The New Trend of Disaster Mitigation Education in Japan

To unite the knowledge of geography, geology, sociology and so on with disaster management.

The students make an imaginary town by themselves. The necessary factors are the natural environment, population, industry, infrastructures, and so on. They think of the disaster management manual of the town.

The students need the overall knowledge of geography, geology, and social studies. Thus they can relate these subjects to each other and think of the disaster management totally. They love the town they made themselves. The important factor of the citizens is this attitude to love t heir own town. University students who major in the disaster management will be able to make a quite complicated manual while the elementary school children can only draw the map of the region and write their opinion on the map. This activity can be used to every age according to their degree of study achievement. Raising motivation is the main goal for the younger students while the more complicated contents will be made by the older students.