Speakers
Mr. Yukimoto Ito
Sendai City

Mr. Yukimoto lto became the vice mayor of the City of Sendai in April 2010.
During the preceding two years, he has been a general manager, Tohoku
Branch, Development Bank of Japan. He has over 30 years businessexperiences at the Development Bank of Japan. He has served In a variety ofposts, including general manager of Business Restructuring Department andgeneral manager of Information & Telecommunications department.

The Great East Japan Earthquake that occurred on March 11, 2011 caused
unprecedented damage to the Tohoku region including Sendai City, due tothe unexpected scale of the earthquake and tsunami. It was the mostcomplex and extensive damage that we had ever seen. However, welearned many lessons from this disaster, and in particular felt that thepower of our citizens in community organizations, NPOs, and businesses
was key in overcoming many difficulties in daily life after the disaster.
Sendai City had worked to increase its disaster prevention capacity incollaboration with various sectors such as local communities, privatecompanies and universities even before the Great East Japan Earthquake.
At the time of the disaster, they engaged in initial response and first aid.
Additionally, we were reminded of the importance of creating face-to-facerelationships with the community, public interest groups, and businesses
from before a disaster, and improving the disaster-prevention ability of thecommunity through cooperation. Now, Sendai City is further developing
public-private cooperation in disaster risk reduction based on the lessons
we have learned.

Mr. Tadao Hasue andMs. Kumi Onuma
DBJ

Mr. Tadao Hasue became Senior Vice President of Tohoku Revival
Reinforcement Office in 2011 and Deputy General Manager In 2013. He has
engaged in recovery and revitalization support activities of the Tohoku
Region including coauthoring the proposal "Directions in Region-wide
Recovery in Tohoku from the Great East Japan Earthquake (DBJ, 2013) ,which paved the way for establishment of Tohoku Alliance, a platform forcollaboration of diverse entities in March 2014.
Ms. Kumi Onuma has been committed to various recovery support activities
in Tohoku Revival Reinforcement Office since 2012. She planned and cowrote the proposal “Directions in Region-wide Recovery in Tohoku from theGreat East Japan Earthquake” (DBJ, 2013). She is now concentrating on theactivities as a main person to disseminate information in and outside Japan
while promoting realization of the proposal through Tohoku Alliance,
established in March 2014.

We would likke to introduce our activitties on suppo
orting the revival of
Tohoku regio
on in Japan. Especially, we focus on a multi-sector discussion
and co-workking platform “Tohoku Alliance” and plaanned activitties of it.
We, Develop
pment Bank ofo Japan Inc.(DBJ), is whollly subscribedd by thegovernment, and has beeen dedicated to industrial and regionalldevelopmen
nt in Japan forr about 60 yeears. In April 2011 we set up theTohoku Revival Reinforceement Office in Sendai. DB
BJ provides noot only
finance for reconstruction and DRR/Reesilience of p
private compaanies, but
proposals for Tohoku’s reegion-wide reecovery. Creaation of the Tohoku
Alliance is th
he core conceept of the prooposal. It wass established in March,
2014. The members conssist of DBJ, loccal governmeents, econom
micorganizationns, companiess, and universsities from booth inside andd outsideTohoku, inclu
uding internaational organizations. Wee see an impo
ortant role
for the Toho
oku Alliance. It will be a valuable venuee for discussio
on, asparticipants will be able tto draw on information fro
om Japanese and foreignsources, as wellw as the lesssons learnedd from disasteers.

Dr. Hitosshi Baba
JICA

Dr. Hitoshi Baba
B
serves ass a Senior Ad
dvisor to JICA since 2010. He
H holds aPh.D. in Enviironment andd Resource En
ngineering annd MSc. in Forrest Science.
He has careeer over 26 yea
ars of adminiistrative and ttechnology of riverdisaster prevvention and waterwresourcce developmeent at the Min
nistry ofLand, Infrasttructure and Transport,
TGOOJ. As a speciialist of Floodd Control,
Hydrologicall Modeling annd Disaster Management,M
he has been joining
many projects and techniical assistancces in develop
ping countriess.

Two large dissasters whichh occurred in 2011, the Grreat East Japaan
Earthquake anda the Floodd of Chao Phrraya River in Thailand, rem
minded therisks of busin
ness terminattion and furth
her impacts oon national, regionalrand
the global ecconomy throu
ugh their sup
pply chain. Preearranged BuusinessContinuity Plans (BCP) or Business Con
ntinuity Management (BCCM) System(BCMS) in prrivate enterprrises helped themt
survive to some extent but
finally malfunctioned in continuationcness or quick recoveryof their businfrom damagees due mainlyy to disruptio
on of businesss resources suchsas
energy, wateer, transportaation and com
mmunications that are esssential for
their operatiion. In order tto minimize thet negative economic im
mpacts orlosses particularly by largge scale disastter that disru
upt fundamenntal
infrastructurre in wide areeas, it is impo
ortant to carryy out risk asssessment at aproper scale and to prepaare scenario based disasteer managemeent plans forarea-wise daamage mitigation and straategic recoverry. In 2013, Jaapan
International Cooperation Agency (JICCA) proposed a new conce
ept ofscalable crosss sector coorrdination frammework of diisaster managgement forbusiness con
ntinuity, as “AArea BCP” andd “Area BCM”, applying too a project inthree pilot areas of indusstry agglomerration in ASEA
AN region forr the first
substantiatio
on of the concept. In the presentation,p, the benefitss and further
challenges of the new approach for en
nhancing resiilience of locaal economy
will be explained.

Mr. Takahiro Ono
MCIC / ADRC

Mr. Ono is Manager of Risk Consulting Office at Mitsubishi Corporation
Insurance Co and Visiting Researcher at the Asian Disaster Reduction Center
based in Kobe, Japan from July 2012. He is an expert on the ISO/TC233
committee on BCM and Supply chain continuity management
standardization.

In the Great East Japan Earthquake, many local governments were hit bytsunami and consequently their disaster response activities weresuspended and slowed down the recovery processes of the communities.
Considering the interconnectedness and interdependence of different
actors and social functions in the region, the need for improving theresilience of both the private sector enterprises and local governments, aswell as their collaboration, were highlighted.
In light of the past disasters, it is necessary for all actors in the community
to recognize their respective positions, roles and responsibilities and moveinto action to develop disaster resilience in civil society.

Co-Chairrs

Dr. Wei--Sen LiNCDR / APECAEPWG

Dr. Li is Co-chhair at APEC Emergency Preparedness
PWorking Gro
oup (EPWG).
He has a wea
alth of experiience in the development
dand implemeentation oftransportatio
on, disaster reduction
randd managemen
nt systems.
His responsibbilities includ
de building cap
pacity in the region through engaging
public-privatte partnershipp to better mitigate and reespond to em
mergencies
and natural disasters
din A
APEC economies. Dr. Li hollds a PhD in Civil
C
Engineering fromfNationa
al Central University, wherre he specialiizes instructure dynnamics, seismmic design and earthquakee engineeringg.
Currently, hee leads intern
national collab
boration andd conducts ressearch onlarge-scale urban
udisasters and disaster risk manag
gement in NC
CDR.

Starting fromm 2012, throu
ugh cross-cutting collaboration betweeen the EPWG
and the APECC Small and Medium
M
Enteerprises Workking Group (SSMEWG) and,,a multiple-yeear project haas been carried out to buiild guideliness for businesss
continuity pllanning to bo
oost public-prrivate partnerrship. APEC economies
eare meanwh
hile benchmarrking businesss continuity plans in the informationand commun
nications techhnology, logisstics and autoo parts sectors. The goal
is to make it easier for suppliers to field effective ssystems to miitigate
disaster risk and avert thee kind of disrruptions.

Mr. Kiyoshi Natori
ADRC / APECAEPWG

Mr. Kiyoshi NatoriN
has beeen Executive Director of A
Asian Disasterr Reduction
Center (ADRCC) since 2011
1. He has majjored in city / regional plannning at thepost-graduate facility of Tokyo
TUniverrsity and holdds a M.E.in 19984.
He joined thee Agency of NationalNLandd, Governmen
nt of Japan ass a regional /national spatial planner.

ADRC is manndated to faciilitate disasteer reduction eefforts in Asiaa region
through multilateral coopperation for disasterd
reducction with the assistancepan, concerneed countries and Hyogo prefecturalof the Goverrnment of Jap
government.
Initially comprised of 22 member
mcoun
nties, the ADRC has evolved overyears to conssist of 30 member countries. Likewise,, the ADRC haas expanded
the scope off activities andd more recen
ntly has been engaged in suchsapplication ofo space technologies to disasterdrisk reeduction anddengagementt of private seector in DRR including
ibussiness continu
uity planning(BCP).