As a leader in disaster mitigation and prevention, it is hoped that Tokyo's initiatives will serve as a model case for other ...

There is a 70 percent chance that a major earthquake will hit densely populated central Tokyo in the next 30 years ... beneath the tents to prevent flooding, and change the tent's outer covering ...

100 years have passed since the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 ... obscuring the reality of how citizens of Tokyo faced this overwhelming disaster. To understand these details, we remastered ...

The World Bank Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC) and the Tokyo Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Hub, together with experts from the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), ...

Having slowed during and after World ... earthquake-prone Japan, Tokyo Metro trains are set up to stop just before a powerful jolt hits, using real-time seismic data from monitoring stations ...

The World Bank Tokyo ... climate change is reported to affect regions like South Asia and Africa, where urban populations are growing more rapidly than that of other regions. These cities must adapt ...

As natural disasters become increasingly frequent and severe due to global climate change, Japanese defence disaster company SAKIGAKE Japan is emerging as a global leader in disaster risk reduction.