Maiko High School
Environment and Disaster Mitigation Course

The environment and disaster mitigation course started at Maiko High School in April 2002, 7 years after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Disaster. It is meaningful to set the course at a school located in the disaster area as the center of the disaster mitigation education first in Japan. We learned a lot of lessons from the disasters so far but they were discussed only by the specialists in the 20th century. The citizens didn't pay attention to the lessons and thus were not prepared for the coming disasters. This is why many disasters continue taking place in everywhere in the world. The 21st century must be the age to cope with the disaster and mitigate it. It depends on whether we send our lessons to the world or not. The purpose to start the environment and disaster mitigation course is to send the lessons we learned from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Disaster to the world and make the citizens aware and prepared to cope with the disasters.

1. Educational Goals
2. Curriculum
3. Characteristics of Educational Activities
4. Tasks

Messages from Students

UNCRD International Training Course in Regional Development (June,7 2005)

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We Never Forget Great Hanshin-Awaji Disaster Message1 Message2 Message3 Message4 Message5 Message6 Message7 Message8 Message9 Message10

(2006.6.1)

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