Disaster Simulation Systems
	(1) Large-scale distributed simulation architecture (2) Risk-adaptive information technology using spatial-temporal region management (3) Multi-phase simulations on disaster progress, emergency response and recovery
2.	Development of Frontier Simulation Technologies
3.	Development of Simulation System and its Applications for Catastrophic Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Response in Mega-Cities Facing the Pacific
	(1) Simulation of strong ground motion and its application to disaster mitigation (2)Development of simulation methods to evaluate seismic performance of large scale lifeline networks and technologies to strengthen them (3) Estimation of catastrophic tsunami damage and development of reducaion stragegy (4) Participatory decision making system for disaster mitigation stragtegies based on an intergrated earthquake simulator (5) Improvement of disaster management capability using earthquake disaster response simulator based on the "New Public Management" framework (6) Seven related studies on disaster response strategy
4.	Development of Advanced Robots and Information Systems for Disaster Response
IV	INTEGRATION OF EARTHQUAKE DISASTER MITIGATION RESEARCH RESULTS
1. 2. 3.	Retrofit of Existing Wooden Structures Management of Disaster Information Recovery and Reconstruction