To deepen better understanding of sabo works's roles and sediment disasters, Tateyama Mountain Area Sabo Office holds a number of site tours for not only the adminstrative personnels concerned and resarchers but also a wide range of people living in the Toyama Plain, in close collaboration with the municipalities, educational institutions, business groups, etc.

Raising Public Awareness of Threat of Sediment Disaster

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A ride experience on the trolley train for an elementary school student group.

Tateyama Mountain Area Sabo Office has tried to provide field trips on the site of sabo works, opprtunities to ride on the sabo works service train, varioius types of lectures using the expreriment devices for the students from the elementary schools to the universities in and out Toyama Prefecture, so that the participants could deepen the understandings of sabo works.
We have also invited the experts in the area of sediment disasters to lecture meetings which are periodically held for residents in Toyama Prefecture.

  • image Elementary school students watching the model experiment device of debris flow to learn the necessity of sabo dam
  • image Drone flight experience in Tateyama Caldera for high school students
  • image A lecture at a high school using a miniature dam to provide a deeper understanding of sabo dam
  • image Providing experience at sabo works site for university students from all over Japan

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Sabo lecture meeting held in June when a sediment disaster preparedness campaign is held every year

Activities for Domestic and Overseas Researchers and Foreign Students

A number of domestic and overseas researchers and trainees has been visiting the sites to learn its skills of the construction which has been implemented under one of the most severe environments in Japan.

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Ms.Margareta Wahlstrom, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and Chief of United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, inspected the sabo works in the Tateyama Caldera on August 27, 2015.

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  • On September 27, 2013, as a part of international heritage seminar, Toyama Prefecture invited experts from Japan and abroad to a site tour to the series of historical sabo facilities in Tateyama Caldera.

Supporting Improvement of Local Disaster Preparedness

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Toyama Prefectural Comprehensive Disaster-Preparedness Drill with the participation of the governor of Toyama Prefecture in September 2017

A large scale of sediment disasters in wider area across Japan has been occurred due to frequent record-breaking rainfalls. Tateyama Mountain Area Sabo Office has conducted a number of drills for such sediment disasters in close collaboration with the organizations concerned with disaster prevention. Such trainnings also aims to enlighten awareness of the local people against sediment disasters in the basin of the Joganji River.

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A lecture-style disaster-preparedness drill jointly held with the national government, Toyama Prefecture, Uozu City and the local residents in November 2017