Disaster Risk Reduction: French-Japan Week in Tokyo (2017/10/2-6)
Topics: Tsunami, disaster prevention, international collaboation
Place: Maison Franco-Japonaise, French Embassy (Tokyo, Japan)

The French-Japan Week on Disaster Risk Reduction took place in Tokyo between October 2 and6, 2017. The event was co-held at the French Embassy and the Maison Franco-Japonaise．
Tohoku University organized three sessions on the“Scientific Advancement for Sendai Frameworkfor Disaster Risk Reduction Contribution from Tohoku University”, including a half-day that took
place at the International Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai．IRIDeS members, Prof.
Fumihiko Imamura (Director of IRIDeS), Prof. Motoyuki Sato, Dr. Anawat Suppasri, Dr. Kazuhisa
Goto, and Dr. Sébastien P. Boret participated the event.
 Sedimentary signature of paleo-tsunamis（Dr Kazuhisa Goto，Tokyo）
 Workshop on GPR measurement of active faults/tsunami （Prof Motoyuki Sato，Tokyo）
 Tsunami and DRR Innovation Workshop（Prof Imamura, Dr Anawat Suppasri, Dr Sébastien
P. Boret, Mrs Julia Gerster, Tokyo and Sendai）
More information: http://www.fri.niche.tohoku.ac.jp/workshop2017/index.html
１．What is the 2017 French-Japan Week on DRR?
In Japan and in France, natural risks threaten population and strategic facilities such as power
plants and public transport networks. This is why it is important to understand these risks in orderto prevent them and minimize their damage.
Scientific cooperation is a key element to tackle this issue that deals with various scientific fields.
In this regard, the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, held in
Sendai in 2015, was an important milestone that built an international framework for the disasterrisk reduction. In this context, France and Japan could foster their cooperation in order to better
understand disaster risk by sharing their scientific outcomes. The aims are to gather French andJapanese scientists from various fields around:- A symposium aiming to present the main actors and topics of the French- Japanese cooperation
on disaster risk reduction on Monday, October 2nd.
- Several workshops held in Japan during the same week from Tuesday, October 2nd to Thursday,October 5th.
- Visits in Japan of tsunami-affected areas as well as facilities and institutions on Friday, October
6th (by invitation only), open campus of Tohoku University on October 7-8.
More information: Overview on French-Japanese cooperation on disaster risk reduction
http://drr.science-japon.org
２．Tsunami and DRR Innovation Workshop 2017
The fourth edition of the workshop series was inaugurated in 2012 by tsunami specialists fromJapan and France, many of whom are based in Tohoku University and Lyon University. On thisoccasion, they discussed their scientific progress and their applications towards disaster prevention
and reduction. The event consisted in 15 presentations to which around 80 people participated.
http://www.fri.niche.tohoku.ac.jp/workshop2017/program.html
Session 1 Fluid dynamics of tsunami and structure for energy dissipation
1. Hiroshi ASANUMA, Chiba University; Recent Progress in Disaster Mitigation and Sustainable
Engineering Based on Smart Structures
2. Jun ISHIMOTO, Tohoku University; Coupled Multiphase Fluid-Structure Interaction
Supercomputing for Tsunami and Flood Damage Mitigation
3. Nicolas RIVIERE, INSA-Lyon; Estimation of the inland flow resistance through an urbanizedarea following a tsunami event
Session 2 Detection, Alert, and real-time monitoring
1. Yoshihito TANAKA, Chubu Electronic Company, Japan; Development of the Tsunami
Observation and Prediction System
2. Helene HEBERT, TANDEM; Tsunamis in the Atlantic and the English Channel mainland:lessons from Tohoku 2011 for a better hazard assessment in mainland France

3. Nicolas WIHLELM, Thales Alenia Space; Global Emergency Warning Service based on Galileo
4. Tomohiro KOKOGAWA, NTT Secure Platform Laboratories, Joint Emergency Management；
ICT-supported Response and Recovery Management for All Hazards
Session 3 Safety at nuclear power plant in Japan and France
Chair; Tetsuo SHOJI
1. Toshimichi KANETO, TEPCO (Tokyo), Japan; Re-evaluation of the design basis tsunamis for
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant
2. Jun TAKAHASHI, Tohoku Electronic Company, Japan; Tsunami Evaluation and Measures atOnagawa Nuclear Power Station
3. Fumihiko IMAMURA, Tohoku University; Re-examination of the tsunami affected Fukushima
Daiichi with the revised fault modelChair; Sebastien P. BORET
Session 4 Crisis management and reconstruction/BBB (build back better) at IRIDeS hallmeeting
1. Mr. KOMASTU, Onagawa Town; Reconstruction at Onagawa
2. Sebastien P. Boret, IRIDeS Tohoku Univ.; The Roles of Archiving in DRR: The Case of the Great
East Japan Earthquake
3. Kenichi NOE, Tohoku University; ELSI after 3.11
4. Yoshihito OZAWA, Fukushima University; Reconstruction and future plan in Fukushima
5. Ms. SEKI, "HARU"-Reconstruction Team of TOHOKU University-; Student volunteer group“HARU” activity report on the Great East Japan Earthquake
https://www.mfjtokyo.or.jp/events/co-sponsored/20171002.html

Opening address by the French Embassy

French Minister of Higher Education

Group Photo at the Tsunami and DRR Innovation WS
Contributor：Fumihiko Imamura，Anawat Suppasri (Hazard and Risk Evaluation Research Division)
Sébastien P. Boret (Disaster Information Management and Public collaboration Division)