Host: The Association of Japanese Geographers
Name : Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, Spring 2023
Date : March 25, 2023 - March 27, 2023
A hundred years have passed since the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, and the need for earthquake disaster prevention to prepare for the next Tokyo metropolitan earthquake has been pointed out. It has been pointed out that if an earthquake disaster were to occur in the capital, where the unipolar concentration has progressed excessively, the impact would spread throughout Japan, leading to a "national crisis." There is no doubt that the lessons of the Great Kanto Earthquake are important when considering the future of Tokyo and Japan.
This symposium would like to discuss the following points.
(1) Learn the lessons of the Great Kanto Earthquake from a bird's-eye view from the keynote speech.
(2) Reconsider the lessons of the earthquake as a modern problem.
(3) Know how geography has contributed to earthquake research and disaster prevention promotion in the Tokyo metropolitan area over the past 100 years.
(4) Organize the issues of earthquake disaster prevention and the role of geography from a geographical point of view.
(5) Search for hints on how to make use of the lessons of the Great Kanto Earthquake in ``subjective learning'' in ``geography education for building a sustainable society.''
