Announcement

NIED Public Session at Tsukuba Conference 2025 【October 2】

We are pleased to announce that the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED) will host a public session titled “Scaling Up Urban Disaster Risk Reduction in Emerging Megacities in the Asia-Pacific Region: Research, Policy, and Business Perspectives” at Tsukuba Conference 2025, scheduled for Thursday, October 2, 2025.
We warmly welcome your participation.
For session details, please refer to the information below.

Thursday, October 2, 2025 | 10:00–12:00 JST

Conference Room 102, Tsukuba International Congress Center
(2-20-3 Takezono, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture 305-0032, Japan)

Hybrid (On-site & Zoom Webinars) 

Free of charge 

Please register in advance via the Tsukuba Conference website:

・Ryota NISHI (Hyogo Earthquake Engineering Research Center, Department of Urban Disaster Resilience Engineering, NIED)
・Aya TSUJIOKA (Research Division for Social Resilience, Department of Transdisciplinary Research in Disaster Risk Reduction, NIED)
・Faizah Binti Che Ros (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia(UTM))
・Mark Edmon C. Navarro I (Metropolitan Manila Development Authority（MMDA）, Philippines)
・Paitoon Ngammuk (Bangkok Fire and Rescue Department, Thailand)
・Representative from a Japanese private company (to be confirmed)
・Shohei MATSUURA (Strategic Planning Department, NIED)

 For session details, please refer to the link below:

International Affairs Division
National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED)
E-Mail：inquiry.kokusai［AT］bosai.go.jp