Report on 'UN/ISDR comprehensive tsunami disaster prevention training course'

Technical memorandum of PWRI no. 4114:

This is the report of the training course activities and its achievement. This project has been conducted to make good use of Japanese experience of tsunami countermeasures for developing countries.

The course, held 2 June to 11 July 2008, with the support of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), had 11 course participants from four countries: India, Indonesia, the Maldives and Sri Lanka, including section-chief–level government administrators and responsible for promoting tsunami disaster mitigation in their home countries.

During the 1st, 2nd and 4th weeks, the participants mainly had lectures and exercises on tsunamis, coastal vegetation, and other tsunami related issues. In the 3rd and 5th weeks, to learn tsunami countermeasures and the actual condition of local disaster mitigation in Japan, the participants visited two tsunami-prone areas, the Sanriku coast area and Kii peninsula, and interviewed local municipal personnel and residents.