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Research to promote proactive measures against volcanic disasters by residents.

Although Mt. Fuji is an active volcano, it is difficult to activate communicating risk concerning volcanic disasters because its frequency of eruptions is not high. Furthermore, there is a shortage of people who can take on the responsibility of regional disaster management due to the aging population and the increase in two-earner households. Therefore, online and face-to-face training tools using a disaster imagination game and a web application to learn about self-help, mutual aid, and public assistance in a workshop format were developed for developing next generation leaders in voluntary disaster reduction groups against volcanic disasters. The effectiveness of these tools was verified through feedback obtained from workshops, which were held on July 13, October 13, November 17, and December 15, 2021 and January 7, 2021 with participants of the citizens of Fujiyoshida City and students at the Yamanashi Prefecture Yoshida Senior High School, respectively. In FY2022, the training scenarios were added and revised so that they can be widely used by voluntary disaster reduction groups at the foot of Mt. Fuji, and to correspond to the March 2021 revision of the Mt. Fuji Hazard Map. Further improvements were made to the training tool to add game elements such as rankings and levels. The tool was made available on the server of the Mount Fuji Research Institute, Yamanashi Prefectural Government.

Applicable regions

Yamanashi Prefecture, Fujiyoshida City

Implementation period

April 01, 2022 - March 31, 2023

Community and Regional Affairs category

• Regional collaboration as research targets and implementation sites/research that aims to popularize region-specific issues
• Education of students/human resource development for the next generation

Related websites

・Masayuki Kohiyama, Honoka Takashima, Masayasu Yamauchi, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, and Tomohiro Kubo: Development of Tool to Enable Autonomous In-Person and Remote Tabletop Exercises by Residents for Developing Next-Generation Leaders for Volcanic Disaster Reduction, Journal of Social Safety Science, No. 43, 2023 (in press).

Related agreements, etc.

Agreement

Cooperating institutions, etc.

Mount Fuji Research Institute, Yamanashi Prefectural Government
https://www.mfri.pref.yamanashi.jp/

Campus

Yagami

Person in charge

Faculty of Science and Technology Professor Masayuki Kohiyama

Inquiries

kohiyama@sd.keio.ac.jp

Other partnerships and collaborations