Oct. 16, 2018 Study Tour for ADRC Visiting Researchers

On 16th October, three Visiting Researchers (VR) at Asian Disaster Reduction Center in Kobe, participated in the study tour. Those VR are respectively from India, Malaysia and the Maldives, and are all working on their research while visiting different places in Japan. This was their first time to visit Tamba City!

After visiting Kita-Okamoto, where forest management from the viewpoint of disaster risk reduction is ongoing, the VR visited restored areas after the rain disaster in August 2014, as well as a group who started their activities after being engaged in food distribution when the same disaster occurred. A VR asked: “How much is the cost of constructing this sabo (erosion control) dam?” the answer to which she mentioned is “not a big amount of money in order to protect the lives of the people”. When they interacted with the local residents, interesting information about the origins of the names of places in Tamba City and about the dinosaur fossils found in the City was shared, which even locals barely know, and the VR were actively communicating with them.