Abbreviation | NIED |
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Formation | April 1, 1963 |
Headquarters | 3-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0006, JAPAN |
President | TAKARA Kaoru |
Affiliations | Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) |
Budget | 14 billion yen (annual operating budget) as of April 2024 |
Employees | 339 (including 155 researchers, 184 administrative staff) as of April 1, 2024 |
Website | https://www.bosai.go.jp/e/ |
The National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (Japanese: 防災科学技術研究所, romanized: Bōsai Kagaku Gijutsu Kenkyū-sho), also known as NIED, is a National Research and Development Agency[1] that conducts research on science and technology related to disaster risk reduction.[2] It owns experimental and observational facilities throughout Japan.[3][4] The headquarters is located in Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture.[5]
1960s - 1970s
1990s - 2000s
2010s - 2020s
NIED established and has been the secretariat of the Japan Hub of Disaster Resilience Partners (JHoP), a research network of 17 national universities, research institutes and other disaster management organizations in Japan since 2019.[30] In 2021, JHoP established ICoE-Coherence (International Center of Excellence for Coherence among Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation, and Sustainable Development) to promote international research on disaster risk reduction and management under the framework of Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR), which is supported by the International Science Council (ISC) and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).[31]
NIED also conducts various international activities[32] in disaster science employing knowledge and experience from Japan such as: