Education for Disaster Risk Reduction in Hyogo to Be Handed Down Through Generations

Twenty-five years have passed since the Hanshin-Awaji earthquake. While Hyogo Prefecture and city of Kobe made a strong recovery, they also social responsibility to pass on lessons learned from past future generations. To retell past, disasters are well known for their war stories peace education programs. Various initiatives been implemented around world. many people can talk about Earthquake based experiences, an increasing number not experienced disaster. In addition, schoolteachers who cannot describe disaster children because were born after This paper introduces Promotion Program Education risk reduction by City Board investigates how has developed in schools. The authors involved surveyed two elementary schools, one junior high school, school. survey points out importance continuous reduction, highlights dialogue interaction with disaster, so that story be narrated own words.