RISK newsletter:
SRA-Japan Announces '95 Annual Meeting Plans

Source: The Society for Risk Analysis' RISK newsletter, Third Quarter 1995

The Japan Section of the Society for Risk Analysis expects approximately 50 of its members to attend the 1995 SRA Annual Meeting in Hawaii, which the section is co-sponsoring.

The section's Executive Committee for the Joint Meeting in Hawaii has organized four symposia and 38 oral and poster presentations for the meeting. The committee's chair, Dr. Eiji Yokoyama, former dean of the Institute of Public Health, will speak on "Health Risk Assessment in Japan" at the opening plenary session on Monday, December 4.

Symposia. The section's president, Saburo Ikeda of the University of Tsukuba, is organizing a symposium roundtable on "Environmental Policy for Reducing Human Risk in Japan," which will focus on the scientific basis, research programs, decision process, administrative execution of policies, and other issues related to human risk management in Japan. Former SRA President D. Warner North of Decision Focus Inc. will join Japanese representatives on the panel.

Two symposia will address "Perceived Risks of Nuclear Power and Other Dreadful Risks," interpreting risk perception in the socio-cultural context based on the results of questionnaire surveys taken in France, Japan, and the United States. Committee member Hirotada Hirose of Tokyo Women's Christian University and former SRA President Paul Slovic of Decision Research are chairing the sessions, which will include speakers from Japan and the United States.

SRA Councilor Tohru Morioka of Osaka University and Atsushi Takao of Kobe University are organizing the symposium "Risk Management and Crisis Management in the Kobe Earthquake," which will include presentations on fire risk, risk management in rescue and life support, and risk perception and risk-related behaviors associated with the earthquake of January 17, 1995.

Japan Section Track. The Japan Section's symposia and presentations will be organized in one track, which will run throughout the meeting at one location. All presentations will be made in English.

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