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Last month	Vol. No.	Title / Authors	Keywords
7	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.5 No.5 (2010)	Post-Disaster Redevelopment Planning: Local Capacity Building Through Pre-Event Planning Sandy Meyer, Eugene Henry, Roy E.Wright, and Cynthia A. Palmer	resilience, mitigation, response, recovery, pre-disaster recovery planning, post-disaster redevelopment planning, Risk MAP, bottom-up vs. top-down governance, local multi-hazard mitigation plans, pre-event planning
2	Vol.21 No.1 (2026)	Comparing a Single-Hazard Map and a Multi-Risk Overlay Map Based on Design with Nature Process Misato Uehara, Daiki Shinkai, Tomohiro Ichinose, Juichi Yamazaki, and Ryohei Yamashita	compound disasters, ecological planning, hazard map limitations, disaster recovery, city planning
13	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
9	Vol.21 No.1 (2026)	Relationship Between Disaster Prevention Weather Information and Residents’ Awareness: A Case Study of the 2014 Hiroshima Heavy Rain Disaster Masahiro Sawada, Toshihiko Kobayashi, Hiroto Minamide, Yuri Okada, Akiko Yamaguchi, Yuhito Hakozaki, Satoshi Ishii, Yoshiaki Akiyama, Haruna Ichida, Yutaro Takemoto, and Hiroshi Taniguchi	disaster literacy, heavy rain disaster, risk communication, qualitative analysis, Hiroshima
23	Vol.19 No.2 (2024)	Ticketing and Crowd Management System for Attraction Facilities: An Aquarium Case Study Yoshiaki Nakagawa, Yukari Abe, and Masami Isobe	tourist attractions, variable pricing, crowd management, revenue management, forecasting
19	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
18	Vol.20 No.5 (2025)	The Evolution of the “Disaster Resilience” Concept and its Implications for Disaster Risk Reduction Shingo Nagamatsu	resilience, transformation, equity, disaster risk reduction, dignity
21	Vol.20 No.1 (2025)	The Great Kanto Earthquake and U.S.–Japan Relations: Japanese Students’ Thank-You Letters Sent to the United States and Their Implications for International Disaster Risk Reduction Cooperation Atsushi Kawauchi, Natsuko Chubachi, Ken Yoshino, Soraya Ono, and Yuichi Ono	The Great Kanto Earthquake, U.S.–Japan relationship, Calvin Coolidge, disaster diplomacy, world peace
19	Vol.18 No.6 (2023)	Reconsideration of Urbanization in Tokyo Metropolitan Area Since 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake from the Perspective of Exposure Osamu Murao, Kyota Fujiwara, Haruna Kato, Fumitake Yonemura, Keiko Inagaki, and Kimiro Meguro	1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, urban disaster risk, fire spread, Tokyo, densely inhabited district (DID)
19	Vol.11 No.3 (2016)	Promoting Education for Disaster Resilience and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction Aiko Sakurai and Takeshi Sato	disaster education, community, Japan, Sendai Framework, international cooperation
26	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.21 No.1 (2026)	Neural Evaluation of Educational Videos: Potential Disadvantage of Combining Hazard-Mechanism Explanation and Evacuation Instruction Messages Yuang Chen, Kei Takahashi, Azumi Tanabe-Ishibashi, Naoki Miura, and Motoaki Sugiura	hybrid message, disaster education, self-relevance, cognitive overload, resilience
19	Vol.20 No.6 (2025)	Seismic Reliability of Infrastructure in Metropolitan Lima: Case Studies of Elevated Water Tanks and Bridges Edisson Moscoso, Juan Victor Zevallos Arzapalo, Alonzo Maximo Saire Poma, Jorge Gallardo, Guillermo Huaco, Fanny Eto, and Yoshihisa Maruyama	lifelines, water tanks, vehicular bridges, seismic reliability
25	Vol.19 No.1 (2024)	Proposal for a Disaster Management Drill Program for High School Students Who Have Never Experienced a Disaster to Foster a Sense of “Awareness that Disaster Affects Everyone” Reo Kimura and Kazuki Aikawa	awareness that disaster affects everyone (“wagakoto-ishiki”), instructional design (ID), ADDIE model, drone, gaming teaching materials
15	Vol.19 No.2 (2024)	Development of a Real-Time Crowd Flow Prediction and Visualization Platform for Crowd Management Kensuke Yasufuku and Akira Takahashi	crowd flow prediction, crowd management, agent-based simulation, visualization
9	Vol.21 No.1 (2026)	Sediment Sorting Processes Affected by Tidal Currents in the Meghna Estuary Md. Shahinur Rahman, Daisuke Harada, and Shinji Egashira	estuary, tidal current, non-uniform sediment, suspended sediment, sediment sorting
16	Vol.21 No.1 (2026)	Effects of Disaster Literacy Factors on People’s Reaction to the Earthquake Early Warning Shoji Ohtomo, Reo Kimura, Kosuke Nakazawa, and Toshimitsu Nagata	daily disaster-preparedness, disaster literacy, Earthquake Early Warning, expectation of an earthquake, experience of victims of past disasters
13	Vol.21 No.1 (2026)	Survey and Analysis of Teachers’ Disaster Risk Reduction Literacy—Basic Knowledge to Improve Disaster Risk Reduction Education Programs— Toshimitsu Nagata, Reo Kimura, and Shoji Ohtomo	disaster risk reduction (DRR) literacy, school safety, risk perception, self-efficacy, quadrant analysis
14	Vol.20 No.6 (2025)	Estimation of Building Heights in Peru from High-Resolution Stereo Optical Satellite Imagery Wen Liu, Mamoru Kamegawa, Bruno Adriano, Hiroyuki Miura, Masashi Matsuoka, Italo Inocente, Fernando Garcia, Jorge Morales, Miguel Diaz, and Miguel Estrada	building height, stereo matching, digital surface model, 3D point cloud, residential lot
12	Vol.20 No.6 (2025)	Update of the Seismic Microzonation Map of Lima and Callao, Peru Diana Calderon, Fernando Lázares, Carlos Gonzales, Gerson Carrasco, Zenon Aguilar, and Silvia Alarcon	geotechnical tests, fundamental period, S-wave velocity profiles, seismic stations, microzonation
9	Vol.20 No.4 (2025)	High-Definition Topographic Archiving and Educational Applications in Regions Affected by the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake Takuro Ogura, Hiroyuki Yamauchi, Tatsuto Aoki, Nobuhisa Matta, Kotaro Iizuka, Yoshiya Iwasa, Takayuki Takahashi, Kiyomi Hayashi, Tsuyoshi Hattanji, and Takashi Oguchi	disaster risk-reduction education, uplift area, UAV, 3D printing
17	Vol.20 No.2 (2025)	Studies on Disaster Prevention Literacy: A Review Makoto Takahashi, Munenari Inoguchi, and Reo Kimura	disaster prevention, literacy, earthquake and volcano hazard, vulnerability, science and society
22	Vol.17 No.3 (2022)	Mitigating Impacts of Climate Change Induced Sea Level Rise by Infrastructure Development: Case of the Maldives Akiko Sakamoto, Koichi Nishiya, Xuanjin Guo, Airi Sugimoto, Waka Nagasaki, and Kaito Doi	sea level rise, atoll country, migration, Hulhumalé, Maldives

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