The following is the schedule for the 2024 trip.
- 1st section – Staying in the Tokyo area
- the University of Tokyo – lectures and presentations
- Azabu University – lectures/labs and presentations
- Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant – explore the environmental impacts and the ongoing decommissioning efforts
- Fukagawa Edo Museum – learn about old Tokyo in 1700s
- Hikarigaoka Incineration Plant – learn about waste management in Tokyo
- Loop Route 7 Underground Regulation Pond for flood prevention
- Tokyo Fire Department Honjo Citizen Disaster Prevention Education Center
- Presentations and lectures
- 2nd section – Visit multiple cities in Japan
- Toyama
- Itai-Itai disease museum
- storyteller’ talk – A relative of an Itai-Itai disease victim, which is a severe medical condition primarily affecting the bones and kidneys due to prolonged exposure to high cadmium levels, who passed away from the disease
- Hiroshima
- Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum – Lecture on passing on the atomic bomb experience
- Peace Memorial Park tour
- Miyajima
- Kumamoto
- Kumamoto Castle – damaged by the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes
- Minamata – Minamata disease museum – storyteller’s talk
- Sendai
- Ishinomaki Red Cross Hospital – talks on initial responses to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and disaster preparedness
- Okawa Elementary School
- The school was struck by the tsunami triggered by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake
- storyteller’s talk – A parent of a student who lost their life in the tsunami caused by the earthquake
- Toyama
You can find the detailed schedule in the PDF file below.