Crisis Management Conference 2015

Post Conference Report

October 13‐14, 2015, Tokyo

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Plenary Meeting・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・

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Conclusion・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・

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Site Visit・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・

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Document Program・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・

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Outline The Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) has held the Crisis Management Conference 2015 as a part of the Network for Crisis Management. This conference was hosted by TMG on October 13-14, 2015 under the theme of “Comprehensive Measures to Minimize the Damages from Disasters -Protecting Every Person’s Life and Property-”, and 25 experts participated in the conference from 9 cities, namely, 6 member cities of the Network for Crisis Management (Kuala Lumpur, Metropolitan Manila, Seoul, Singapore, Taipei, and Tokyo), and 3 cities of sister cities or states of Tokyo (Beijing, London, and New South Wales). Moreover, approximately 100 people including staff from foreign missions in Tokyo attended the conference.

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Theme

Comprehensive measures to minimize the damages from disasters -Protecting every person’s life and property-

-Participation of diverse stakeholders in disaster risk reduction; women, elderly, children, persons with disabilities and foreigners -Appropriate risk analysis and strategy implementation -Technology to protect residents from every possible crisis -Raising public awareness of disaster preparedness

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Schedule

October 13 (The) – 14 (Wed), 2015

Day

Content

Location

October 13

Plenary Meeting

Tokyo

【Opening Address】

Yoichi Masuzoe

Governor of Tokyo 【Welcome Address】

Metropolitan Government

Akio Miyajima

Building

Special Advisor to the Governor on International

Main Conference

Affairs, Tokyo Metropolitan Government

Room

【Keynote Speech】

Kishiro Tanabe

Deputy Director General for Crisis Management, Tokyo Metropolitan Government 1

【Session 1

Lessons to Learn for Disaster Risk

Reductions】 ・Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction（Kuala Lumpur） ・TransAsia Air Crash: in the Perspective View of First Responder（Taipei） ・MPD’s Promotional Plan for Major Earthquake Countermeasures （ Tokyo

Metropolitan

Police

Department） ・ 10-year Project to Fireproof Districts with Close-Set Wooden Houses （ Urban Development Projects Division, Bureau of Urban Development, Tokyo Metropolitan Government） 【 Session 2

Public Involvement in Disaster

Preparedness】 ・Training Plan for a Hundred Thousand Citizen Safe Guard（Seoul） ・Raising Awareness and Involving MultiStakeholders for the Big Shake （Metropolitan Manila） ・Raising Public Awareness of Fire and Disaster Preparedness in Tokyo（Tokyo Fire Department） 【 Session 3

Crisis Management Plans for

Citizen’s Safety】 ・ New South Wales - Aspects of Emergency Preparedness（New South Wales） ・Building a Nation of Life Savers（Singapore） ・ Managing Risk in a Dynamic Capital City （London） ・Further Enhancement of "Self-Help & Mutual Assistance"

Capabilities

of

Tokyo

Residents

（Disaster Prevention Division, Bureau of General Affairs, Tokyo Metropolitan Government） 2

October 14

Site Visit

Tokyo Rinkai

・Tokyo Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park

Disaster

・Security & Safety Trade Expo, Special Equipment

Prevention Park

Exhibition & Conference for Anti-Terrorism ・Discussion Session

Tokyo Big Sight

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Participant

List of attendees（Overseas city）

City

Title

Name

Assistant Director, Policy Planning &

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Kuala Lumpur

Coordination Division, Malaysia Civil

Lt Col (CD) Mohd Syukri Madnor

Defence Department Head/ Superviser, Flood Control Information

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Metropolitan Manila

Center, Metropolitan Manila Development

Mr. Ramon Santiago

Authority Deputy Chief of Seoul Fire Department ,

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Seoul

Seoul Metropolitan Fire & Disaster

Mr. Lee, Seong Mook

Headquarters

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Seoul

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Singapore

Person in charge of policy planning, Seoul Metropolitan Fire & Disaster Headquarters Commissioner, Singapore Civil Defence Force

Mr.

Hong, Jin Hee

Mr. Eric Yap Wee Teck

Assistant Director, Plans And Corporate

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Singapore

Affairs,

Public Affairs Department,

Mr. Tan Jee Piau

Singapore Civil Defence Force Senior Staff Officer, Industrial Regulations,

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Singapore

HazMat Department, Singapore Civil

Ms. Chia Shang Yi

Defence Force

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Taipei

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Taipei

Senior Specialist, Taipei City Fire Department Section Assistant, Disaster Prevention and Planning, Taipei City Fire Department

Mr. Liu, Yung-Chou

Mr. Chen, Chun-Hao

Deputy Director, External Contact and

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Beijing

Service Office, Beijing Municipal

Mr. Yan Chen

Government Staff, Beijing Municipal Command Center

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Beijing

for Emergency Response, Beijing Municipal Government

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Mr. Ge He

Section Chief, Office of Xicheng District

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Beijing

Commission of Emergency Management,

Mr. Zhongying Liu

Beijing Municipal Government

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London

Assistant Commissioner, Operation Resilience, London Fire Brigade

Sydney

A/Deputy Secretary, Office of Emergency

(New South Wales)

Management, NSW Department of Justice

Mr. Tim Cutbill

Mr. Feargus O’Connor

List of attendees（Tokyo）

Title 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Name

Special Advisor to the Governor on International Affairs, Tokyo Metropolitan Government Deputy Director General for Crisis Management, Tokyo Metropolitan Government Director for Regional Liaison, Disaster Prevention Division, Bureau of General Affairs Director for Disaster Management Coordination, Urban Development Projects Division, Bureau of Urban Development Battalion Chief, Counselor to Division Chief, Disaster Preparedness Division, Tokyo Fire Department Assistant Senior Official, International Affairs Branch, Administration Section, Administration Division, Tokyo Fire Department Superintendent, Administrator, Security Bureau, Disaster Division, Metropolitan Police Department Inspector, Security Bureau, Disaster Division, Metropolitan Police Department Senior Director for International Projects, Office of the Governor for Policy Planning (Secretariat) Director for Project, International Affairs Division, Office of the Governor for Policy Planning (Secretariat)

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Mr. Akio Miyajima

Mr. Kishiro Tanabe

Mr. Katsutoshi Ono

Mr. Masahiko Furusawa

Mr. Noboru Yamamoto

Ms. Kyoko Nakase

Mr. Shinsuke Kijima

Mr. Makoto Shibuya

Ms. Hiromi Umeda

Ms. Rie Imazeki

Session Moderators

Title 1 2 3

Name

Professor, Graduate School of Political Science and Economics/ Research Center for Crisis and Contingency Management, Meiji University Professor, Graduate School of Disaster Research, Tokoha University President, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention

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Dr. Itsuki Nakabayashi

Dr. Kishie Shigekawa

Dr. Haruo Hayashi

October 13 (Tue), 2015 Plenary Meeting

10：00～10：10

Opening Address by Yoichi Masuzoe, Governor of Tokyo

To this 13th conference held in Tokyo after six years, we don’t only have participating cities, but we also have experts from Beijing, London and New South Wales for the first time. At this conference, we have the theme of “Comprehensive Measures to Minimize the Damages from Disasters -Protecting Every Person’s Life and Property-”. We cannot do away with disasters, but as the theme states, we should work to minimize damage to all possible extent. With that view, Tokyo is implementing various preparations to protect all our regions from such disasters. However, incorporating these technologies in urban development alone is not enough to fully prepare for a disaster. It is crucial that individuals, communities and public agencies respectively enhance their disaster resilience and work together. We believe that it would be important for cities to learn from each other’s experiences, and deepen ties.

10：10～10：15

Welcome Address by Akio Miyajima, Special Advisor to the Governor on International Affairs, Tokyo Metropolitan Government

We must make Tokyo the safest place by the time we host the Olympic and Paralympic games in 2020. In Tokyo, there are more than 150 embassies and representative offices of the countries and areas, and we have been keeping close contact with the foreign missions in Tokyo in order to protect the foreign residents in case of disaster. I believe that this conference will serve as a useful platform to share further experience and insight to cope with the common issues of protecting lives and properties of the our own citizens and foreign residents, and enhance the crisis management skill as well as to deepen the corporation among cities.

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10：15～10：35

Keynote Speech by Kishiro Tanabe, Deputy Director General for Crisis Management, Tokyo Metropolitan Government

Recently we have heavy rainfall disasters caused by the global climate changes, drought leading to major fire, and other massive damages directly affecting people’s livings or the economies of the world. It is important for the major cities to share experiences and lessons learned through such disasters. We have developed a new Tokyo Disaster Prevention Plan in December last year on the basis of the regional disaster prevention plan. It has a concrete plan designed to promote the new framework for self-help and mutual assistance with a sense of speed. This plan is based on the regional characteristics of Tokyo and the lessons which we learned from past major earthquakes. Infrastructure side of the plan includes the measures to prevent fires from starting or spreading in some parts of Tokyo where there are many wooden houses, make buildings along streets resistant to earthquakes, or prevent the furniture from folding inside the houses. The other side of the plan includes measures to cope with the stranded commuters in the event and to protect citizens, community, and business operators from disasters. Details will be introduced on the following sessions. I hope we will all learn well through the conference today and the visit tomorrow. We should be able to learn from each other in this program so that we are all better prepared to protect lives and livelihood of our respective areas.

10：45～12：10

Session 1 ＜Lessons to Learn for Disaster Risk Reductions＞

Moderator : Dr. Itsuki Nakabayashi, Professor, Graduate School of Political Science and Economics/ Research Center for Crisis and Contingency Management, Meiji University

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（１）Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction（Kuala Lumpur） Lt. Kol Mohd Syukri Bin Madnor, Assistant Director, Policy Planning & Coordination Division, Malaysia Civil Defence Department Learning from the serious flood and earthquakes in the past, we are moving towards proper coordination among government agencies, NGOs, and private sectors where the main objective is to get engaged with the local community. Malaysian government has designated October as the month of preparedness aiming to build a culture of disaster prevention or protection, and public safety awareness in the community. This is where the Malaysia Civil Defense introduces the LEAD or Local Engagement Approach on Disaster Initiatives. The LEAD initiative has been developed into three main frameworks, where it is establishing rescue teams in the community themselves, training of disaster preparedness, and risk assessment involving public contribution and evaluation. These three main frameworks will work towards public involvement and community based rescue team. We have created preparedness agents that play as a key person who is responsible to disseminate the knowledge of preparedness within a community. Other than the conventional promoting methods on publication, we think social media is also very useful. Community connections and the relationship is necessary to develop, implement, and maintain effective end to end disaster management approach.

（２）TransAsia Air Crash: in the Perspective View of First Responder（Taipei） Mr. Chen, Chun-Hao, Section Assistant, Disaster Prevention and Planning Division, Taipei City Fire Department I will introduce the disaster response system in Trans-Asia air crash which occurred on February 4, 2015. It has four operations; the command post, the incident command post, Taipei City, and the central disaster response center and our military transportation. We set up six units under the command post for search and rescue work with various tools. We also used an app and GPS to visualize the disaster information and recorded the incident automatically. Many 9

NGO and community provided free supplies (such as food) for those who worked at the crash side and those encouraged us to try even harder. Due to the disaster response system and also the assistance of communities, all the search and at the rescue completed successfully within 9 days after the crash.

（３）MPD to the disaster response system and also the assistance（Tokyo） Mr. Shinsuke Kijima, Superintendent, Administrator, Security Bureau, Disaster Division Metropolitan Police Department Learning the lessons and challenges from the Great East Japan Earthquake, we compiled the MPD major earthquake countermeasures promotion plan which sets the guideline for the earthquake countermeasures in 2012. The plan has seven pillars; improvement of the local disaster prevention capabilities, initial response by police, gathering and transmitting information measure, traffic measure, improvement of coping skills, security measures, and improvement of logistics support. Among these, the improvement of the local disaster prevention capabilities shows Metropolitan Police Department’s (MPD) policy of raising public awareness for disaster preparedness. In order to improve the local disaster prevention capabilities, we have to emphasize self-support and mutual-support of the citizens. Survival rate drops dramatically after 72 hours after a disaster, and the public help begins in earnest after that, so it is very important to improve the disaster prevention capabilities of the local community. We also created the regional partnership, a public-private partnership in each district in order to improve the mutual-support capabilities so that we can achieve disaster resistant communities by building a personal relationship through giving workshops with municipalities, lifeline operators, or neighborhood associations. The risk awareness by citizens of Tokyo is gradually faded while it is said that the possibility of the magnitude 7 class Tokyo inland earthquakes occurring within 30 years is above 70%. MPD will continue working to raise the awareness among citizens to repeat offering opportunities for participating in drills and workshops, in order to save as many lives as possible once the inland earthquakes hit our city.

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（４）10-year Project to Fireproof Districts with Close-Set Wooden Houses（Tokyo） Mr. Masahiko Furusawa, Director for Disaster Management Coordination, Urban Development Projects Division, Bureau of Urban Development, Tokyo Metropolitan Government Due to the urbanization accelerated after the Second World War, there exists a total of 7000 hectares of close-set wooden housing areas. Once a major earthquake occurs, fires and collapsed buildings of these areas have negative impacts on fire fighting or evacuation, and therefore there is an urgent need to eliminate the risk of these districts in order to protect lives and properties of citizens as well as maintain the city functions of Tokyo. The 10-year project to fireproof districts with close-set wooden houses is a project to address the areas we have identified which are particularly prone to fires and other serious consequences once disaster occurs. The basic scheme is that building the fire-break zones through maintaining city planning roads and converting these areas into fireproof and disaster-proof areas at the same time. TMG takes the lead in the former case, and municipalities are the primary agents in the latter case. We would like to complete this project by the end of fiscal 2020, when the Olympics and Paralympics will be held. On the fireproofing project, there is a need to rebuild old wooden houses into fireproof buildings and we provide services so that they can receive public subsidy or legal consultations from experts free of charge. 52 districts in total of 3000 hectares are designated as “fireproof zones” to be promoted in fireproofing. City planning roads in all the planned sites are also in process. We will continue our preparation for the earthquake that could occur right underneath the Tokyo metropolitan area in close coordination between public and residents so that we can make Tokyo safe and secured.

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Question and Answer The moderator raised an issue that there is a digital divide between young and elderly people while every city has a tendency to utilize apps or SNS for information management on disasters. One solution to solve this problem is shown by Kuala Lumpur that mutual-support within a community such as information sharing among families. Tokyo also received questions by several cities about the issues towards 10-year project to fireproof districts with close-set wooden houses or the number of those houses, or methods to raise disaster prevention awareness. The moderator concluded as follows; to protect the lives and properties, the reduction of damages before disasters or the mitigation of damages after disasters are necessary. Quick reconstruction and rehabilitation will also be essential. There is a limitation of the public help and idea of self-help and mutual assistance has become quite important. One can go help others only after one protect one's life. Efforts to practicing self-help and mutual assistance in each community could enhance the efficiency of the public help.

13：40～14：50

Session 2 ＜Public Involvement in Disaster

Preparedness＞

Moderator : Dr. Kishie Shigekawa, Professor, Graduate School of Disaster Research, Tokoha University

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（１）Training Plan for a Hundred Thousand Citizen Safe Guard（Seoul） Mr. Hong, Jin Hee, Person in charge of policy planning, Seoul Metropolitan Fire & Disaster Headquarters We are realizing that public supply oriented disaster management has a limit in terms of effectiveness, and the necessity of partnership between public sector and private sector is increasing in crisis management. To keep pace with these changes, the Seoul city government has set to achieve Golden Time with citizens in crisis management. This is the current Seoul Mayor Park’s promise to make Seoul safer. This project to train Citizen Safety Guard is the core measure to improve crisis management ability of citizens. The goal of this project is to train 100,000 Safety Guards until 2018. The number of 100,000 means 1% of 10 million Seoul citizens. This implies that 100,000 trained citizens could be focal point for spreading safety culture until all the Seoul citizens have crisis management competence and then they can contribute to the achievement of the Golden Time as Citizen Safety Guards .who can help other people as well as themselves with the basic knowledge of safety in an emergency. Golden Time is a small amount of time in which you can protect your life or properties and initial response in the event of disaster is crucial for it. Educational course for the Citizen Safety Guards is divided into the basic course and advances course. With regard to the qualification, it is open for any Seoul citizen to apply for this training and qualification.

（ ２ ） Raising Awareness and Involving Multi-Stakeholders for the Big Shake （Metropolitan Manila） Mr. Ramon Santiago, Head/ Supervisor, Flood Control Information Center, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Just like the other countries situated in the Pacific region, Metro Manila is threatened by a major earthquake caused by a very active fault, and according to scientists, and there is a possibility for us to have an earthquake within a few years. Metro Manila had been conducting a research for predicting the risk level that earthquake may cause with a support of JICA or the Japanese government. Now, we have formulated a multiagency, multilevel plan, Oplan Metro Yakal, in order to prepare for the damage or issues which can be predicted by the result of the research. This plan includes; disaster 13

preparedness, pre-deploying the resources to the areas where damages or isolation is predicted, clearing of debris on main roads, prior confirmation of evacuation sites and staging areas, and securing alternate routes to the main facilities. For the disaster preparedness, we have trained more than 200,000 people just in our agency; most of them are from local communities, university students, and members of the reserved force of the armed forces of the Philippines and the training is particularly about search and rescue during an earthquake. This is a joint training, so it is not purely a government program, but conducted with a help of volunteers. Particularly for improving the disaster preparedness by students, Metro Manila conducted what we call a Metro-wide Shake Drill on July 30 which was done simultaneously in a multi-sectorial approach. We launched a dedicated website to put guidelines for the drill, and it had as many as 2.5 billion views. The drill had participants of 1500 organizations and 6.5 million students and other people in total. Also, business sectors are already being brought into the picture in order for them to help not only in relief or emergency, but also in coming up with a sound plan for earlier recovery. The private sector, the cluster of them, are also now getting task to work in the same level of the response, or emergency response.

（３）Raising Public Awareness of Fire and Disaster Preparedness in Tokyo（Tokyo Fire Department） Mr. Noboru Yamamoto, Battalion Chief, Counselor to Division Chief, Disaster Preparedness Division, Tokyo Fire Department After the result of the public survey on fire, we found that more than 50% of residents in Tokyo haven’t been participating in drills in these years, and participation percentage varies according to the types of drills. In accordance with this situation, we have targeted the total number of participants in fire or disaster drills as 20 million in coming 10 years in the Tokyo’s Long-term Vision. One example of initiatives of the Vision is promoting and establishing the Street Corner Disaster Drills. Participants from the local community use stunt pipes and other easy equipment on the drills so that the neighborhood associations and the community, or organizations can conduct drills easily and in a short time. We try to organize this program particularly in the wooden structures condensed areas. Secondly, we organize drills accessible to many different age groups; students, all the way up to the aged people. We consider their lifestyles in setting the dates and the locations of these drills. Also, in the third 14

example, in the areas where the drills are not conducted, we encourage local communities to conduct fire prevention drills using the events hosted by those communities as well as perceive the state of achievement of the drills in each fire department’s district. The number of participants in the drills from April to June this year is increased by 30% from the same period of last year, and this shows that our effort produces a steady flow of successful result. We are promoting the disaster and fire prevention education as a comprehensive disaster preparedness program according to the developmental stage from infant to the adulthood. This is a mid to long-term activity to cultivate human resources to be main providers for regional or local disaster preparedness activities. Also, it’s very important to work on a short term activity to encourage people who are not participating in the drills. It is also important to improve qualitatively on top of quantitative improvement in the number of participants. Recently, it is brought to attention to make a disaster preparedness map based on city walking, and we are supporting the residents’ efforts in creating their disaster maps by preparing a downloadable map of each local community on our website .

Question and Answer There were questions from each city about the specific method of each project introduced in presentations and the success factors. Presenters gave explanation including the background, institutional settings or unique contents of implementation. Moderator asked for awareness of the need for education to provide correct knowledge of disaster preparedness utilizing institution, mechanism or scientific assessment, while evaluating the discussion in the session as fruitful to contribute to the further development of educational program given in each city.

15：20～16：45

Session 3 ＜Crisis Management Plans for Citizen’s Safety＞

Moderator : Dr. Haruo Hayashi, President, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention

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（１）New South Wales - Aspects of Emergency Preparedness（New South Wales） Mr. Feargus O’Connor, A/Deputy Secretary, Office of Emergency Management, NSW Department of Justice Most of the functional area which is part of a government department and responsible for managing the emergency services is now privatized. In particular, power generation and telecommunications, very important areas for disaster preparation and response, but since they are not owned by government, we need to get these privatized companies to participate in cooperating with government in the response phase through diplomacy. For the welfare service, we have a partnership with NGO that has an excellent local networking such as charities. In the emergency alert system, all the telecommunications companies are signed up to the platform to do the service and it has about 90% penetration, and most people in the area will get the message. While it’s very successful, there is a problem that people are becoming almost psychologically dependent on getting the text message, and some people will refuse to evacuate if they haven’t received the text message. Another problem is the high cost of this service. In the future, we are looking at different technology; perhaps an app that people would download. Regarding the issue of emergency alert when you have a disaster that destroys your terrestrial network, we are interested in the satellite-based solution that Japanese government is perhaps investigating.

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（２）Building a Nation of Life Savers（Singapore） Mr. Eric Yap Wee Teck, Commissioner, Singapore Civil Defence Force SCDF has a 10-year vision of Building a Nation of Life Savers toward a generational change. It includes; enhancement of SCDF by transforming its training contents, utilizing of technology in order to increase efficiency of rescue operation, building of our response model for improving the survival rate by cooperation between communities and SCDF. One of the outcomes of this vision is enabling and empowering the community. We have prepared various programs to embrace every citizen according to the level of concern about disaster preparedness. For concerned citizens, we have established the Emergency Preparedness Center and conducted community emergency preparedness education. To enable the bystander responder, we have prepared programs both in hardware and software portion; installing AED in every high rise blocks by 2018 and launching an app using geolocation to give a notice of emergency occurred within 400 meters. Also, we expect active responders to work on the emergency situation by empowering them to be more engage. We regard school as important occasion to cultivate initial responders and start disaster prevention education with preschoolers. We try to raise awareness of citizens by giving them a lot of emergency preparedness information, activities and hands on.

（３）Managing Risk in a Dynamic Capital City（London） Mr. Tim Cutbill, Assistant Commissioner, Operation Resilience, London Fire Brigade London gave a report on its London Safety Plan, London Resilience Forum, and various challenges and approaches during the period of preparation as well as the games. London Safety Plan has six aims: prevention, protection, response, resources, people, and principles. In the 10-year period, the population has gone up by 13%, and all of the incidents have reduced dramatically by 41%. London has as many as 170 partners. There is a need to collocate and coordinate when an incident happens, but smooth correspondence is possible after the partnership built at London Resilience Forum. Also for the various challenges and issues about the preparation of London Olympic held in 2012, they could be overcome by the firm relationship to tackle those issues together. 17

（４）Further Enhancement of "Self-Help & Mutual Assistance" Capabilities of Tokyo Residents（Tokyo） Mr. Katsutoshi Ono, Director for Regional Liaison, Disaster Prevention Division, Bureau of General Affairs, Tokyo Metropolitan Government In preparation for 2020, Tokyo has formulated the Tokyo Disaster Prevention Plan against natural disasters. We suggest the idea of Daily Stockpiles which is based on the concept of stocking extra supplies of food and other daily items to prepare for natural disasters as a part of stockpiling project and to change the Tokyo citizens’ understanding of stockpiles. As well as distributing Disaster Preparedness Tokyo or conducting events for stockpiling, we have designated November 19 to raise public awareness and to give a chance to reconsider the stockpiling at home. We have published and distributed 7.5 million copies of Disaster Preparedness Tokyo to each home as part of the preparation of rescue operation by residents. Disaster Preparedness Tokyo is a manual tailored to the various local features of Tokyo on how to prepare for and respond to a disaster. This manual also contains some specific actions such as starting stockpiling or checking the evacuation site. It also includes disaster prevention columns, disaster experience story, disaster quiz, and workshop method for home or office to make it accessible to various ages. Using this manual, TMG conducts the disaster preparedness seminar to give some information and advices to the citizens at the fire stations. Also, we have developed Disaster Preparedness Notebook, a new teaching material to enhance the comprehensive disaster preparedness education together with school and homes and distributed to students at every public and private school in Tokyo.

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Question and Answer There were questions about systems in each city introduced to protect its citizens from disasters. Most discussions were about the public and private engagement on emergency alert system in New South Wales, the coordination mechanism with many partners involved in London Resilience Forum or Olympic preparation, development and its effect of Disaster Preparedness Tokyo. Moderator summarized that there is a need of cooperation and coordination between organizations for operating risk management plans, and crisis management skill for disaster prevention of each community or city improves by sharing good examples of efforts that each city has made.

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Crisis Management Conference 2015 Conclusion The Network for Crisis Management hosted the Crisis Management Conference 2015 with the aim of gathering and sharing relevant expertise among participating cities. This year’s conference, hosted by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, was held on October 13, 2015 with Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, London, Manila, New South Wales, Seoul, Singapore, Taipei, and Tokyo attending. Here, we provide a conclusion of the conference. 1. Since its launch in 2003, the Network for Crisis Management has been operated by member cities of the Asian Network of Major Cities 21 (ANMC21). However, with the suspension of ANMC21 activities in 2014, it was decided that the project would be continued under a new framework starting in April 2015 through the agreement of the member cities. In addition to the original members of the network, Beijing, London and New South Wales also participated in this year’s conference. 2. In recent years, along with global climate change, natural disasters, including storm and flood damage and earthquakes, are becoming more extreme. Although Asia’s major cities continue to achieve remarkable growth, they also face a range of risks. Furthermore, risks such as large-scale accidents and terrorism are universal challenges also shared by areas outside of Asia. As such, we must strengthen the sharing of information between cities around the world. 3. At this conference, discussions were held on the theme “Comprehensive measures to minimize damage caused by disasters: Protecting the lives and property of all.” Presentations were made by each city on the great importance of learning from past experiences and compiling a 21

comprehensive and specific disaster management plan. Presentations also stated the importance of uniformly relaying knowledge and information to a city’s diverse population of residents, including children, senior citizens, and foreign nationals, and implementing programs that encourage the participation of residents. Moreover, presentations stating the importance of not only government programs, but also of residents taking the initiative to enhance awareness and prepare for disasters were made, and information and opinions were exchanged on specific methods of spreading awareness. 4. We cannot eliminate all of the different risks that surround us, and, especially, we cannot stop the occurrence of natural disasters. However, by anticipating unavoidable dangers and making thorough preparations from every angle, we will continue efforts to protect citizens and keep damage to a minimum. To this end, we confirmed our intention to work to deepen mutual cooperation, including the sharing of information and cultivation of human resources, and enhance each city’s crisis management system, under the framework of the Network for Crisis Management. 5. The network decided that the next Crisis Management Conference will be held in 2016 at an appropriate time in Singapore.

October 13, 2015 Tokyo, Japan

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October 14 (Wed), 2015 Site Visit：Tokyo Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park

On Wed. October 14, the next day of the plenary session, experts from participating cities visited the Tokyo Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park. They took a lecture about the facility and its function in a conference room and visited the operation room of the headquarters building, The Ariake no Oka Core Wide-area Disaster Prevention Base, which is managed by the Cabinet Office. They also visited the Disaster Prevention Experience-learning Facility that is managed by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism to see Tokyo earthquake simulation system and exhibition of disaster prevention tools.

Lecture in the headquarters conference room

Operation room and exhibition 23

Experience-learning facility

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October 14 (Wed), 2015 Site Visit：Security & Safety Trade Expo, Special Equipment Exhibition & Conference for Anti-Terrorism

Following the visit to the Tokyo Rinkai Disaster Prevention Park, participants moved to Tokyo Big Sight to visit Security & Safety Trade Expo and SEECAT on the same day. They had a discussion session after the exhibition. Security & Safety Trade Expo is an integrated exhibition regarding risk management targeting a broad range of products, technology and service for domestic and international risk management from disaster prevention measures to security or counterterrorism measures. SEECAT, Special Equipment Exhibition & Conference for Anti-Terrorism, showed the most advanced specialized equipments including monitoring system or detectors for counterterrorism measures.

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Exhibition visit and discussion

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Conference program

10：00

Opening

【Opening Address】

Yoichi Masuzoe

【Welcome Addres】

Akio Miyajima

Governor of Tokyo

Special Advisor to the Governor on International Affairs, Tokyo Metropolitan Government 【Keynote Speech】

Kishiro Tanabe Deputy Director General for Crisis Management, Tokyo Metropolitan Government

10：35

Break

10：45

Session 1

【Kuala Lumpur】 【Taipei】

Lessons to Learn for Disaster Risk Reductions Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction

TransAsia Air Crash: in the Perspective View of First Responder

【Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department】 MPD’s Promotional Plan for Major Earthquake Countermeasures 【Urban Development Projects Division, Bureau of Urban Development, Tokyo Metropolitan Government】 12：10

Lunch

13：40

Session 2

【Seoul】

10-year Project to Fireproof Districts with Close-Set Wooden Houses

Public Involvement in Disaster Preparedness

Training Plan for a Hundred Thousand Citizen Safe Guard

【Metropolitan Manila】 Raising Awareness and Involving Multi-Stakeholders for the Big Shake 【Tokyo Fire Department】 Raising Public Awareness of Fire and Disaster Preparedness in Tokyo 14：50

Coffee Break

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15：20

Session 3

Crisis Management Plans for Citizen’s Safety

【New South Wales】

Building a Nation of Life Savers

【Singapore】 【London】

New South Wales - Aspects of Emergency Preparedness

Managing Risk in a Dynamic Capital City

【Disaster Prevention Division, Bureau of General Affairs, Tokyo Metropolitan Government】 Further Enhancement of "Self-Help & Mutual Assistance" Capabilities of Tokyo Residents 16：45

Break

17：05

Annual Report from the Secretariat

17：15

Selection of Next Host City

17：25

Conclusion

17：30

Closing

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【Crisis Management Conference 2015 Secretariat】 Project Section, International Affairs Division, Office of the Governor for Policy Planning Tokyo Metropolitan Government 8-1 Nishishinjuku 2-Chome Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-8001 Japan Phone:03-5388-2232