Japan

To understand the connections and the cascading impacts of Tsunamis, this article reviews several recent damaging tsunami events in Japan and Indonesia, and applies a cascading magnitude scale to each tsunami event to determine and categorize causes, effects, and escalation points.

This report discusses how for most major ports in Japan, a business continuity plan (Port-BCP) has been developed to cope with potential functional disorder in port operations caused by natural disasters.

This booklet includes 14 best practices on the application of technology for reducing disaster risks from China, Japan and the Republic of Korea in which the experience, impacts and results, lessons and relevant challenges are introduced.

This study aims to confirm whether there was an association between sea visibility and coastal proximity and mental health.

This week’s Manchester Briefing (Issue 40) launches the University of Manchester searchable database of international lessons on Recovery and Renewal. The new database offers a searchable function for all of the 575 individual lessons that have been

In this study, the authors propose the use of mosques as voluntary shelters for Muslim foreigners in Japan and evaluate their potential to function as shelters. Foreigners tend to be vulnerable to disasters due to religious and cultural differences. In

In this study, the researchers validated the flooding locations and times of dike breaking that had occurred during Typhoon Hagibis, which caused severe flooding in Japan in 2019. Floods can be devastating in densely populated regions along rivers, so

This study discusses when crisis strikes, why do some communities utilize evacuation shelters more than others.