Abstract
The 25th annual symposium of The Society for Risk Analysis Japan was held at the Sanjo conference hall, The University of Tokyo on Sunday, June 17,2012, 14:00-17:00. The theme was titled ”Another measure against Catastrophic Disaster••• use of the monetary function”, and as an academic cross-lateral symposium, the monetary function’s point of view was added to the aspect of disaster prevention and the disaster mitigation . Being presided over by Dr. Hideya Kubo, the director of this society and the director of Center for Risk Research at Shiga University, 4 symposiasts were invited. The symposium was started with presentations from 4 symposiasts, followed by their discussion, and then audiences joined the debate. The heated discussion made the symposium longer than as scheduled and it took 3 hours and a half in all. This collected paper is chiefly consisted of the outline of the symposium and reports from 3 symposiasts who consented to contribute the paper.
