(International Contribution by the Disaster Prevention Package)

Severed supply chains suffered serious damage in and out of Japan after the Great East Japan Earthquake. The supply chain was cut off in Thailand due to flooding that occurred in October 2011 and it affected not only Thailand, but also many other countries including Japan. In order to support a quick recovery from the damage of the flooding in Thailand, the MLIT dispatched high-mobility drainage pump trucks and public-private drainage teams as international emergency assistance for the first time to an overseas country, and engaged in draining water for a total of 32 days.

In collaboration with concerned ministries, agencies such as JICA, industry, and academia, we aim to establish a new international contribution model in which Japan and other countries strengthen their bonds and grow together by strategically and

### Chart. 78 Development of the Disaster Prevention Package in the Future

globally developing the Disaster Prevention Package, which comprehensively handles from the research planning phase to the management/operation phase by combining people, goods, and know-how involving disaster prevention information, precaution/evacuation systems, infrastructure, regulations on land use, and systems, depending on each country's needs in order to prevent disasters and reduce damages in the future based on our effort with the flooding in Thailand.

## Column MLIT’s effort in the flood disaster in Thailand

In October 2011, the rain that had continued to fall since June caused a flood in the river basin of Chao Phraya, which inundated an extensive area, including Ayutthaya and seven nearby industrial parks. The number of dead or missing reached 800 and the impact of the flooding spread all over the world, causing severed supply chains and other damages outside the country.

Upon receiving a request from the Thai government, we dispatched drainage professionals and 10 drainage pump trucks $ \text{Note} $ with high drainage capacity and mobility that were owned by the development bureau of the Chubu region for the first time to an overseas country as a part of drainage support for flood-afflicted Thailand.

The drainage pump trucks departed Yokohama Port on November 5, arrived at Thailand on November 18, and conducted drainage activity in a total of seven districts, including Rojana Industrial Park, other industrial parks, universities, and residential areas, etc., starting from November 19. For this activity, a team of 51 professionals (total of 880/day) from the MLIT's regional development bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, JICA, and private corporations as an emergency international assistance team were dispatched and conducted arrangements with the local concerned personnel to perform on-site inspections and give technical instructions to Thai workers, etc. As a result, we succeeded in draining approximately 810 million square feet of water (approximately seven times the volume of Tokyo Dome and 23,000 times the volume of a 25m swimming pool) in 32 days by December 20. In addition, after the flood occurred, the Incorporated Administrative Agency International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM) publicly announced their analysis and prediction of changes in the inundation status at Chao Phraya River using the Rain-Runoff Inundation Model (RRI Model).

This was the very first attempt to combine people and goods, and we will promote the provision of the Disaster Prevention Package using Japan’s comprehensive capability to reinforce the disaster-prevention cooperation relationship not only in time of disasters, but also in normal times.