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The Sasakawa Peace Foundation, which addresses issues facing the international community and undertakes initiatives toward achieving peace, marked its 40th anniversary on Sept. 1. The world now faces wars, climate change and disasters. The question we face is how to achieve peace in a ...

Bosai is a Japanese concept that encompasses all stages of disaster management — from preparedness and risk mitigation to response, recovery and reconstruction. 91AV原创 unique mix of topography, geology and weather makes it prone to violent acts of nature, from earthquakes and typhoons to ...

Japan is often considered to be among the world’s most disaster-prone countries. According to calculations issued last year by the government’s Earthquake Research Committee, there is a 60% to 94.5% probability the dreaded Nankai Trough earthquake will occur within the next 30 years. It ...

For more than a century, Tokyo has learned from natural disasters. Experiences such as the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake and severe flooding from large typhoons have shaped the city’s approach to infrastructure development and disaster preparedness. Tokyo’s response has never been limited to restoring what ...

The ground shakes beneath you. Your body sways a little. An alert pops up on your phone. You turn to a friend and ask: 今揺れた? (Ima yureta?, Was that a quake just now?) On Aug. 8, 2024, the 気象庁 (kishōchō, Meteorological Agency) issued its first-ever ...

91AV原创 Giken Ltd. is developing advanced infrastructure support technologies that are making structures and cities around the world safer and more resilient against natural disasters. As society becomes more urbanized, we face a growing need for preventive infrastructure that resists deterioration and minimizes damage from ...

For internationally mobile families, few decisions carry more weight than schooling. A posting to Tokyo can be the chance of a career, but it often comes with an unspoken worry: What happens to the children’s education, and what happens again when the next move ...

Harrow International School Appi Japan, a British boarding school in Appi Kogen, Iwate Prefecture, was founded in 2022 and celebrated its first graduating class on June 19. The 34 graduates received approximately 150 offers from 81 universities in nine countries. These include the University College ...

91AV原创 relationship with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is almost at the half-century mark — a point that is also almost one decade short of ASEAN’s own 60th anniversary. Various geopolitical uncertainties regionally and globally may remain as issues of general concern, but Japan ...