Support Setting

Supporting Committee

Title	Name	Affiliation
Chairman	Toshizo IDO	Governor, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Member	Terutsugu YAMAHIRA	Chief Crisis Management Officer
Member	Haruo HAYASHI	President, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience
Member	Hiroshi KATO	Board Member, Japan International Cooperation Agency
Member	Makoto IOKIBE	President, Hyogo Earthquake Memorial, 21 Century Research Institute
Member	Yoshiaki KAWATA	Executive Director, Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution
Member	Ikuo KOBAYASHI	Representative, International Network of Telling Live Lessons from Disasters (Chairman, Implementing Committee)

Implementing Committee

Title	Name	Affiliation
Chairman	Ikuo KOBAYASHI	Representative, International Network of Telling Live Lessons from Disasters
Member	Isao HAYASHI	Professor, Department of Cross-Field Research, National Museum of Ethnology
Member	Norio MAKI	Professor, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
Member	Yuichi ONO	Professor, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University
Member	Shingo NAGAMATSU	Professor, Faculty of Societal Safety Sciences, Kansai University
Member	Naoto TANAKA	Associate Professor, Kumamoto Innovative Development Organization (KIDO), Kumamoto University
Member	Kunihiko HIRAI	Advisor, Public interest Incorporated Association、Chuetsu Organization for Safe and Secure Society
Member	Hiroyoshi NISHI	Honorable President, Inamura-no-Hi no Yakata
Member	Masaru SAKATO	Former Board Member, The Japan Foundation
Member	Yasuko NISHINO	Director, JICA Kansai Center, Japan International Cooperation Agency
Member	Koji SUZUKI	Executive Director, Asia Disaster Reduction Center
Member	Yoshinari FUJIWARA	Vice President, Hyogo Earthquake Memorial – 21 Century Research Institute
Member	Masamichi YOSHITSUBAKI	Secretary General, Citizens towards Overseas Disaster Emergency (CODE)
Member	Etsuko NISHIUMI	Editorial Director, Kobe Shimbun
Member	Tsunataro ITO	Director of Kobe Station, Japan Broadcasting Corporation
Member	Katsuhiko MORITA	Director General Disaster Management & Planning Bureau, Hyogo Prefectural Government
Member	Eiji BABA	Director, Crisis Management Office
Member	Yoshinobu FUKASAWA	Research Fellow in charge of TeLL-Net, DRI (Nish-Nippon Railroad Co. Ltd.)
Cooperating Member	Nobue FUNAKI	Associate Professor, Faculty of Contemporary Social Studies, Kobe Gakuin University
Cooperating Member	Yuka MIZUMOTO	Associate Professor, Faculty of Contemporary Social Studies, Kobe Gakuin University
Cooperating Member	Mayumi SAKAMOTO	Associate Professor, Graduate School of Disaster Resilience and Governance, University of Hyogo
Cooperating Member	Elizabeth MALY	International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University
Cooperating Member	Shosuke SATO	International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University
Cooperating Member	Masahiro SAWADA	Associate Professor, Graduate School of Disaster Resilience and Governance, University of Hyogo
Cooperating Member	Yoshihiro WATANABE	Team Leader for Policy Promotion, Retrofitting Promotion Division, Building Guidance Department, Housing and City Bureau, Kobe City
Secretariat Head	Toru IKEDA	Deputy Executive Disaster, Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution (DRI)
Secretariat	Makoto SAKAMOTO	Deputy Executive Disaster, Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution (DRI)
Secretariat	Hiroshi TAJIHI	Director, Department of Research, Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution (DRI)
Secretariat	Ryusuke IMAI	Director, Project Department, Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution (DRI)
Secretariat	Anna MATSUKAWA	Researcher, Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution (DRI)
Secretariat	Zi YANG	Researcher, Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution (DRI)
Secretariat	Kohei TAKAHARA	Researcher, Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution (DRI)
Secretariat	Yoshimi AMAKAWA	President,Community/Communication/Co-operative Space
Secretariat	Masahiko MURATA	Professor, Faculty of Management, Kansai University of International Studies
Secretariat	Yoshinobu FUKASAWA	Research Fellow in charge of TeLL-Net, DRI (Nish-Nippon Railroad Co. Ltd.)

Secretariat:	Secretariat of 2020 International Forum on Telling Live Lessons from Disasters
Co-organizers:	Hyogo Earthquake Memorial, 21 Century Research Institute, Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution, Hyogo Prefecture, Kobe City, Kobe Housing & Urban Development Corporation, Kobe Machizukuri Hall, JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(A) ‘Materializing and Narrating Collective Memories of Calamities and Education for Disaster Reduction’(Grant No. 18H03595)
Cooperation:	Disaster Reduction Alliance (Chairman: Makoto IOKIBE, President, Hyogo Earthquake Memorial 21th Century Research Institute; members: Asian Disaster Reduction Center, Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research, Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution, Education and Research Center for Disaster Reduction (ERCDR), University of Hyogo, Graduate School of Disaster Resilience and Governance, University of Hyogo, Hyogo Earthquake Engineering Research Center, Hyogo Earthquake Memorial 21th Century Research Institute, Hyogo Emergency Medical Center, Hyogo Institute for Traumatic Stress, International EMECS Center, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, International Recovery Platform (IRP), Japan International Cooperation Agency Kansai international Center, Japanese Red Cross Hyogo Chapter, Japanese Red Cross Kobe Hospital, Kobe Local Meteorological Office, United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) Office in Japan, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Kobe Office, World Health Organization Centre for Health Development (WHO Kobe Centre))
Grant:	The Japan Foundation Asia Center, Grant Program for Promotion of Cultural Collaboration
Funding from private companies:	Japan Tobacco Inc., Daiwa Lease Co., Ltd., AIG Institute, Nishi-Nippon Railroad Co., Ltd., Hankyu Corporation, West Japan Railway Company, Matsuoka Realty Co., Ltd.,　Morimoto Warehouse Co. Ltd., SHINMEI Co., LTD., Mr. Isozaki Hiroya, Freundlieve
Other cooperation from private companies or organizations:	NHK Promotions Inc., Japan Geopark Committee
Supported by:	Japan International Cooperation Agency Kansai Center, National Museum of Ethnology, United Nations Human Settlement Program (UN-Habitat) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cabinet Office (Director General for Disaster Management)