Program
Plenary sessions and working groups
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8:30 a.m. Opening Plenary Session
Twenty-Three Years of Process and Progress - A Brief History of the United States - Japan Workshops on Urban Earthquake Hazards Reduction

U.S. Speaker: Richard Eisner, Co- Chair, EERI Committee on Urban Earthquake Hazard Reduction
Japan Speaker: Yoshio Kumagai, President, ISSS - View Presentation

9:15 a.m. Joint US/Japan Panel on Rebuilding Communities Following Disaster: Lessons from Kobe and Los Angeles
U.S. Speakers: Kenneth Topping, Kyoto University; - View Presentation
Laurie Johnson, RMS; - View presentation
Dan Alesch, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay - View Presentation

10:45 a.m. Japan Speakers:
Shigeo Tatsuki, Doshisha University; Kazuyoshi - View presentation
Ohnishi, Kobe University; Hisako Koura, Osaka University - View presentation

12:00 noon
Speaker: Marjorie Greene, EERI
The Web-based World Housing Encyclopedia: Housing Construction Types from Earthquake Prone Areas of the World.
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9:00 a.m. Plenary Session: The National Perspective on Earthquake Hazard Reduction

Japan Perspective: Major Issues on Disaster Management in Japan
Yuichi Seki, Japan Fire and Disaster Management Agency - View Presentation

New Countermeasures to Mitigate and Respond to the Tokai Earthquake and to the Tohnankai and Nankai Earthquakes
Tomonori Tsutsui, Disaster Management Section, Cabinet Office, Japanese Government - View presentation

U.S. Perspective: TBA, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Office of Homeland Security

10:30 a.m. Capacity Building for Urban Earthquake Risk Reduction
Shirley Mattingly, International Consultant - View presentation

Masayuki Watanabe, Japan International Cooperation Agency - View Presentation