PIANC Asian Seminar 2021 (Webinar)
Coastal Disaster Prevention (Tsunami, Storm Surge/High Waves)

Organizer: PIANC-Japan
Supported by: MLIT, Fisheries Agency, JICA
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Mitsuhiko Okada
Chairman
PIANC-Japan

11 May 2021, 15:30 - 18:00 JST (GMT+0900)
３００Free
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In this century, Asian people have repeatedly suffered severe coastaldisasters. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, the Great East
Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011, and Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) in2013, just to name a few.
PIANC-Japan organizes a webinar to share lessons learned and latest
technology to reduce disaster damages in coastal areas.
Everyone interested in coastal disaster prevention is welcome to join.

Program 15:30 - 18:00 JST (GMT+0900)

Source: MLIT

15:30 Opening
15:35 Opening Address:

Mr. Mitsuhiko Okada, Vice President of PIANC, andChairman of PIANC-Japan
15:40 Video Massage from the PIANC Headquarters:

Mr. Francisco Esteban Lefler, President of PIANC
15:50 Lecture 1: Recent Coastal Disasters over the world

Dr. Tomoya Shibayama, Waseda University
16:30 Lecture 2: Tsunami disaster experience and risk

Kamaishi Bay-mouth Breakwater, Japan
2011 Earthquake and Tsunami
Sulawesi, Indonesia
2018 Earthquake and Tsunami

management policy in Indonesia
Dr. Hendra Achiari, Bandung Institute of Technology
17:00 Lecture 3: Storm surge and high wave disaster
experience and risk management policy in the Philippines
Dr. Mario P. De Leon, De La Salle University
17:30 Lecture 4: Coastal Area Disaster Prevention andNational Resilience Policy in Japan
Mr. Taishi Yamamoto, Ports and Harbours Bureau,
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
18:00 Closing

Facilitator: Dr. Kenji Ono, PIANC-CoCom, and PIANC-Japan

Laguna de Bay, Philippines
2013 Typhoon Yolanda

Lecturers
Dr. Tomoya Shibayama
Professor, Waseda University, Japan;
Professor Emeritus, Yokohama National University, Japan
Prof. Tomoya Shibayama has been engaged in tsunami and storm surge
disaster mitigation studies for more than 40 years by using hydrauliclaboratory experiments, field surveys and numerical simulations.
He served as a team leader of post-disaster survey teams for major
significant tsunami and storm surge events in the past seventeen years, including the Indian
Ocean Tsunami (2004), the Tohoku Tsunami (2011) and the Storm Surge due to Typhoon
Yolanda (2013), amongst others.

Dr. Hendra Achiari
Assistant Professor, Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB)
Doctor of Engineering in Civil Engineering, Yokohama National
University (YNU), Japan, 2007
Asst. Prof. Hendra Achiari has been engaged in service as a researcher andlecturer in Ocean Engineering Program, Bandung Institute of Technology(ITB) for more than 20 years since 1998. He served as a member of postdisaster survey teams for significant tsunami events including the Sunda Strait Tsunami andthe Palu Central Sulawesi Tsunami (2018) in Indonesia in the last fifteen years.

Dr. Mario P. De Leon
Associate Professor, De La Salle University, The Philippines
Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering (Coastal Engineering),
Kagoshima University, Japan, 2009
Assoc. Prof. Mario P. De Leon has been engaged in academic service formore than 20 years and as a researcher and lecturer in coastal engineering
field, in De La Salle University and University of San Carlos, and has 3-year experience in theconstruction industry. He served as a member of an international Joint Research and Field
Survey on Storm Surge (Typhoon Yolanda 2013) in collaboration with universities andinstitutes in Japan and Vietnam.

Mr. Taishi Yamamoto
Director of International Policy Planning Office, Ports and Harbours Bureau,
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), Japan
M.Sc., Civil Engineering, Waseda University, Japan; Master of Public Policy,
Harris School, University of Chicago, USA
Mr. Taishi Yamamoto has been engaged in international cooperation concerning
the transport policy after entering the Ministry of Transport (MLIT at present) in 1995.
He served as a transport policy adviser in Myanmar Port Authority and Ministry of Transport,Myanmar for 3 years from 2015.

Registration
Contact Information: PIANC-Japan asianseminar.pianc@gmail.com*The URL for viewing the webinar will be sent to you by e-mail in
April after your registration is completed.
For registration, please visit https://forms.gle/tMkphe18Pjb3Ps1U6(Deadline: 20 April 2021)
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