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Displaying 15 of about 43 resultsARISE Japan is hosting its fourth annual public symposium on 11 March 2019.
Japanese businesses have learned to put disaster risk front and center in terms of their business management as well as social responsibility in the three-decade-long “Heisei” era, which is set to end in early 2019. This symposium will explore the technology and social psycholo…
The World Tsunami Museum Conference will be organized at Ishigaki Island, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, on 5th November 2017, which is World Tsunami Awareness Day.
The organizers of this event are the UNISDR Office in Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), working closely with partners in Japan…
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A series of commemorative events on disaster risk reduction (DRR) is planned in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan for January 2015. Among these: the 20th commemoration of the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake; the 10th year of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA); and the 10th year of establishment of the International Recovery Platform (IRP). These fo…
JICA together with UNISDR and other partners organized a series of meetings as part of national consultation in Japan for the HFA 2 among government agencies and research institutes. Three consultative meetings took place between November 21, 2012 and February 27, 2013.
International cooperation towards the creation of a society safe and secure against disaster
As a 10-year anniversary of the Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution (DRI), from 'Hyogo' which led disaster assistance in the 2011 great east Japan earthquake, this forum proposes the importance of creation of a society that is safe and secure aga…
In conjunction with the “High Level International Conference on Large-Scale Natural Disasters”, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Government of Japan, the Cabinet Office of Japan (CAO), the International Recovery Platform (IRP), and the Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) are jointly organizing the third expert group meeting to share exper…
The 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR11) – Revealing Risk, Redefining Development – is a major initiative of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR). It contributes to achieving the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) by monitoring risk patterns and progress in disaster risk reduction. Importantly, it provi…
Developing a roadmap for the roll-out of the campaign in Asia.
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Urban Resilience refers to the ability of any urban system to withstand and quickly recover from all plausible shocks and stresses, and maintain continuities of its functions. Achieving and sustaining urban resilience is essential for cities to continue its role for socioeconomic transformation, wealth generation, prosperity, and…
ARISE Japan is hosting its third annual public symposium. The 2018 symposium will explore how the private sector may contribute to resilient communities through a multi-stakeholder panel discussion with panelists representing government, local government, civil society, academia, and the private sector.
This symposium is open to the wider private secto…
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The discussions at the Forum will dwell on the role of private sector in disaster recovery. It will showcase primarily the experiences and lessons of private sector, including its partnership with the public sector as well as the initiatives that target the disabled, senior citizens, and other marginalized groups.
The outcome of the…
The 2006 Tokyo Action Plan on the International Programme on Landslides (IPL) was adopted by the international community. It proposed the global cooperating Network of the IPL, and established the IPL Global Promotion Committee and the IPL World Centre as its secretariat to coordinate and support implementation of the International Programme on Landslid…
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14:00 – 17:30 (JST)
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Building on the three previous World Tsunami Museum Conferences, the Fourth World Tsunami Museum Conference (WTMC4) will be held at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, Sendai City, Japan with a focus on “Roles of Youth and Tsunami Museums for resili…
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This webinar intends to mark the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2021, focusing on Northeast Asia regional cooperation for technology application for disaster risk reduction. It will profile good practices and lessons from China, Korea, and Japan to leverage frontier technologies to ensure resilience and mitigate disaste…
The 2nd World Tsunami Museum Conference (WTMC) 2018 will be organized in Tokyo, Japan, on 30th November 2018.
The organizers of this event are the UNISDR Office in Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, and Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), working closely with partners in Japan.
In November 2017, the first WTMC wa…