Tsunami, lessons learnt from Japanese story: inamura no hi

This booklet tells the story of a man who noticed a precursor of a large tsunami at the earliest stage and led village inhabitants to a high ground by burning harvested rice sheaves. This story was based on a true story at the time of Ansei-Nankai Tsunami (1854), which claimed around 3,000 lives in the coastal areas of Western Japan.

This tsunami educational materials using "Inamura no Hi" story was funded by the Government of Japan, in collaboration with the members belonging to the Asian Disaster Reduction and Response Network (ADRRN), a network of NGOs for disaster reduction and response in the Asian region.