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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, Jul. 2018

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.12 No.6 (2017)	Has 20 Years of Japanese Earthquake Research Enhanced Seismic Disaster Resilience in Kumamoto? Naoshi Hirata	HERP, Kumamoto Earthquake, hazard estimate, disaster management plan, disaster resilience
1	Vol.12 No.5 (2017)	Three-Dimensional Seismic Velocity Structure Beneath Japanese Islands and Surroundings Based on NIED Seismic Networks Using both Inland and Offshore Events Makoto Matsubara, Hiroshi Sato, Kenji Uehira, Masashi Mochizuki, and Toshihiko Kanazawa	seismic tomography, failed rift, offshore event, NIED S-net
8	Vol.13 No.2 (2018)	Assessment of Street Network Accessibility in Tokyo Metropolitan Area After a Large Earthquake Toshihiro Osaragi, Maki Kishimoto, and Takuya Oki	large earthquake, street network accessibility, property collapse, emergency behavior, local environment
-	Vol.11 No.2 (2016)	Simulation Data Warehouse for Integration and Analysis of Disaster Information Jing Zhao, Kento Sugiura, Yuanyuan Wang, and Yoshiharu Ishikawa	data warehouse, disaster information, simulation data, spatio-temporal databases, interactive analysis
-	Vol.11 No.3 (2016)	Multi-Temporal Correlation Method for Damage Assessment of Buildings from High-Resolution SAR Images of the 2013 Typhoon Haiyan Pisut Nakmuenwai, Fumio Yamazaki, and Wen Liu	damage detection, multi-temporal SAR images, coherence, correlation coefficient
7	Vol.13 No.1 (2018)	A Comparison of Disaster Management Plans for Both Japan and Myanmar Rena Kikuchi, Muneyoshi Numada, May Myat Mon, Tun Naing, Khin Than Yu, and Kimiro Meguro	Myanmar, disaster management, disaster management plan, disaster management law, content analysis
-	Vol.12 No.3 (2017)	Water Leakage Detection System for Underground Pipes by Using Wireless Sensors and Machine Learning Shigeru Teruhi, Yo Yamaguchi, and Junichi Akahani	water leakage, underground structure, wireless sensor, machine learning
8	Vol.13 No.1 (2018)	Land Cover Change Simulations in Yangon Under Several Scenarios of Flood and Earthquake Vulnerabilities with Master Plan Tanakorn Sritarapipat and Wataru Takeuchi	prediction of urban expansion, disaster risk assessment, disaster risk reduction, Landsat
3	Vol.13 No.3 (2018)	Development of GNSS Buoy for a Synthetic Geohazard Monitoring System Teruyuki Kato, Yukihiro Terada, Keiichi Tadokoro, Natsuki Kinugasa, Akira Futamura, Morio Toyoshima, Shin-ichi Yamamoto, Mamoru Ishii, Takuya Tsugawa, Michi Nishioka, Kenichi Takizawa, Yoshinori Shoji, and Hiromu Seko	GNSS buoy, synthetic geohazard monitoring, tsunami early warning, ocean bottom crustal movements
10	Vol.3 No.6 (2008)	The Development and Validation of Disaster Response Competency Profile Indices Shigeo Tatsuki	Disaster response competency, construct validity, MTMM experiment, predictive validity, simulation gaming
4	Vol.13 No.3 (2018)	A Trial Application of Geodetic Data for Inland Fault Assessment – Coulomb Stress Changes Estimated from GNSS Surface Displacements Takuya Nishimura	GNSS, geodetic data, Coulomb stress change (ΔCFS), inland earthquake

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, Jun. 2018

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
2	Vol.12 No.5 (2017)	Three-Dimensional Seismic Velocity Structure Beneath Japanese Islands and Surroundings Based on NIED Seismic Networks Using both Inland and Offshore Events Makoto Matsubara, Hiroshi Sato, Kenji Uehira, Masashi Mochizuki, and Toshihiko Kanazawa	seismic tomography, failed rift, offshore event, NIED S-net
-	Vol.13 No.3 (2018)	Onboard Realtime Processing of GPS-Acoustic Data for Moored Buoy-Based Observation Motoyuki Kido, Misae Imano, Yusaku Ohta, Tatsuya Fukuda, Narumi Takahashi, Satoshi Tsubone, Yasuhisa Ishihara, Hiroshi Ochi, Kentaro Imai, Chie Honsho, and Ryota Hino	realtime monitoring, buoy, GPS-acoustic, tsunami, Nankai Trough
-	Vol.13 No.3 (2018)	Real-Time GNSS Analysis System REGARD: An Overview and Recent Results Satoshi Kawamoto, Naofumi Takamatsu, Satoshi Abe, Kohei Miyagawa, Yusaku Ohta, Masaru Todoriki, and Takuya Nishimura	GNSS, real-time GNSS analysis, earthquake modeling, rapid finite-fault model, GEONET
-	Vol.13 No.3 (2018)	Total Electron Content Observations by Dense Regional and Worldwide International Networks of GNSS Takuya Tsugawa, Michi Nishioka, Mamoru Ishii, Kornyanat Hozumi, Susumu Saito, Atsuki Shinbori, Yuichi Otsuka, Akinori Saito, Suhaila M. Buhari, Mardina Abdullah, and Pornchai Supnithi	GNSS, ionosphere, total electron content, TEC, loss-of-lock
-	Vol.13 No.3 (2018)	Role of Real-Time GNSS in Near-Field Tsunami Forecasting Yusaku Ohta, Takuya Inoue, Shunichi Koshimura, Satoshi Kawamoto, and Ryota Hino	real-time GNSS, near-field tsunami early warning, rapid magnitude determination, reliable forecasting, tsunami inundation
-	Vol.13 No.3 (2018)	Development of GNSS Buoy for a Synthetic Geohazard Monitoring System Teruyuki Kato, Yukihiro Terada, Keiichi Tadokoro, Natsuki Kinugasa, Akira Futamura, Morio Toyoshima, Shin-ichi Yamamoto, Mamoru Ishii, Takuya Tsugawa, Michi Nishioka, Kenichi Takizawa, Yoshinori Shoji, and Hiromu Seko	GNSS buoy, synthetic geohazard monitoring, tsunami early warning, ocean bottom crustal movements
4	Vol.13 No.1 (2018)	Analysis of Disaster Response During Landslide Disaster in Hakha, Chin State of Myanmar May Myat Mon, Tun Naing, Muneyoshi Numada, Khin Than Yu, Kimiro Meguro, and Kyaw Zin Latt	regional geologic condition, landslide hazard, previous major landslide in 2015, landslide risk management in Hakha
-	Vol.13 No.3 (2018)	A Trial Application of Geodetic Data for Inland Fault Assessment – Coulomb Stress Changes Estimated from GNSS Surface Displacements Takuya Nishimura	GNSS, geodetic data, Coulomb stress change (ΔCFS), inland earthquake
-	Vol.13 No.3 (2018)	Detection of Seafloor Movement in Subduction Zones Around Japan Using a GNSS-A Seafloor Geodetic Observation System from 2013 to 2016 Tadashi Ishikawa and Yusuke Yokota	GNSS-A, seafloor geodesy, crustal deformation, subduction zone

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, May 2018

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
9	Vol.13 No.1 (2018)	Land Cover Change Simulations in Yangon Under Several Scenarios of Flood and Earthquake Vulnerabilities with Master Plan Tanakorn Sritarapipat and Wataru Takeuchi	prediction of urban expansion, disaster risk assessment, disaster risk reduction, Landsat
7	Vol.13 No.2 (2018)	A Real-Time Tsunami Inundation Forecast System Using Vector Supercomputer SX-ACE Akihiro Musa, Takashi Abe, Takuya Inoue, Hiroaki Hokari, Yoichi Murashima , Yoshiyuki Kido, Susumu Date, Shinji Shimojo, Shunichi Koshimura, and Hiroaki Kobayashi	tsunami, real-time simulation, supercomputer, system performance
8	Vol.12 No.3 (2017)	Assessment of Sedimentation in Wlingi and Lodoyo Reservoirs: A Secondary Disaster Following the 2014 Eruption of Mt. Kelud, Indonesia Fahmi Hidayat, Pitojo T. Juwono, Agus Suharyanto, Alwafi Pujiraharjo, Djoko Legono, Dian Sisinggih, David Neil, Masaharu Fujita, and Tetsuya Sumi	reservoir sedimentation, volcanic eruption, secondary disaster, Mt. Kelud
1	Vol.12 No.5 (2017)	Three-Dimensional Seismic Velocity Structure Beneath Japanese Islands and Surroundings Based on NIED Seismic Networks Using both Inland and Offshore Events Makoto Matsubara, Hiroshi Sato, Kenji Uehira, Masashi Mochizuki, and Toshihiko Kanazawa	seismic tomography, failed rift, offshore event, NIED S-net
8	Vol.11 No.5 (2016)	The School Education to Improve the Disaster Response Capacity : A Case of “Kamaishi Miracle” Toshitaka Katada and Masanobu Kanai	Kamaishi Miracle, disaster education, evacuation, tsunamis
-	Vol.11 No.4 (2016)	A Systematic Review of the Factors Affecting the Cyclone Evacuation Decision Process in Bangladesh Md. Nasif Ahsan, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Karina Vink, and Miho Ohara	cyclone, evacuation decision, early warning, risk perception, protective response, Bangladesh
7	Vol.13 No.2 (2018)	Hydrological Simulation of Small River Basins in Northern Kyushu, Japan, During the Extreme Rainfall Event of July 5–6, 2017 Shakti P. C., Tsuyoshi Nakatani, and Ryohei Misumi	extreme rain, flood, hydrologic modeling, ungauged basin, discharge, radar rainfall
8	Vol.12 No.6 (2017)	A Study on the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake: Citizen’s Evaluation of Earthquake Information and Their Evacuation and Sheltering Behaviors Reo Kimura, Shoji Ohtomo, and Naoshi Hirata	random sampled questionnaire survey, pre-earthquake awareness of local active faults, victims’ post-earthquake evacuation and sheltering behavior, aftershock information
9	Vol.12 No.2 (2017)	Global Water-Related Risk Indicators: Meta-Analysis of Indicator Requirements Karina Vink, Md. Nasif Ahsan, Hisaya Sawano, and Miho Ohara	disaster risk reduction indicators, flood, resilience, pedigree matrix
-	Vol.13 No.1 (2018)	Estimation of Originating-Destination Trips in Yangon by Using Big Data Source Thein Aye Zin, Kyaing, Ko Ko Lwin, and Yoshihide Sekimoto	big data, mobile phone data, the movement of people, trip estimation, Yangon
8	Vol.13 No.2 (2018)	Cluster Analysis of Long-Period Ground-Motion Simulation Data with Application to Nankai Trough Megathrust Earthquake Scenarios Takahiro Maeda, Hiroyuki Fujiwara, Toshihiko Hayakawa, Satsuki Shimono, and Sho Akagi	long-period ground motion, simulation, principal component analysis, clustering
4	Vol.13 No.1 (2018)	Analysis of Disaster Response During Landslide Disaster in Hakha, Chin State of Myanmar May Myat Mon, Tun Naing, Muneyoshi Numada, Khin Than Yu, Kimiro Meguro, and Kyaw Zin Latt	regional geologic condition, landslide hazard, previous major landslide in 2015, landslide risk management in Hakha
9	Vol.12 No.5 (2017)	Assimilation Impact of Different GPS Analysis Methods on Precipitation Forecast: A Heavy Rainfall Case Study of Kani City, Gifu Prefecture on July 15, 2010 Shingo Shimizu, Seiichi Shimada, and Kazuhisa Tsuboki	GPS precipitable water, data assimilation, precipitation forecast
9	Vol.11 No.2 (2016)	Establishing the Advanced Disaster Reduction Management System by Fusion of Real-Time Disaster Simulation and Big Data Assimilation Shunichi Koshimura	Real-time Simulation, Earthquake, Tsunami, High-performance Computing, GIS, Big data
2	Vol.12 No.4 (2017)	Real-Time Tsunami Prediction System Using DONET Narumi Takahashi, Kentaro Imai, Masanobu Ishibashi, Kentaro Sueki, Ryoko Obayashi, Tatsuo Tanabe, Fumiyasu Tamazawa, Toshitaka Baba, and Yoshiyuki Kaneda	tsunami, real-time prediction, DONET

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, Apr. 2018

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
3	Vol.12 No.5 (2017)	Three-Dimensional Seismic Velocity Structure Beneath Japanese Islands and Surroundings Based on NIED Seismic Networks Using both Inland and Offshore Events Makoto Matsubara, Hiroshi Sato, Kenji Uehira, Masashi Mochizuki, and Toshihiko Kanazawa	seismic tomography, failed rift, offshore event, NIED S-net
11	Vol.8 No.5 (2013)	Effectiveness of Disaster-Based School Program on Students’ Earthquake-Preparedness Wignyo Adiyoso and Hidehiko Kanegae	school, knowledge, risk perception, awareness, attitude, disaster preparedness, earthquake
7	Vol.12 No.4 (2017)	Real-Time Tsunami Prediction System Using DONET Narumi Takahashi, Kentaro Imai, Masanobu Ishibashi, Kentaro Sueki, Ryoko Obayashi, Tatsuo Tanabe, Fumiyasu Tamazawa, Toshitaka Baba, and Yoshiyuki Kaneda	tsunami, real-time prediction, DONET
-	Vol.4 No.6 (2009)	Tsunami Fragility — A New Measure to Identify Tsunami Damage — Shunichi Koshimura, Yuichi Namegaya, and Hideaki Yanagisawa	fragility curve, tsunami damage estimation, remote sensing, numerical modeling, historical tsunamis
14	Vol.12 No.3 (2017)	Exploring Elements of Disaster Prevention Consciousness: Based on Interviews with Anti-disaster Professionals Miki Ozeki, Kan Shimazaki, and Taiyoung Yi	anti-disaster consciousness
15	Vol.13 No.2 (2018)	Using Agent Simulations to Evaluate the Effect of a Regional BCP on Disaster Response Zijian Liu and Takeyasu Suzuki	regional BCP, emergency relief logistics, quantitative evaluation, agent simulation
8	Vol.13 No.1 (2018)	Analysis of Disaster Response During Landslide Disaster in Hakha, Chin State of Myanmar May Myat Mon, Tun Naing, Muneyoshi Numada, Khin Than Yu, Kimiro Meguro, and Kyaw Zin Latt	regional geologic condition, landslide hazard, previous major landslide in 2015, landslide risk management in Hakha
15	Vol.9 No.6 (2014)	Evaluation of Seismic Vulnerability of Buildings Based on Damage Survey Data from the 2007 Pisco, Peru Earthquake Shizuko Matsuzaki, Nelson Pulido, Yoshihisa Maruyama, Miguel Estrada, Carlos Zavala, and Fumio Yamazaki	seismic vulnerability, the 2007 Pisco earthquake, building damage, damage survey
-	Vol.7 No.1 (2012)	Tsunami Evacuation Simulation for Disaster Education and City Planning Yozo Goto, Muzailin Affan, Agussabti, Yudha Nurdin, Diyah K. Yuliana, and Ardiansyah	tsunami, evacuation, simulation, multiagent model, disaster education
5	Vol.12 No.sp (2017)	Machine Learning Based Building Damage Mapping from the ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 SAR Imagery: Case Study of 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake Yanbing Bai, Bruno Adriano, Erick Mas and Shunichi Koshimura	2016 Kumamoto earthquake, building damage mapping, ALOS-2/PALSAR-2, synthetic aperture radar, machine learning
15	Vol.12 No.1 (2017)	Proposing A Multi-Hazard Approach to Disaster Management Education to Enhance Children’s “Zest for Life”: Development of Disaster Management Education Programs to Be Practiced by Teachers Toshimitsu Nagata and Reo Kimura	Earthquake Early Warning, tornado disaster, general policies regarding curriculum formulation, package of decision-making process, disaster response exercise
-	Vol.10 No.2 (2015)	Integration of GIS with Remote Sensing and GPS for Disaster Mitigation Sikander Nawaz Khan	GPS, GIS, remote sensing, disaster mitigation
2	Vol.13 No.2 (2018)	Study on Disaster Emergency Provisions in the Constitution of Japan as a Measure Against Huge Disasters – A Discussion Based on Initial and Emergency Responses to the Great East Japan Earthquake (Earthquake and Tsunami) – Akira Kotaki and Fumio Takeda	Great East Japan Earthquake, Extreme Disaster Management Headquarters, declaration of a state of disaster emergency, Constitution of Japan, Disaster Emergency Provisions

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, Mar. 2018

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.13 No.2 (2018)	Study on Disaster Emergency Provisions in the Constitution of Japan as a Measure Against Huge Disasters – A Discussion Based on Initial and Emergency Responses to the Great East Japan Earthquake (Earthquake and Tsunami) – Akira Kotaki and Fumio Takeda	Great East Japan Earthquake, Extreme Disaster Management Headquarters, declaration of a state of disaster emergency, Constitution of Japan, Disaster Emergency Provisions
11	Vol.12 No.5 (2017)	Three-Dimensional Seismic Velocity Structure Beneath Japanese Islands and Surroundings Based on NIED Seismic Networks Using both Inland and Offshore Events Makoto Matsubara, Hiroshi Sato, Kenji Uehira, Masashi Mochizuki, and Toshihiko Kanazawa	seismic tomography, failed rift, offshore event, NIED S-net
1	Vol.13 No.1 (2018)	Flood Hazard Assessment of Bago River Basin, Myanmar Win Win Zin, Akiyuki Kawasaki, Wataru Takeuchi, Zin Mar Lar Tin San, Kyaw Zaya Htun, Thet Hnin Aye, and Shelly Win	Bago river basin, flood hazard map, disaster risk management
4	Vol.12 No.sp (2017)	Machine Learning Based Building Damage Mapping from the ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 SAR Imagery: Case Study of 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake Yanbing Bai, Bruno Adriano, Erick Mas and Shunichi Koshimura	2016 Kumamoto earthquake, building damage mapping, ALOS-2/PALSAR-2, synthetic aperture radar, machine learning
-	Vol.11 No.1 (2016)	Numerical Simulations of Volcanic Ash Plume Dispersal from Kelud Volcano in Indonesia on February 13, 2014 Hiroshi L. Tanaka, Masato Iguchi, and Setsuya Nakada	PUFF model, Kelud volcano, aviation safety, airborne ash density, ash dispersion

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, Feb. 2018

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.13 No.1 (2018)	Flood Hazard Assessment of Bago River Basin, Myanmar Win Win Zin, Akiyuki Kawasaki, Wataru Takeuchi, Zin Mar Lar Tin San, Kyaw Zaya Htun, Thet Hnin Aye, and Shelly Win	Bago river basin, flood hazard map, disaster risk management
-	Vol.13 No.1 (2018)	Data Communication for Efficient Water Resource Management Among Multiple Stakeholders – A Case Study in the Bago River Basin, Myanmar – Naruhiko Shirai, Seemanta Sharma Bhagabati, Akira Kodaka, Naohiko Kohtake, Akiyuki Kawasaki, Ralph Allen Acierto, and Win Win Zin	data communication, decision making, water resource management, disaster, Myanmar
-	Vol.13 No.1 (2018)	Structure Deformation Measurement with Terrestrial Laser Scanner at Pathein Bridge in Myanmar Nuntikorn Kitratporn, Wataru Takeuchi, Koji Matsumoto, and Kohei Nagai	bridge inspection, geometric measurement, terrestrial laser scanner, point cloud, 3D model
-	Vol.11 No.2 (2016)	Vulnerability to Underground Inundation and Evacuation in Densely Urbanized Area Taisuke Ishigaki, Ryuji Kawanaka, Taira Ozaki, and Keiichi Toda	underground inundation, extreme flooding, evacuation, densely urbanized area
1	Vol.12 No.sp (2017)	Machine Learning Based Building Damage Mapping from the ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 SAR Imagery: Case Study of 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake Yanbing Bai, Bruno Adriano, Erick Mas and Shunichi Koshimura	2016 Kumamoto earthquake, building damage mapping, ALOS-2/PALSAR-2, synthetic aperture radar, machine learning
6	Vol.12 No.5 (2017)	NIED’s V-net, the Fundamental Volcano Observation Network in Japan Toshikazu Tanada, Hideki Ueda, Masashi Nagai, and Motoo Ukawa	V-net, volcano, observation system, NIED

Count period : February 1 - 28, 2018

JDR Most Downloaded Papers, Jan. 2018

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.12 No.2 (2017)	Early Fire Alert System During an Evacuation with Mobile Sensing Technology Hideki Mori, Masaki Ito, and Kaoru Sezaki	participatory sensing, disaster prevention, mobile sensing.
7	Vol.8 No.5 (2013)	Effectiveness of Disaster-Based School Program on Students’ Earthquake-Preparedness Wignyo Adiyoso and Hidehiko Kanegae	school, knowledge, risk perception, awareness, attitude, disaster preparedness, earthquake
5	Vol.12 No.sp (2017)	Machine Learning Based Building Damage Mapping from the ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 SAR Imagery: Case Study of 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake Yanbing Bai, Bruno Adriano, Erick Mas and Shunichi Koshimura	2016 Kumamoto earthquake, building damage mapping, ALOS-2/PALSAR-2, synthetic aperture radar, machine learning
5	Vol.12 No.5 (2017)	Three-Dimensional Seismic Velocity Structure Beneath Japanese Islands and Surroundings Based on NIED Seismic Networks Using both Inland and Offshore Events Makoto Matsubara, Hiroshi Sato, Kenji Uehira, Masashi Mochizuki, and Toshihiko Kanazawa	seismic tomography, failed rift, offshore event, NIED S-net
1	Vol.12 No.6 (2017)	Duration of Strong Motion Exceeding Bridge Design Spectra in the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake Nobuoto Nojima and Taiki Yamamoto	strong motion duration, velocity response, bridge specification, design spectra, the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquakes
-	Vol.10 No.3 (2015)	Flood Control Mechanism of Multiple Dams Constructed in a Series Based on Cascade Method Hideo Oshikawa and Toshimitsu Komatsu	Cascade method, flood control, dry dam, overflow, empirical formula
7	Vol.12 No.6 (2017)	Citizen Earthquake Science in Taiwan: From Science to Hazard Mitigation Wen-Tzong Liang, Jian-Cheng Lee, Kate Huihsuan Chen, and Nai-Chi Hsiao	citizen earthquake science, crowdsourcing, Taiwan Earthquake Science Information System (TESIS), earthquake school in the cloud, Taiwan
-	Vol.7 No.sp (2012)	Government’s Response to the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Atsushi Koresawa	Great East Japan Earthquake, Hyogo Framework for Action, tsunami, response, recovery
6	Vol.12 No.4 (2017)	Real-Time Tsunami Prediction System Using DONET Narumi Takahashi, Kentaro Imai, Masanobu Ishibashi, Kentaro Sueki, Ryoko Obayashi, Tatsuo Tanabe, Fumiyasu Tamazawa, Toshitaka Baba, and Yoshiyuki Kaneda	tsunami, real-time prediction, DONET
6	Vol.12 No.5 (2017)	Investigation of Damages in Immediate Vicinity of Co-Seismic Faults During the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake Shohei Naito, Ken Xiansheng Hao, Shigeki Senna, Takuma Saeki, Hiromitsu Nakamura, Hiroyuki Fujiwara, and Takashi Azuma	damage investigation, building damage, co-seismic fault, microtremor observation, seismic hazard assessment
-	Vol.12 No.2 (2017)	Fusion of Real-Time Disaster Simulation and Big Data Assimilation – Recent Progress Shunichi Koshimura	real-time simulation, earthquake, tsunami, high-performance computing, GIS, big data
7	Vol.9 No.3 (2014)	Radiation and Generation of Short- and Long-Period Ground Motions from the 2011 Off Tohoku, Japan, M_w9.0 Earthquake Takashi Furumura	the 2011 Off-Tohoku, Japan earthquake, K-NET, KiK-net, long-period ground motion, strong ground motion
-	Vol.11 No.2 (2016)	Object-Based Method for Estimating Tsunami-Induced Damage Using TerraSAR-X Data Hideomi Gokon, Shunichi Koshimura, and Masashi Matsuoka	Remote sensing, Building damage, Tsunami, SAR, Object-based method
-	Vol.7 No.1 (2012)	Striving to Reduce Disaster Risk: Vulnerable Communities with Low Levels of Preparedness in Indonesia Deny Hidayati	community vulnerability, preparedness, coastal areas, disaster risk reduction, earthquake and tsunami disaster
-	Vol.11 No.1 (2016)	Mechanism of Volcanic Tephra Falling Detected by X-Band Multi-Parameter Radar Satoru Oishi, Masahiro Iida, Masahide Muranishi, Mariko Ogawa, Ratih Indri Hapsari and Masato Iguchi	volcanic tephra, X-band multi-parameter radar, quantitative amount estimation, low amount of ash detection, falling model
6	Vol.7 No.1 (2012)	Slip Rate Estimation of the Lembang Fault West Java from Geodetic Observation Irwan Meilano, Hasanuddin Z. Abidin, Heri Andreas, Irwan Gumilar, Dina Sarsito, Rahma Hanifa, Rino, Hery Harjono, Teruyuki Kato, Fumiaki Kimata, and Yoichi Fukuda	Lembang dault, GPS observation, slip rate, creeping and locking
-	Vol.7 No.5 (2012)	Effective Flood Control Through Integrated and Collaborative Dam Operation at Three Dams in the Upper Nabari River Takayoshi Matsumura, Hiroshi Kamiya, and Naohiro Yoshida	effective flood control, dam operation. rainfall forecast, runoff analysis, climate change
7	Vol.8 No.5 (2013)	A New Ground Motion Prediction Equation for Japan Applicable up to M9 Mega-Earthquake Nobuyuki Morikawa and Hiroyuki Fujiwara	ground motion prediction equation, the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake, seismic hazard assessment

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, Dec. 2017

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.12 No.6 (2017)	Duration of Strong Motion Exceeding Bridge Design Spectra in the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake Nobuoto Nojima and Taiki Yamamoto	strong motion duration, velocity response, bridge specification, design spectra, the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquakes
-	Vol.7 No.3 (2012)	Cutaneous Papillomatosis in Cattle Shinichi Hatama	bovine papillomavirus (BPV), epithelial papillomatosis, fibropapillomatosis, BPV-9
2	Vol.12 No.sp (2017)	Machine Learning Based Building Damage Mapping from the ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 SAR Imagery: Case Study of 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake Yanbing Bai, Bruno Adriano, Erick Mas and Shunichi Koshimura	2016 Kumamoto earthquake, building damage mapping, ALOS-2/PALSAR-2, synthetic aperture radar, machine learning
-	Vol.12 No.5 (2017)	Investigation of Damages in Immediate Vicinity of Co-Seismic Faults During the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake Shohei Naito, Ken Xiansheng Hao, Shigeki Senna, Takuma Saeki, Hiromitsu Nakamura, Hiroyuki Fujiwara, and Takashi Azuma	damage investigation, building damage, co-seismic fault, microtremor observation, seismic hazard assessment
-	Vol.12 No.6 (2017)	A Study on the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake: Citizen’s Evaluation of Earthquake Information and Their Evacuation and Sheltering Behaviors Reo Kimura, Shoji Ohtomo, and Naoshi Hirata	random sampled questionnaire survey, pre-earthquake awareness of local active faults, victims’ post-earthquake evacuation and sheltering behavior, aftershock information
3	Vol.12 No.5 (2017)	Effects and Issues of Information Sharing System for Disaster Response Yuichiro Usuda, Makoto Hanashima, Ryota Sato, and Hiroaki Sano	disaster response, disaster information, information sharing, WebGIS, standardization
-	Vol.12 No.6 (2017)	The Influences of Residents’ Evacuation Patterns in the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake on Public Risk Perceptions and Trust Toward Authorities Shoji Ohtomo, Reo Kimura, and Naoshi Hirata	Kumamoto earthquake, risk communication, risk perception, similarity, trust
-	Vol.12 No.6 (2017)	Citizen Earthquake Science in Taiwan: From Science to Hazard Mitigation Wen-Tzong Liang, Jian-Cheng Lee, Kate Huihsuan Chen, and Nai-Chi Hsiao	citizen earthquake science, crowdsourcing, Taiwan Earthquake Science Information System (TESIS), earthquake school in the cloud, Taiwan

Count period : December 1 - 31, 2017

JDR Most Downloaded Papers, Nov. 2017

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
2	Vol.12 No.5 (2017)	Relationship Between b-Value Distribution and the Magma Plumbing System in and Around Mt. Tarumae, Japan Keita Chiba, Hideki Ueda, and Toshikazu Tanada	b-value, material heterogeneity, effective normal stress, magma chamber
1	Vol.12 No.sp (2017)	Machine Learning Based Building Damage Mapping from the ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 SAR Imagery: Case Study of 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake Yanbing Bai, Bruno Adriano, Erick Mas and Shunichi Koshimura	2016 Kumamoto earthquake, building damage mapping, ALOS-2/PALSAR-2, synthetic aperture radar, machine learning
13	Vol.1 No.3 (2006)	Seismic Design Codes for Buildings in Japan Hiroshi Kuramoto	the Building Standard Law of Japan, seismic design code, two-phase earthquake design, performance based earthquake design
4	Vol.12 No.5 (2017)	Effects and Issues of Information Sharing System for Disaster Response Yuichiro Usuda, Makoto Hanashima, Ryota Sato, and Hiroaki Sano	disaster response, disaster information, information sharing, WebGIS, standardization
12	Vol.12 No.3 (2017)	Sensitivity Analysis of Depth-Integrated Numerical Models for Estimating Landslide Movement Teuku Faisal Fathani, Djoko Legono, and Muhammad Ahnaf Alfath	landslide movement, runout distance, moving velocity, shear resistance, internal friction
10	Vol.12 No.4 (2017)	Real-Time Tsunami Prediction System Using DONET Narumi Takahashi, Kentaro Imai, Masanobu Ishibashi, Kentaro Sueki, Ryoko Obayashi, Tatsuo Tanabe, Fumiyasu Tamazawa, Toshitaka Baba, and Yoshiyuki Kaneda	tsunami, real-time prediction, DONET
6	Vol.12 No.sp (2017)	Simple Estimation Method for the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake’s Direct Damage Amount Qinglin Cui, Mingji Cui, Toshihisa Toyoda, and Hitoshi Taniguchi	Kumamoto Earthquake, seismic intensity scales, direct damage amount, multiple regression analysis, promptness
-	Vol.11 No.2 (2016)	Real-Time Simulation of Dynamic Traffic Flow with Traffic Data Assimilation Approach Yosuke Kawasaki, Yusuke Hara, Takuma Mitani, and Masao Kuwahara	traffic state estimation, data assimilation, kinematic wave theory, probe vehicle trajectory
-	Vol.10 No.2 (2015)	Integration of GIS with Remote Sensing and GPS for Disaster Mitigation Sikander Nawaz Khan	GPS, GIS, remote sensing, disaster mitigation

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, Oct. 2017

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
5	Vol.12 No.sp (2017)	Machine Learning Based Building Damage Mapping from the ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 SAR Imagery: Case Study of 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake Yanbing Bai, Bruno Adriano, Erick Mas and Shunichi Koshimura	2016 Kumamoto earthquake, building damage mapping, ALOS-2/PALSAR-2, synthetic aperture radar, machine learning
-	Vol.10 No.2 (2015)	Current Issues Regarding the Incident Command System in the Philippines Miho Ohara and Hisaya Sawano	Incident Command System (ICS), Republic of the Philippines, crisis management, disaster response
8	Vol.12 No.5 (2017)	Relationship Between b-Value Distribution and the Magma Plumbing System in and Around Mt. Tarumae, Japan Keita Chiba, Hideki Ueda, and Toshikazu Tanada	b-value, material heterogeneity, effective normal stress, magma chamber
12	Vol.12 No.5 (2017)	The Standardized Disaster-Information Products for Disaster Management: Concept and Formulation Makoto Hanashima, Ryota Sato, and Yuichiro Usuda	information sharing, disaster management, disaster information, emergency response
9	Vol.12 No.5 (2017)	Effects and Issues of Information Sharing System for Disaster Response Yuichiro Usuda, Makoto Hanashima, Ryota Sato, and Hiroaki Sano	disaster response, disaster information, information sharing, WebGIS, standardization

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, Sep. 2017

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.12 No.5 (2017)	Three-Dimensional Seismic Velocity Structure Beneath Japanese Islands and Surroundings Based on NIED Seismic Networks Using both Inland and Offshore Events Makoto Matsubara, Hiroshi Sato, Kenji Uehira, Masashi Mochizuki, and Toshihiko Kanazawa	seismic tomography, failed rift, offshore event, NIED S-net
-	Vol.12 No.5 (2017)	Characteristics of Groundwater Response to Precipitation for Landslide Prevention at Kiyomizu-Dera Toru Danjo, Tomohiro Ishizawa, Masamitsu Fujimoto, Naoki Sakai, and Ryoichi Fukagawa	rainfall intensity, groundwater level, field measurement, full scale model experiment
-	Vol.12 No.5 (2017)	Real-Time Prediction Method for Slope Failure Caused by Rainfall Using Slope Monitoring Records Tomohiro Ishizawa, Toru Danjo, and Naoki Sakai	slope monitoring, slope failure, prediction method, displacement rate, rainfall
-	Vol.12 No.5 (2017)	Consideration on Utilization of Information in Disaster Response Site – Based on Information Support for 2016 Kumamoto Earthquakes – Tadashi Ise, Takuya Takahashi, Ryota Sato, Hiroaki Sano, Takeshi Isono, Makoto Hanashima, and Yuichiro Usuda	disaster Information, knowledge design, knowledge, information design, DIKW model
-	Vol.12 No.5 (2017)	Investigation of Damages in Immediate Vicinity of Co-Seismic Faults During the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake Shohei Naito, Ken Xiansheng Hao, Shigeki Senna, Takuma Saeki, Hiromitsu Nakamura, Hiroyuki Fujiwara, and Takashi Azuma	damage investigation, building damage, co-seismic fault, microtremor observation, seismic hazard assessment

Count period : September 1 - 30, 2017

JDR Most Downloaded Papers, Jul.-Aug. 2017

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.12 No.sp (2017)	Simple Estimation Method for the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake’s Direct Damage Amount Qinglin Cui, Mingji Cui, Toshihisa Toyoda, and Hitoshi Taniguchi	Kumamoto Earthquake, seismic intensity scales, direct damage amount, multiple regression analysis, promptness
-	Vol.12 No.sp (2017)	Machine Learning Based Building Damage Mapping from the ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 SAR Imagery: Case Study of 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake Yanbing Bai, Bruno Adriano, Erick Mas and Shunichi Koshimura	2016 Kumamoto earthquake, building damage mapping, ALOS-2/PALSAR-2, synthetic aperture radar, machine learning
-	Vol.12 No.sp (2017)	Damage of Enterprises and Their Business Continuity in the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake Hiroaki Maruya and Tetsuya Torayashiki	Business Continuity Management (BCM), responsibility of supply, substitute site, earthquake proof measures
-	Vol.12 No.sp (2017)	The Evacuation of Thai Citizens During Japan’s 2016 Kumamoto Earthquakes: An ICT Perspective Natt Leelawat, Anawat Suppasri, Panon Latcharote and Fumihiko Imamura	2016 Kumamoto earthquakes, evacuation, foreigners, information and communication technology

Count period : Jul.1 - Aug. 31, 2017

JDR Most Downloaded Papers, May-Jun. 2017

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.12 No.3 (2017)	Exploring Elements of Disaster Prevention Consciousness: Based on Interviews with Anti-disaster Professionals Miki Ozeki, Kan Shimazaki, and Taiyoung Yi	anti-disaster consciousness
-	Vol.12 No.3 (2017)	Sensitivity Analysis of Depth-Integrated Numerical Models for Estimating Landslide Movement Teuku Faisal Fathani, Djoko Legono, and Muhammad Ahnaf Alfath	landslide movement, runout distance, moving velocity, shear resistance, internal friction
-	Vol.7 No.1 (2012)	Tsunami Evacuation Simulation for Disaster Education and City Planning Yozo Goto, Muzailin Affan, Agussabti, Yudha Nurdin, Diyah K. Yuliana, and Ardiansyah	tsunami, evacuation, simulation, multiagent model, disaster education
-	Vol.12 No.3 (2017)	Development of a Bridge Inspection Support System Using Two-Wheeled Multicopter and 3D Modeling Technology Yoshiro Hada, Manabu Nakao, Moyuru Yamada, Hiroki Kobayashi, Naoyuki Sawasaki, Katsunori Yokoji, Satoshi Kanai, Fumiki Tanaka, Hiroaki Date, Sarthak Pathak, Atsushi Yamashita, Manabu Yamada, and Toshiya Sugawara	bridge inspection, UAV, 3D point cloud data, 3D CAD model, geotagging
-	Vol.12 No.3 (2017)	Data Assimilation for Fatigue Life Assessment of RC Bridge Decks Coupled with Path-Integral-Mechanistic Model and Non-Destructive Inspection Yasushi Tanaka, Koichi Maekawa, Takuya Maeshima, Ichiro Iwaki, Takahiro Nishida, and Tomoki Shiotani	data assimilation, multi-scale analysis, AE tomography, crack pattern

Count period : May 1 - Jun. 30, 2017

JDR Most Downloaded Papers, Mar.-Apr. 2017

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.12 No.2 (2017)	Object-Based Building Damage Assessment Methodology Using Only Post Event ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 Dual Polarimetric SAR Intensity Images Yanbing Bai, Bruno Adriano, Erick Mas, Hideomi Gokon, and Shunichi Koshimura	2015 Nepal earthquake, object-based building damage assessment, post-event dual-polarimetric SAR imagery, Random Forest machine learning algorithms
-	Vol.12 No.2 (2017)	Extraction of Collapsed Buildings in the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake Using Multi-Temporal PALSAR-2 Data Wen Liu and Fumio Yamazaki	ALOS-2 PALSAR-2, synthetic aperture radar, coherence, intensity, damage extraction
-	Vol.12 No.2 (2017)	Verification of a Method for Estimating Building Damage in Extensive Tsunami Affected Areas Using L-Band SAR Data Hideomi Gokon, Shunichi Koshimura, and Kimiro Meguro	remote sensing, building damage, tsunami, SAR, object-based method
-	Vol.12 No.2 (2017)	Wide-Area Evacuation Simulation Incorporating Rescue and Firefighting by Local Residents Toshihiro Osaragi and Takuya Oki	large earthquake, property damage, local residents, wide-area evacuation, rescue activity, firefighting activity

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, Jan.-Feb. 2017

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.12 No.1 (2017)	Proposing A Multi-Hazard Approach to Disaster Management Education to Enhance Children’s “Zest for Life”: Development of Disaster Management Education Programs to Be Practiced by Teachers Toshimitsu Nagata and Reo Kimura	Earthquake Early Warning, tornado disaster, general policies regarding curriculum formulation, package of decision-making process, disaster response exercise
-	Vol.12 No.1 (2017)	Developing a Web-Based Supporting Application for Individual Evacuation Plans Through Hazard Risk and Geographical Analyses Munenari Inoguchi, Takahiro Sekikawa, and Keiko Tamura	community disaster management plan, evacuation route, tsunami disaster, web-based GIS, Niigata city
-	Vol.1 No.3 (2006)	Seismic Design Codes for Buildings in Japan Hiroshi Kuramoto	the Building Standard Law of Japan, seismic design code, two-phase earthquake design, performance based earthquake design
-	Vol.4 No.6 (2009)	Tsunami Bore Impingement onto a Vertical Column Halldor Arnason, Catherine Petroff, and Harry Yeh	tsunamis, bore, wake, turbulence, force, method of characteristics, cylinder, column
-	Vol.10 No.3 (2015)	Flood Control Mechanism of Multiple Dams Constructed in a Series Based on Cascade Method Hideo Oshikawa and Toshimitsu Komatsu	Cascade method, flood control, dry dam, overflow, empirical formula
-	Vol.12 No.1 (2017)	Development of a “Disaster Management Literacy Hub” for Collecting, Creating, and Transmitting Disaster Management Content to Increase Disaster Management Literacy Reo Kimura, Haruo Hayashi, Kosuke Kobayashi, Takahiro Nishino, Kenshin Urabe, and Satoshi Inoue	disaster management literacy hub (DMLH), competencies for disaster responses, education and training, instructional design (ID), learning objectives
-	Vol.7 No.sp (2012)	Government’s Response to the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Atsushi Koresawa	Great East Japan Earthquake, Hyogo Framework for Action, tsunami, response, recovery
-	Vol.8 No.4 (2013)	The 2011 Tohoku Tsunami Flow Velocity Estimation by the Aerial Video Analysis and Numerical Modeling Satomi Hayashi and Shunichi Koshimura	the 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami, numerical modeling, tsunami flow velocity, aerial video, remote sensing
-	Vol.8 No.5 (2013)	A New Ground Motion Prediction Equation for Japan Applicable up to M9 Mega-Earthquake Nobuyuki Morikawa and Hiroyuki Fujiwara	ground motion prediction equation, the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake, seismic hazard assessment
-	Vol.9 No.6 (2014)	Development of Building Inventory Data and Earthquake Damage Estimation in Lima, Peru for Future Earthquakes Masashi Matsuoka, Shun Mito, Saburoh Midorikawa, Hiroyuki Miura, Luis G. Quiroz, Yoshihisa Maruyama, and Miguel Estrada	building inventory data, earthquake damage estimation, census data, fragility curve, socio-economic class, satellite imagery
-	Vol.11 No.3 (2016)	Quantitative Text Analysis of Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 Osamu Murao and Hiroko Sakaba	IDNDR, Yokohama Strategy, ISDR, Hyogo Framework for Action 2000-2015, KH Coder
-	Vol.11 No.4 (2016)	Influence of Openings and Orientation on Tsunami Generated Forces on Buildings Chathura Manawasekara, Norimi Mizutani, and Satoru Aoki	tsunami evacuation buildings, tsunami force, building openings, building orientation
-	Vol.11 No.5 (2016)	Accuracy of Quantitative Precipitation Estimation Using Operational Weather Radars: A Case Study of Heavy Rainfall on 9–10 September 2015 in the East Kanto Region, Japan Shakti P. C., Ryohei Misumi, Tsuyoshi Nakatani, Koyuru Iwanami, Masayuki Maki, Takeshi Maesaka, and Kohin Hirano	heavy rainfall, radar rainfall, rain gauge, spatial and temporal variation, frequency distribution
-	Vol.11 No.6 (2016)	Implementation of Real-Time Flood Prediction and its Application to Dam Operations by Data Integration Analysis System Yoshihiro Shibuo, Eiji Ikoma, Oliver Saavedra Valeriano, Lei Wang, Peter Lawford, Masaru Kitsuregawa, and Toshio Koike	data-archive and model integrated system, flood forecast, ensemble streamflow prediction, virtual reservoir simulator
-	Vol.12 No.1 (2017)	Efficiency Evaluation of Standard Operating Procedures in a Disaster Information System Tomohiro Kokogawa, Yuji Maeda, Fumiaki Ichinose, Masahiro Sugiyama, Tomomi Yamamoto, and Haruo Hayashi	standard operating procedures, ICS, free-style information
-	Vol.12 No.1 (2017)	Disaster Information System Using Natural Language Processing Naoko Kosaka, Akira Koyama, Tomohiro Kokogawa, Yuji Maeda, Hiroko Koumoto, Shingo Suzuki, Kenshi Yamaguchi, and Kentaro Inui	natural language processing, incident response, activity log, SOP (Standard Operating Procedure)
-	Vol.12 No.1 (2017)	People Who Cannot Move During a Disaster – Initiatives and Examples in Japan Disaster Victim Support Eiichi Yamasaki and Haruo Hayashi	disaster victim support, vulnerability, immobility, protection of personal information
-	Vol.12 No.1 (2017)	Study on the Characteristics of Rainfall Runoff in the Kinugawa River Basin and the Evacuation Behavior of the Residents at the Time of Kanto and Tohoku Flood Disaster in September, 2015 Yoshimasa Morooka and Tadashi Yamada	flood disaster, flood simulation, rainfall-runoff analysis, evacuation behavior, kinugawa river
-	Vol.12 No.1 (2017)	Agrometeorological Disaster Grading in Guangdong Province Based on Data Mining Danni Wang, Shitai Bao, Chunlin Wang, and Chongyang Wang	fuzzy associate rule, data mining, agrometeorological disaster monitoring and early warning

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, December 2016

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.1 No.3 (2006)	Seismic Design Codes for Buildings in Japan Hiroshi Kuramoto	the Building Standard Law of Japan, seismic design code, two-phase earthquake design, performance based earthquake design
-	Vol.11 No.6 (2016)	Numerical Model for Bank Erosion in the Brahmaputra River Robin K. Biswas, Atsuhiro Yorozuya, and Shinji Egashira	2D depth integrated model, bank erosion, stretchable grids, suspended sediment, brahmaputra river
-	Vol.11 No.6 (2016)	The 2015 Flood Impact due to the Overflow and Dike Breach of Kinu River in Joso City, Japan Naoko Nagumo, Miho Ohara, Daisuke Kuribayashi, and Hisaya Sawano	flood risk, Kinu River, inundation depth, Joso City
-	Vol.11 No.6 (2016)	Meteorological Drought and Flood Assessment Using the Comparative SPI Approach in Asia Under Climate Change Akira Hasegawa, Maksym Gusyev, and Yoichi Iwami	comparative SPI (cSPI), precipitation, meteorological drought, climate change, Asia
-	Vol.11 No.6 (2016)	Evaluation of Water Cycle Components with Standardized Indices Under Climate Change in the Pampanga, Solo and Chao Phraya Basins Maksym Gusyev, Akira Hasegawa, Jun Magome, Patricia Sanchez, Ai Sugiura, Hitoshi Umino, Hisaya Sawano, and Yoshio Tokunaga	drought, standardized indices, BTOP model, climate change
-	Vol.11 No.6 (2016)	Flood Risk Assessment in Asian Flood Prone Area with Limited Local Data – Case Study in Pampanga River Basin, Philippines – Miho Ohara, Naoko Nagumo, Badri Bhakta Shrestha, and Hisaya Sawano	flood, risk assessment, inundation, flood-prone area, Asia

Count period : December 1-31, 2016

JDR Most Downloaded Papers, November 2016

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.7 No.5 (2012)	Hydrological Analysis of the Situ Gintung Dam Failure Joko Sujono	dam failure, flood routing, spillway
-	Vol.8 No.5 (2013)	A New Ground Motion Prediction Equation for Japan Applicable up to M9 Mega-Earthquake Nobuyuki Morikawa and Hiroyuki Fujiwara	ground motion prediction equation, the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake, seismic hazard assessment
2	Vol.1 No.3 (2006)	Seismic Design Codes for Buildings in Japan Hiroshi Kuramoto	the Building Standard Law of Japan, seismic design code, two-phase earthquake design, performance based earthquake design
-	Vol.2 No.6 (2007)	Design Tsunami Forces for Onshore Structures Harry Yeh	tsunamis, hydrodynamic forces, surge forces, debris impact
-	Vol.4 No.4 (2009)	Development of Application Systems for Earthquake Early Warning Yukio Fujinawa, Yoshinori Rokugo, Yoichi Noda, Yoshinobu Mizui, Masaji Kobayashi, and Etsuo Mizutani	earthquake, disaster mitigation, early warning, real-time, counter-measure equipment
-	Vol.4 No.6 (2009)	Estimation of Tsunami Force Acting on Rectangular Structures Koji Fujima, Fauzie Achmad, Yoshinori Shigihara, and Norimi Mizutani	tsunami force, design formula, wave pressure, drag coefficient
-	Vol.7 No.2 (2012)	A Basic Study of Open Space Information as Social Infrastructure for Wide-Range Cooperation in Large-Scale Seismic Disaster Takashi Furuya, Munenari Inoguchi, Go Urakawa, and Haruo Hayashi	Tokyo Metropolitan Earthquake, open space, large-scale seismic disaster, wide-range cooperation, disaster response, geospatial information analysis
-	Vol.7 No.sp (2012)	A Message 15 Days After the 3.11 Earthquake on the Nuclear Accident at Fukushima #1 NPS Yoichi Fuji-ie	nuclear accident, Fukushima #1 NPS, radiation effect to public, shut-down, cool-down, containment, the 3.11 earthquake
2	Vol.7 No.sp (2012)	Government’s Response to the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Atsushi Koresawa	Great East Japan Earthquake, Hyogo Framework for Action, tsunami, response, recovery
-	Vol.10 No.5 (2015)	A Case Study on Estimation of Business Interruption Losses to Industrial Sectors Due to Flood Disasters Lijiao Yang, Hirokazu Tatano, Yoshio Kajitani, and Xinyu Jiang	BI loss, integrated statistical model, kriging interpolation, index of industrial production, Tokai heavy rain 2000
-	Vol.10 No.5 (2015)	Climate Change Impact on the Manageability of Floods and Droughts of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Basins Using Flood Duration Curves and Drought Duration Curves Muhammad Masood and Kuniyoshi Takeuchi	climate change impact, manageability of floods and droughts, Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna basin, flood duration curve (FDC), drought duration curve (DDC)
-	Vol.11 No.2 (2016)	Establishing the Advanced Disaster Reduction Management System by Fusion of Real-Time Disaster Simulation and Big Data Assimilation Shunichi Koshimura	Real-time Simulation, Earthquake, Tsunami, High-performance Computing, GIS, Big data
-	Vol.11 No.2 (2016)	Earthquake Disaster Simulation System: Integration of Models for Building Collapse, Road Blockage, and Fire Spread Noriaki Hirokawa and Toshihiro Osaragi	property damage, simulation model, fire-spread index
-	Vol.11 No.2 (2016)	Seismic Hazard Visualization from Big Simulation Data: Construction of a Parallel Distributed Processing System for Ground Motion Simulation Data Takahiro Maeda and Hiroyuki Fujiwara	seismic hazard, visualization, simulation, parallel distributed processing
2	Vol.11 No.5 (2016)	Accuracy of Quantitative Precipitation Estimation Using Operational Weather Radars: A Case Study of Heavy Rainfall on 9–10 September 2015 in the East Kanto Region, Japan Shakti P. C., Ryohei Misumi, Tsuyoshi Nakatani, Koyuru Iwanami, Masayuki Maki, Takeshi Maesaka, and Kohin Hirano	heavy rainfall, radar rainfall, rain gauge, spatial and temporal variation, frequency distribution
-	Vol.11 No.sp (2016)	Risk Perceptions of Resuming Nuclear Power Plant Operations After Fukushima: A Student Survey Kami Seo, Tadahiro Motoyoshi, and Yasunobu Maeda	Fukushima accident, nuclear power generation, risk perception, discriminant analysis

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, October 2016

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.8 No.4 (2013)	Promoting Education of Dual-Use Issues for Life Scientists: A Comprehensive Approach Masamichi Minehata, Judi Sture, Nariyoshi Shinomiya, Simon Whitby, and Malcolm Dando	biosecurity, biorisk, education, biological weapons convention, responsible research
-	Vol.1 No.3 (2006)	Seismic Design Codes for Buildings in Japan Hiroshi Kuramoto	the Building Standard Law of Japan, seismic design code, two-phase earthquake design, performance based earthquake design
-	Vol.11 No.5 (2016)	Accuracy of Quantitative Precipitation Estimation Using Operational Weather Radars: A Case Study of Heavy Rainfall on 9–10 September 2015 in the East Kanto Region, Japan Shakti P. C., Ryohei Misumi, Tsuyoshi Nakatani, Koyuru Iwanami, Masayuki Maki, Takeshi Maesaka, and Kohin Hirano	heavy rainfall, radar rainfall, rain gauge, spatial and temporal variation, frequency distribution
-	Vol.7 No.sp (2012)	Evacuation Behaviors in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Nam-Yi Yun and Masanori Hamada	the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake, disaster mitigation, evacuation time, evacuation place, preparedness before disaster, human impact
-	Vol.7 No.sp (2012)	Government’s Response to the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Atsushi Koresawa	Great East Japan Earthquake, Hyogo Framework for Action, tsunami, response, recovery
-	Vol.8 No.sp (2013)	A Study on Social Responsibility of Engineers and Managers Kiyoshi Sato	social responsibility, nuclear power generation, countermeasures against tsunami, scientific uncertainties, social decision making
-	Vol.8 No.sp (2013)	The Six Principles of Recovery: A Guideline for Preparing for Future Disaster Recoveries Takaaki Kato, Yasmin Bhattacharya, Hiroshi Sugata, and Rie Otagiri	Great East Japan Earthquake, recovery, community planning, disaster-mitigation, change in periodic trend
-	Vol.8 No.sp (2013)	Evidence-Based Analysis of Search and Rescue Operations Following the Great East Japan Earthquake Atsushi Koresawa	Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami, search and rescue (SAR), fire service, international aid
-	Vol.9 No.sp (2014)	An Analysis of International Assistance Based on Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake Atsushi Koresawa	Great East Japan Earthquake, search and rescue (SAR), international assistance, INSARAG
-	Vol.9 No.sp (2014)	Current Status and Issues of Life Recovery Process Three Years After the Great East Japan Earthquake Questionnaire Based on Subjective Estimate of Victims Using Life Recovery Calendar Method Reo Kimura, Kota Tomoyasu, Yutaka Yajima, Hitomi Mashima, Kensaku Furukawa, Yuki Toda, Kazuaki Watanabe, and Takeo Kawahara	life recovery process, disaster process, housing recover, questionnaire survey, “life recovery calendar” method, three-layer recovery model
-	Vol.9 No.sp (2014)	Comparative Study of the Post-Tsunami Recovery Plans After the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Osamu Murao and Tomoyo Hoshi	2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, postdisaster recovery plan, local government, Sanriku coast, recovery process
-	Vol.10 No.sp (2015)	Research on Planning Process of Community Disaster Management Plan at Tsunami-Hit Area Tadahiro Yoshikawa	Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami, evacuation behavior, community disaster management plan, planning process
-	Vol.11 No.5 (2016)	An Attempt at Quantifying Disaster Damage Based on the Use of Collective Intelligence Yoshiaki Kawata	disaster resilience, socioeconomic damage, collective intelligence, Tokyo inland earthquake, national crisis
-	Vol.11 No.5 (2016)	Liquefaction Analyses of Reclaimed Ground and Levee Considering the Damage by the 2011 Great Tohoku Earthquake and Lessons Fusao Oka, Sayuri Kimoto, Hirokazu Yui, Hiroshi Matsuoka, and Peter Song Yeu Tsai	liquefaction, prediction method, reclaimed ground, levee, industrial complex
-	Vol.11 No.5 (2016)	The School Education to Improve the Disaster Response Capacity : A Case of “Kamaishi Miracle” Toshitaka Katada and Masanobu Kanai	Kamaishi Miracle, disaster education, evacuation, tsunamis
-	Vol.11 No.5 (2016)	An Attempt of Extracting and Sharing Lessons Learned from Experiences of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster Based on the Viewpoints of Experts on Disaster Science: The “Database of Lessons from March 11, 2011” Shosuke Sato and Fumihiko Imamura	lesson Learned from a disaster, science communication, disaster education, the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster, Nankai Trough Earthquake
-	Vol.11 No.5 (2016)	Building a GIS-Based Information System with Seamless Interaction Between Operations and Disaster Management – New Challenges of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka in Using Spatial Information newline for Regional Disaster Resilient Societies Go Urakawa	daily operations, disaster response, spatial information, GIS, regional disaster resilient societies

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, September 2016

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
3	Vol.11 No.4 (2016)	Uncertainty in Tsunami Sediment Transport Modeling Bruce Jaffe, Kazuhisa Goto, Daisuke Sugawara, Guy Gelfenbaum, and SeanPaul La Selle	tsunami sediment transport, modeling, uncertainty, sedimentary deposits
4	Vol.8 No.5 (2013)	A New Ground Motion Prediction Equation for Japan Applicable up to M9 Mega-Earthquake Nobuyuki Morikawa and Hiroyuki Fujiwara	ground motion prediction equation, the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake, seismic hazard assessment
5	Vol.11 No.1 (2016)	Method for Real-Time Evaluation of Discharge Rate of Volcanic Ash – Case Study on Intermittent Eruptions at the Sakurajima Volcano, Japan – Masato Iguchi	volcanic ash, discharge rate, volcanic tremor, ground deformation, Sakurajima
-	Vol.11 No.1 (2016)	Preliminary Results of Weather Radar Observations of Sakurajima Volcanic Smoke Masayuki Maki, Masato Iguchi, Takeshi Maesaka, Takahiro Miwa, Toshikazu Tanada, Tomofumi Kozono, Tatsuya Momotani, Akihiko Yamaji, and Ikuya Kakimoto	weather radar, Sakurajima, volcanic ash cloud, ash smoke, eruption
-	Vol.11 No.1 (2016)	Numerical Simulations of Volcanic Ash Plume Dispersal from Kelud Volcano in Indonesia on February 13, 2014 Hiroshi L. Tanaka, Masato Iguchi, and Setsuya Nakada	PUFF model, Kelud volcano, aviation safety, airborne ash density, ash dispersion
-	Vol.11 No.2 (2016)	Grasp of Disaster Situation and Support Need Inside Affected Area with Social Sensing – An Analysis of Twitter Data Before and After the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster Occurring – Shosuke Sato, Kazumasa Hanaoka, Makoto Okumura, and Shunichi Koshimura	social media, Twitter, Common Operational Picture (COP), disaster information system, geo-information, disaster situation
-	Vol.11 No.sp (2016)	Building Reconstruction After Large-Scale Disasters A Case Study of Ishinomaki City After the Great East Japan Earthquake Michio Ubaura, Junpei Nieda, and Masashi Miyakawa	building reconstruction, great east japan earthquake, ishinomaki city, land use change, urban formation

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, August 2016

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.11 No.4 (2016)	Precise Prediction of Coastal and Overland Flow Dynamics: A Grand Challenge or a Fool’s Errand Patrick J. Lynett	tsunami currents, numerical modeling, uncertainty
-	Vol.11 No.4 (2016)	Performance-Based Tsunami Engineering via a Web-Based GIS Data Explorer Dylan Keon, Cherri M. Pancake, Ben Steinberg, and Harry Yeh	tsunami, web-based, GIS, prediction, sensitivity analysis
-	Vol.11 No.4 (2016)	Uncertainty in Tsunami Sediment Transport Modeling Bruce Jaffe, Kazuhisa Goto, Daisuke Sugawara, Guy Gelfenbaum, and SeanPaul La Selle	tsunami sediment transport, modeling, uncertainty, sedimentary deposits
1	Vol.8 No.5 (2013)	A New Ground Motion Prediction Equation for Japan Applicable up to M9 Mega-Earthquake Nobuyuki Morikawa and Hiroyuki Fujiwara	ground motion prediction equation, the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake, seismic hazard assessment
-	Vol.11 No.4 (2016)	A Systematic Review of the Factors Affecting the Cyclone Evacuation Decision Process in Bangladesh Md. Nasif Ahsan, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Karina Vink, and Miho Ohara	cyclone, evacuation decision, early warning, risk perception, protective response, Bangladesh

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, July 2016

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
1	Vol.8 No.5 (2013)	A New Ground Motion Prediction Equation for Japan Applicable up to M9 Mega-Earthquake Nobuyuki Morikawa and Hiroyuki Fujiwara	ground motion prediction equation, the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake, seismic hazard assessment
-	Vol.7 No.1 (2012)	Social Flux and Disaster Management: An Essay on the Construction of an Indonesian Model for Disaster Management and Reconstruction Yoshimi Nishi and Hiroyuki Yamamoto	information, technology transfer, emergency humanitarian assistance, area studies, social flux
-	Vol.7 No.1 (2012)	Tsunami Evacuation Simulation for Disaster Education and City Planning Yozo Goto, Muzailin Affan, Agussabti, Yudha Nurdin, Diyah K. Yuliana, and Ardiansyah	tsunami, evacuation, simulation, multiagent model, disaster education
-	Vol.9 No.3 (2014)	Review on Near-Field Tsunami Forecasting from Offshore Tsunami Data and Onshore GNSS Data for Tsunami Early Warning Hiroaki Tsushima and Yusaku Ohta	offshore tsunami observation, real-time GNSS (GPS), near-field tsunamis, tsunami early warning system, combination use
-	Vol.9 No.5 (2014)	Fundamental Analysis for Flood Risk Management in the Selected River Basins of Southeast Asia Badri Bhakta Shrestha, Toshio Okazumi, Mamoru Miyamoto, Seishi Nabesaka, Shigenobu Tanaka, and Ai Sugiura	flood features, flood forecasting, damage assessment, developing countries

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, June 2016

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.1 No.3 (2006)	Seismic Design Codes for Buildings in Japan Hiroshi Kuramoto	the Building Standard Law of Japan, seismic design code, two-phase earthquake design, performance based earthquake design
-	Vol.8 No.3 (2013)	Solid Waste Management in Bangkok at 2011 Thailand Floods Hirofumi Nakayama, Takayuki Shimaoka, Kiyoshi Omine, Maryono, Plubcharoensuk Patsaraporn, and Orawan Siriratpiriya	2011 Thailand Floods, disaster waste management, municipal solid waste, industrial waste
-	Vol.8 No.5 (2013)	A New Ground Motion Prediction Equation for Japan Applicable up to M9 Mega-Earthquake Nobuyuki Morikawa and Hiroyuki Fujiwara	ground motion prediction equation, the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake, seismic hazard assessment
-	Vol.10 No.4 (2015)	Research and Development Efforts in Fire Safety and Disaster Preparedness Masafumi Hosokawa	Fire Safety and Disaster Preparedness, Promoting Program for Scientific Fire and Disaster Prevention Technologies
-	Vol.11 No.2 (2016)	Grasp of Disaster Situation and Support Need Inside Affected Area with Social Sensing – An Analysis of Twitter Data Before and After the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster Occurring – Shosuke Sato, Kazumasa Hanaoka, Makoto Okumura, and Shunichi Koshimura	social media, Twitter, Common Operational Picture (COP), disaster information system, geo-information, disaster situation
-	Vol.11 No.3 (2016)	Identification of Minimum Standards in Emergency Goods for Earthquake Relief in Indonesia Rienna Oktarina, Senator Nur Bahagia, Lucia Diawati, and Krishna S. Pribadi	humanitarian logistics, emergency goods, disaster relief
-	Vol.11 No.3 (2016)	Multi-Temporal Correlation Method for Damage Assessment of Buildings from High-Resolution SAR Images of the 2013 Typhoon Haiyan Pisut Nakmuenwai, Fumio Yamazaki, and Wen Liu	damage detection, multi-temporal SAR images, coherence, correlation coefficient

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Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
2	Vol.11 No.2 (2016)	Establishing the Advanced Disaster Reduction Management System by Fusion of Real-Time Disaster Simulation and Big Data Assimilation Shunichi Koshimura	Real-time Simulation, Earthquake, Tsunami, High-performance Computing, GIS, Big data
3	Vol.11 No.2 (2016)	Earthquake Disaster Simulation System: Integration of Models for Building Collapse, Road Blockage, and Fire Spread Noriaki Hirokawa and Toshihiro Osaragi	property damage, simulation model, fire-spread index
4	Vol.11 No.2 (2016)	User Participatory Sensing for Disaster Detection and Mitigation Kaoru Sezaki, Shin'ichi Konomi, and Masaki Ito	participatory sensing, mobile sensing, citizen science
-	Vol.4 No.6 (2009)	Tsunami Bore Impingement onto a Vertical Column Halldor Arnason, Catherine Petroff, and Harry Yeh	tsunamis, bore, wake, turbulence, force, method of characteristics, cylinder, column
-	Vol.7 No.1 (2012)	Methods for Eruption Prediction and Hazard Evaluation at Indonesian Volcanoes Masato Iguchi, Surono, Takeshi Nishimura, Muhamad Hendrasto, Umar Rosadi, Takahiro Ohkura, Hetty Triastuty, Ahmad Basuki, Agoes Loeqman, Sukir Maryanto, Kazuhiro Ishihara, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Setsuya Nakada, and Natsumi Hokanishi	short-term prediction, long-term prediction, eruption scenario
4	Vol.11 No.2 (2016)	Human Mobility Estimation Following Massive Disaster Using Filtering Approach Akihito Sudo, Takehiro Kashiyama, Takahiro Yabe, Hiroshi Kanasugi, and Yoshihide Sekimoto	human mobility, location data, Bayesian inference, disaster management
-	Vol.11 No.2 (2016)	Monitoring of the Recovery Process of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant from VHR SAR Images Wen Liu, Fumio Yamazaki, and Tadashi Sasagawa	building damage, geometric features, WorldView-2, TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, April 2016

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.7 No.1 (2012)	Tsunami Evacuation Simulation for Disaster Education and City Planning Yozo Goto, Muzailin Affan, Agussabti, Yudha Nurdin, Diyah K. Yuliana, and Ardiansyah	tsunami, evacuation, simulation, multiagent model, disaster education
-	Vol.11 No.2 (2016)	Establishing the Advanced Disaster Reduction Management System by Fusion of Real-Time Disaster Simulation and Big Data Assimilation Shunichi Koshimura	Real-time Simulation, Earthquake, Tsunami, High-performance Computing, GIS, Big data
-	Vol.11 No.2 (2016)	Earthquake Disaster Simulation System: Integration of Models for Building Collapse, Road Blockage, and Fire Spread Noriaki Hirokawa and Toshihiro Osaragi	property damage, simulation model, fire-spread index
-	Vol.11 No.2 (2016)	User Participatory Sensing for Disaster Detection and Mitigation Kaoru Sezaki, Shin'ichi Konomi, and Masaki Ito	participatory sensing, mobile sensing, citizen science
-	Vol.11 No.2 (2016)	Human Mobility Estimation Following Massive Disaster Using Filtering Approach Akihito Sudo, Takehiro Kashiyama, Takahiro Yabe, Hiroshi Kanasugi, and Yoshihide Sekimoto	human mobility, location data, Bayesian inference, disaster management

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Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.11 No.2 (2016)	Proposal for Development Cooperation to Enhance the Capacity on Disaster Emergency Response in Developing Countries : A Case Study of Curriculum Development in the People’s Republic of China Toshiyuki Shimano, Reo Kimura, Haruo Hayashi, Noriaki Nagatomo, and Yukihisa Sakurada	after action review, timeline, instructional design, emergency response, development cooperation
-	Vol.11 No.1 (2016)	Method for Real-Time Evaluation of Discharge Rate of Volcanic Ash – Case Study on Intermittent Eruptions at the Sakurajima Volcano, Japan – Masato Iguchi	volcanic ash, discharge rate, volcanic tremor, ground deformation, Sakurajima
2	Vol.11 No.1 (2016)	Preliminary Results of Weather Radar Observations of Sakurajima Volcanic Smoke Masayuki Maki, Masato Iguchi, Takeshi Maesaka, Takahiro Miwa, Toshikazu Tanada, Tomofumi Kozono, Tatsuya Momotani, Akihiko Yamaji, and Ikuya Kakimoto	weather radar, Sakurajima, volcanic ash cloud, ash smoke, eruption
-	Vol.7 No.sp (2012)	JMA’s Tsunami Warning for the 2011 Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami Warning Improvement Plan Tomoaki Ozaki	The 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake, tsunami warning improvement
3	Vol.11 No.1 (2016)	Mechanism of Volcanic Tephra Falling Detected by X-Band Multi-Parameter Radar Satoru Oishi, Masahiro Iida, Masahide Muranishi, Mariko Ogawa, Ratih Indri Hapsari and Masato Iguchi	volcanic tephra, X-band multi-parameter radar, quantitative amount estimation, low amount of ash detection, falling model

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, February 2016

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.11 No.1 (2016)	Method for Real-Time Evaluation of Discharge Rate of Volcanic Ash – Case Study on Intermittent Eruptions at the Sakurajima Volcano, Japan – Masato Iguchi	volcanic ash, discharge rate, volcanic tremor, ground deformation, Sakurajima
-	Vol.11 No.1 (2016)	Preliminary Results of Weather Radar Observations of Sakurajima Volcanic Smoke Masayuki Maki, Masato Iguchi, Takeshi Maesaka, Takahiro Miwa, Toshikazu Tanada, Tomofumi Kozono, Tatsuya Momotani, Akihiko Yamaji, and Ikuya Kakimoto	weather radar, Sakurajima, volcanic ash cloud, ash smoke, eruption
-	Vol.11 No.1 (2016)	Numerical Simulations of Volcanic Ash Plume Dispersal from Kelud Volcano in Indonesia on February 13, 2014 Hiroshi L. Tanaka, Masato Iguchi, and Setsuya Nakada	PUFF model, Kelud volcano, aviation safety, airborne ash density, ash dispersion
-	Vol.11 No.1 (2016)	Mechanism of Volcanic Tephra Falling Detected by X-Band Multi-Parameter Radar Satoru Oishi, Masahiro Iida, Masahide Muranishi, Mariko Ogawa, Ratih Indri Hapsari and Masato Iguchi	volcanic tephra, X-band multi-parameter radar, quantitative amount estimation, low amount of ash detection, falling model
-	Vol.11 No.1 (2016)	Measurements of Particle Distribution and Ash Fluxes in the Plume of Sakurajima Volcano with Optical Particle Counter Jonas Elíasson, Junichi Yoshitani, Daisuke Miki, Konradin Weber, Christoph Bölke, and Emad Scharifi	Sakurajima, airborne measurement, ash plume, optical particle counter

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, January 2016

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
1	Vol.10 No.6 (2015)	Disaster Education for Elementary School Students Using Disaster Prevention Pocket Notebooks and Quizzes Rui Nouchi, Shosuke Sato, and Fumihiko Imamura	disaster education, self-regulation, educational tool, self-help action
-	Vol.7 No.sp (2012)	JMA’s Tsunami Warning for the 2011 Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami Warning Improvement Plan Tomoaki Ozaki	The 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake, tsunami warning improvement
-	Vol.9 No.6 (2014)	Analysis of Topographic Effects in Dynamic Response of a Typical Rocky Populated Slope in Lima, Peru Carlos Gonzales, Shoichi Nakai, Toru Sekiguchi, Diana Calderon, Zenon Aguilar, and Fernando Lazares	populated slope, microtremor arrays, finite element model, topographic effects
-	Vol.10 No.5 (2015)	Critical Review of Japanese Disaster Medical Education for Citizens: Exploring the Method of Medutainment Ikushi Yoda, Momo Shiroyama, Hirotaka Uesugi, Hironobu Kamagata, and Shoichi Ohta	disaster medicine, medutainment, edutainment, first-aid education, bystander education
-	Vol.10 No.6 (2015)	A Distributed Autonomous Approach to Developing a Disaster Evacuation Assist System Yasuki Iizuka, Katsuya Kinoshita, and Kayo Iizuka	disaster evacuation, distributed autonomous system, DCOP, multi-agent simulation

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, December 2015

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.10 No.6 (2015)	Disaster Education for Elementary School Students Using Disaster Prevention Pocket Notebooks and Quizzes Rui Nouchi, Shosuke Sato, and Fumihiko Imamura	disaster education, self-regulation, educational tool, self-help action
-	Vol.10 No.6 (2015)	Microbes and Crewed Space Habitat Nobuyasu Yamaguchi and Masao Nasu	crewed space habitat, microbial monitoring, microbiota, international space station, astromicrobiology
-	Vol.8 No.3 (2013)	2011 Thailand Flood Sanit Wongsa	2011 Thailand Flood, flood disaster, Chao Phraya River Basin
-	Vol.10 No.5 (2015)	A Study on Community-Based Reconstruction from Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster – A Case Study of Iwanuma City in Miyagi-Pref. Mikiko Ishikawa	Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster, community-based reconstruction, tsunami, community removal project, consensus building system
-	Vol.10 No.6 (2015)	Disaster Warning System in the Philippines Through Enterprise Engineering Perspective: A Study on the 2013 Super Typhoon Haiyan Natt Leelawat, Anawat Suppasri, Shuichi Kure, Carine J. Yi, Cherry May R. Mateo, and Fumihiko Imamura	business process management, enterprise engineering, storm surge, typhoon, warning system
-	Vol.10 No.6 (2015)	Pricing Earthquake Catastrophe Options Based on the Mixed-Multinomial Tree Model Feixing Wang and Xiaoling Gu	earthquake catastrophe option, mixed-multinomial tree model, earthquake intensity, earthquake loss ratio

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, November 2015

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.8 No.3 (2013)	2011 Thailand Flood Sanit Wongsa	2011 Thailand Flood, flood disaster, Chao Phraya River Basin
-	Vol.9 No.2 (2014)	Practice on an Education and Training Program to Development of Response Literacy to Earthquake Disaster in a Central Business District in Japan Yoe Masuzawa, Yoshiaki Hisada, Masahiro Murakami, Jun Shindo, Masamitsu Miyamura, Hitoshi Suwa, Satoshi Tanaka, Kaoru Mizukoshi, and Yosuke Nakajima	earthquake disaster, central business district, response literacy to disaster, education and training
-	Vol.4 No.6 (2009)	Tsunami Bore Impingement onto a Vertical Column Halldor Arnason, Catherine Petroff, and Harry Yeh	tsunamis, bore, wake, turbulence, force, method of characteristics, cylinder, column
-	Vol.7 No.1 (2012)	Tsunami Evacuation Simulation for Disaster Education and City Planning Yozo Goto, Muzailin Affan, Agussabti, Yudha Nurdin, Diyah K. Yuliana, and Ardiansyah	tsunami, evacuation, simulation, multiagent model, disaster education
-	Vol.10 No.2 (2015)	Attempt to Typify Disaster Educational Programs – Case Study of the Disaster Management Education Challenge Plan Kota Tomoyasu, Reo Kimura, and Haruo Hayashi	disaster education, educational program, disaster management education challenge plan, typification, cluster analysis

Count period : November 1-30, 2015

JDR Most Downloaded Papers, October 2015

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.10 No.5 (2015)	Model of Tsunami Preparedness for Indonesian Tsunami Prone Areas Communities Any Nurhayaty, Supra Wimbarti, Radianta Triatmadja, and Thomas D. Hastjarjo	tsunami, preparedness, collectivistic, sense of community, trust, intention, SEM
-	Vol.10 No.5 (2015)	A Study on Community-Based Reconstruction from Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster – A Case Study of Iwanuma City in Miyagi-Pref. Mikiko Ishikawa	Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster, community-based reconstruction, tsunami, community removal project, consensus building system
-	Vol.1 No.3 (2006)	Seismic Design Codes for Buildings in Japan Hiroshi Kuramoto	the Building Standard Law of Japan, seismic design code, two-phase earthquake design, performance based earthquake design
-	Vol.10 No.5 (2015)	Computer-Assisted Databasing of Disaster Management Information Through Natural Language Processing Kentaro Inui, Yotaro Watanabe, Kenshi Yamaguchi, Shingo Suzuki, Hiroko Koumoto, Naoko Kosaka, Akira Koyama, Tomohiro Kokogawa, and Yuji Maeda	computer-assisted databasing, natural language processing
-	Vol.10 No.5 (2015)	Understanding Household Mobilization Time During Natech Accident Evacuation Junlei Yu and Akihiko Hokugo	evacuation timing behavior, natech accident, mobilization time, the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, September 2015

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.10 No.sp (2015)	Initial Responses of the Government of Japan to the Great East Japan Earthquake (Earthquake and Tsunami) and Lessons Learned from Them Akira Kotaki	role of the government in huge disasters, Government’s Extreme Disaster Management Headquarters, L2 and disaster reduction, improvement of information management and responses to disasters by exercise, 72 hours
-	Vol.10 No.sp (2015)	Safety of Food Produced in Japan: Past and Present Status of Radioactive Contamination Hideaki Karaki	Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, radioactive cesium, radioactive iodine, radioactive contamination of food, radiation inspection of foods
-	Vol.10 No.sp (2015)	Research on Planning Process of Community Disaster Management Plan at Tsunami-Hit Area Tadahiro Yoshikawa	Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami, evacuation behavior, community disaster management plan, planning process
-	Vol.10 No.sp (2015)	Public Health Concerns on Radiation Exposure After the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident Reiko Kanda, Satsuki Tsuji, Hidenori Yonehara, and Masami Torikoshi	nuclear accidents, media, public concern
-	Vol.10 No.sp (2015)	Application of Natural Disaster Information for Supply Chain Resilience Takahiro Ono and Kenji Watanabe	BCP, BCM, Supply Chain, GLIDE

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, August 2015

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.5 No.2 (2010)	A Proposal for Effective Emergency Training and Exercise Program to Improve Competence for Disaster Response of Disaster Responders Kayoko Takemoto, Yutaka Motoya, and Reo Kimura	disaster responders, training and exercise program, competence for disaster response
-	Vol.10 No.4 (2015)	A New Concept for Development of Quartz Crystal Microbalance Fire Prevention Sensors Modified with Nano-Assembled Thin Films Seung-Woo Lee	quartz crystal microbalance, gas sensors, real environment monitoring
-	Vol.4 No.6 (2009)	Estimation of Tsunami Force Acting on Rectangular Structures Koji Fujima, Fauzie Achmad, Yoshinori Shigihara, and Norimi Mizutani	tsunami force, design formula, wave pressure, drag coefficient
-	Vol.10 No.4 (2015)	Fire Protection Analysis and Potential Improvements for Wooden Cultural Heritage Sites in Japan Kwang-Il Kim, Tadashi Konishi, Tomek Ziemba, Hirofumi Nonaka, Ki-Hun Nam, and Takeyoshi Tanaka	wooden cultural heritage, protection of historic buildings, fire protection systems, public cooperation for fire protection
-	Vol.7 No.sp (2012)	Tsunami Vertical Evacuation Buildings - Lessons for International Preparedness Following the 2011 Great East Japan Tsunami Stuart Fraser, Graham S. Leonard, Hitomi Murakami, and Ichiro Matsuo	tsunami vertical evacuation, Great East Japan Tsunami, preparedness, community engagement, evacuee welfare, evacuation signage
-	Vol.8 No.4 (2013)	Lessons from the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Tsunami Disaster Shunichi Koshimura, Satomi Hayashi, and Hideomi Gokon	2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami, tsunami fragility curve, numerical modeling, reconstruction
-	Vol.10 No.4 (2015)	Research and Development Efforts in Fire Safety and Disaster Preparedness Masafumi Hosokawa	Fire Safety and Disaster Preparedness, Promoting Program for Scientific Fire and Disaster Prevention Technologies

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, July 2015

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.10 No.3 (2015)	Bias Correction in Typhoon and Storm Surge Projection Considering Characteristics of Global Climate Model MRI-AGCM3.2S Noriaki Hashimoto, Yukihiro Kinashi, Tomoko Kawashima, Masaki Yokota, Masaru Yamashiro, and Mitsuyoshi Kodama	climate change, storm surge, MRI-AGCM3.2S, best track data, Ariake Sea
-	Vol.9 No.2 (2014)	Modification and Validation of an Assessment Model of Post-Earthquake Lifeline Serviceability Based on the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster Nobuoto Nojima and Hiroki Kato	lifeline serviceability, earthquake disaster, assessment model, validation, initial damage and restoration process, the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster
-	Vol.10 No.1 (2015)	Development and Operation of a Regional Moment Tensor Analysis System in the Philippines: Contributions to the Understanding of Recent Damaging Earthquakes Baby Jane T. Punongbayan, Hiroyuki Kumagai, Nelson Pulido, Jun D. Bonita, Masaru Nakano, Tadashi Yamashina, Yuta Maeda, Hiroshi Inoue, Arnaldo A. Melosantos, Melquiades F. Figueroa, Ponczh Colleen M. Alcones, Karl Vincent C. Soriano, Ishmael C. Narag, and Renato U. Solidum, Jr.	earthquake monitoring, source parameters, waveform inversion, Negros, Bohol, Samar, Philippine Trench
-	Vol.4 No.4 (2009)	History and Challenge of Tsunami Warning Systems in Japan Fumihiko Imamura and Ikuo Abe	tsunami forecasting, warning, evacuation
-	Vol.5 No.2 (2010)	Building Community Capacity for Disaster Resilience in Taiwan Liang-Chun Chen and Yi-Wen Wang	disaster resilience, community, vulnerability, disaster adaptation
-	Vol.10 No.3 (2015)	Challenges of Implementing Climate Change Adaptation Policy for Disaster Risk Reduction – Implications from Framing Gap Among Stakeholders and the General Public – Kenshi Baba and Mitsuru Tanaka	consensus building, risk communication, website-based questionnaire, stakeholder analysis

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, June 2015

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.10 No.3 (2015)	Challenges of Implementing Climate Change Adaptation Policy for Disaster Risk Reduction – Implications from Framing Gap Among Stakeholders and the General Public – Kenshi Baba and Mitsuru Tanaka	consensus building, risk communication, website-based questionnaire, stakeholder analysis
-	Vol.9 No.sp (2014)	An Analysis of International Assistance Based on Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake Atsushi Koresawa	Great East Japan Earthquake, search and rescue (SAR), international assistance, INSARAG
-	Vol.8 No.5 (2013)	A New Ground Motion Prediction Equation for Japan Applicable up to M9 Mega-Earthquake Nobuyuki Morikawa and Hiroyuki Fujiwara	ground motion prediction equation, the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake, seismic hazard assessment
-	Vol.7 No.1 (2012)	Main Features of Government’s Initial Response to the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Atsushi Koresawa	The Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami, emergency response, recovery, reconstruction
-	Vol.10 No.3 (2015)	Analysis of Ideal Directions of Climate Change Adaptation and Problems in Implementing Them for Local Japanese Governments Nobuo Shirai and Mitsuru Tanaka	local governments in Japan, additional adaptation measures, improvement of sensitivity, adaptive governance
-	Vol.10 No.3 (2015)	Flood Control Mechanism of Multiple Dams Constructed in a Series Based on Cascade Method Hideo Oshikawa and Toshimitsu Komatsu	Cascade method, flood control, dry dam, overflow, empirical formula
-	Vol.10 No.3 (2015)	Growth of Mangrove Forests and the Influence on Flood Disaster at Amami Oshima Island, Japan Akira Tai, Akihiro Hashimoto, Takuya Oba, Kazuki Kawai, Kazuaki Otsuki, Hiromitsu Nagasaka, and Tomonori Saita	Amami Oshima, mangrove, sediment transport

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, May 2015

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.4 No.6 (2009)	Structural Behavior Under Impulsive Tsunami Loading Taro Arikawa	large experiment, impulsive loding, concrete wall, tsunami force, destruction
-	Vol.4 No.6 (2009)	Estimation of Tsunami Force Acting on Rectangular Structures Koji Fujima, Fauzie Achmad, Yoshinori Shigihara, and Norimi Mizutani	tsunami force, design formula, wave pressure, drag coefficient
-	Vol.7 No.1 (2012)	Social Flux and Disaster Management: An Essay on the Construction of an Indonesian Model for Disaster Management and Reconstruction Yoshimi Nishi and Hiroyuki Yamamoto	information, technology transfer, emergency humanitarian assistance, area studies, social flux
-	Vol.8 No.sp (2013)	Evidence-Based Analysis of Search and Rescue Operations Following the Great East Japan Earthquake Atsushi Koresawa	Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami, search and rescue (SAR), fire service, international aid
-	Vol.8 No.2 (2013)	Tsunami Inundation Mapping in Lima, for Two Tsunami Source Scenarios Bruno Adriano, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura, Yushiro Fujii, Sheila Yauri, Cesar Jimenez, and Hideaki Yanagisawa	inundation modeling, inundation mapping and casualty index

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, April 2015

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.8 No.5 (2013)	Effectiveness of Disaster-Based School Program on Students’ Earthquake-Preparedness Wignyo Adiyoso and Hidehiko Kanegae	school, knowledge, risk perception, awareness, attitude, disaster preparedness, earthquake
-	Vol.9 No.3 (2014)	Review on Near-Field Tsunami Forecasting from Offshore Tsunami Data and Onshore GNSS Data for Tsunami Early Warning Hiroaki Tsushima and Yusaku Ohta	offshore tsunami observation, real-time GNSS (GPS), near-field tsunamis, tsunami early warning system, combination use
-	Vol.4 No.6 (2009)	Tsunami Bore Impingement onto a Vertical Column Halldor Arnason, Catherine Petroff, and Harry Yeh	tsunamis, bore, wake, turbulence, force, method of characteristics, cylinder, column
-	Vol.10 No.2 (2015)	Development of Web-Based Tabletop Emergency Earthquake Exercise System Bojia Zhou, Gang Sun, Xiaoyong Zhang, Jianhua Xu, Junyan Lai, Xiaoxia Du, Masafumi Hosokawa, Haruo Hayashi, Reo Kimura, and Yukihisa Sakurada	emergency earthquake exercises, web-based tabletop system, virtual reality simulator
-	Vol.10 No.2 (2015)	Integration of GIS with Remote Sensing and GPS for Disaster Mitigation Sikander Nawaz Khan	GPS, GIS, remote sensing, disaster mitigation
-	Vol.10 No.2 (2015)	Development of NERSS Training Program for Earthquake Emergency Response Capacity Building of Local Governments Junyan Lai, Lu Ding, Yuan Zhang, Weimin Wu, Haruo Hayashi, Reo Kimura, Masafumi Hosokawa, and Yukihisa Sakurada	earthquake, emergency response, training program, capacity building, local governments

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, March 2015

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.4 No.6 (2009)	Estimation of Tsunami Force Acting on Rectangular Structures Koji Fujima, Fauzie Achmad, Yoshinori Shigihara, and Norimi Mizutani	tsunami force, design formula, wave pressure, drag coefficient
-	Vol.9 No.6 (2014)	Summary Report of the SATREPS Project on Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Technology in Peru Fumio Yamazaki, Carlos Zavala, Shoichi Nakai, Shunichi Koshimura, Taiki Saito, Saburoh Midorikawa, Zenon Aguilar, Miguel Estrada, and Alberto Bisbal	earthquake, Tsunami, disaster mitigation, international cooperation, Peru, SATREPS
-	Vol.9 No.sp (2014)	Comparative Study of the Post-Tsunami Recovery Plans After the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Osamu Murao and Tomoyo Hoshi	2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, postdisaster recovery plan, local government, Sanriku coast, recovery process
1	Vol.10 No.1 (2015)	Performance of Broadband Seismic Network of the Philippines Arnaldo A. Melosantos, Karl Vincent C. Soriano, Ponzch Colleen M. Alcones, Jose U. Pantig, Jun D. Bonita, Ishmael C. Narag, Hiroyuki Kumagai, and Hiroshi Inoue	broadband, Philippine seismic network, PHIVOLCS
-	Vol.4 No.6 (2009)	Tsunami Fragility — A New Measure to Identify Tsunami Damage — Shunichi Koshimura, Yuichi Namegaya, and Hideaki Yanagisawa	fragility curve, tsunami damage estimation, remote sensing, numerical modeling, historical tsunamis
	Vol.9 No.sp (2014)	Short History of Risk Communication in Japan Tomio Kinoshita	risk communication, history of hardship in Japan, Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant incident

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, February 2015

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.10 No.1 (2015)	Performance of Broadband Seismic Network of the Philippines Arnaldo A. Melosantos, Karl Vincent C. Soriano, Ponzch Colleen M. Alcones, Jose U. Pantig, Jun D. Bonita, Ishmael C. Narag, Hiroyuki Kumagai, and Hiroshi Inoue	broadband, Philippine seismic network, PHIVOLCS
-	Vol.10 No.1 (2015)	Continuous GPS Observations on Mindanao Mikio Tobita, Hisashi Suito, Tomokazu Kobayashi, Satoshi Kawamoto, Masayuki Yamanaka, Akira Suzuki, Toshiharu Enya, Masaki Honda, Tetsuro Imakiire, Artemio Luis, Alfie Pelicano, Teresito Bacolcol, and Takahiro Ohkura	GPS, Mindanao, Philippine Sea Plate, Philippine Fault
-	Vol.10 No.1 (2015)	Regional Moment Tensor Analysis in the Philippines: CMT Solutions in 2012–2013 Jun D. Bonita, Hiroyuki Kumagai, and Masaru Nakano	centroid moment tensor, waveform inversion, focal mechanism
-	Vol.10 No.1 (2015)	Fault Distribution, Segmentation and Earthquake Generation Potential of the Philippine Fault in Eastern Mindanao, Philippines Jeffrey S. Perez, Hiroyuki Tsutsumi, Mabelline T. Cahulogan, Desiderio P. Cabanlit, Ma. Isabel T. Abigania, and Takashi Nakata	Philippine fault, fault segmentation, active tectonics, seismic hazard assessment, paleoseismology, Mindanao Island
-	Vol.10 No.1 (2015)	Development and Operation of a Regional Moment Tensor Analysis System in the Philippines: Contributions to the Understanding of Recent Damaging Earthquakes Baby Jane T. Punongbayan, Hiroyuki Kumagai, Nelson Pulido, Jun D. Bonita, Masaru Nakano, Tadashi Yamashina, Yuta Maeda, Hiroshi Inoue, Arnaldo A. Melosantos, Melquiades F. Figueroa, Ponczh Colleen M. Alcones, Karl Vincent C. Soriano, Ishmael C. Narag, and Renato U. Solidum, Jr.	earthquake monitoring, source parameters, waveform inversion, Negros, Bohol, Samar, Philippine Trench

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, January 2015

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
1	Vol.9 No.6 (2014)	Summary Report of the SATREPS Project on Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Technology in Peru Fumio Yamazaki, Carlos Zavala, Shoichi Nakai, Shunichi Koshimura, Taiki Saito, Saburoh Midorikawa, Zenon Aguilar, Miguel Estrada, and Alberto Bisbal	earthquake, Tsunami, disaster mitigation, international cooperation, Peru, SATREPS
-	Vol.8 No.4 (2013)	Damages to Shore Protection Facilities Induced by the Great East Japan Earthquake Tsunami Fuminori Kato, Yoshio Suwa, Kunihiro Watanabe, and Satoshi Hatogai	tsunami, shore protection facilities, coastal dikes, the Great East Japan Earthquake
-	Vol.7 No.5 (2012)	Flood Risk Assessment in Fujian Province, China Changzhi Li, Shuaijie Li, and Xiaotao Cheng	macro-mid-scale region, flood risk assessment, Fujian province

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JDR Most Downloaded Papers, December 2014

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.4 No.3 (2009)	Current State of Seismic-Isolation Design Nagahide Kani	seismic-isolation, safety, functionality, isolator, damper
-	Vol.9 No.6 (2014)	Summary Report of the SATREPS Project on Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Technology in Peru Fumio Yamazaki, Carlos Zavala, Shoichi Nakai, Shunichi Koshimura, Taiki Saito, Saburoh Midorikawa, Zenon Aguilar, Miguel Estrada, and Alberto Bisbal	earthquake, Tsunami, disaster mitigation, international cooperation, Peru, SATREPS
-	Vol.9 No.6 (2014)	Estimation of a Source Model and Strong Motion Simulation for Tacna City, South Peru Nelson Pulido, Shoichi Nakai, Hiroaki Yamanaka, Diana Calderon, Zenon Aguilar, and Toru Sekiguchi	strong motion, source process, 1868 earthquake, seismic hazard, South Peru
-	Vol.9 No.6 (2014)	Evaluation of Tsunami Wave Loads Acting on Walls of Confined-Masonry-Brick and Concrete-Block Houses Gaku Shoji, Hirofumi Shimizu, Shunichi Koshimura, Miguel Estrada, and Cesar Jimenez	tsunami wave load, confined-masonry-brick house, concrete-block house, wall, horizontal wave pressure index
-	Vol.9 No.6 (2014)	Flood Disaster in the Yura River in 2004 and 2013 Shigeru Kawai and Kazuo Ashida	inundation disaster, rainfall characteristics, levee under construction
-	Vol.9 No.6 (2014)	Estimation of S-Wave Velocity Profiles at Lima City, Peru Using Microtremor Arrays Selene Quispe, Kosuke Chimoto, Hiroaki Yamanaka, Hernando Tavera, Fernando Lazares, and Zenon Aguilar	Lima city, microtremors, S-wave velocity profiles, site response, AV s10
-	Vol.6 No.5 (2011)	Green Revolution: Pathways to Food Security in an Era of Climate Variability and Change? Netra Chhetri and Pashupati Chaudhary	food security, Green Revolution, climate change, science and technology policy
-	Vol.9 No.6 (2014)	Strength and Deformation of Confined Brick Masonry Walls Subjected to Lateral Forces – Review of Existing Test Data in Japan and Peru – Shunsuke Sugano, Taiki Saito, Carlos Zavala, and Lourdes Cardenas	confined masonry, test data, strength, deformation, lateral force, backbone model
-	Vol.4 No.6 (2009)	Estimation of Tsunami Force Acting on Rectangular Structures Koji Fujima, Fauzie Achmad, Yoshinori Shigihara, and Norimi Mizutani	tsunami force, design formula, wave pressure, drag coefficient

Count period : December 1-31, 2014

JDR Most Downloaded Papers, November 2014

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.9 No.sp (2014)	Verbal Expressions of Risk Communication: A Case Study After the 3.11 Crisis Shinichiro Okamoto and Toshiko Kikkawa	verbal expressions, implicature, right of involvement, illusions of transparency, Fukushima Nuclear plants
-	Vol.9 No.3 (2014)	Quasi-Static Stress Change Around Mount Fuji Region Due to Tohoku Mega-Thrust Earthquake Eisuke Fujita, Tomofumi Kozono, Norio Toda, Aiko Kikuchi, and Yoshiaki Ida	quasi-static stress change, viscosity, Mount Fuji, FEM, MPC
-	Vol.5 No.3 (2010)	Design Standard of Control Structures Against Debris Flow in Japan Nobutomo Osanai, Hideaki Mizuno, and Takahisa Mizuyama	sediment hazard, countermeasures, structural measures, nonstructural measures, technical standard for debris flow control
-	Vol.9 No.3 (2014)	Review on Near-Field Tsunami Forecasting from Offshore Tsunami Data and Onshore GNSS Data for Tsunami Early Warning Hiroaki Tsushima and Yusaku Ohta	offshore tsunami observation, real-time GNSS (GPS), near-field tsunamis, tsunami early warning system, combination use
-	Vol.5 No.3 (2010)	Sediment Induced Disasters in the World and 1999-Debris Flow Disasters in Venezuela Takahisa Mizuyama and Shinji Egashira	sediment hazards, list of major hazards, 1999-debris flow disasters in Venezuela
-	Vol.8 No.1 (2013)	The Development of Micromedia Transmitting the Disaster-Related Information Against Torrential Rains and Guerrilla Rains Satomi Sudo, Go Urakawa, and Haruo Hayashi	torrential rains, Micromedia, GIS, GPS, mobile phones, car navigation systems

Count period : November 1-30, 2014

JDR Most Downloaded Papers, October 2014

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.9 No.5 (2014)	Lessons Learnt from Communication for Disaster Preparedness: A Study on Six Survivors from the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami 2011 Md. Faiz Shah and Parves Sultan	Japan, communication, trust, tsunami, case study
-	Vol.9 No.sp (2014)	Short History of Risk Communication in Japan Tomio Kinoshita	risk communication, history of hardship in Japan, Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant incident
-	Vol.7 No.sp (2012)	Tsunami Vertical Evacuation Buildings - Lessons for International Preparedness Following the 2011 Great East Japan Tsunami Stuart Fraser, Graham S. Leonard, Hitomi Murakami, and Ichiro Matsuo	tsunami vertical evacuation, Great East Japan Tsunami, preparedness, community engagement, evacuee welfare, evacuation signage
-	Vol.9 No.5 (2014)	A Quantitative Estimate of Vulnerable People and Evaluation of Flood Evacuation Policy Karina Vink, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, and Kelly M. Kibler	disaster risk management, vulnerable people, social vulnerability, flood, evacuation
-	Vol.9 No.3 (2014)	The Largest Earthquakes We Should Prepare for Toru Matsuzawa	largest earthquakes, M10, initial response to the earthquake and tsunami

Count period : October 1-31, 2014

JDR Most Downloaded Papers, September 2014

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.9 No.sp (2014)	Short History of Risk Communication in Japan Tomio Kinoshita	risk communication, history of hardship in Japan, Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant incident
-	Vol.9 No.sp (2014)	Risk Communication in the Field of Radiation Reiko Kanda	radiation, risk assessment, risk communication, risk perception
-	Vol.9 No.sp (2014)	Risk Communication in the Food Field Hideaki Karaki	risk communication, food, BSE, radioactive substances, anxiety
-	Vol.9 No.sp (2014)	Risk Communication in Japan Concerning Future of Nuclear Technology Masaharu Kitamura	Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, risk communication, second stories, Defense-in-Depth, public participation
-	Vol.9 No.sp (2014)	Comparative Study of the Post-Tsunami Recovery Plans After the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Osamu Murao and Tomoyo Hoshi	2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, postdisaster recovery plan, local government, Sanriku coast, recovery process

Count period : September 1-30, 2014

JDR Most Downloaded Papers, August 2014

Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
-	Vol.2 No.5 (2007)	Lessons on Reconstruction Strategies from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Yoshiteru Murosaki	the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, reconstruction strategies, reconstruction vision, housing reconstruction, city reconstruction
-	Vol.9 No.4 (2014)	Households’ Coping Strategies in Drought- and Flood-Prone Communities in Northern Ghana Victor Lolig, Samuel A. Donkoh, Francis Kwabena Obeng, Isaac Gershon Kodwo Ansah, Godfred Seidu Jasaw, Yasuko Kusakari, Kwabena Owusu Asubonteng, Bizoola Gandaa, Frederick Dayour, Togbiga Dzivenu, and Gordana Kranjac-Berisavljevic	climate change, drought, flood, coping strategies
-	Vol.9 No.4 (2014)	Farmer-Perceived Effects of Climate Change on Livelihoods in Wa West District, Upper West Region of Ghana Yasuko Kusakari, Kwabena Owusu Asubonteng, Godfred Seidu Jasaw, Frederick Dayour, Togbiga Dzivenu, Victor Lolig, Samuel A. Donkoh, Francis Kwabena Obeng, Bizoola Gandaa, and Gordana Kranjac-Berisavljevic	climate change, farmers, perceptions, livelihoods, Upper West Region, Ghana
-	Vol.9 No.4 (2014)	Land Use and Landscape Structural Changes in the Ecoregions of Ghana Effah Kwabena Antwi, John Boakye-Danquah, Stephen Boahen Asabere, Gerald A. B. Yiran, Seyram Kofi Loh, Kwabena Gyekye Awere, Felix K. Abagale, Kwabena Owusu Asubonteng, Emmanuel Morgan Attua, and Alex Barimah Owusu	landscape metrics, land change, landscape planning, urban sprawl, fragmentation
-	Vol.9 No.3 (2014)	Pre-, Co-, and Post-Seismic Deformation of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake and its Implication to a Paradox in Short-Term and Long-Term Deformation Takuya Nishimura	crustal deformation, interplate coupling, GNSS, leveling
-	Vol.8 No.sp (2013)	A Study on Social Responsibility of Engineers and Managers Kiyoshi Sato	social responsibility, nuclear power generation, countermeasures against tsunami, scientific uncertainties, social decision making

Count period : August 1-31, 2014