2021 Volume 73 Issue 2 Pages 63-76
Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 emphasizes to pay attention to both natural hazards and vulnerabilities of societies, and to understand unique characters of a community for disaster risk reduction. To reduce casualties at schools and disruption of educational services by natural disasters, a comprehensive school safety is needed by increasing safety of educational facilities, enhancing school disaster management as well as promoting education for disaster risk reduction. Understanding disaster risk at each school level is a world-wide issue to enhance comprehensive school safety. Knowledge lessons accumulated through the Japanese international cooperation on school disaster safety are many common in implementation of the Japanese school safety practices. International cooperation should promote more participation of the practitioners and researchers in the Japanese school safety field, so that mutual learning could be enhanced through international cooperation.
