Japan

This booklet is a record of the impacts and challenges the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 brought on the postal sector in Japan.

Disaster Scope is an augmented reality (AR) application which contains flooding and fire smoke simulations with the aim of improving awareness and people’s understanding of disaster risk.

This brief presents the program "Japan-World Bank Program for Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management in Developing Countries", launched in 2014 by the Government of Japan and the World Bank.

The Program, managed by the Global Facility for Disaster

“Towards Mabi’s Recovery – Lessons One Year On” is an effort of a group of professionals and practitioners through direct field observations, interviews and document review after the 2018 West Japan flooding in Mabi, Kurashiki, in the Okayama prefecture

Japan has experienced some of the most devastating earthquakes in recent history, and even though the country has strong seismic building codes and construction techniques, it is at risk for very large loss producing events. Based on the new high

This webpage contains information on the three phases involved in publishing booklets related to the story of "Inamura no Hi." The booklets are also available to download from the webpage.

Phase 1: Development of the booklets

"Inamura no Hi" is a story

On 24 December 2004, an enormous tsunami caused by the Ansei Nankai Earthquake struck Hiromura Village in Japan (presently Hirogawa-cho, Wakayama Prefecture). On that occasion, Hamaguchi Goryo, a squire of the village, set fire to inamura, which were

The author compared two municipalities’ difference of recovery speed and the quality of relocation housing; Shinchi town and Soma city, which are this project subjects, had contrasting planning processes from 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami disaster.