The Japanese Committee for Rock Mechanics (JCRM) - Japan National Group for ISRM - is pleased to extend an invitation to you to the 8th Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium “ARMS8”, the 2014 ISRM International Symposium. The symposium will be held on 14-16 October, 2014 in Sapporo, a modern and beautiful city in Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan. The theme of the symposium is ‘Rock Mechanics for Global Issues - Natural Disasters, Environment and Energy - ’. The goal of the symposium is to respond to those issues and to promote the exchange of knowledge and experiences in various areas of the rock mechanics and rock engineering. On behalf of JCRM, we invite all of you to join ASRM8 in Saporo

Prof. Norikazu Shimizu, Chairman of the Organizing Committee

Prof. Katsuhiko Kaneko, Chairman of the Scientific Committee