Proceedings of the General Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers

In this paper, authors report a practice of ESD education done in cooperation of high school and university which made the Minamata disease a subject. Minamata disease incident happened in a small local town MInamata. Authors made high school students understand the incident in geographical context. Reading documents and contour map, the students could recognize precise and concrete figure of Minamata area. Students acquired the positive attitude to settle the problem from this study.

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Previous studies reported orientation bias of slope failures triggered by the main shock of 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake (Mw7.0), and this study investigated the relation between crustal deformation direction and aspect of slope failures. In the northern area from Hihagu fault, Futagawa fault, and NE direction of the extended line, slope failures affected by eastern direction of crustal deformation were notably identified and slope failures occurred 1.6 times more in eastern component of slope aspect than in western component of slope aspect. In the southern area from the faults and the line, slope failures affected by western direction of crustal deformation were notably identified and slope failures occurred 2.1 times more in western component of slope aspect than in eastern component of slope aspect. Relation between crustal deformation direction and aspect of slope failures triggered by 2005 Northern Pakistan (Kashmir) Earthquake in the previous study, and this study also noted the same relation.

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This paper discusses whether tsunami-related place names can deliver lessons from past disasters to that location. For this purpose, field survey following up "Iwate engan kochimei kou", a list of tsunami-related place names collected about one hundred years ago, is conducted, to examine how tsunami-related place name survived.

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I examine the government's statements and development plans of 2012 Olympic legacy in East End of London. For Olympic legacy, UK Government published many statements. Greater London Authority and London boroughs published their development plans to create and promote Olympic legacies. In order to promote legacies in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and surrounding area, London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) issued development plan. I examine ihow Olympic legacy was planned and promoted.in these doccuments.

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