Source: RISK newsletter,
First Quarter 1996, published by the Society for Risk Analysis
The Japan Section of the Society for Risk Analysis will hold its 1996 spring symposium and business meeting on June 28 at Tokyo University's San-zyou Memorial Hall. The theme of the symposium is "Risk Management in the Development of Social Capital Stock and Infrastructure."
On November 21-22, the section will hold its 1996 Annual Meeting at the Sumitomo Maritime & Fire Insurance Inc.'s Meeting Hall in Tokyo. Proposed themes for the meeting include ecological risk assessment and environmental audit.
1995 SRA Annual Meeting The 451 attendees at the 1995 SRA Annual Meeting, which the Japan Section cosponsored with SRA, included 56 from Japan. The section's past president, Dr. Eiji Yokoyama, retired director general of Japan's National Institute of Public Health, presented one of two opening plenary addresses, which RISK newsletter will summarize in its next issue.
In addition to a number of platform and poster sessions, the section sponsored three sessions on international problems: Environmental Policy for Reducing Human Risk in Japan, chaired by Saburo Ikeda of University of Tsukuba; A Comparative Study of Risk Perception in Japan, France, and United States, chaired by Paul Slovic of Decision Research and Hirotada Hirose of Tokyo Woman's Christian University; and Risk Management and Crisis Management in Kobe Earthquake, chaired by Tohru Morioka of Osaka University and Atsushi Takao of Kobe University.
The section requests feedback on these and other annual
meeting sessions on international issues. Send comments to
SRA-Japan Section Secretariat, c/o Saburo Ikeda, Institute of
Socio-Economic Planning, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki
305, Japan, telephone (81) 298-53-5380, e-mail ikeda@shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp
[Note: Old e-mail address; do not use. (posted 3/21/05)], fax (81) 298-55-3849.