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Regional Planning and Resilience Planning Lab
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A lab that builds regions able to recover from disasters, starting from transportation and information.
AboutAbout the lab
Building regions that bounce back flexibly.
The Regional Planning and Resilience Planning Lab aims to realize regions that can respond flexibly to disasters and recover from them.
The lab examines, both quantitatively and qualitatively, how disasters in Japan and abroad have affected local societies and economies, and how those areas recovered.
Its research also covers approaches to reconstruction planning that draw on the experience of disaster damage, and how governance between government and residents should work.
Building on statistics, economics, and geography, the lab uses GIS and optimization methods to plan land use and transportation.
Key terms
- Resilience
- The ability to recover flexibly to the original state even after being hit by a disaster or similar shock
- GIS
- A system that overlays location-based information on maps so that it can be analyzed together
- Disaster digital twin
- A reproduction of how a disaster unfolds, captured and recreated inside a computer
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to realize regions that can respond flexibly to natural disasters, solve social and economic problems, and recover. Its research ranges from analyzing disaster impacts and recovery processes to reconstruction planning, governance, and the placement of land use and transportation infrastructure.
*Illustrative imageTracking disaster recovery in numbers
As a project of the Global Center for Disaster Statistics at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science, the lab conducts research that uses population data to capture the social impacts of disasters over time, as well as research on methods for analyzing disaster statistics.
*Illustrative imageOrganizing and using disaster information
This is one of the priority research areas of the Center for Co-creation of Disaster Resilience, and Prof. Okumura serves as its area head. The lab studies how communities and society should use the large and diverse information obtained from disaster digital twins to strengthen their resilience.
*Illustrative imageIntercity transport networks that do not break down
Intercity trunk transport networks face the risk that operators withdraw when demand declines, leaving cities with little demand isolated. Working with researchers in transport economics and mathematical programming, the lab is developing a methodology to plan together the form of networks that can recover quickly from aging infrastructure, disasters, and infectious diseases, and how the burden of fares is shared.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Regional Planning and Resilience Planning Lab are faculty, master's and undergraduate students, and technical assistants.As of 2026
- ProfessorMakoto Okumura
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “E5 Series Shinkansen and the X-shaped Bridge viewed from AER” neuropower / Public domain (cropped)
- Tracking disaster recovery in numbers: “Rikuzentakata, belt conveyors for the earthquake reconstruction.C” Sakaori (talk) / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Organizing and using disaster information: “SocialNetworkAnalysis” Martin Grandjean / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Intercity transport networks that do not break down: “JR East Furukawa Station Shinkansen Platform, Miyagi Pref” Mister0124 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab ([International Research Institute of Disaster Science] Disaster Prevention Education and Practice Lab): “1933 Long Beach earthquake damage 1” W.L.Huber, USGS / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Architectural Space Lab): “Sendai Mediatheque 2009” scarletgreen from Japan / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Computational Safety Engineering Lab): “US Navy 110318-M-HU778-007 An aerial view of Ishinomaki, Japan, a week after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated the area” U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Ethan Johnson / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Regional Planning and Spatial Design Strategy Lab): “Architecture Site Masterplan Miniature Scale Model” iKix 3D Prints / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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