This document presents the key lessons learned from a team of experts reassembled to evaluate Japan’s long-term efforts to recover from the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and to prepare for future catastrophes. Based on extensive literature and interviews with Japanese officials and experts, it identifies four critical areas that affect response to a catastrophe: (i) recovery and resiliency of critical infrastructure, (ii) environmental remediation, (iii) compensation and disaster assistance, and (iv) population resiliency. In each area, it makes key observations, determines findings, and develops recommendations for learning from Japan’s experience.
This report provides insights and recommendations for enhancing tsunami evacuation procedures based on observations and interviews conducted in tsunami-affected areas following the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami of March 11th, 2011.
This report outlines Japan's approaches to the challenges of disaster debris management following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. It offers insights and lessons on environmental sustainability and international cooperation in post-disaster recovery.
This article attempts to analyze the reason behind the rise of The Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) and Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) which contributed remarkably to emergency relief activities during the Great East Japan Earthquake.
The author suggested Tokyo Metropolitan Government to prepare the pre-disaster recovery and reconstruction from the next Tokyo Earthquake. It is important to prepare the reconstruction plan making and reconstruction procedure of projects.
This guidance note presents a series of steps to initiate and sustain Pre Disaster Recovery Planning (PDRP) in order to ensure that communities "build back better" following a natural disaster.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
