Media Sensitisation Programme: Disaster Risk Reduction & Risk Communication
2022/6/24
Consul General NAKAGAWA Koichi addressed at the inaugural session of the workshop named “Media Sensitisation Programme Disaster Risk Reduction & Risk Communication” organised by Press Club of Kolkata in collaboration with India Japan Lab (IJL), Keio University, Japan and Resilience Innovation Knowledge Academy (RIKA), India. Consul General talked about the cordial connection between the two nations that has entered the 70th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations and thanked the Government of India for immediately sending a relief team of 46 National Disaster Response Force personnel to Japan during the Great East Japan Earthquake followed by Tsunami on March 11, 2011.
A five-year memorandum was signed between IJL with Madras University in Chennai with an aim to embark on a research collaboration in the field of coastal resilience and disaster risk reduction, as well as student and faculty exchange between the two universities this year. Consul General wishes this would address the challenges in the area of community-based disaster management through transfer of technology and professional skills from Japan to India.
A five-year memorandum was signed between IJL with Madras University in Chennai with an aim to embark on a research collaboration in the field of coastal resilience and disaster risk reduction, as well as student and faculty exchange between the two universities this year. Consul General wishes this would address the challenges in the area of community-based disaster management through transfer of technology and professional skills from Japan to India.