MEGA DISASTER IN A RESILIENT SOCIETY The Great East Japan (Tohoku Kanto) Earthquake and Tsunami of 11th March 2011 SYNTHESIS AND INITIAL OBSERVATIONS International Environment and Disaster Management Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies Kyoto University 25th March 2011 About this Report This report is published on 25th of March 2011, two weeks after the Great East Japan [Tohoku-Kanto] Earthquake and Tsunami. The aim of the report is to synthesize certain existing data with basic situation analysis. The disaster has posed a major challenge to the disaster risk reduction community, which needs to be discussed in future over the course of time. Assistance of Yukiko Takeuchi for providing information, and Kumiko Fujita and Yuta suda in translating parts of the Japanese information is acknowledged. Team Members (Kyoto University) Sunil Parashar Noralene Uy Huy Nguyen Glenn Fernandez Farah Mulyasari Jonas Joerin Rajib Shaw Contact Details Rajib Shaw Associate Professor International Environment and Disaster Management Laboratory, KYOTO UNIVERSITY Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan Tel/Fax: 81-75-753-5708 E-mail:
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