Japan is set to share the lessons it has learned from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami when delegates and activists from across the globe gather in Sendai next weekend for a U.N. disaster risk reduction conference.
More than 5,000 participants, including leaders and ministers from national governments, are expected to attend the conference on disaster management from March 14 to 18.
A key outcome of the international gathering in the Tohoku region, which took severe damage, is expected to be a new framework, now under negotiation, to replace the 10-year Hyogo Framework for Action adopted at a previous U.N. conference in 2005. The new framework is expected to reflect calamities that have occurred in the past decade, including in Japan.