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Tomita-Nakamura (Shin)-Tashiro Lab (Land Design Lab)
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The lab designs national land that can respond flexibly to disasters and social change.
AboutAbout the lab
Designing a sustainable and resilient national land.
The Tomita-Nakamura (Shin)-Tashiro Lab (Land Design Lab) studies design methods for creating a sustainable and resilient national land.
The lab addresses challenges such as the risk of disasters from large earthquakes and climate change, population decline and aging, and aging infrastructure.
It works with fields both inside and outside civil engineering, and places importance on identifying problems together with local residents and other stakeholders and turning solutions into reality.
The lab conducts research in Japan and abroad, including Nagoya City, the Zenpukuji River in Tokyo, Nagano Prefecture, Chile, Thailand, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka.
Key terms
- Resilient
- Able to withstand damage from a disaster or similar event with flexibility and recover quickly
- River basin
- The area of land where rain that falls collects and flows into a single river
- Stakeholder
- People and organizations with a connection to an issue, such as residents, government, and companies
ResearchResearch themes
In response to challenges such as rising natural disaster risk and population decline, the lab studies new methods for creating a sustainable and resilient national land by combining knowledge and technologies across fields. It works together with local communities at sites in Japan and abroad, from coastal disaster prevention to the relationship between water and society in river basins.
*Illustrative imageDesigning a Flexible and Sustainable National Land
The lab studies design methods for national land that go beyond making cities compact and also build in leeway for natural disasters. It analyzes disaster risk in coastal cities and the impact when critical infrastructure stops functioning, and considers the best combination of hard and soft measures. It also studies how offshore observation data can be used for real-time tsunami estimation.
*Illustrative imageLand Design Centered on River Basins
Aiming for a national land that can adapt to climate change and demographic change, the lab explores design theory centered on the river basin as a unit. Its work includes modeling how people and water interact, supporting the development of climate change adaptation measures in developing countries, citizen-led restoration of urban rivers, and the history of water and society.
*Illustrative imagePractice at Sites in Japan and Abroad
In regions in Japan and abroad, the lab identifies problems in collaboration with a variety of stakeholders and puts methods into practice in society. Its main study areas include Nagoya City, the Zenpukuji River in Tokyo, Nagano Prefecture, Chile, Thailand, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Tomita-Nakamura (Shin)-Tashiro Lab consist of faculty, visiting researchers, researchers, administrative and technical assistants, and students in the doctoral program, the master's program, and the undergraduate program.As of 2025
- ProfessorTakashi Tomita
- Associate ProfessorShinichiro Nakamura
- LecturerMutsumi Tashiro
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Report an errorAbout the images
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: “Santa Ana River, Lake Norconian, Prado Flood Control Basin” Dicklyon / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Designing a Flexible and Sustainable National Land: “Coastal City Aerial ( )” formulanone from Huntsville, United States / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Land Design Centered on River Basins: “Cumberland River watershed” Mheberger / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Practice at Sites in Japan and Abroad: “Birds on Zenpukuji river” Syced / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Hirayama Lab): “Water pipe repair, Ursynow” Wistula / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Noda-Nakai Lab (Geotechnical Disaster Prevention Engineering Group)): “Soil-liquefaction at Shinkiba after 2011 Tohoku Pacific Ocean offshore earthquake” Morio / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Morikawa-Yamamoto-Miwa Lab (NUTREND) (Toshiyuki Yamamoto)): “GDS-display” Cameramann / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Mori Lab (Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Prevention Group)): “Seismic isolation in Egekent IzBAN station, Izmir” Ayratayrat / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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