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Organization

Research Division

Practical Research and Collaboration Division
Disaster Education Research and Implementation Lab
Visiting Professor
Ph.D. (Science)
Research Subject(s)
With a background in geography, I will be conducting action research with the boards of education in Miyagi and Yamagata prefectures on practical disaster education, basic disaster education, and school disaster management, with the aim of improving school safety from disasters. Specifically, I will continue to develop training programs for teachers and support the creation of school disaster manuals on grasping the disaster characteristics of schools and school districts based on the "three-step method of reading hazard maps based on topography".
Key Words
Geography / maps / hazard maps / school disaster prevention / disaster prevention education
Research Activities

I have been researching landforms and their changes as land conditions for earthquake and flood disasters, using GIS. I have also been researching disaster prevention using urban planning methods based on precedents such as The Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Act in California, in collaboration with Professor Masuda Satoshi. Since 2005, I have been seriously involved in disaster education with Professor Sato Takeshi and others. After that, I became involved in teacher training and teacher re-education at the Faculty of Education and the Professional School of Education at Yamagata University, and have mainly focused on research and education on school disaster preparedness. Especially after the Great East Japan Earthquake, I have been conducting action research, such as disaster education and disaster management training for teachers in collaboration with the Ishinomaki City Board of Education and the Boards of Education in Miyagi and Yamagata Prefectures, together with Professor Sato Takeshi, Professor Sakurai Aiko, Kitaura Sanae, Associate Professor Oda Takashi, and  Lecturer Kumagai Makoto.

Selected Works

Aiko SAKURAI, Takeshi SATO, Yoshiyuki MURAYAMA, Makoto KUMAGAI, Sanae KITAURA, Takashi ODA (2023) Development an in-service teacher training program for supporting an effective school evacuation plan: Examining emergency evacuation places during heavy rainfall. The Japanese Journal of Safety Education 23(1) pp.19-30(in Japanese)

Takeshi SATO, Masakazu HASHIMOTO, Aiko SAKURAI, Sanae KITAURA, Yuichi FUJISAKA, Yoshiyuki MURAYAMA, Makoto KUMAGAI, Takashi ODA, Tai-young YI and Masaki IKEDA (2023) Improvement of school disaster management and implementation of disaster  education for flooding risks: A case from  Oyachi Elementary School in Ishinomaki City. The JapaneseJournal of Safety Education 22(2) pp.37-48. (in Japanese)

Takashi ODA, Yutaro NASHIMOTO, Yuna HAYASHIDA, Yoshiyuki MURAYAMA & Yasunori ASHIDATE (2023) Development of  disaster  Education Courses in a Pre-Service Teacher Training University: An Introduction of a Certificate Program at Miyagi University of Education,Japan. The Japanese Journal of Safety Education 22(2), pp23-35. (in Japanese)

Yoshiyuki MURAYAMA, Aiko SAKURAI,Takeshi SATO,  Sanae KITAURA, Takashi ODA, Makoto KUMAGAI (2021) Developing an online in-service teacher training program on geomorphology and hazard map: To enhance localized shool safety from disasters. Quarterly Journal of Geography 73, pp.94-107. (in Japanese)

Hiroshi UNE, Yoshiyuki MURAYAMA (2021) How to teach local disaster risks: Reading hazard maps in light of topography. Kagaku 91(5), pp.444-448. (in Japanese)

Selected Memberships
  • The Japanese Association of Safety Education
  • The Association of Japanese Geographers
  • The Tohoku Geographical Association