After experiencing a catastrophic calamity during the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995, Hyogo-Kobe drafted an advanced disaster prevention safe city plan. The phoenix Disaster Prevention System” in Hyogo Prefecture is currently in operation, and the "Countermeasures Against Calamity Center,” the first government building designed to create disaster countermeasures in a self-governing body, was completed in 2000. A People and Disaster Prevention Future Center” opened in 2003. These have all become bases of international disaster support, focusing on disaster prevention research, specialist training in information transmission, disaster restoration, and dispatch.

People and Disaster Prevention Future Center
http://www.dri.ne.jp/english/index.html

This center is an information base for people who want to learn of the effects of the Great Hanshin Earthquake, as well as a research and dispatch base for organizations involved in disaster prevention information, such as the Asia Building Safety Control Center.

Countermeasures Against Calamities Center

The first Government building studying calamity countermeasures in a self-governing body, this center possesses the newest disaster prevention system that can be quickly carried out in case disasters occur.


Disaster Reduction Learning Center
http://www.jica.go.jp/hyogo/drlc/index.html
(Japanese Only)

On 1st. April 2007, it was established as a center for the effective development of human resources involving disaster prevention in development countries.