Vietnamese students to join World Tsunami Awareness Day in Japan
Seven students of Hanoi’s Cau Giay High School will attend the High School Students’ Summit on the World Tsunami Awareness Day in Japan.
Illustrative image (Source: AP)A press conference announcing the event was held by Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on November 21 in Tokyo.
The event will take place on November 25-26 in Kuroshio town in Kochi prefecture with the participation of 250 students from 29 countries and about 100 Japanese students.
The programme aims to raise awareness of high school students – who are future leaders - on natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis.
It will also provide participants with knowledge on how to cope with, survive in and mitigate the effects of earthquakes and tsunamis while building international solidarity and mutual assistance in coping with nation disasters.
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.
This is the first time the summit has been organised since the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted November 5 as Word Tsunami Awareness Day in December 2015.-VNA
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