Searching for Meiji-Tokyo: Heterogeneous Visual Media and the Turn to Global Urban History, Digitalization, and Deep Learning

Culture is in the Details

During earlier stays in Japan, in 2012 and 2014, I was struck by the great attention to detail, in the scale of the buildings, the streetscape, as well as in the clothing and the presentation of food. Life seems to be an accumulation of independent details that sometimes contrast considerably with one another. A city is made up of buildings, and...

Tsunami awareness: a comparative assessment between Japan and the USA

Awareness about the threats posed by different types of coastal disasters has increased throughout the world, as people are exposed to the nature of these hazards through media reports on events in distant countries. This has resulted in coastal residents being aware about the destructive power of tsunamis, despite no such events having taken...

Guide to Determining the Potential Tsunami Inundation

The purpose of the guide is to provide guidance for determining the potential tsunami inundation, which becomes the basis for planning and implementing measures for developing tsunami-resilient communities. The guide summarizes the tsunami inundation simulation, an effective means of fulfilling the above purpose, and how to utilize it.

The great eastern Japan earthquake and Tsunami: Field observations on the coast of Tohoku six month later

The tsunami that hit the north pacific coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 has been characterized as a mega disaster. It inundated over 560 square kilometers of land, devastating a large number of coastal communities, causing over 20,000 casualties and huge economic damage in Tohoku region. The purpose of this report is to give insight into the...

Privatization, commodification and transformation in Japanese housing: Ephemeral house - eternal home

The space and place of the Japanese home holds an iconic status in both foreign and indigenous understandings of Japanese life. The architectural forms and bounded spaces of Japanese houses have historically been embedded in social practices that integrate individuals with hierarchical orders of space and social relations moving outwards from...

Tunnel technology: Ontwikkeling van nieuwe tunnelvormen in Japan

Rapport in opdracht van de Leerstoel Ondergronds Bouwen, Technische Universiteit Delft en het Centrum Ondergronds Bouwen (COB). Tot nu toe zijn vrijwel alle geboorde tunnels rond. Het is echter waarschijnlijk dat in de toekomst meer tunnels met andere vormen geboord zullen gaan worden. In dit rapport wordt een overzicht gegeven van de huidige...

Bijzonder Onderzoek naar Natuurrampen in Japan: Een onderzoek naar het gedrag van tsunami die het land hebben overstroomd en naar de mechanismen van de door hun stroming veroorzaakte calamiteiten

ALTHOUGH THE ABSTRACT IS PROVIDED IN ENGLISH, THE REPORT IS IN DUTCH (translated from Japanese to Dutch) The objective of the present research is to investigate the mechanism of disaster causing on houses as well as public facilities due to the flooded tsunami behavior. In order to perform the stated investigation, the following two items should...

De Japanse scheepsbouw vanaf 1972