In Japan, many municipalities face on the lack of human resources with high specialty and budget for disaster risk management. According to the survey by the Ministry of [...]

There are many small local governments in Japan. 53% of local governments have less than 30,000 populations. It is difficult to hire the specialists of disaster managemen [...]

A new method for detecting tsunami-induced damage on a building side wall is proposed using X-band of post-event full polarimetric airborne synthetic aperture radar (Pi-S [...]

Collapse of buildings due to an earthquake is completely unacceptable. The combination of wide usage of Reinforced Concrete (RC) framed structures for residential buildin [...]

This research developed the disaster response simulation system “BOSS” (BOSai System, Bosai means the disaster management in Japanese). To build the system, the stand [...]

Key point to operate evacuation facilities effectively is to manage the information sharing among disaster headquarters and sites of evacuation facilities or among famili [...]

Voronoi Applied Element Method (VAEM) has been developed based on previous Applied Element Method (AEM). Compared to the original AEM, the advantages of VAEM are: the VAE [...]

In this study, we have proposed a new 3-D Applied Element Method (AEM) as an analysis tool for understanding the polypropylene band retrofitted masonry behavior which wil [...]

Unreinforced masonry is one of the most popular construction materials in the world. It is also unfortunately, the most vulnerable against earthquakes. Damage to unreinfo [...]

Japan entered an expected longstanding depopulation process in 2006. In this situation, it is important to avoid disaster social impacts due to the disaster by guiding po [...]