Public Relations
Lecture Meetings for General Public
A total of 13 lecture meetings was held for the general public in FY 2010 (two in Tokyo, one each in the cities of Yokosuka, Sapporo, Sendai, Yokohama, Niigata, Nagoya, Kobe, Hiroshima, Takamatsu, Fukuoka and Naha).
Among them, twelve lecture meetings were certified as CPD programs, by which credits of continuing professional development (CPD) implemented by the Japan Society of Civil Engineers could be earned.
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Open House
Open house was conducted twice in summer and fall in FY 2010, orienting children on school vacation and their families to obtain some experience at the research institution in summer, as well as high school students and those older to learn about the most recent studies and achievements in the fall. In addition to the open house program, a total of 1,709 people visited the institution in FY 2009.
Especially during the summer open house, we demonstrated tests and held exhibitions such as the
world’s largest artificial tsunami, liquefaction reproduction, and underwater work robot. We also implemented events including a stamp rally for promoting the interest of children and their parents in the institute tour, providing opportunities to touch living creatures on a dry beach by hand.
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Outreach Activities Through “Disaster College for Kids”
Outreach Activities through “Yokosuka Children University for Disaster Prevention” In FY 2010 we participated in the "Yokosuka Children University for Disaster Prevention," a summertime disasterprevention educational activity for elementary school students in Yokosuka city. The research institute accepted three groups of elementary school students (a total of 209 persons) and provided disaster-prevention education. |
Media Appearance
We actively participated in TV programs and press interviews. In fiscal 2010, the programs that introduced the research institute's research activities were broadcast 30 times.
Especially from immediately after the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake on March 11, 2011, we frequently received inquiries and requests for interviews from many TV stations and newspaper publishers, and we responded to each attentively. In a special news report on the day following the earthquake, which was on the morning of the 12th, the Director General of the Asia-Pacific Center for Coastal Disaster Research explained the damage mechanism due to the tsunami and the state of the affected areas.
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