2022.2.28
World BOSAI Walk Tohoku+10
The World BOSAI Forum Foundation (WBF Foundation) is a general incorporated foundation that works closely with IRIDeS to realize BOSAI (disaster risk reduction) all around the world, aiming at decreasing the number of people who suffer from disasters. The WBF Foundation organizes and administers the World BOSAI Forum, an international conference open to the public, in cooperation with the International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC Davos, Switzerland. In the spring of 2022, in addition to the regular forum, the Foundation is organizing an event titled “World BOSAI Walk Tohoku +10: Travel along the coast of Tohoku to discover Build Back Better,” which is supported by IRIDeS.
Visiting a specified landfill information facility, “Reprun Fukushima,” in Tomioka Town.
For more information, please visit:https://worldbosaiforum.com/bosaiwalk/
In this event, the Foundation members travel along the Tohoku coastal areas (mainly on foot) from Fukushima Prefecture to Aomori Prefecture, which were severely damaged by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. During the walk, they communicate with local people who have worked on recovery and passing on their disaster-related experiences. Because of COVID-19, the number of participants is small, but the members update their travel on YouTube and other social networking services to share their experiences with others.
On February 23, the World BOSAI Walk kickoff was held at the Shioyazaki Lighthouse in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, and the members departed for their first destination: the Iwaki 3.11 Memorial and Revitalisation Museum. The group is going to move north through Miyagi and Iwate prefectures and will reach their final goal, Hachinohe City, Aomori Prefecture, on April 23. As Professor Yuichi Ono, the representative director of the WBF Foundation and also a faculty member of IRIDeS, says, “To people in Japan and abroad, we would like to convey how local people have been working on recovery and how they have felt.”
Walking in Naraha Town. Visiting a winery built for reconstruction in Kawauchi Village.
Visiting a specified landfill information facility, “Reprun Fukushima,” in Tomioka Town.At “J Village,” which was used as a disaster response base for the nuclear power plant accident, Hirono Town.
For more information, please visit:https://worldbosaiforum.com/bosaiwalk/
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