Organization Overview

▶ Organization Overview　▶ Senior Advisors

Name of Organization

Japan Bosai Platform

Date of Establishment

4th June, 2014

Number of Members

100 as of June 2023
（Please see the List of Members for the latest information）

Office

SENQ Kasumigaseki, Nittochi Building 2F,
1-4-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
100-1013 Japan

Contact

+81 3 6273-3545
Inquiry Form: https://www.bosai-jp.org/ja/inquiry

President	Hiro NISHIGUCHI	GEN Japan
Vice Presidents in alphabetical order	Hozuma SEKINE	Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.
	Satoshi ARIYAMA	Yachiyo Engineering Co., Ltd.
	Tetsuo ISHIDA	Fujita Corporation
	Yoshinori TAKADA	NEC Corporation
Secretary General	Osamu NUMATA

Senior Advisors

Toshio KOIKE
Toshio Koike is the director of the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM) under the auspices of UNESCO and a professor emeritus of the University of Tokyo. He has been the chair of the River Council of Japan since 2015, leading discussions on important riverrelated matters to advise the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan. In his capacity as a council member of the Science Council of Japan under the Cabinet Office since 2017, he has contributed to addressing various issues through science by making policy and other recommendations to the private and public sectors nationwide. After earning a bachelor, master’s, and doctoral degree in Engineering in 1980, 1982, and 1985, respectively, from the University of Tokyo, he served as a research associate in 1985 and a lecturer from 1986 to 1987 there. Then, he was at the Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan, as an associate professor from 1988 to 1999 and a professor in 1999. In the same year, he returned to the Department of Civil Engineering, the University of Tokyo, and served as a professor until 2017. He has been the director of ICHARM since 2014 In 2019, he received the International Scientific Cooperation Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Friendship Award from the Chinese government.

Satoru　NISHIKAWA
Senior Advisor JICA / Specially Appointed Professor, Tohoku University
After receiving master’s degree in city planning and regional science from University of Tokyo, he joined Japanese Government service in 1982 and has held various positions in the Japanese Government, UN, Tokyo Metropolitan Government and International Organizations. In 1992, he took the position of Senior Disaster Relief Coordination Officer at UN-DHA where he coordinated international assistance to numerous disaster-stricken countries. In 2001, he was appointed the Executive Director of Asian Disaster Reduction Center. After resuming Japanese government service in 2004, held senior positions in the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan. At the wake of the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004, he coordinated the Japanese Government technical assistance to the affected countries. He was also the on-site coordinator for the Niigata-Chuetsu Earthquake in 2004. He hosted and coordinated the 2005 UN World Conference on Disaster Reduction where HFA was adopted. He proposed the Japanese BCP guideline in 2005. He initiated the long-term regional recovery planning for Tohoku after the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. He was a member of the Advisory Group to the UN SRSG for DRR on the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Global Platform. He was the chair of the WEF Global Agenda Council on Catastrophic Risk. From 2013 to 2015, he served as Vice-president, Japan Water Agency. He is currently; Visiting Professor, Nagoya University, Member, Science Council of Japan, Board member, Institute of Social Safety Science. Vice-President, Business Continuity Advancement Organization, Advisor, International Consortium on Landslides.

Haruo HAYASHI
Dr. HARUO HAYASHI is former President of the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience between 2015 and 2023. He is also Professor Emeritus from Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University where he has taught between 1994 and 2015. He received both his Bachelors and Master's degrees from Waseda University, and Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles in the field of social psychology in 1983. He was appointed as an Assistant Professor from Hirosaki University in 1983 where he started his career as a disaster researcher when he studied responses of disaster victims toward the 1983 Nihonkai-chubu Earthquake and Tsunami. He moves to Hiiroshima University in 1988 as an Associate Professor where he studied societal reactions to an urban Typhoon diaster in 1991.In nine months after moving to Kyoto University, he went through the 1995 Kobe earthquake in which he performed the scientific description and theorizing of the entire recovery processes. The general focus of Dr. Hayashi's work is on Societal and Human Reactions to Disasters, Risk Communication and Education, Information System for Disaster Management, Standardization of Emergency Operations, and Multi-hazard Risk Assessment.

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