The Research/Paper Awards (English category) among the JGS Awards 2016 are listed below. Information of other JGS Awards are available only in Japanese. (see the awards report 2016)
The research/paper awards (English category)
| The awards recipients | Theresearch/paper title |
| Y. Fukumoto, J. Yoshida, H. Sakaguchi and A. Murakami | The effects of block shape on the seismic behavior of dry-stone masonry retaining walls: A numerical investigation by discrete element modeling (Soils and Foundations, Volume 54, No. 6, pp. 1117-1126) |
| T. Noda, S. Yamada, T. Nonaka and M. Tashiro | Study on the pore water pressure dissipation method as a liquefaction countermeasure using soil-water coupled finite deformation analysis equipped with a macro element method (Soils and Foundations, Volume 55, No. 5, pp. 1129-1138) |