Learning Disaster Management from Japan - A Reflection
さいがはわすれたころにやってくる saigai wa wasureta koro ni yatte kuru A Japanese proverb above means disaster could happen and strike the population when they forget or ignore it (Kimura, 2012) . As a country with the same characteristics, every time Indonesia and Japan are confronting many risks of disaster. Every year, many disastrous events had happened such as earthquake, tsunami, flood, landslide, volcano eruption, etc. One of the unforgettable events that hit Japan was The Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011 caused a thousand dead and lots of damages. Japanese scientists forecast that the event will reoccur with a bigger magnitude. That condition leads the country to prepare good disaster management. In early November 2019, my campus conducted Student Exchange Program with the University of Kochi, Japan. I became one of the delegations with another seven students and a lecturer. The main aim of the program was to learn about disaster management. As I have learned, there are ...