Tsunagari Project 1st Meeting Report

Date & Time : Oct 19, 2022. 12:20 - 13:00 Place : Conference Room 1 (5th floor) and Microsoft Teams Participants : 16 (Tsukuba, Tama Forest Science Garden, Tohoku Branch) Theme : If a Great Earthquake Strikes?

photo at the sports ground

Meeting Report

It is said that relationships between people are becoming weaker and weaker. The new coronary disease has further exacerbated this situation, and human relations in the workplace are also becoming weaker. In the "Gender Equality Awareness Survey" conducted last year, I was shocked to find that many respondents raised "lack of communication in the workplace" as an issue. In response, we launched the "Tsunagari Project" as a platform for interested people to get together under various themes, with the hope of providing general staff, research staff, executives, and full-time and part-time staff with an enjoyable time to spend together with their colleagues in the workplace.

The  first meeting "If a Great Earthquake Strikes? was planned to be held on September 1, Disaster Prevention Day, but was pushed back to October 19. The aim of the event was to allow non-native Japanese speakers at the institute, as well as staff members who wish to communicate in English, to chat about their earthquake experiences in English.

First, we showed a video produced by the Sendai International Relations Association entitled "Multilingual Disaster Prevention Video: Earthquake! What to do then? Part 2: What to do in case of an earthquake", to confirm what to do in an emergency. After that, each participant introduced himself/herself and shared his/her earthquake experience, focusing on the Great East Japan Earthquake that occurred on March 11, 2011. We hope that we were able to give advice to foreign staff and trainees who have never experienced a major earthquake on what disaster prevention items to prepare and what actually helped them.

The weather was very nice, so we took a walk from Conference Room 1 (5th floor of the Research Building) to the sports ground, the evacuation site, without using the "elevator," while checking the evacuation route and the location of emergency exits. I have been at the institute in Tsukuba for many years, and I just learned that certain emergency supplies are always available at the main entrance! Did you all know about this? Did you know that inside the white box to the left of the main entrance are helmets! Please check it out!

We had a very refreshing time under the blue autumn sky. Not just a connection for this one time, but a Keep in touch!

Junco Nagata, Diversity Promotion Office

State of the venue

At the Tsunagari Project venue	Introduction of translater device
Watching a multilingual disaster prevention video	Gather at the sports ground

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