Abstract
The Japan Platform is an international humanitarian organization mainly composed of Japan-based INGOs, business communities, and the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for the NGOs to conduct effective and proper emergency assistance in response to the humanitarian crisis caused by natural disasters and armed conflicts. Since its establishment in August 2000, it has conducted 669 projects in nearly 30 overseas countries. Faced with the major disaster in their country, the Great East Japan Earthquake in Tsunami, it has engaged in unprecedented scale of humanitarian assistance based on their experiences abroad. This paper describes four fields where their experiences of international humanitarian assistance were utilized; 1) emergency response and high logistics capacity, 2) intensive accumulation of resources and advantages of large-scale assistance, 3) coordination and networking, 4) application of international humanitarian schemes, and analyzes their significance. The paper concludes by discussing some lessons learned by the Japan-based INGOs engaged in the humanitarian assistance, and their implication for future international humanitarian assistance.
https://ror.org/035t8zc32 
