7. Public Relations Activities

Newspaper/Journal
Kindai Shoubou
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Table 7-1-2 Articles
DateAuthor
Sep. 2011
ArakidaFeb. 2012
KodamaTitle
ACDR2011
Introduction of ADRC’s
activities on educationfor disaster preparedness
and Japanese goodpractices

7-2. Participation in International Conferences
In order to enhance networks with international organizations and NGOs, the ADRC
participated the following international conferences and had active discussions with relevantorganizations on international cooperation for disaster risk reduction.
Table 7-2-1 International Conferences
VenueSponsors
Attendee
SwitzerlandUN
Koresawa(Geneva)
Ono

Conference
The 3rd Session of
the Global Platformfor Disaster Risk
Reduction and theWorld
Reconstruction
Conference

DateMay
8-13,
2011

UNESCAP Expert
Group Meeting,
UNESCAP
Committee on
Disaster Risk
Reduction
APEC Workshop on
Facing Abnormal
Flood Disaster

June
27-29,
2011

Thailand(Bangkok)

UNESCAP

KoresawaJuly28-29,
2011

Vietnam(Da Nang)Government ofVietnam

Kawawaki

APEC Workshop on
Private Sector
Emergency
Preparedness

Aug.
1-3,
2011

Japan(Sendai)

Government ofJapan andGovernment ofUSA

Koresawa
Ono

ISDR Asia
Partnership (IAP)
Meeting

Sep.
6-8,
2011

Thailand(Pattaya)UNISDR

Ono

APT Workshop onDisaster
Management/Oct.
19-21,
2011

Japan(Tokyo)

Ministry ofInternal
Affairs andKoresawa

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Contributions
Made a presentationon the Sentinel Asia
Initiative, displayed
posters on recent
disaster
preparedness
projects andimpacts of the Great
Eastern Japan
Earthquake
Introduced ADRC
activities such ascompilation ofdisaster data,
GLIDE andSentinel Asia
Presented
experience andlessons learned
from the Great East
Japan Earthquake
and Tsunami
disasterPresented theresults of the survey
on BCP status of theprivate sector in theAPEC region
Shared information
on progresses madefor the IncheonAction Plan anddiscussed ways tofurther promote it
Made a presentation
on how Japanese
government

Communications

Communicationsof Japan

responded the Great
East Japan
Earthquake
Presented "Policy
Response to Great
East Japan
Earthquake" anddiscussed withexperts from Asian
countries

Seminar on
East-Asia
Earthquake Studies

Oct.
19-21,
2011

China(Beijing)

China
Earthquake
Administration,
The Japan
Meteorological
Agency,and the Korea
Meteorological
Administration

Koresawa

Conference"DisasterManagement andthe Impact of
Climate Change"
Integrated Researchon Disaster Risk
(IRDR) 2011

Oct. 27,
2011

Indonesia(Jakarta)

Government ofIndonesia

KoresawaPresented "Policy
Response to 3.11
Earthquake andTsunami Disaster"Oct.
31Nov.2,
2011

China(Beijing)

Participated in theworking groups
including disasterloss data WG

International
Conference on
Disaster Risk
Reduction
Legislation andPolicy
United Nations
International
Conference onSpace-based
Technologies for
Disaster Risk
Management(Beijing)
The 18th Session of
the Asia-PacificRegional Space
Agency Forum（Singapore）

Nov.
10,
2011

Korea(Incheon)

Ono
IRDR and theChina
Association for
Science andTechnology
Government of Koresawa
Korea

Nov.22,
2011

China(Beijing)

UN-SPIDER

Sugiura

Dec.
5-9,
2011

Singapore

Ministry ofEducation,
Culture, Sports,
Science andTechnology ofJapan andJAXA

SugiuraThe 49th Session of
UN-COPUOS andthe 3rd
UN-SPIDER
Regional Support
Offices (RSO)
Meeting (Vienna,Austria)
ADRC DRR Policy
Peer Review
FY2011

Feb.
6-8,
2012

Austria(Vienna)

UNOOSA,
UN-SPIDER

SugiuraFeb.
11-17,
2012

Tajikistan(Dushanbe)

ADRC

KodamaMade a presentation"Activities of
ADRC in the
Sentinel Asia, andthe effectiveness ofsatellite images on
the Great East Japan
Earthquake"
Presented on"Activities of
ADRC in the
Sentinel Asia" and"The Damages by
the Great East Japan
Earthquake and theContribution by
Space Technology"Discussed activities
with world’s RSOs
and presented
ADRC’s activities
andaccomplishments as
RSO as well as its
future plans
Held a workshop
to introduce goodpractices forlandslide DRR

70Made a presentation
on "Disaster risk
reduction legislationand policy in Japan"

7. Public Relations Activities

Conference
Shanghai Forum on
Disaster Prevention,
Post-Disaster
Reconstruction andInternational
Cooperation

Table 7-2-2 Academic Conferences and Sympodia
DateVenue
Sponsors
Attendee
Oct.
China
Osaka
Kawawaki27-28,(Shanghai)
University
2011

Indonesia-ERIA-Ha
rvard Symposiumon "Moving
ASEAN
CommunityForward into 2015
and Beyond"Oct.31-Nov.1,
2011

Indonesia(Jakarta)

International
Workshop on
Emergency
Management

Nov.
7-9,
2011

Taiwan(Taipei)

Institute of Social
Safety ScienceNov.
11-12,
2011

2nd Safety
Conference, Qatar
Vision 2030
"Century
Challenges"

Nov.15,2011

Contributions
Presented thesignificance ofsocial capital indisaster reduction
and recovery

Government ofIndonesia, theEconomicResearch
Institute for
ASEAN andEast Asia(ERIA) andHarvard
University
Government of
TaiwanKoresawa

Made a presentation
on strengthening
regional
cooperation in timesof disaster

OnoJapan(Shizuoka)

Institute ofSocial SafetyScienceOnoQatar(Doha)

Government ofQatar

IbarakiMade a presentation
on business
continuity plan(BCP) in theprivate sector forthe regional
resilience
Participated in thespecial committee
on the Great East
Japan Earthquake
Presented thedamages of andlessons learned
from the Great East
Japan Earthquake
and Tsunami

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