Dec.13, 2021

Outline of ICHARM
International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management(ICHARM) under the auspices of UNESCO,
Public Works Research Institute (PWRI), JapanITO Hiroyuki

Deputy Director of ICHARM1Organization & Budget
Public Works Research Institute(PWRI)International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM)
officially established March 2006

Tsukuba Central Research Institute

President

Civil Engineering ResearchInstitute for Cold Region (CERI)
Center for Advanced Engineering
Structural Assessment andResearch (CAESAR)
Innovative Materials andResources Research Center(iMaRRC)

Deputy Director of
Executive International
Chief ResearcherCentreforWater Hazard(Water-relatedHazard)
ICHARM
RiskManagement(ICHARM)
Director (1) and(1)(Director of Water-related48

Hazard Research Group)

Director for Special
ResearchTraining & Research
Advisor(1)(1)

Chief Researcher(Risk Management)
Chief Researcher(for Training)

Senior Researcher (7)Research Specialist (12)Researcher(1)

(1)

(2)

Exchange Researcher (1)Research Assistant (1)Administrative Staff

(1)

(4)

Administrative Assistant(14)

ICHARM was established on March 6, 2006 as a UNESCO category II center and a part of thePublic Works Research Institute of Japan.
(ICHARM Director)• 1st (March 2006September 2014):
Emeritus Professor
Kuniyoshi Takeuchi,
Yamanashi University[Photo: Left]• 2nd (October 2014-):
Professor Toshio
Koike, TokyoUniversity [Photo:Right]

Budget (million yen)22

Three Pillars of ICHARM Activities

3

Development of technology to support risk management for water-related
disasters occurring more frequently and severely in Japan andoverseas(2017 - 2022)①Development of technologies and models for improving accuracy of flood
forecasting and long-term water balance analysis.
②Development of technologies for analyzing water disaster hazards invarious natural and local conditions, methods for water-related disaster risk
assessment using highly accurate, advanced estimation approaches, andindicators for evaluating the effectiveness of disaster prevention measures.
③Development of methods for producing, utilizing and communicating useful
information on disaster prevention and disaster status to assist efforts in
disaster prevention and mitigation.

Chief Researcher

Research TeamSenior Researcher

Permanent Researcher
4Research Specialist国土交通省（MLIT)
Ministry of Land,
Infrastructure, Transportand Tourism

大学 博士・修士・学士
Universities

海外研究機関、大学(Univ. and ResearchInstitutes in ForeignCountries)

Researchers
正規職員(国交省出向）Permanent Staff
dispatched from MLIT
正規職員(土研採用）
Permanent Staff
recruited by PWRI
任期付き研究員(ICHARM採用）
Fixed-Term Researcher
recruited by ICHARM
専門研究員(ICHARM採用）
Research Specialist(Fixed-term)
recruited by ICHARM
インターン
Intern

海外政府機関(Government
Organization in ForeignCountries)
民間企業
Private Companies

修士研修生
Trainee in Master Course
博士研修生
Trainee in Doctoral Course
交流研究員
Exchange Researcher

国土交通省（MLIT)
大学教員
Professor of Universities
国際機関(国連機関、世界銀行等)
International Organization(UN, World Bank,,etc)
海外研究機関、大学(Univ. and ResearchInstitutes in Foreign
Countries)

海外政府機関(Government
Organization in ForeignCountries)
民間企業
5Private Companies

Employment Information (Tsukuba)

https://www.pwri.go.jp/jpn/employ/saiyou/index.html(in Japanese)

https://www.pwri.go.jp/eng/employ/employ/index.html(in English)

6Guiding Goal towards 2030: Inclusive and Knowledge-based Society
Trust and Accountable
Data and Information

Trust and Accountable
Community and Personality

Objective:
Strengthening water-related disaster resilience and enabling sustainable development under climate change
Highly reliable
simulation technology
for expressing andpredicting various
water-related disaster.

Modeling, risk assessment and river
channel design regarding flood andinundation phenomena in mountainous
rivers involving sediment, driftwood,and channel change.

Risk communication tools forsharing multifaceted andintegrated water-related disasterrisk information consideringsocial and economic systems.

Water disasterprevention facilitators
capable of leading thesolution of water-related
problems on site.

To design and implement researches and maximize their effects based on the back-cast from 2030.

Thank you for your attention.
If you want to know us more , please see
https://www.pwri.go.jp/icharm/
PWRI and Mt. Tsukuba