Vietnamese students to join World Tsunami Awareness Day in Japan

(VNF) - Six students of Hanoi’s Cau Giay High School will attend the High School Students’ Summit on the World Tsunami Awareness Day in Japan on November 25^th-26^th.

A press conference announcing the event was held by Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on November 21^st in Tokyo.

The event will take place in Kuroshio town in Kochi prefecture with the participation of 250 students from 29 countries and about 100 Japanese students.

The students will learn about the history of tsunami, post-earthquake recovery/reconstruction in Japan, and disaster risk prevention and reduction efforts for a possible Nankai Trough Earthquake. The purpose of the program is to foster leaders who will be responsible for mitigating the effects of earthquakes and tsunami and building national resilience in the future.

The programme will also include a ceremonial tree-planting in a disaster prevention forest.

Through learning sessions and discussions for students, the Embassy of Japan hopes to foster a multidimensional understanding of Japan and create friendships among the young people of all countries.

The meeting between Cau Giay High School’s teachers and students and senior officers of Japan Embassy on September 10^th, at Nikko hotel, Hanoi. (Source: truongthptcaugiay.edu.vn)

Cau Giay High School’s students have prepared a presentation in English about environment, tsunami disaster to share with others at the Summit. Besides that, they also prepared special musical shows bringing beautiful traditional features of Vietnam’s Culture to foreign students at the exchange meeting.

This High School Summit on "World Tsunami Awareness Day" is an awareness-raising event for "World Tsunami Awareness Day" (November 5^th) adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in December 2015. High school students from 30 countries, including Japan, are expected to participate under the event's theme "What we, the next generation, can do to survive natural disasters from the viewpoints of self-help, cooperation and public help".

Japan’s Kochi prefecture was selected to be the event’s venue due to its initiatives and solutions to the Nankai Trough Earthquakes off the Japan’s central coastline, which are great megathrust earthquakes that are predicted to occur in a cycle of 100 – 150 years./.

Minh Phuong