On August 30, 2016, Typhoon No. 10 struck Iwaizumi-cho in Iwate Prefecture, causing major destruction due to the heavy rain and flooding of the Omoto River. Just a little more than a year since the typhoon, on October 21, 2017, IRIDeS researchers, including Assoc. Prof. of history Yuichi Ebina and Assoc. Prof. Shuji Moriguchi who specializes in landslides, visited the site, with local disaster expert Toshimasa Morita and Yumiko Washizuka of local radio station FM Iwate’s Iwaizumi bureau, who was...

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An earthquake with a maximum seismic intensity of 5-lower (M7.4), having its hypocenter in the ocean of Fukushima Prefecture, occurred on November 22, 2016. It was accompanied by a tsunami. The researchers at IRIDeS took immediate action following the earthquake and conducted a survey and analysis whose findings were released at a briefing session held one month later on December 22.   Professor Fumihiko Imamura summarized the distinctive features of the occurrence and the dissemination o...

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Assistant Professor Kazuya Sugiyasu Inter-Graduate School Doctoral Degree Program on Science for Global Safety Working especially from the perspective of tsunami evacuation, Social Engineering (Urban Planning) specialist, Assistant Professor Kazuya Sugiyasu, is involved in creating local disaster prevention plans. He has been involved in projects in places such as Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, working in cooperation with local communities, other IRIDeS research...

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Professor Motoaki Sugiura Prof. Sugiura is a medical doctor and also is a specialist of brain science. Brain science is a study field where various specialists of different backgrounds, such as psychology, instrumentation engineering, and medicine, work together to explore themes such as relations between human behaviors and brain functions. Brain science often puts a question on humanities and then leads to an answer with scientific technologies, and thus is interdisciplinary by natur...

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From September 15 to 17, 2016, IRIDeS co-hosted “Communicating Disaster Science” as a pre-event of “World Tsunami Awareness Day” with University of Hawaii, Manoa (UHM) which concluded the academic agreement with Tohoku University. The event was held at a UHM campus in Honolulu, USA, and aimed to share lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake with the world, developing international cooperation in the area of disaster risk reduction.   Dr. Denise Eby Konan, Dean of the College...

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