2022.10.21Activites： IRIDeS held the "Imagining the Aftermath: Lessons from the 2011 Tohoku Disast

Representing the Embassy, the Director of the French Institute in Tokyo, Mr Airy Guilleré, welcomed the participants with a few words about the importance of the collaboration of the French and Japanese institutions for the progress of the sciences. [...] It was followed with opening addresses from the director of IRIDeS, Professor Fumihiko Imamura, and the head of the Urban School in Lyon, Professor Michel Lussault. [...] Five of its researchers discussed the lessons from the 2011 Tohoku disasters and the future challenges of interdisciplinary science. [...] The members of IRIDeS would like to express their most sincere gratitude to Mr Jacques Maleval and Mr Clement Dupuis from the CNRS Office, Mr Airy Guilleré from the Institut Francais in Tokyo, and more broadly, the French Embassy. [...] The workshop represented an excellent addition to the French Embassy conferences addressing how climate change will increase the frequency of extreme weather events and the vulnerability of populations.