Joint Statement of 30 Disaster-Related Academic Societies of Japan
Global sharing of the findings
from the Past Great Earthquake Disasters in Japan- Toward the 2015 United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction - Toward the World Engineering Conference and Convention 2015 -November 29, 2014
Academic Society Liaison Association
Corresponding to the Great East Japan Earthquake
Executive Committee of Academic Society Liaison Association
Architectural Institute of Japan
Atomic Energy Society of Japan
Institute of Social Safety Science
Japan Association for Fire Science and Engineering
Japan Concrete InstituteJapan Society for Natural Disaster Science
Japan Society of Engineering Geology
Japan Society on Water Environment
Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture
The Japan Landslide SocietyThe Japanese Geotechnical Society
The Japanese Society of Irrigation, Drainage and Rural Engineering
The Society of Environmental Instrumentation Control and Automation
The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers
Japan Society of Material Cycles and Waste Management

Association for Children’s Environment
Geographic Information Systems Association of Japan
Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering
Japan Association for Planning and Public Management
Japan Society for Disaster Information Studies
Japan Society of Civil Engineers
Japan Society of Erosion Control Engineering
Japanese Association for Disaster Medicine
The City Planning Institute of JapanThe Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
The Japanese Society for Active Fault Studies
The Seismological Society of JapanThe Society of Heating Air-Conditioning and Sanitary Engineers of JapanThe Japan Association for Regional Economic Studies

東日本大震災の総合対応に関する学協会連絡会 （英語名と同順）
幹事会 （日本学術会議 土木工学・建築学委員会）
日本建築学会、 こども環境学会、 日本原子力学会、 地理情報システム学会、 地域安全学会、 日本地震工学会、日本火災学会、
日本計画行政学会、 日本コンクリート工学会、 日本災害情報学会、 日本自然災害学会、 土木学会、 日本応用地質学会、 砂防学会、
日本水環境学会、 日本集団災害医学会、 日本造園学会、 日本都市計画学会、 日本地すべり学会、 日本機械学会、 地盤工学会、
日本活断層学会、 農業農村工学会、 日本地震学会、 環境システム計測制御学会、 空気調和・衛生工学会、 計測自動制御学会、
日本地域経済学会、 廃棄物資源循環学会

Joint Statement of 30 Disaster-Related Academic Societies of Japan
Global sharing of the findings
from the Past Great Earthquake Disasters in Japan- Toward the 2015 United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction - Toward the World Engineering Conference and Convention 2015 –The 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake (Great East Japan Earthquake)
was huge and exceeded our expectations. Its induced damage was so serious that weare still recovering from it and still face many issues. Response activities undertaken
against the accident of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station are very
difficult and insufficient to alleviate its impact to both inland and marine
environments.
For many years, Japanese scientists and engineers have been trying to establish
scientific knowledge and to develop technologies for disaster reduction, but they weredivided into each specialty. Specialization has caused significant knowledge gaps andcommunication difficulties among specialties. Issues between specialties have notbeen tackled. There is a serious reflection that we blindly believed our scientificknowledge and technologies and we didn’t have enough sense of the awe and humble
feeling to nature.
After the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, we, 30 Japanese academic societies
related to disaster management, started to deepen mutual understanding and madeefforts to integrate different specialties. We also studied lessons for better recovery andpreparedness from the 1995 Kobe Earthquake disaster and others.
Experience and knowledge learnt from natural disasters should be widely applied toreduce all disasters worldwide. Prior to the United Nations World Conference on
Disaster Risk Reduction (March, 2015 Sendai, Japan) and the World Engineering
Conference and Convention 2015 (November, 2015 Kyoto, Japan), representatives
from these 30 academic societies relevant to disaster management, have started to
discuss ways of exchanging very rare and important experience and knowledge onsuch disasters.
For global sharing, the representatives of 30 societies declare to promote the following
actions:
1. Serious soul-searching on blind belief in our science and technologies
We, Japanese scientists and engineers, have been trying to establish scientificknowledge and to develop technologies for disaster reduction and we could reduce
damage by natural hazards to lower levels than before. But based on the experiences
after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, we seriously recognized that there wasblind belief in our scientific knowledge and technologies and that they were notenough. We should always question our knowledge and never forget the sense of awe
and humble feeling to nature for implementation of a disaster safe society.

2. Sharing of our experiences with international community
We will contribute to disaster reduction around the world by sharing the lessons learnt
from the past earthquake disasters, such as the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake andthe 1995 Kobe Earthquake disasters. We will emphasize the importance of pre-event
countermeasures including damage mitigation, preparedness, disaster prediction andearly warning, and warning for the possibility of unexpected huge hazards withextremely low probability.
3. Collaboration of academic societies
We will collaborate across academies to promote multidisciplinary research fordisaster reduction and sustainable development. The researchers in both natural andsocial science fields, such as physical science, engineering, medicine, sociology, andeconomics etc. will work together to create practical measures that have been
examined from various perspectives.
4. Application to local communities
We will integrate different specialties and establish comprehensive and effective risk
reduction countermeasures for local communities around the world as well as in Japan,
considering each local environment and condition.
5. Enhancing earth observation and strengthening international human network
We will enhance the global earth observation and monitoring system, and carry out
broad and integrated studies across the earth sciences, focusing on evolution anddynamics of the earth. We will pursue the cause of natural disasters and strengthen theinternational network of researchers and practitioners for disaster reduction.
6. Resiliency for huge hazards that exceed conventional expectations
We will consider the preparedness against huge hazards, which lie beyond
conventional expectations. Even if it seems to be technically impossible, we will doour best to find a way to reduce the impact due to the hazard considering
environmental issues and needs for uninterrupted business and social activities during
and after severe disasters.
7. Human resource development
We will promote the capacity building of scientists and engineers worldwide bysharing knowledge and experiences learnt from the past earthquake disasters aroundthe world. We will develop Japanese experts in comprehensive disaster management
who can work nationally and internationally. We will also train local experts who cancontribute to local disaster risk control and management.
8. Public awarenessWe will improve public awareness, which is one of the most important measures fordisaster reduction. Pre-disaster countermeasures are effective in both human security
and economic growth. We will present the knowledge based on the experiences fromthe past earthquake disasters in an easy-to-understand format to the public. We will
promote understanding of the self-help effort, mutual assistance and public support,
and will appeal their importance for disaster reduction to the public.

Academic Society Liaison Association Corresponding to the Great East Japan Earthquake
Executive Committee：	 
Steering: Akira Wada, Teruhiko Yoda, Kazuo Tamura, Masako Yoneda, Yasushi Asami and Kimiro Meguro
Masanori Hamada, Shunsuke Ikeda, Mitsuru Senda, Masashi Kamon,
Toshimitsu Komatsu, Haruo Hayashi, Toshihiro Iwatate, Yoshiaki Nakano, Junji Kiyono
Architectural Institute of Japan
President, Hiroshi Yoshino,
Izuru Takewaki,
Yuji Hasemi,
Yasumori Maki
Association for Children’s Environment
President, Kimiko Kozawa,
Mitsuru Senda,
Yutaka Nakayama
Atomic Energy Society of JapanPresident, Reiko Fujita,
Hiroshi Miyano,
Tadashi Inoue,
Takanori Tanaka, Naoto Sekimura
Geographic Information Systems Association of Japan
President, Keiji Yano,
Yasushi Asami,
Wanglin Yan,
Michinori Hatayama
Institute of Social Safety Science
President, Shigeo Tatsuki,
Michio Miyano,
Eiichi Itoigawa,Takaaki KatoJapan Association for Earthquake Engineering
President, Susumu Yasuda,
Yukio Shiba,
Hajime Shinkai
Japan Association for Fire Science and Engineering
President, Takeyoshi Tanaka, Tokiyoshi Yamada
Japan Association for Planning and Public ManagementPresident, Sukehiro Hosono,
Takashi Onishi,
Toshinori Nemoto, Kayoko Yamamoto
Japan Concrete Institute
President, Hirozo Mihashi,
Toru Kawai
Japan Society for Disaster Information Studies
President, Akihiko Nunomura, Isao Nakamura
Japan Society for Natural Disaster Science
President, Kazuo Takahashi,
Kimiro Meguro,
Kaoru Takara,
Fumihiko Imamura
Japan Society of Civil Engineers
President, Masahiko Isobe,
Riki Honda
Japan Society of Engineering Geology
President, Shuichi Hasegawa, Masahiro Chigira, Yasunori Otsuka,
Hisatoshi Ito,
Fumiaki Nomura
Japan Society of Erosion Control Engineering
President, Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Masao Okamoto,
Masakazu Suzuki, Hiroshi Kawabe
Japan Society on Water Environment
President, Akiyoshi Sakota,Hiroaki Furumai,
Yoshirou Ono,
Mitsuaki Ito
Japanese Association for Disaster Medicine
President, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Yuichi Koido
Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture
President, Akio Shimomura,
Ryohei Ono
The City Planning Institute of Japan
President, Norihiro Nakai,
Naofumi Takeuchi
The Japan Landslide Society
President, Satoshi Tsuchiya,
Daisuke Higaki,
Hirotaka Ochiai,
Satoshi Goto,
Hiroomi Nakazato
The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
President, Shiro Kubo,
Masaki Shiratori
The Japanese Geotechnical Society
President, IkuoTowhata,
Makoto Suzuki,
Mamoru Mimura, Motoki Kazama, Jun Ohbayashi
The Japanese Society for Active Fault Studies
President, Atsumasa Okada,
Hiroshi Une
The Japanese Society of Irrigation, Drainage and Rural Engineering
President, Tsugihiro Watanabe, Takeshi Kikutsuji, Akiko Kuroda
The Seismological Society of Japan
President, Teruyuki Kato,
Kazutoshi Imanishi, Keiichi Tadokoro, Aitaro KatoThe Society of Environmental Instrumentation Control and Automation
President, Yoshihisa Shimizu, Kunio Waseda,
Takuji Nakazato,
Masateru Takaoka
The Society of Heating, Air-Conditioning and Sanitary Engineers of Japan
President, Takashi Inoue,
Masaya Okumiya, Hiroaki Tomita,Yasuo Murata,Toshiharu Ikaga
The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers
President, Ryuichi Nakata,
Satoshi Honda,
Toshiharu Sugie,
Masami Namiki
The Japan Association for Regional Economic Studies
President, Tomohiro Okada,
Makoto Suzuki,
Yoshifumi Ikejima
Japan Society of Material Cycles and Waste Management
President, Toshihiko Matsuto, Toshiaki Yoshioka, Yuichi Moriguchi
Cooperation:
Muneyoshi Numada, Hiroki Kobayashi‘Academic Society Liaison Association Corresponding to the Great East Japan Earthquake’
The members of Science Council of Japan become founders and 30 academic societies relevant to disaster management gathered
since the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake occurred. This Association and Science Council of Japan held 10 serial symposiumsof ‘How to protect people’s lives and national land from huge hazards’. This Association aims to collaborate across academies anddeepen mutual understanding, and discuss the direction of future beyond different expertise. This activity is supported by theInterdisciplinary sub-committee set up under the Committee on Civil Engineering / Architecture of Science Council of Japan.	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	 Homepage: http://jeqnet.org/sympo/index.html
Contact to: onoguchi.h.aa@m.titech.ac.jp (secretariat)