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Fisheries Resilience Following Tohoku Tsunami
A small Japanese fishing community devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011 managed to recover from the disaster through cooperative community activity despite the propensity for individualist-competitive behavior within fisheries – cooperative activity that continued many years later.
A social scientist who spent years interviewing fishers in the fishing hamlet of Isohama has discovered a long-standing continuum of competitive and collective endeavor amongst fishers, with potential ramifications for how government policy can better promote resilience in the wake of natural disasters and other calamities.
The findings appear in the journal of Disaster Prevention and Management in March 2021.
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Kentaro Kimura, Chief Creative Officer of Hakuhodo International and Founder and Executive Creative Director, Hakuhodo Kettle Tokyo talks AdFest, dream teams, wolfs leading the pack and international success.
Hakuhodo recently had the honor of being named Network of the Year for the first time at ADFEST 2021 in April. This special award is given to the creative network that garners the most points from finalist and winning entries. To commemorate this milestone, we talk with Kentaro Kimura, Chief Creative Officer of Hakuhodo International, about the significance of winning the prestigious ADFEST 2021 Network of the Year award.
Head, Disaster and Risk Management Information Systems Research Group, Chulalongkorn University
The magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011 and the Thailand Floods of the same year were among the most destructive natural disasters in Natt Leelawat s lifetime.
For Leelawat who began graduate studies at Tokyo Tech as Japan and Thailand reeled from these disasters the year 2011 would mark a turning point in his life and career. What I learned from Tokyo Tech and being in Japan helped me clarify my interests, create new research on disaster risk reduction, and communicate my knowledge to a new generation of engineers and technologists, he says.
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Editor’s note: In referring to Black people in this article, the author chooses not to capitalize “black” until substantive transformation of American police enforcement and the criminal justice system that results in the criminal prosecution of those who use excessive force and produces a quantifiable, long-term reduction in the number of police killings and brutalization of black people is realized.
Japan should be proud of Rui Hachimura. The 23-year-old Toyama Prefecture native, who is of Beninese Japanese descent, is only the second Japanese-born basketball player to be drafted by the NBA (the first being Yasutaka Okayama in 1981), where he’s now a power forward for the Washington Wizards.
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Clean Water and Toilets for Healthy Shelters
In the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, evacuation shelters that rapidly restored clean tap water and toilets were also able to reduce the spread of disease.
Regular, standardized assessments of evacuation shelters can help keep people healthy following natural disasters, according to research published by Tohoku University scientists and colleagues in the journal Heliyon. The study found that a clean tap water supply and hygienic toilets were especially important for protecting evacuees from the spread of infectious diseases.
“A clean water supply and maintaining hygiene are important for reducing environmental health risks among victims of natural disasters,” says Tadashi Ishii, who specializes in disaster medicine at Tohoku University. “But scientists have not yet established a strong evidence base that describes the relationship between damage in resource supplies and infrastructure on the one