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• Ritsumeikan Global COE“Disaster Mitigation for Historical Cities”Statement -Toward disaster countermeasures designed for fostering cultures -
• On the Conclusion of the Global COE Program
• Report of G-COE Final Symposium
• Publication of“Handbook for Disaster Mitigation of Cultural Heritage”
  
• The 7th Symposium on Disaster Mitigation for Historical Cities
• Exhibition

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• Disaster Mitigation for Historic Cities and Visiting Tourists
• Survey of Damage Caused to Timber Buildings by May 6, 2012 Tornado
• Survey of Flood Damage to Ayutthaya Historical Park

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• Survey of Damage Caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake to Cultural Heritage on the Outskirts of Sendai
• UNESCO Chair Programme on the 2011 International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage
• International Symposium on Cultural Heritage Disaster Mitigation
• Kathmandu Field Survey
• 2011 Conference on Cultural Heritage and Historic Cities Disaster Mitigation
• 3rd Annual Ideas Competition for Strategy on Disaster Mitigation of Cultural Heritage and Historic Cities
• Global COE Newsletter Shifts to an Online Edition

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• Ground Survey at the Slope under the Main Building of Kiyomizu Temple
• Report of the UNESCO Chair Programme, on the International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage 2010
• Report of the International Symposium 2010
• Call for Papers: Conference on Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage '11
• The 3rd Ideas Competition for Disaster Mitigation of Cultural Heritage and Historic Cities

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• Leveraging Traditional Knowledge on Disaster Mitigation,Akihisa Yoshikoshi
• Commencement of Joint Research with Tsinghua University (China) Beijing Tsinghua Urban Planning & Design Institute!
• The Conference on Cultural Heritage and Historic Cities Disaster Mitigation'10
• We conducted the 2nd Ideas Competition for Strategy on Disaster Mitigation of Cultural Heritage and Historic Cities

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• The Overall Fieldwork of Buddhist and Shrine Buildings constructed before the middle of 20th century in Kyoto,Takumi Nakamura, Minsuk Kim and Kanefusa Masuda
• UNESCO Chair Programme on the International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage 2009
• A Report of the Practical Exercise in 2009 for Educational Program on Disaster Mitigation of Cultural Heritage and Historic Cities
• Report of the JICA Program
• Report on 2nd UNESCO World Heritage workshop on "Disaster Risk Reduction to Cultural heritage"

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• Estimating Public Interest in Cultural Heritage Disaster Mitigation, Dr.Keiichi Ogawa
• Cultural Heritage Disaster Mitigation'09 competition and conference
• Three universities join international workshop at Italy's Trieste University
• Joint research agreements with neighborhood self-governing bodies of Kyoto's Kami-Takano and Kinugasa school districts

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• To potential applicants
• Research topic:
  Age of columns used in a traditional wooden building,Dr.Kazuyuki IZUNO
• Kickoff meeting
• Conference on Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage '08
• "Introduction to Disaster Mitigation for Cultural Heritage"
• Design Contest for Disaster Mitigation for Cultural Heritege
• Conference on Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage '09

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• Greetings
• Mission Statement
• Research Members