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

Floods are among ... are closely linked to climate change impacts. Without effective mitigation strategies, these losses could increase tenfold by 2050. To help address the rising threat of floods to ...

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), ...

TOKYO, March 31 (Reuters ... which have expanded anticipated flood areas, the Cabinet Office report showed. Sign up here. Japan is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries, and ...