ブックタイトルRecommendations to prepare for future mega-disasters in Japan

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Recommendations to prepare for future mega-disasters in Japan

knowledge experience, as they have to focus on new responsibilities.? There is no clear and established career path available for officers who are opted forbecoming disaster management specialists. Moreover, there are limited opportunities todevelop their competencies that are most relevant to disaster response andmanagement.d. There is a divide between the domestic disaster response experts and the Japaneseinternational responders, and there is no interaction between the two.? The exposure of those experienced in the domestic response ? either as part of the localauthorities or as NGO/NPO staff members ? tends to be limited to small and medium sizeddisasters inside Japan. On the other hand, those involved in international disaster reliefoperations are experienced with larger scale disasters, yet they do not necessarilyunderstand the unique aspects of disaster response in Japan. Bearing in mind the need formanaging the incoming international assistance, disaster managers and practitioners inJapan should be familiarised with the rules and characteristics of both domestic andinternational disaster relief.? Compared to other disaster-prone countries, Japan’s response capacity is high, and it canmanage most of the disasters with its domestic resources. As a result, Japanese people arenot entirely accustomed to receiving international assistance, and nurturing expertise ofthose, who can operate effectively under such circumstances, has not been contemplated.However, there is an urgent need to develop a group of disaster management professionals,especially in view of future large-scale disasters such as the Nankai Trough scenario, whichwould involve receiving international assistance.e. A lack of common understanding of the necessary capacity and competencies to be learnedby the disaster responders? A comprehensive scope of disaster response capacity as well as required skills andexpertise that need to be learned to support the response capacity are unclear. As aresult, levels of expertise shared among the disaster response practitioners depend ontheir personal and individual knowledge and experiences.? Specific types of knowledge and experience required for the disaster relief practitionersand managers at the decision making level are neither fully identified nor systematicallyorganised.? There is no means to assess professional capacity of disaster response practionersindividually and objectively in the absence of a specialist accreditation system.f. Lack of a strategy to share and communicate Japan’s disaster response experience with theinternational community? Being a disaster prone yet well prepared and developed country, Japan is uniquelypositioned. However, Japanese disaster management actors are not as proactive as theyshould be in terms of sharing and communicating their experience with the rest of theworld. This is considered to be related to the divide between the domestic andinternational actors discussed above as well as language barriers.33