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Photos of U-Inspire national chapters in Nepal, India and Indonesia
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National chapters from the U-INSPIRE Alliance start to log their voluntary commitments

U-INSPIRE India, Nepal, and Indonesia have become the first national chapters of an alliance of youth and young professionals to register their work in UNDRR's Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments online platform.
The SRSG with the two ministers in Japan
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Japan calls for “adaptive recovery” in response to climate crisis

Following Japan’s declaration in June that climate change is a “climate crisis,” Japan’s Minister of the Environment, Mr. Shinjiro Koizumi, and the Minister of State for Disaster Management, Mr. Ryota Takeda, announced a new joined-up approach to preventing disasters and building resilience.
Group Photo with ARISE Japan members
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ARISE Japan’s activity plan is the first voluntary commitment published by an ARISE national network

The ARISE national network in Japan (ARISE Japan) just became the first national network to publish its activity plan on UNDRR’s Voluntary Commitments online platform.
Statements and messages

Thematic Session on climate change and disaster risk reduction - TICAD IV

THEMATIC SESSION ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND DISASTER RISK REDUCTION -TICAD IV 28 August 2019 - Yokohama, Japan Statement Ms. Mami Mizutori SRSG for DRR and Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Check against delivery I can only agree with the
Student teachers visiting the exhibition space at Arahama Elementary School in Sendai, Japan, for World Tsunami Awareness Day
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School for tsunami risk draws crowds

A former elementary school on the coast of Japan has been turned into a centre for raising awareness about tsunami risk. It saved the lives of 320 people who evacuated to its roof top.
Mother and child safe on the top of a Sendai tsunami evacuation tower in today's evacuation exercise
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Sendai responds to tsunami alerts

The Sendai area of Japan which was badly affected by the 2011 tsunami today marked World Tsunami Awareness Day with a major exercise along its vulnerable coastline.
Fumihiko Imamura, Professor of Tsunami Engineering at Tohoko University
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Pollution creates 'black tsunami' risk

Renowned tsunami expert Prof. Fumihiko Imamura uses the occasion of World Tsunami Awareness Day to draw attention to the threat of "black tsunamis" caused by pollution of the seas
Documents and publications
Working papers

Disasters, deaths and the Sendai Framework’s target one: a case of systems failure in Hiroshima landslide 2014, Japan

From the 19th to 21st of August 2014, the city of Hiroshima in Japan experienced a torrential rainfall triggering 166 landslides, which led to 107 debris flows and 59 shallow slides. These landslides were compounded by flash flooding. The consequence of

Documents and publications
Working papers

Eight years after Fukushima nuclear accident - Community recovery and reconstruction from nuclear and radiological disasters – a case of Kawauchi village and Tomioka town in Fukushima

On 11 March 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami severely damaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP). Large radioactivity released induced multi-hazard disasters on human livelihoods and ecosystems in the Fukushima

Documents and publications
Working papers

Disaster preparedness and complex adaptive systems: a government continuity plan for a self-organizing community

The goal of this paper is to examine how government continuity planning contributes to strengthening the public sector’s disaster preparedness, resulting in enhanced resilience of the public sector. The paper analyzes basic principles of government