“The 3.11 Disaster of Japan: Vulnerability, Loss,
and Social Transformation”
25-26 January 2013
Ateneo de Manila University
PROGRAMME
Day 1 Venue: Leong
Auditorium
8:30 Registration
9:30 Welcome Remarks
Filomeno V. Aguilar, Ph.D.
Dean, School of Social Sciences, Ateneo de
Manila University
Opening Remarks
Shūji Takatori
Director, the Japan
Foundation Manila Office
10:00-12:30 Session 1:
Post-Disaster Recovery and
Reconstruction for the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake
Satoshi Tanaka
Satoshi Tanaka
Fuji Tokoha University and
Graduate School
Business Responses to
Crisis: Conflicting Paradigms and Reorientation
Hendrik Meyer-Ohle, Ph.D
National University of Singapore
No
Title
Atty. Violeta S. Seva,
General Secretary, Earthquakes and
Megacities Initiatives
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 Documentary Film
Can You See the Lights? First Festival
after the Tsunami
2:30-2:45 Coffee Break
2:45-4:00 Session 2:
Social
Capital, Social Media and Sociality in Post-3.11 Japan
David H. Slater,
Ph.D.
Sophia University
Filipino
Communities in Tohoku after the Disasters of March 11
Takefumi Terada, Ph.D.
Sophia University
4:00 Reminders for Day 2
Day 2 Venue: Leong Hall
8:30 Registration
9:00-10:30 Session 3:
Reviving Tohoku after 3/11: Food Heritage
Preservation and Tourism
Stephanie Assmann, Ph.D
Akita University
Risk Distribution of Fukushima-related Disaster Waste―From a
Risk Governance Perspective
Miori NAGASHIMA, Setsuko ICHIHARA and Etsuko ITOKAWA
Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido
University
Medical Disaster in
the 3-11 Triple Tragedy in Northeastern Japan: An Analysis of Disaster Response
Issues and Problems
Arnel E. Joven, Ph.D
University of Asia and the Pacific
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:15 Session 4:
Social Capital and volunteerism after
the Great East Japan Earthquake
Cecilia Manoliu
University of
Tsukuba
Disaster
Vulnerability and Coping in a Foreign Environment:
The Narrative of the Pinoy
Scholars in Tohoku during 3.11
Lisette R. Robles
Sophia University
The March 2011 Japan Disaster:
Trade and Economic Implications to the Philippines
Ferdinand T. Abocejo
Cebu Normal
University
12:15 Closing Remarks