Fumihiko Imamura
Biographic Data
| ID | 6305738 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fumihiko Imamura |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fumihiko |
| FAMILY NAME | Imamura |
| SIGNATURE | IMAMURA F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tohoku University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7628-575X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Japanese foreign aid to fisheries in response to disaster
The large-scale eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai submarine volcano off the coast of Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean on January 15, 2022, caused widespread impacts, primarily due to the tsunami. The Ministry of Fisheries in Tonga requested that Japan provide fishery equipment, a gesture reflecting Japan's international cooperation in the sector. This study clarifies the factors influencing positive perceptions of Japan's international co…
Adapting to health crisis at Japanese hot springs
Understanding community attitudes and responses to tsunami mitigation infrastructure and DRR methods in Kesennuma, Japan
Japan’s tsunami mitigation strategy employs a multi-layered approach centred on physical defences, yet their effectiveness is often undermined by the government’s standardised implementation and limited community engagement and support. Non-physical measures aim to address these shortcomings, yet residents often receive inadequate or incorrect information on disaster risk reduction (DRR). The study focuses on Kesennuma, a fishing city in Miyagi p…
Milling and evacuation departure time distributions in the 2011 Tohoku tsunami
Evacuation time estimate (ETE) is an essential part of the preparedness for tsunami disaster risk reduction. Existing tsunami ETEs have been implemented using GIS-based methods or agent-based simulations; however, their evacuation departure estimates have largely relied on hypothetical scenarios or stated-preference surveys because of the lack of sufficient empirical observations. In this study, we analysed a region-wide evacuation survey conduct…
Assessing future tsunami hazards from Japan trench coupling with sea level rise impact on economic risks using an input–output table
The 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake
On 1st January 2024 an Mw7.5 earthquake occurred along an active fault across the Noto Peninsula. The tremors generated a wide range of cascading hazards, including geological uplift, liquefaction, landslides, fires and tsunamis. This study offers some preliminary observations on the impacts of the cascading hazards. It also describes the pattern of casualties and the experience of evacuees and the management of evacuation centers. The hazards ca…
Universal health coverage mitigated Covid-19 health-related consequences in Asia Oceania
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a continual challenge since 2020, and it continues to impact people and industries as a disaster caused by a biological hazard. This study examined universal health coverage (UHC) scores in relation to the performance in combating COVID-19 in the Southeast Asian region (SEAR) and the Western Pacific region (WPR), along with the State Party Self-Assessment Annual Reporting (SPAR) index under the international health …
Coral reef response in the Maldives during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
Supporting adolescents’ mental health during Covid-19 by utilising lessons from the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake
Historical data can determine how adolescents recover from difficult situations such as the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This study analysed 3 years of data obtained from high-school students who had been affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and consequently evidenced the importance of increasing resilience among affected adolescents. This involved identifying factors contributing to resilience through a model that as…
Mechanism of an evacuation cascade during the 2011 Tohoku tsunami inferred from an evacuation simulation incorporating communications in social networks
Existing empirical surveys have indicated that communications in social networks often play an important role in determining evacuation behaviours and can even greatly affect the evacuation trend in local communities. However, the dynamic mechanisms of how individual evacuation attitudes affect community-wide evacuation trends are still largely unexplored due to the lack of observations and empirical surveys. To investigate the importance of soci…
The probability of community-scale building damage and economic loss in Thailand increased after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
Factors affecting worriedness
The global effect of COVID-19 is no longer simply a public health issue; it is causing an economic crisis that has a significant impact on the job market and people's lives. The disease has led to 43% of businesses temporarily closing, and almost all these closures are due to COVID-19. Organizations that have temporarily suspended their activities have pointed mainly to a decline in demand and employee health issues as the reasons for closure. In…
Quantifying tsunami impact on industrial facilities and production capacity in ports
A study on hypothermia and associated countermeasures in tsunami disasters
In this study, the impact of hypothermia during tsunami disasters based on casualty data from Miyagi Prefecture during the Great East Japan Earthquake was analyzed. The spatial distribution of the locations in which the corpses of hypothermia victims were found and the effects of age group, location, environmental temperature, and tsunami exposure were examined at the municipal and postal code scales. Hypothermia victims were identified only in c…
People’s Perception of Well-Being during the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study aims to examine people's perception of well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan and quantitatively clarify key factors towards realizing evidence-based policymaking. In March 2022, 400 participants responded to a survey conducted through Rakuten Insight. The authors applied an ordinal logistic regression (OLR), followed by principal component analysis (PCA), to create a new compound indicator (CI) to represent people's percepti…
Revealing complex tsunami evacuation process patterns induced by social interactions
Compared to evacuation behaviours, behaviours preceding evacuation including milling during tsunamis remain unclear. This study developed an analysis approach that evaluates the similarities in behaviour sequences throughout the evacuation process and investigated both the preceding behaviours and evacuation behaviours in Ishinomaki during the 2011 tsunami. The developed method was first applied to 101 detailed evacuation interview data and ident…
Perception of earthquake risks and disaster prevention awareness
Both Sendai City in Japan and Seattle-King County (hereafter referred to as “Seattle”) in Washington State in the United States are in seismically active areas with high earthquake risks. An Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) system has been publicly available in Japan since 2007. The ShakeAlert system on the U.S. West Coast is still being developed and was at the time of this study being rolled out to provide earthquake early warning to institutiona…
Cascading disasters triggered by tsunami hazards
Although many studies have investigated relationships between tsunami characteristics and the impact on physical property and infrastructure, such information cannot explain how the damage to each object or type of infrastructure can trigger failures of other facilities. To understand these connections and the cascading impacts, this article reviewed several recent damaging tsunami events in Japan and Indonesia, including the 2004 Indian Ocean ts…
People’s Response to Potential Natural Hazard-Triggered Technological Threats after a Sudden-Onset Earthquake in Indonesia
(1) Background: We aim to examine whether people activate initial protection behavior, adopt evacuation behavior, worry about the possibility of a tsunami, and consider natural hazard-triggered technological (Natech) situations in a sudden-onset earthquake. The literature suggests that risk perception is a significant predictor of people's response to potential Natech threats. We aim to empirically verify the variables relating to people's respon…
Classification of tsunami deaths by modifying ICD-10 categories in the 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami - A case study in Miyagi prefecture
The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake had a tremendous impact in terms of human suffering in Japan. To date, drowning has been considered the primary cause of death in the context of tsunami disasters. According to Japan's National Police Agency [9], causes of death other than drowning were also indicated, including due to fire and traumatic shock. Given the reports of deaths from causes other than drowning in the 2011 GE JE, a need to summarize t…
Experiences of perinatal women and public healthcare providers in a community affected by the great east Japan earthquake and tsunami
Public-private collaboration for disaster risk management
Public-private collaboration for disaster risk management
Classification of tsunami deaths by modifying ICD-10 categories in the 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami - A case study in Miyagi prefecture
The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake had a tremendous impact in terms of human suffering in Japan. To date, drowning has been considered the primary cause of death in the context of tsunami disasters. According to Japan's National Police Agency [9], causes of death other than drowning were also indicated, including due to fire and traumatic shock. Given the reports of deaths from causes other than drowning in the 2011 GE JE, a need to summarize t…
Experiences of perinatal women and public healthcare providers in a community affected by the great east Japan earthquake and tsunami
Revealing complex tsunami evacuation process patterns induced by social interactions
Compared to evacuation behaviours, behaviours preceding evacuation including milling during tsunamis remain unclear. This study developed an analysis approach that evaluates the similarities in behaviour sequences throughout the evacuation process and investigated both the preceding behaviours and evacuation behaviours in Ishinomaki during the 2011 tsunami. The developed method was first applied to 101 detailed evacuation interview data and ident…
Perception of earthquake risks and disaster prevention awareness
Both Sendai City in Japan and Seattle-King County (hereafter referred to as “Seattle”) in Washington State in the United States are in seismically active areas with high earthquake risks. An Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) system has been publicly available in Japan since 2007. The ShakeAlert system on the U.S. West Coast is still being developed and was at the time of this study being rolled out to provide earthquake early warning to institutiona…
Cascading disasters triggered by tsunami hazards
Although many studies have investigated relationships between tsunami characteristics and the impact on physical property and infrastructure, such information cannot explain how the damage to each object or type of infrastructure can trigger failures of other facilities. To understand these connections and the cascading impacts, this article reviewed several recent damaging tsunami events in Japan and Indonesia, including the 2004 Indian Ocean ts…
People’s Response to Potential Natural Hazard-Triggered Technological Threats after a Sudden-Onset Earthquake in Indonesia
(1) Background: We aim to examine whether people activate initial protection behavior, adopt evacuation behavior, worry about the possibility of a tsunami, and consider natural hazard-triggered technological (Natech) situations in a sudden-onset earthquake. The literature suggests that risk perception is a significant predictor of people's response to potential Natech threats. We aim to empirically verify the variables relating to people's respon…
Supporting adolescents’ mental health during Covid-19 by utilising lessons from the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake
Historical data can determine how adolescents recover from difficult situations such as the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This study analysed 3 years of data obtained from high-school students who had been affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and consequently evidenced the importance of increasing resilience among affected adolescents. This involved identifying factors contributing to resilience through a model that as…
Mechanism of an evacuation cascade during the 2011 Tohoku tsunami inferred from an evacuation simulation incorporating communications in social networks
Existing empirical surveys have indicated that communications in social networks often play an important role in determining evacuation behaviours and can even greatly affect the evacuation trend in local communities. However, the dynamic mechanisms of how individual evacuation attitudes affect community-wide evacuation trends are still largely unexplored due to the lack of observations and empirical surveys. To investigate the importance of soci…
The probability of community-scale building damage and economic loss in Thailand increased after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
Factors affecting worriedness
The global effect of COVID-19 is no longer simply a public health issue; it is causing an economic crisis that has a significant impact on the job market and people's lives. The disease has led to 43% of businesses temporarily closing, and almost all these closures are due to COVID-19. Organizations that have temporarily suspended their activities have pointed mainly to a decline in demand and employee health issues as the reasons for closure. In…
Quantifying tsunami impact on industrial facilities and production capacity in ports
A study on hypothermia and associated countermeasures in tsunami disasters
In this study, the impact of hypothermia during tsunami disasters based on casualty data from Miyagi Prefecture during the Great East Japan Earthquake was analyzed. The spatial distribution of the locations in which the corpses of hypothermia victims were found and the effects of age group, location, environmental temperature, and tsunami exposure were examined at the municipal and postal code scales. Hypothermia victims were identified only in c…
People’s Perception of Well-Being during the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study aims to examine people's perception of well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan and quantitatively clarify key factors towards realizing evidence-based policymaking. In March 2022, 400 participants responded to a survey conducted through Rakuten Insight. The authors applied an ordinal logistic regression (OLR), followed by principal component analysis (PCA), to create a new compound indicator (CI) to represent people's percepti…
Universal health coverage mitigated Covid-19 health-related consequences in Asia Oceania
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a continual challenge since 2020, and it continues to impact people and industries as a disaster caused by a biological hazard. This study examined universal health coverage (UHC) scores in relation to the performance in combating COVID-19 in the Southeast Asian region (SEAR) and the Western Pacific region (WPR), along with the State Party Self-Assessment Annual Reporting (SPAR) index under the international health …
Coral reef response in the Maldives during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
Milling and evacuation departure time distributions in the 2011 Tohoku tsunami
Evacuation time estimate (ETE) is an essential part of the preparedness for tsunami disaster risk reduction. Existing tsunami ETEs have been implemented using GIS-based methods or agent-based simulations; however, their evacuation departure estimates have largely relied on hypothetical scenarios or stated-preference surveys because of the lack of sufficient empirical observations. In this study, we analysed a region-wide evacuation survey conduct…
Assessing future tsunami hazards from Japan trench coupling with sea level rise impact on economic risks using an input–output table
The 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake
On 1st January 2024 an Mw7.5 earthquake occurred along an active fault across the Noto Peninsula. The tremors generated a wide range of cascading hazards, including geological uplift, liquefaction, landslides, fires and tsunamis. This study offers some preliminary observations on the impacts of the cascading hazards. It also describes the pattern of casualties and the experience of evacuees and the management of evacuation centers. The hazards ca…
Japanese foreign aid to fisheries in response to disaster
The large-scale eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai submarine volcano off the coast of Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean on January 15, 2022, caused widespread impacts, primarily due to the tsunami. The Ministry of Fisheries in Tonga requested that Japan provide fishery equipment, a gesture reflecting Japan's international cooperation in the sector. This study clarifies the factors influencing positive perceptions of Japan's international co…
Adapting to health crisis at Japanese hot springs
Understanding community attitudes and responses to tsunami mitigation infrastructure and DRR methods in Kesennuma, Japan
Japan’s tsunami mitigation strategy employs a multi-layered approach centred on physical defences, yet their effectiveness is often undermined by the government’s standardised implementation and limited community engagement and support. Non-physical measures aim to address these shortcomings, yet residents often receive inadequate or incorrect information on disaster risk reduction (DRR). The study focuses on Kesennuma, a fishing city in Miyagi p…
Geography (13 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (11 works) · Engineering (11 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Forensic engineering (7 works) · Geology (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · earthquake and tectonic studies (6 works)