Since immediately after the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake, researchers in IRIDeS have continuously been collecting and analyzing information based on each research field. Today, we organized an emergency meeting and a lecture open to the public. During the lecture, Professor Shinji Toda, an expert in active faults, stated the following, regarding the results of analyzations so far: “The earthquake in Kumamoto occurred by the movement of a part of an active fault near the junction of two fault zo...

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The long-awaited Sendai Subway Tozai (E/W) Line finally started operation in December 2015. The IRIDeS building has become very accessible, with only a three-minute walk from Aobayama subway station. Today, Deputy Director Prof. Makoto Okumura, a specialist on transportation planning, talks about “university and subway.”  Prof. Okumura: “Mt. Aoba where the IRIDeS Building is located in the place renowned feudal warlord Masamune Date chose to build his castle. It was “impregnable,” prot...

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The new Japanese academic year has just started this April 1, five years after the Great East Japan Earthquake. The designated period for intensive reconstruction is now over, and there is less social attention and support for the disaster areas. In this situation, however, we would like to initiate new projects with unconventional ideas, taking advantage of the multidisciplinary and practical features of IRIDeS.  IRIDeS starts an “Area-Unit system” from this academic year, so that we ...

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