SENDAI – Disaster prevention experts from Japan and abroad gathered in Sendai on Saturday to discuss lessons learned from the earthquake and tsunami that devastated coastal communities throughout Tohoku in 2011.
The first World Bosai Forum, incorporating the Japanese word meaning disaster mitigation, was organized by the municipal government and Tohoku University following adoption of a global guideline for disaster risk reduction at a U.N. meeting in Sendai in 2015.
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