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The International Consortium on Landslides is a non-governmental organization created in 2002 to promote landslide research, education, and risk evaluation and reduction. It is located in Kyoto, Japan. The organization has consultative status with UNESCO. [1] [2] The ICL's journal is Landslides. It holds regular symposiums, including the World ...
Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI) Naoko Tosa (born 1961) is a Japanese media artist based in Fukuoka , Japan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In recent years Tosa has been creating artwork expressing Japanese tradition and culture without utilizing digital technology but rather by taking photographic captures of water and flowers in motion at 2000 ...
National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention. [3] National Institute of Radiological Sciences. [3] National Institute for Environmental Studies. [3] Building Research Institute. [3] Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute. [3] National Institute of Health and Nutrition. [3] National Center for University ...
The National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (Japanese: 防災科学技術研究所, romanized: Bōsai Kagaku Gijutsu Kenkyū-sho), also known as NIED, is a National Research and Development Agency [1] that conducts research on science and technology related to disaster risk reduction. [2]
Research led by Kimiyuki Asano at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute at Kyoto University analysed waveforms recorded by seismometers and determined the earthquake consisted of two subevents. The first subevent, measuring M JMA 7.3, ruptured a fault beneath the peninsula, causing coastal uplift.
Tomoaki Nishino, associate professor at Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University, estimated that the second and third floors were almost filled with smoke within 30 seconds of the explosion. [20]
Kyoto Prefectural University was established in 1949 as Saikyo University (西京大学, Saikyō daigaku) by mingling two prefectural colleges: Kyoto Prefectural Agricultural and Forestry Vocational School (京都府立農林専門学校 Kyōto furitsu nōrin semmon gakkō, founded in 1895) and Kyoto Prefectural Women's Vocational School (京都府立女子専門学校 Kyōto furitsu joshi ...
In 2009, 6 students of the Kyoto University of Education were arrested for gang-raping a 19-year-old woman in a Kyoto bar. All 6 students were members of sports teams at the university, including the American football team. The university suspended the six students indefinitely at the end of March 2009. [1]