JRRN annual report 2014
JRRN: Japan River Restoration Network

http://www.a-rr.net/jp/

Website, Newsletter, News-mailJRRN operates the website and facebook toenhance

information

sharinginJapan.

JRRN

website provides information on topics related toriver restoration in Japan and in other countries,
examples of restoration projects, events, books,
useful resources etc. In addition, JRRN published“JRRN Newsletter” once per month, and distributed“JRRNNews-mail”

onceaweek.

(Total12

newsletters, 49 news mail in 2014).

JRRN’s events
JRRN held a boat tour for understanding urban river
and waterfront in downtown Tokyo in March 2014,
and also organized a roundtable meeting on
small-scale collaborative river restoration in Japanin November 2014.

Website: http://www.a-rr.net/jp/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JapanRRN

Urban River Boat Tour in Tokyo (4 & 15 Mar., 2014, Tokyo JAPAN)
JRRN held the urban river boat tours todiscuss about "the future of river inTokyo" co-sponsorship with Consortiumof Rediscovery Edo-Tokyo Tourism Walk(CREW),
and36
local
citizens
participated in the four boat tours.

Roundtable meeting on collaborative river restoration in Japan (26 Nov., 2014: Tokyo JAPAN)
JRRN held a roundtable meeting in November 2014 to find thecommon denominator of the policy with ministries andgovernment offices, and to find a measure for the promotionof public participation in collaborative river restoration.
Chair: Prof. Nobuyuki Tamai(Prof. Emeritus, Univ. Tokyo, JRRN/ARRN adviser)
Panelist:
Dr. Toshio Torii (Ministry of the Environment)
Dr. Keigo Nakamura (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure,Transport and Tourism)
Dr. Haruo Iwase (Hokkaido Gijutsu Consultant Co., Ltd.)Dr. Tatsuo Hamano (Tokushima Univ.)Collaborative Activities

Technical Exchange

JRRN collaborated and supported regional river

JRRN took part in domestic and international

restoration activities to raise social interest in river

symposium and conference on river restoration forand water, and to activate the activity in the riverfurther technical exchange with experts.

with public and private sectors.
1) Supporting regional series workshop on theOnga-Horikawa river restoration (July to Dec.
2014, Fukuoka JAPAN)

2) Supporting
educationalprogram
andworkshop on regional activation from water
front in Higashi Sonogi Cho (July and November
2014, Nagasaki JAPAN)

1) Participation and presentation in “Annualsymposium of Ecology and Civil Engineering
Society” (18 September, 2014, Tokyo JAPAN)

2) Participation in “6th European River Restoration
Conference” and presentation at “ECRR andARRN Technical Exchange Meeting” (October,2014, Vienna AUSTLIA)

3) Participation and presentation in “Water
innovation NH” conference (11 December,2014, Amsterdam NETHERLANDS)
3) Supporting traveling educational exhibitionof river and water environment by Japan Water
Exhibition Network “JAWANET”

URL: http://jp.a-rr.net/jp/activity/public/

ResearchPublication

JRRN studied on small-scale collaborative river

JRRN compiled the results of various activities in

restoration in Japan through partnership approach2014 as online publication, and promoted efforts to

between river administration and Citizen's group,

disseminate them through the JRRN website so thatwith experts and JRRN members. (May to Dec.

they will be widely utilized.

2014)

Membership
JRRN consists of about 680 personal and 50
organization members as of December 2014.

Sector breakdown of JRRN personal member

Cases of Monitoring Activities for River
Restoration with partnership approach inJapan
Publication of “Cases ofMonitoring Activities forRiver Restoration withpartnership approach inJapan” supported by NPO,citizen'sgroups
andadministration offices inJapan, and supervised by
Prof. Naoki Shirakawa,
ARRN technical committee
memberCherry Blossom and Waterscape Photo
Collection 2014
Publication of the “Cherry
Blossom and WaterscapePhotoCollection”,
acompilation of photos ofwaterscapes with cherry
blossoms
whichweretaken and sent by JRRN
members in 2014
(July 2014, Japanese only)(Mar. 2014, Japanese only)

Report on JRRN’s boat tour
Publicationofsummary
reports on JRRN’s Urban River
Boat Tour in Tokyo

Report on "Participation in 6th EuropeanRiver Restoration Conference (ERRC2014)"
Publication of summary reports on ERRC2014(Dec. 2014, Japanese only)(Mar. 2014, Japanese only)

URL: http://jp.a-rr.net/jp/activity/publication/