A hefty book containing some 750 letters from Japanese students expressing gratitude for support they received from the United States after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake has been preserved by a descendant of then U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, a Japanese research team has learned.
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SENDAI An international conference on disaster preparedness will be held for the first time in three years and four months in this city that suffered damage in the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
New training course helps to better equip health professionals in disaster preparedness and response
A new comprehensive course incorporating an interdisciplinary approach to disaster preparedness shows promise for better equipping health professionals in responding to disasters.
Medical staff and researchers from Tohoku University and Fukushima Medical University organized the program. The two universities are well equipped in disaster response and preparedness given their regions were at the epicenter of the deadly 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.
Their findings were published in the
Journal of Disaster Research. From the experience of the Great East Japan Earthquake, we have learned that disaster medical personnel are required to play the role of conductors in site selection dispatching and on-site activities, said Hiroyuki Sasaki at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science, and Tadashi Ishii at the Education and Support for Regional Medicine, Tohoku Unive