ARISE Japan

Launched in 2015

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ARISE Japan is a well established Network. Private companies in Japan established ARISE Japan right after the United Nations adopted the Sendai Framework in 2015.

ARISE Japan’s Action Plan for 2019-2022 has been published as a Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitment (SFVC) at the SFVC online platform and annual activities contribute towards the five deliverables.

• PreventionWeb profile
• Sendai Framework Commitments (ARISE Japan symposiums)
• Sendai Framework Commitments (ARISE Japan and ARISE Philippines collaboration)
• Sendai Voluntary Commitments (ARISE Japan work plan 2019-2022)
• Pilot projects
• ARISE Japan Terms of Reference v2019
• ARISE Japan Work Plan 2023-2026 (JP)

Network leadership

ARISE Japan consists of a Secretariat and a Steering Committee:
ARISE Japan Network Lead: Masato Takamatsu (Tourism Resilience Japan)
ARISE Japan Secretariat: Shio Kuwabara, Chiaki Nishi, and Ai Maekawa (Kokusai Kogyo Co., Ltd.)
ARISE Japan Steering Committee:
Satoshi Hijikata, Kokusai Kogyo Co., Ltd., ARISE Global Board Member;
Shigeki Honda, Minerva Veritas Co., Ltd.; Tatsuya Sudo, MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings; Hiroo Shimada and Takahiro Ono, Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., and Akira Doi

As a flagship activity, ARISE Japan organizes the ARISE Japan Annual Symposium every March around the anniversary of Great East Japan Earthquake, March 11 in 2011. ARISE Japan has published its three year workplan 2019-2022 as a voluntary commitment at the SFVC online platform.

Members in this network

Network activities

2026:

•UNDRR & ARISE Japan joint symposium 2026: Strengthening disaster risk reduction by advancing investment in resilience and translating science into Practical Action

2025:

•ARISE Japan Public Symposium 2025: breakthroughs via collaboration: how various forms of DRR partnerships address resilience challenges

2024:

•ARISE Japan Public Symposium 2024: Successes and challenges in DRR innovation—including early findings from the Noto Peninsula Earthquake

2023:

•ARISE Japan Public Symposium 2023: Investment into disaster resilience: The many forms of private sector DRR engagement

•[UNDRR GETI - ARISE] Understanding Sendai Framework on DRR: An Option to Reduce Cost

2022:

•ARISE Japan Public Symposium 2022 “Increasing resilience to disasters by strengthening SMEs as a community: learnings from the travel and tourism sector”

2021:

•ARISE Japan Public Symposium 2021: Creating disaster resilient communities by ‘going local’ in DRR

•ARISE Japan Public Symposium 2021 showcases communities that embrace DRR as a positive part of their everyday lives

2020:

•ARISE Japan Online Symposium 2020: Tourism and resilience to disasters: working with the ‘with-COVID’ present for a better ‘post-COVID’ future

•First Voluntary Commitment as an ARISE network: A three-year plan by ARISE Japan to strengthen resilience in the tourism sector

2019:

•ARISE Japan Public Symposium 2019: DRR and the Private Sector in the SDGs Era: From Information to Communication

2018:

•ARISE Japan Public Symposium 2018: Private sector contribution to disaster resilient communities

•"Business as usual" vital to recovery - ARISE Japan

2017:

•ARISE Japan Public Symposium: How businesses meet the challenge of extreme weather events

•Introducing ARISE Network Japan: How we work towards resilience

2016:

•ARISE Network Japan Launching Forum: Private sector contribution to SDGs through DRR and resilience

2013:

•Private sector strengths applied: good practices in disaster risk reduction from Japan

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