Asia-Pacific Center for Coastal Disaster Research (APaC-CDR)

For developing the safe country against tsunamis and enhancing tsunami disaster management in the world, Asia-Pacific Center for Coastal Disaster Research works on the mechanism, the estimation, and the countermeasures of/against tsunami disasters.

Asia-Pacific Center for Coastal Disaster Research(Web site)

Members(Research Areas)

Greetings

Yoshiaki KURIYAMA, Director General

Director General
Yoshiaki KURIYAMA

Coastal disaster prevention has been one of the major tasks of PARI since its inauguration in 1946. After 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, Tsunami Research Center was founded to enhance tsunami disaster prevention research, which was reorganized in 2010 into Asia-Pacific Center for Coastal Disaster Research (APaC-CDR) for enhancing the international cooperation especially with Asian and Pacific countries and aiming at comprehensive disaster prevention in coastal areas.

APaC-CDR’s goal is "No Casualty in Coastal Disasters", and it conducts surveys of major coastal disasters to reveal real features of the disasters. APaC-CDR investigates the mechanism of the disasters and develops numerical simulation models to predict the disasters. Also, it is working on the development of real-time disaster prediction and their countermeasures.

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Vice Director General
Takahiro SUGANO

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Vice Director General
Takashi TOMITA
(Tsunami Disaster Mitigation)

Research Director
Koji KAWAGUCHI
(coastal engineering (wave and tide observation))

Research Director
Taro ARIKAWA
(Coastal Structure Design)

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Research Director
Eiji KOHAMA
(Geotechnical earthquake engineering)

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Research Director
Atsushi NOZU
(Engineering Seismology)

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Senior Researcher
Osamu OKAMOTO
(Study about improvement in security of ships　against tsunami)

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Senior Researcher
Kazuhiko HONDA
(Tsunami Disaster Estimation)

Researcher
Tsutomu INOMATA
(coastal engineering (wave and tide observation))

Researcher
Takayuki SUGIMOTO
(Geotechnical engineering)

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Researcher
Gyeong-Seon YEOM
(Behavior of drifting bodies due to tsunami)

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Researcher
Tomohiro TAKAGAWA
(Real-time tsunami inundation prediction)

Research Achievements

Development of tsunami numerical simulation models
Development of numerical simulation models to estimate tsunami disasters in details

Development of real-time tsunami inundation prediction
Development of the method to predict tsunami inundation quickly based on the offshore tsunami observation