Japan
Japan
Education
Christie Mirage WU14K-M
The 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and tsunami was particularly devastating for Japan. Unable to predict that the country would experience an earthquake of such scale, the magnitude of destruction by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami was a severe shock to the Japanese. With this in mind, Tohoku University founded the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) with the objective of becoming a worldclass center for the study of disaster management and mitigation, dedicated to fostering a culture of disaster-resiliency in societies.