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This plan is a assessement of climate change impacts on seven fields including the agriculture, forestry and fisheries industries, and 56 items in Japan by the end of this century from the three viewpoints of significance, urgency and confidence.
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This manual is aimed to help households get fully prepared for an earthquake directly hitting Tokyo and other various disasters. It is tailored to the various local features of Tokyo, its urban structure, and the lifestyles of its residents, and contains

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This short article explains the management process of the recovery and reconstruction utilized by the Tohoku Regional Bureau — an inter-organizational process — from a business process management perspective and creates a simple organization construction diagram of the entire process.
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This paper presents the quantification of the "permanent" socio-economic impacts of the Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) earthquake in 1995 by employing a large-scale panel dataset of 1,719 cities

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This report presents good practices in the promotion of economic empowerment of women in the post-disaster situations through entrepreneurship development in Japan and the Asia Pacific region.
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This report presents the outcome of a project carried out with the aim to establish an efficient system of infection surveillance to cover all of the clinics in Rikuzen-Takata of Japan in the wake of the the Great East Japan Earthquake – using only the resources that were locally available: The project also aimed to maintain this system until most of the evacuation centres would be closed.
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The study aimed to examine the lessons and learned older people faced as a result of their displacement, and to assess the impact of the disaster on their wellbeing and the forms of support available to them.
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This report provides a description of the accident and its causes, evolution and consequences, based on the evaluation of data and information from a large number of sources available at the time of writing. It consists of a report by the IAEA Director

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