International Symposium onResilience
Nagoya – Osaka – KobeJanuary 11-14, 2017
Organized by National Resilience Promotion Office, Cabinet Secretariat,
http://www.cas.go.jp/jp/seisaku/kokudo_kyoujinka/index_en.html
With Faculty of Societal Safety Science, Kansai University
http://www.kansai-u.ac.jp/Fc_ss/english/index.html
Supported by Resilience Practice Unit, Kyoto University
http://trans.kuciv.kyoto-u.ac.jp/resilience/[PROGRAM outline]
Day 0 January, 10 Welcome Reception (Nagoya)- from 5:00 pm at Meitetsu Grand HotelDay 1 January, 11 Field trip (Nagoya)- start from Meitetsu Grand Hotel at 7:30 am, and arrival at theHotel in Osaka in the evening.
- Visit: earthquake resilience museum, a local shrine, a wellknown dam and an embankment and a flood resilience museum
in NagoyaDay 2 January, 12 Workshop (Osaka)- 9:00am – 5:00 pm workshop at Kansai University- 7:00pm – conference dinner
Day 3 January, 13 Workshop (Osaka)- 9:00am – 2:30 pm workshop at Kansai University
Day 4 January, 14 optional tour (Kobe)- meeting at the Marriot hotel at 8:15am, trip to Kobe andreturn to Osaka at 6:00pm.
- town walk and museum tour showcasing examples ofcommunity led recovery following Kobe earthquake,presentations and free discussion with local community
members regarding community led development (Machizukuri)
after the Kobe EarthquakeJAPAN[PROGRAM details]
Day 0

January 10, Welcome Reception- from 5:00 pm at “Sky Lounge 203” 18th Floor in Meitetsu Grand Hotel
1-2-5, Meieki, Nakamura-Ku, Nagoya, Aichi, JAPAN 450-0002, Tel :(+81)052- 582-2211 Fax : (+81)052-582-2230(http://www.meitetsu-gh.co.jp/en/)

Day 1Day 2

January 11 – Technical Tour
-Meeting in the lobby (11F) of the Meitetsu Grand Hotel at 7:30 am.
Whole day tour by bus to go to museum regarding earthquake resilience,shrine, dam, embankment and museum regarding flood resilience inNagoya (details can be seen in the APPENDIX)-Arrive at respective hotels in Osaka around at 6:00pm

January 12 – Workshops in Kansai University

Venue: Special Conference Room, 12F of West Building Takatsuki Muse Campus,
Kansai University (7-1 Hakudaicho, Takatsuki-shi, Osaka, 569-1098, Japan)
Map of the Campus:
http://www.kansai-u.ac.jp/English/about_ku/muse_map.html
Map of the location of Takatsuki Muse Campus:
http://www.kansai-u.ac.jp/English/about_ku/location.html#muse

9:00 – 9:20 Opening / Greeting by Representatives of Resilience Promotion Office,Cabinet Secretariat, JAPAN and Faculty of Societal Safety Science,Kansai University-Masato Koumura, Councillor, Cabinet Secretariat- Toshihiro Kawaguchi, Ph.D. Deputy Dean, Faculty of Societal Safety
Sciences, Kansai University.
9:20 – 10:10

Keynote lecture: Institutional Evolution Strategy for National Crisis inJapan Prof. Kawata, Kansai Univerisy, Central Disaster
Management Council, Japanese Government
10:10 – 10:45 How it all started: disaster-prevention-and-reduction-new-deal
policy- Prof. Satoshi Fujii, Kyoto University, Special Advisor to theCabinet
10:45 – 11:20 National resilience program: successes and challenges
Presentation from National Resilience Promotion Office,Cabinet Secrerariat, JAPAN
11:20 – 11:50 Presentations by all international participants: Resilience – latest
developments and challenges(1)(Each participant presents the latest thinking in their country or themost pressing / exciting development in the area of resilience, anddiscusses merits and challenges)- Building Capabilities to Support Resilience in the U.S. (By
Katherine Fox, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Federal
Emergency Management Agency)
12:00 – 13:00 LUNCH
13:00 – 15:00 Presentations by all international participants: Resilience – latest
developments and challenges(2)- Recent developments in Germany in the field of Resilience: New StrategicConcepts 2016 (By Friederike Dahns, Directorate for Crisis management
and Civil Protection, Ministry of Interior, Head International Relations andChair NATO Civil Protection Group.)-National Security Strategy 2015: Current UK resilience priorities(Ian Whitehead, Deputy Director, Civil Contingencies, Cabinet Office. UK)- From managing disasters to managing risks- guided by theSendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (By Mette Lindahl
Olsson, Senior Adviser, Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency,MSB)- Disaster resilience - latest developments and challenges: Australia'sexperience. (By Elizabeth Quinn, Attorney-Generral's Department,
Australia)
15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 17:00

Afternoon tea
Group discussion / workshop: What are the key
developments and challenges for national resilience
programs?

19:00

Symposium Dinner

Day 3

January 13 - Workshops(tentative program)

9:00 – 9:30 Challenges Regarding Long-term Recovery after the1995 Great Hanshin-

Awaji Earthquake (By Mampei Hayashi, Researcher, Asia Pacific Instituteof Research)
9:30 – 10:00 How did recovery policies from 2011 disaster promote or reduce localresilience?'- Prof. Shingo Nagamatsu, Faculty of Societal Safety Science, Kansai
Univerisy.
10:00 – 10:45 Presentations by all international participants: Resilience latest developments and challenges(3)- Singapore’s Resilience Landscape, Thoughts on Resilience in theSingapore Context (Sunit Singh, Prime Minister's Office, Singapore)-A Calculation Methodology of Disaster Damage Costs Based on aResilience Triangle & Korean Experiences(Seungjae Lee, University of Seoul, Korea)
10:45－12:00 Special presentations on community resilience from international
participants, and free discussions- Canada's Approach to Strengthening Community Resilience (By DurandStephanie, Director General, Emergency Management Policy andPlanning Directorate, Public Safety Canada)- Social Media, Crisis Management, and Community Resilience (Senior Fellow,Swedish National Center for Crisis Management Research and Training, Sweden-Resilience and the Japanese practice of Machizukuri (By Ljubica Seadon,Director, Seadon Consulting & Research, formerly in charge of national
resilience programme)
12:00 – 13:00 LUNCH
13:00 – 14:30 Workshop: what to take away from this symposium?
Day 4

January 14 – Optional Tour

Meeting at Hotel Lobby at 8:15 am (trip by train)
10:00am Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institute (DRI): Participants cansee the museum of the 1995 earthquake, and hear stories from thesurvivors. See the link below for more information http://www.dri.ne.jp/en.
12:15am(trip by train)
Lunch

1:30pm Mikura area, Nagata ward (Following activities will be provided by Machicommunication, a notable local NGO that has been involved in recovery of

the area.
- Presentation about the reconstruction and recovery process of Mikura area,- Town walking,- Discussion with local residents about local
resilience. (For more information on Machi
Communication,
http://park15.wakwak.com/~m-comi/project/25/m-comi-info-Engver.pdf http://park15.wakwak.com/~m-comi/project/25/m-comi-manuEng-ver.pdf ) (trip by train)
18:00 Break up at Shin-Osaka station[Accommodation]
1) See separate document of “Accomodation information for International
Symposium on Resilience in Japan,”2) Fill in “application_form_mwt.xls, ”
3) Send it to Satoshi Fujii, fujii@trans.kuciv.kyoto-u.ac.jp.
[Symposium Fee]
- If you select tour options A, B, C or D, the fee for the options includes thesymposium fee. If you book hotels by yourself, we will ask for the symposium fee ofJPE 10,000.
- We will ask you payment of the fee for the optional tour on the day that will include
transportation, lunch, admission fee of DRI, that would be just few thousands JPE.
[Flight and Transportation to Nagoya]-For the 1st day technical tour, Central Japan International Airport (Chubu Centrair,International Airport, Nagoya) will be convenient. http://www.centrair.jp/en/. It will bearound 40 minutes from the airport to the Nagoya station, by train (Meitetsu LimitedExpress).

-You can fliy to other international airports in Japan (such as Kansai, Narita orHaneda), and it is convenient for you to go from these airport to Nagoya byShinkansen train.

APPENDIX:STUDYTOUR PLAN(2017/1/11)

Schedule (11 Jan)
7:30
9:30

meeting at Meitetsu Grand Hotel 11F Lobby[Inspect 1] Neodani fault & museum

10:10

11:20 [Inspect 2] Leaning museum of nature and hydrology

Dep.

11:40 Dep.

13:10 [Inspect 3] ”WAJU”~Circle Levee: prevented 1976 flood disaster 13:40 Dep.
14:00 [Lunch] with Presentation by Mayor of Kaizu City

15:00 Dep.

15:25 [Inspect 4] “Chisuijinja-shrine” etc.

16:10 Dep.

16:30 [Inspect 5] Embankment for storm surge

16:45 Dep.

（via. Shin-Meishin expressway）

at about 19:00, arrive at OSAKA

SUMMARY OF STUDY TOUR[Inspect 1] Neodani fault & museum
This is a large fault of 6m high and 8m wide (at their largest), which appeared on theearth’s surface around the Midori area in Neo village (present Motosu city) that was theseismic center of the Noubi earthquake. The Noubi earthquake occurred in October 1891,killing 7,273 people and completely destroying 142,177 houses.
As a result of investigation, a fault about 80 km long from Aichi-ken to Fukui-ken wasdiscovered, and the part of the fault which had appeared on the earth’s surface was named
the "Neodani Dansou (fault)."
In 1927, the fault was designated as a national natural monument. And in 1952, it wasdesignated as a special national natural monument. In 1988, the village of Neo, together
with specialists, started seeking some means to permanently preserve the fault as ahistoric heritage. As a result of the investigation, the village decided to dig the ground to
make a trench which would enable visitors to view the fault from underground, andestablished there "the Neodani fault museum" including the trench.
[Inspect 2] Learning museum of nature and hydrology
The Tokuyama Dam is a multi-purpose dam located on the upper stream of the Ibigawa
river. Its purposes are flood control, the maintenance of normal non-specified river flow,
the development of new water supply, and hydropower generation. The dam wascompleted in 2008. Its total capacity is 660 million m2 (including 123 million m2 for floodcontrol). It is the largest multi-purpose dam in Japan.
The mean annual precipitation of the Tokuyama area in Ibigawa town where thecatchment area of the dam spreads is 2,862mm, which is 1.7 times as much as the meanannual precipitation of Japan (1,690mm). In some years, it rains even over 3,000mm peryear. So, the flood control function of the Tokuyama dam is very important to deter flood
disasters in the lower reach, which have repeatedly occurred. The Tokuyama dam is now
functioning as a flood controller in cooperation with the Yokoyama dam located just below
The Tokuyama dam.
On the other hand, in the neighboring areas of the Ibigawa basin, water supply shortages
sometimes happen. So, a water conveyance program that uses the Tokuyama dam’swater capacity is being promoted.
【Inspect3】"WAJU" ~Circle Levee~: prevented 1976 flood disaster
The lower-middle reaches of the Ibigawa river run close to two other big rivers, theNagaragawa and the Kisogawa. Until about the 19th century, these three big rivers had
flowed meandering and crisscrossing as if making a web of water. Therefore, villages inthis area were formed into islands surrounded by these river flows. So, circle levees wereconstructed surrounding every village to protect inhabitants from flood disasters. This
circle levee is called “WAJU.”

Since the second half of the 19th century, the WAJUs, losing their role, were leveled
down one by one, because the modern countermeasures for floods hadbeen
strengthened such as the separation of the three big rivers, the construction ofembankments, and widening of river channels.
But the Jurenbou levee, the inspection point here, is preserved as it was, although twoentrances to the village were cut out.
In heavy rain in September 1976, a part of the embankment of the Nagaragawa river in
Anpachi town broke down, and a muddy stream began to flow into Wanouchi town locateddownstream.
The mayor of Wanouchi town ordered the town residents to evacuate, and quickly
blocked the two entrances of the Jurenbou levee with sandbags. Thus, Wanouchi town
escaped from the flood disaster.
【Inspect4】Chisuijinja Shrine
At the lower reaches of the Ibigawa river, when it heavily rained, first, the water level ofthe Ibigawa river rose, followed by that of the Nagaragawa river after several hours, andfinally, that of the Kisogawa river. This relayed and prolonged water level raising, causedby the differences of the lengths of the three big rivers, was one of the main causes of theflood damages in this area. So, about three hundred year ago, people in this area had
petitioned the Edo Shogunate Government to separate the three big rivers from eachother.
In December 1753, the Edo Shogunate ordered the Satsuma Clan to conduct the KisoSansen Tripotamia Flood Control Works (knows as the Horeki Flood Control Works).
The Satsuma Clan began these construction works in 1754, and one and a half years
later, they completed the embankment which separated two rivers, where the Chisuijinjashrine is now located (Senbonnmatubara). This embankment has contributed todramatically decreasing the damage from floods since then. But, the construction works
were so difficult that many samurai of the Satsuma Clan died in performing the duty, andthe work’s leader Yukie Hirata (minister of the Satsuma Clan) killed himself by hara-kiri,taking responsibility for the many samurai who lost their lives and the huge expenditure.
In 1938, Chisuijinja shrine was built to enshrine the spirit of Yukie Hirata and the many
Satsuma samurai.
Actually, the construction of the Kiso-Sansen Tripotamia Flood Control Works was notcompletely finished by Satsuma’s works in 1754. It was the works conducted under theguidance of Johannis de Rijke, a Dutch civil engineer, from 1887 to 1912 that completed
the Tripotamia Works including the change of the river course of the Kisogawa river. Theworks roughly created today's landscape of this area.
Now, we can learn information in detail on these three rivers at the exhibition inKisosannsenn park near Chisuijinja shrine. We can also see the three big rivers from theobservation tower in the park.

【Inspect5】Embankment for storm surge

The Isewan typhoon (1959) made a big storm surge. This storm surge overlapped withthe high tide of the Isewan bay and broke many parts of the embankment in the rivermouth of the three big rivers.
Since the elevation of Nagasima town, where we will visit, is below sea level, thewhole town was submerged by the flood water for a long time and many people
perished.
After this disaster, the embankment, where we will visit, was reconstructed to protect
the town from a storm surge of the Isewan typhoon class.
Then, because the ground around here has been sinking, some repair andenforcement works of the embankment for storm surges are progressing now.
[The others]
We can see small buildings through the windows of the bus, which are called "Mizuya,"on the sides of houses in this area. Mizuya are built on the ground several meters higher
than their surroundings, and are protected by stone walls. Usually, they serve aswarehouses, but when a flood comes, they become shelters. Mizuya are one of thetime-honored countermeasures which shows our ancestors’ preparedness againstfloods.
After the tour, we will move for Osaka via the Shin-Meishin expressway. The ShinMeishin expressway complements the Meishin expressway which was constructed in
1960, and gives us redundancy by constituting a double highway system on the main
axis of land transport of Japan (Tokyo-Nagoya- Osaka)