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Building Urban Resilience Through Spatial Planning Following Disasters
BUILDING URBAN RESILIENCE THROUGH SPATIAL PLANNING FOLLOWING DISASTERS THE GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI DISSERTATION BY NADINE MÄGDEFRAU SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF ENGINEERING (DR.-ING.) AT THE FACULTY OF SPATIAL PLANING OF THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DORTMUND DECEMBER 2016 Front Cover: Own illustration | Photo by author (October 2015) Doctoral Committee Supervisors PROF. DR. STEFAN GREIVING Technical University of Dortmund, Germany Faculty of Spatial Planning Institute of Spatial Planning PROF. DR. MICHIO UBAURA Tohoku University Department of Architecture and Building Science Urban and Regional Planning System Lab Examiner PROF. DR. SABINE BAUMGART Technical University of Dortmund, Germany Faculty of Spatial Planning Department of Urban and Regional Planning Dissertation at the Faculty of Spatial Planning of the Technical University of Dortmund, Dortmund. BUILDING URBAN RESILIENCE THROUGH SPATIAL PLANNING FOLLOWING DISASTERS THE GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI DISSERTATION BY NADINE MÄGDEFRAU SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF ENGINEERING (DR.-ING.) AT THE FACULTY OF SPATIAL PLANING OF THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DORTMUND DECEMBER 2016 ACKNOWLEDGMENT “It is complicated.” This is one of the phrases that I heard most frequently throughout my research in Tohoku Region. It referred to the reconstruction process, but can equally be applied to the endeavor of writing a dissertation. It was complicated to find an appropriate research topic. It was complicated to collect and understand the required data (mainly written in a foreign language) and to comprehend the complex processes that took and take place in Tohoku Region to recover from the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. -
JR EAST GROUP CSR REPORT 2015 Safety
JR EAST GROUP CSR REPORT 2015 Safety Our measures against earthquakes Damage by the Great East Japan Earthquake (Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake) The magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake occurred on March 11th, 2011, at 14:46, with the epicenter off the Sanriku coast. Zero customer fatalities at stations or on board trains due to the earthquake. Damage and restoration of railway related facilities following the disaster The Great East Japan Earthquake resulted in profound damage to our railway facilities, including the ground facilities for both the Shinkansen and conventional lines. The following chart outlines the damage incurred by our railway facilities due to the earthquake. <Major damage to ground facilities for Tohoku Shinkansen> 【Damage caused by the major tremor on Mar. 11th, 2011】 【Damage caused by the aftershock on April 7th, 2011】 【Breakage of electric poles】 【Damage to bridge supports and (Between Sendai and Shinkansen breakage of electric poles】 General Rolling Stock Center) (Between Ichinoseki and Mizusawa-Esashi) Shin-Aomori Shin-Aomori Hachinohe Hachinohe Iwate-Numakunai Iwate-Numakunai Morioka Morioka Kitakami Kitakami Ichinoseki 【Track irregularity】 (Sendai Station premises) Ichinoseki Shinkansen General Shinkansen General Rolling Stock Center Rolling Stock Center Sendai Sendai Fukushima Fukushima 【Damage to elevated bridge columns】 (Between Sendai and Furukawa) Kōriyama Kōriyama Nasushiobara Nasushiobara 【Fallen ceiling material】 Utsunomiya (Sendai Station platform) Utsunomiya Oyama Oyama 【Legend】 Ōmiya Ōmiya Civil engineering Tōkyō Tōkyō Electricity 50 locations 10 locations 1 location ■ Major damage to Tohoku Shinkansen ground facilities March 11 earthquake (main shock) Aftershocks (after April 7) Major damage Number of not restored places No. of damaged locations No. -
FONTI E DOCUMENTI STORICAMENTE.ORG Laboratorio Di Storia
St�rica L A B O R A T O R I O D I S T O R I A ALMA MATER STUDIORUM Università di Bologna Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà FONTI E DOCUMENTI STORICAMENTE.ORG Laboratorio di Storia Florian Coulmas 3.11 From one Disaster to another: Japan’s Earthquake Numero 17 - 2021 ISSN: 1825-411X Art. 1 pp. 1-18 DOI: 10.12977/stor819 Editore: BraDypUS Data di pubblicazione: 05/03/2021 Sezione: Fonti e documenti 3.11 From one Disaster to another: Japan’s Earthquake FLORIAN COULMAS Univ. of Duisburg-Essen. IN-EAST Institute for East Asian Studies This paper recounts the experience of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake on 11th March 2011 and offers an assessment of reactions to it on personal, social and policy levels. Almost a decade after the event, it looks at traces of the disaster, discussing in particular the following questions. What were the consequences if any for Japan’s energy policy? What other conse- quences were there, for example, concerning crisis management? How did people integrate the earthquake into their view of history? How did the earthquake affect people’s life satisfaction? And how does it relate to current events? It argues that despite its for all concerned unpre- cedented severity the disaster led to gradual improvements, rather than fundamental change. Recollection: a personal view Is ten years ago “history”? To me it is the recent past. In a sense it’s the extended present; it is still with me. Just like the majority of the books of my library I then had, the Japanese porcelain cup of my morning coffee, even the car that I drive. -
Matsushima Bay As an Early Holocene Coastal Mega-Landslide, Northeast Japan
Matsushima Bay as an Early Holocene coastal mega-landslide, Northeast Japan Shuichi Hasegawa (Kagawa University, Japan) Timihiro Sawada (Sawa Soft Science, Japan) Ranjan Kumar Dahal (Kagawa University, Japan and Tribhuvan University, Nepal) Atsuko Nonomura (Kagawa University, Japan) Minoru Yamanaka (Kagawa University, Japan) Abstract. Matsushima, a group of island at Matsushima Bay visited both Matsushima and Kisakata. He composed three in Miyagi Prefecture, northeast Japan, is one of the three haiku poems for Kisakata, but he could not express his famous scenic spots of Japan. It is composed of more than excitement in a haiku poem for Matsushima. 200 islands in Matsushima Bay and the islands just out into Matsushima and Matsushima Bay have long been the sea. Topographically Matsushima Bay suddenly breaks considered as a typical submerged coast, but they are inferred the gently concaved coastline from Sendai Bay to Ishinomaki to have been formed by a coastal mega-landslide in middle Bay. Matsushima and Matsushima Bay have been considered Holocene age from geological and topographical inferences. as a typical submerged coast, but they are inferred to have been formed by a coastal mega-landslide in middle Holocene age from geological and topographical evidences. Keywords. Mega-landslide, Holocene, Jomon transgression, Active fault, topography 1. Introduction Mega-landslides due to volcanic activities and earthquakes have caused severe damage to the surrounding areas. Sector collapse of volcanoes is one of the most destructive landslides. Debris avalanche deposits from a sector collapse generally form strange topography punctuated by hundreds of small hills, ridges and closed depressions. The 1792 Mayuyama sector collapse of Unzen volcano in Kyushu, southern Japan, caused debris avalanche which flowed through ancient Shimabara City and entered the sea. -
The 34Th Issue
H F H J News Letter 34 2015 April Habitat for Humanity Japan Newsletter Issue 34 News from the Field Four Years with Tohoku Jimmy Carter Work Project An Interview with Model Arisa Kamada Carter Work Project Miyagi Jimmy Carter Work Project 2015 in Nepal! Each year since 1984, former President Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, give a week of their time to help us improve and build homes. The Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project helps raise awareness of the critical need for simple, decent and affordable housing. This year, the 32nd annual Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project will be held in Pokhara, Nepal for 6 days from November 1 to 6. Nepal is located at the Himalayan foot, and is said to be one of the poorest countries in the world. There are many ways to be a part of this exciting event. How can I participate? Traveling hammer – Volunteer – We will Invitation Nepali dinner Let's do a good deed build 100 houses for the dinner for a good cause. with the hammer of with 2,000 volunteers with the Carters. hope which in a week at travels around the Himalayan foot. the Asia After Pacific region! Before Youth Build Asia-Pacific region Youths unite against poverty housing The people who cannot live in decent houses reach 1.6 Habitat mobilized 800,000 volunteers from 11 countries billion worldwide, and it is said that half of them live here and supported 1,700 households. This year, we expanded in the Asia-Pacific region. Habitat Youth BUILD (HYB) is a its scale with 15 countries participating. -
Some Observations on the Weddings of Tokugawa Shogun╎s
University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations School of Arts and Sciences October 2012 Some Observations on the Weddings of Tokugawa Shogun’s Daughters – Part 1 Cecilia S. Seigle Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/ealc Part of the Asian Studies Commons, Economics Commons, Family, Life Course, and Society Commons, and the Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons Recommended Citation Seigle, Cecilia S. Ph.D., "Some Observations on the Weddings of Tokugawa Shogun’s Daughters – Part 1" (2012). Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. 7. https://repository.upenn.edu/ealc/7 This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/ealc/7 For more information, please contact [email protected]. Some Observations on the Weddings of Tokugawa Shogun’s Daughters – Part 1 Abstract In this study I shall discuss the marriage politics of Japan's early ruling families (mainly from the 6th to the 12th centuries) and the adaptation of these practices to new circumstances by the leaders of the following centuries. Marriage politics culminated with the founder of the Edo bakufu, the first shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616). To show how practices continued to change, I shall discuss the weddings given by the fifth shogun sunaT yoshi (1646-1709) and the eighth shogun Yoshimune (1684-1751). The marriages of Tsunayoshi's natural and adopted daughters reveal his motivations for the adoptions and for his choice of the daughters’ husbands. The marriages of Yoshimune's adopted daughters show how his atypical philosophy of rulership resulted in a break with the earlier Tokugawa marriage politics. -
Strategies of the 77 Bank, Ltd Growth Strategy
Strategies of The 77 Bank, Ltd Growth Strategy Best Consulting Bank Human Resource Development In order to become a bank that is truly supported by its customers and to establish a solid management base for the future, we have set the image of the bank we aspire to become as the following, and actively trained specialist resources. Interview 01 “Best Consulting Bank” that responds to customersʼ needs by offering the optimum solutions Striving to solve the issues of quality assurance Corporate Support Department and manpower shortage on the front line of manufacturing. Kei Akama I was assigned to Tohoku Electronics Industry Co., Ltd. with Tohoku Electronics Industry has about 1,000 employees in the headquarters in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture for one year entire group, I was forced to be keenly aware of the issue of the under the Local Company Trainee program that started in 2018. shortage of manpower at the manufacturing front line. I believe I was assigned to the Quality Assurance Department, where I that these valuable experiences as a trainee at a local company dealt with automobile manufacturers and interacted with manu- can be utilized in my current work. I am currently working in the facturing sites to ensure the quality of automobile-related parts. Corporate Support Office, providing support mainly to custom- I was interested in the manufacturing industry, including ers in the fishery processing industry in the coastal areas of the automobiles and machinery, and I thought I had acquired some prefecture that are still on the road to recovery from the Great prior knowledge before I was transferred to the company, but I East Japan Earthquake. -
Best of Hokkaido and Tohoku Self Guided 15 Day/14 Nights Best of Hokkaido and Tohoku Self Guided
Best of Hokkaido and Tohoku Self Guided 15 Day/14 Nights Best of Hokkaido and Tohoku Self Guided Tour Overview Experience more of Hokkaido and Tohoku on the Best of Hokkaido and Tohoku Self Guided tour. The northernmost of the main islands, Hokkaido, is Japan’s last frontier. It is a natural wonderland of mountain ranges, deep caldera lakes, active volcanoes, numerous thermally-heated mineral springs, and virgin forests. The attitudes of the inhabitants are akin to those of the pioneers of the American West, but still unmistakably Japanese. Tohoku is the northern part of Honshu, the main island of the Japanese archipelago. It is known as a remote and scenic region, and for its numerous traditional onsens, lakes, mountains, high quality rice, and welcoming people. You will enjoy exploring Tohoku’s rich cultural heritage and history, and the beautiful scenery that it has to offer. Destinations Tokyo, Sapporo, Otaru, Noboribetsu Onsen, Hakodate, Aomori, Hiraizumi, Sendai, Matsushima, Yamadera, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Ouchijuku, Kinugawa Onsen, Nikko Tour Details Among the Japanese, Hokkaido has become synonymous with sensational food, stunning scenery, and some of the best onsens in Japan. You will enjoy Sapporo, Hokkaido’s largest city and host to the 1972 Winter Olympics, with its many fine restaurants. You will have the opportunity to explore the morning market of Hakodate where you can try the local specialties of crab, sea urchin, or squid prepared for you. Here you can learn about Hokkaido’s original inhabitants, the Ainu, whose culture almost disappeared until recent efforts of restoration. Tohoku may share the main island of Honshu, but it is a world apart from the crowded and busy south. -
Historical Fish Specimens Collected from the Tohoku District by the Saito Ho-On Kai Museum of Natural History
Bull. Natl. Mus. Nat. Sci., Ser. A, 35(1), pp. 9–54, March 22, 2009 Historical Fish Specimens Collected from the Tohoku District by the Saito Ho-on Kai Museum of Natural History Keiichi Matsuura1, Gento Shinohara2 and Masanori Nakae1 1 Collection Center, National Museum of Nature and Science, 3–23–1 Hyakunin-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169–0073 Japan E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] 2 Department of Zoology, National Museum of Nature and Science, 3–23–1 Hyakunin-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169–0073 Japan E-mail: [email protected] Abstract The fish collection of the Saito Ho-on Kai Museum of Natural History was transferred to the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo in February 2006. Ninety percent of the fish collection contains specimens collected from the Tohoku District during the period from 1930 to 1933 when natural environments of Japan were in good condition for various groups of fishes. The fish specimens from the Tohoku District were classified into 361 species/subspecies of 273 genera belonging to 131 families of 31 orders. A list of the species is shown with remarks on distribution. Key words: Fish specimens, Saito Ho-on Kai Museum, Tohoku District, inventory. stead of natural sicence. The museum has tried to Introduction keep its activity at the level before the war, but it The Saito Ho-on Kai Museum was established failed to do so because of financial difficulties. In in November 1933 in Sendai City, Miyagi Pre- 2005, the Saito Ho-on Kai Museum of Natural fecture, Japan. -
Suica Pasmo Network
To Matō Kassemba Ienaka Tōbu-kanasaki Niregi Momiyama Kita-kanuma Itaga Shimo-goshiro Myōjin Imaichi Nikkō Line To Aizu-Wakamatsu To Sendai To Fukushima Jōban Line To Haranomachi Watarase Keikoku Railway Nikkō Ban-etsu-East Line Shin-kanuma Niigata Area Akagi Tanuma Tada Tōbu Nikkō Line Minami- Tōbu-nikkō Iwaki / Network Map To Chuo-Maebashi ※3 To Kōriyama Kuzū Kami- Uchigō To Murakami ★ Yashū-ōtsuka Kuniya Omochanomachi Nishikawada Esojima utsunomiya Tōhoku Line Tōbu Sano Line TsurutaKanumaFubasami Shin-fujiwara Jomo Electric Railway Yoshimizu Shin-tochigi Shimo- imaichi Shin-takatokuKosagoeTobu WorldKinugawa-onsen SquareKinugawa-kōen Yumoto ■Areas where Suica /PASMO can be used Yashū-hirakawa Mibu Tōbu Utsunomiya Line Yasuzuka Kuroiso Shibata Tōhoku Tōhoku Shinkansen imaichi Line Aizu Kinugawa Aioi Nishi-Kiryu Horigome Utsunomiya Line Shimotsuke-Ōsawa Tōbu Kinugawa Line Izumi Daiyamukō Ōkuwa Railway Yagantetsudo To Naoetsu To Niigata Omata YamamaeAshikagaAshikaga TomitaFlower Park Tōbu-utsunomiya Ueda Yaita Nozaki Nasushiobara Nishi-Shibata Nakaura Echigo TOKImeki Railway Ishibashi Suzumenomiya Nakoso Kunisada Iwajuku Shin-kiryū Kiryū Ryōmō Line Sano Iwafune Ōhirashita Tochigi Omoigawa To Naganoharakusatsuguchi ShikishimaTsukudaIwamotoNumataGokan KamimokuMinakami Shin-ōhirashita Jichi Medical Okamoto Hōshakuji Karasuyama Ujiie Utsunomiya Kamasusaka Kataoka Nishi-Nasuno Ōtsukō Sasaki To Echigo-Yuzawa Azami Sanoshi To Motegi Utsunomiya Line Line Uetsu LineTsukioka Jōmō-Kōgen ★ Shizuwa University Isohara Shibukawa Jōetsu Line Yabuzuka -
Great East Japan Earthquake, Jr East Mitigation Successes, and Lessons for California High-Speed Rail
MTI Funded by U.S. Department of Services Transit Census California of Water 2012 Transportation and California Great East Japan Earthquake, Department of Transportation JR East Mitigation Successes, and Lessons for California High-Speed Rail MTI ReportMTI 12-02 MTI Report 12-37 December 2012 MINETA TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE MTI FOUNDER Hon. Norman Y. Mineta The Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI) was established by Congress in 1991 as part of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Equity Act (ISTEA) and was reauthorized under the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st century (TEA-21). MTI then successfully MTI BOARD OF TRUSTEES competed to be named a Tier 1 Center in 2002 and 2006 in the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU). Most recently, MTI successfully competed in the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2011 to Founder, Honorable Norman Thomas Barron (TE 2015) Ed Hamberger (Ex-Officio) Michael Townes* (TE 2014) be named a Tier 1 Transit-Focused University Transportation Center. The Institute is funded by Congress through the United States Mineta (Ex-Officio) Executive Vice President President/CEO Senior Vice President Department of Transportation’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology (OST-R), University Transportation Secretary (ret.), US Department of Strategic Initiatives Association of American Railroads Transit Sector Transportation Parsons Group HNTB Centers Program, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), and by private grants and donations. Vice Chair Steve Heminger (TE 2015) Hill & Knowlton, Inc. Joseph Boardman (Ex-Officio) Executive Director Bud Wright (Ex-Officio) Chief Executive Officer Metropolitan Transportation Executive Director The Institute receives oversight from an internationally respected Board of Trustees whose members represent all major surface Honorary Chair, Honorable Bill Amtrak Commission American Association of State transportation modes. -
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Transmitting Practical Disaster Prevention Studies from Tohoku to the World Information Transmitted by IRIDeS The institute holds periodic meetings for the purpose of transmitting information and achieving cooperation and integration. 1 Expanded general meeting ●IRIDeS Now Shares information inside IRIDeS. ●Information on the IRIDeS Friday Forum Shares information on the content of research activities. ●Great East Japan Earthquake Watcher Follows the various activities in disaster sites and inside and outside of Japan, and social movements. 2 IRIDeS Friday Forum This forum is held on the evening of the 4th Friday of each month as a place for periodic announcements and discussions for the purpose of sharing information related to the research and other activities conducted at IRIDeS and to foster cooperation and integration in research. For details, 020153.03 see the website (http://irides.tohoku.ac.jp/event/irides-forum.html). Information is also published on the IRIDeS website. ●Activity announcements http://www.irides.tohoku.ac.jp/topics/index.html ●Future plans http://shinrokuden.irides.tohoku.ac.jp/ A three year journey traveled together with disaster affected areas Evolving disaster prevention and reduction. Creating a society prepared for large-scale disasters. IRIDeS Report 03 Issued on March 7, 2015 Edited and issued by the Tohoku University Name: IRIDeS International Research Institute of Disaster Science Symbolizes the Iris sanguinea, Iris laevigata, and Iris ensata, For queries regarding this document, as well as hope and nobility contact the following: Meaning of the logo: Reverses the Chinese character for ●Phone: 022-752-2049 “disaster”, to symbolize the determination for overcoming ●E-mail: [email protected] Close Up disasters by promoting recovery and reconstruction, and (Ask for Shosuke Sato or Kiyoshi Ito) creating a society that can intelligently handle disasters.